Cry Wilderness

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Cry Wilderness

Very incoherent and poorly executed movie. Even the sound track sounds uninspiring. Not to mention the various instances of insensitive comments towards Indians and the perpetuation of negative stereotypes about them.

I watched this on Tubi just look at the scenes of Mono Lake and the south Tufa beds. Actually I didn't really watch the movie I just scrubbed through on my iPad to the scenes I was looking for..but truly, what an awful movie!

I thought it was a pretty good film, for a low budget type movie. Acting was pretty good. Morgan character was very intriguing. I am wondering if this couldn't have been a much better film, had their been a bigger budget. With that said, what Mr. Coehn had to work with was refreshing and very creative. The scenes were shot in extremely beautiful area of Ca. I think probably lack of funds for distribution, could be reason film didn't do so well. My hat's off to Mr. Schlochberg -Coehn. I really wish that it was easier to get a copy of this, but almost impossible to get. Maybe some sort of sequel could be made, even though so much time has gone by.

This movie appears in my nightmares. I wish so badly to go back to the time when I never saw this, but unfortunately I'm stuck with knowing it exists. It made me ask many questions: Who greenlit this monstrosity? What were they high on? Did they owe a favor to someone? Letting this dumpster fire become an actual movie should have resulted in criminal punishment. Jail time at the very least.

I watched it on the revamp of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 as well. THANK GOD, because I would not have lasted 10 minutes. It still took me 3 nights to watch it because it was sooooo bad. MST3K cast kept me in it, laughing my butt off. They had wild animals in the movie and you could see the collars on some because they were chained so they didn't attack the actors. Hilarious!!!

Cry Wilderness is the kind of film that gets made because some writer / director had an idea that nobody else believed in (with good reason). Instead of waiting for a better idea, the script gets filmed on a shoestring budget. The minimal plot gets heavily padded by stock wilderness footage, which makes the constant changes in terrain (forest, scrubland, mountain) and season (snowy winter in one scene, bright greens of summer in the next) obvious to a bright three year old. Then there is the acting, which makes me wonder if the next door neighbor's kid and a few drinking buddies were assembled to round out the minimal cast. Then there is the Bigfoot costume, which looks like somebody took a set of hair clippers to a Chewbacca halloween costume and called it a day. Do not attempt to watch this without the cast of MST3K. Given a choice between watching this film and viewing your second cousin's home movies of a trip they took to Yellowstone back in 1978, pick the latter.

Amateurs. cheesy script. awkward timing. School kid "Paul" runs off when he thinks his father is in trouble.... apparently Paul had a run-in with Bigfoot sometime in the past. A local posse of a native American, a US Marshall (or so he claims!) and Paul's father are hunting down the same Bigfoot. The most interesting things going on here are the filming locations - Devils Postpile and Mono Lake. I saw the Mystery Science 3000 version... some clever lines in that one. The film itself is just inane. At one point, the native American wrestles a bear. Even meets up with a dead ancestor. And the kid keeps running off and disobeying orders. He can never just do what they say, so we at some point we hope something bad DOES happen to him. Written and directed by Jay Schlossberg. His specialty seems to be horror flicks. Just terrible. The Mystery version is kind of funny, and currently showing on netflix. as of now (april 2017), one of the films on IMDb that has a 2.0 rating.

I saw this film years ago when it came to theaters for an extremely limited release. I remember the film so well because I won a door prize the day I viewed it. I watched the film with a theater full of young kids and even the kids didn't like it. Many slept and others just shook their young heads in disbelief. How could such a poor film be produced.