Sightings

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Where to begin...this movie wasnt even Syfy Original quality bad. Heres a few of my concerns... 1. Exactly how old is the daughter? She looked likeba 30yr old, living at home, trying to pass as a teenager. 2. Not all the actors bothered to finish the film. The "sexy scientist" just sorta disappeared from the movie and the screenwriters just wrote her off likebab afterthought. 3. The house is clearly NOT a house. Looks like an office building they dressed up to look like a house, but it didnt work. 4. The reporter's accent was so bad, you could barely understand her. No one would ever put her on english speaking tv. 5. The plot is basically non existent. Bigfoot is a blood-seaking alien? WTF? 6. Southerners dont speak that way. As a southerner myself, i can attest that the only time ive heard people say "i reckon" is on TV. 7. Every character is a cliche...the crazy uncle, the big city detective...*rolls eyes * 8. No southern man would ever go into the woods with 1 rifle and no sidearm. Have these guys ever seen a redneck? I could go on but you get the point. Its a horrible, stinky piece of cheese, poorly disguised as a bigfoot movie. If you missed this entirely, your life could only be better for it.

I don't know what to think of this movie. Apparently the makers couldn't choose between a monster- and a scifi-movie and decided to combine the two, which in my humble opinion didn't really work. Bigfoot seems one of the most down-to-earth creatures that the monster-genre came up with and the suggestion that he's somehow of extra-terrestrial origin sounds plain ridiculous. The combination with alien abduction of humans seems even more weird: are we to understand that aliens planted Bigfoots to serve as carriers of humans or as alien outposts?? It's rather a shame, because when you can overlook the silly premise and ditto story, this is actually not a bad movie. I was particularly surprised by the photography that is very original and effective, with unusual camera-angles. And by the direction and editing, many scenes are allowed remarkably much time, for instance we see main character Boo Arnold like a whole minute sit pensive in his car before he gets out, or stand still for some time in the fields just pondering about all the strange goings-on. It may sound a bit boring and way too slow, but it actually fits in the story and helps us to commiserate and sympathize with him. The acting is also quite good, not only Boo Arnold is very convincing as the sober-minded (ex-)sheriff and protective father, but also Tahlia Morgan as his daughter does a fine job. And they took the sensible decision to keep Bigfoot for the most part of the movie out of sight of the camera. This way creepy atmosphere and suspense can predominate, in stead of the for this kind of movie usual cheap graphic right-in-your-face scares and silly furry ape-suits. So although this is not Oscar-winning material, there still is enough to enjoy. I only wished that they had stuck to Bigfoot and left the scifi out. Especially the ultimate scene with the big shadow (I won't give it away!) felt like a total let-down to me.

( No real plot spoilers, but "spoilers" about the general tenor of the movie ) Very disappointed it as I'm interested in the subject matter. They made a good effort trying to create some character development, which is fair because most horror/suspenseful movies overlook that. The plot of the story just didn't go anywhere. I fast-forwarded through most of it. Makes me sad. Since they were kind of inching in that direction, I would have loved to see them have made this a real compelling story about the research and new revelations about "coincidences" that are going on. Or at least a good scary movie.

This movie wasn't that bad. I've seen much worse. The only thing I'd say is that I lived in Thorndale Texas and never saw a Bigfoot. Plus it's hot as balls in central Texas so Bigfoot would probably melt.

This movie seems to have everything going against it, being buried in AmazonPrime's sci-fi/horror categories with an uninformative name and an even less informative description that seems to be eager to specify that it's a CHARACTER-DRIVEN film, as though making a film such as this were something they were ashamed of and wanted to have broad appeal. There's nothing wrong with that, but specifying that it's a CHARACTER-DRIVEN film about some manner of paranormal/cryptid thing seems needlessly insistent, like a fruit drink prominently displaying on its label that it's definitely a liquid drink made from water. The film itself is fairly ordinary, filmed professionally and acted competently. The problem is, there isn't much to it beyond that. The title, and the poster, showing what is very clearly a stereotypical giant "Grey Alien" type eye, is completely misleading. Early on into the film, we get the rug pulled out from under us; the supposed cryptid at the center of the film is a Bigfoot/Sasquatch! We even get some very clear shots of its hairy limbs shuffling just out of camera frame like real life Bigfoot sightings. The protagonist is a recently retired sheriff who finds 3 bodies on his ranch. Suspicion falls on him and he does little to ease people's suspicions because he's a typical Movie Character Jerk in that regard. Throughout the film, we get the backstory unloaded on us that his wife left him, apparently afraid of Bigfoot as well, and she may or may not have gone missing. And now the Bigfoot is after his daughter! The plot isn't really interesting, while the film seems to realize it's called "Sightings" and has an alien eye on the poster, and so haphazardly turns and starts to strongly indicate that Bigfoot might be an alien! There's even a brief Ancient Aliens hypothesis strewn in because that's what's hip with the kids these days. The film seems very much aware of its limitations and has a "Don't show the shark" approach to its Alien Bigfoot, but it subsequently blows that by dragging the action out of the congested woods and out into wide open fields in the broad daylight. Now they can't avoid showing it, but they still manage to avoid it by never actually showing it on camera. We see the people running and panicked at something just a few feet to the left or right of them off-screen, or a snippet from the Alien Bigfoot's point of view, all the while avoiding anything more than a hairy arm or leg on screen. Considering the lengths they went to to try to tie aliens with bigfoot, this was a big disappointment. It would be like a zombie movie trying to integrate cyborgs with its zombie, and then never showing us any part of either. The risk of putting together an unconvincing costume or puppet or bad CG is always there, but the route they ultimately took was flat out disappointing

Some good performances, a brooding atmosphere and some effectively creepy background music help this film make a lot out of brief glimpses and not much action. BTW, the deer urine was a good idea, the aloe not so much...If such things were real.

Deserves no stars. Worst thing ever. Cover had me expecting an alien movie but was far from. Terrible acting and completely awful Sasquatch suit had me confused and unable to stand sitting through movie. No actual quality alien involvement, bad acting, bad writing, do not watch!

I applaud the daring of the production here. They were successful in putting together a complete film on an apparent shoe string budget. Unfortunately, that is where the compliments end. The acting was stale, bordering on plastic . The script was sophomoric. The photography and editing made for an almost unwatchable film. But I stuck through to the end from a 'so bad it's funny' point of view. The part that I found funniest was **spoiler alert** at some point in the movie one of the characters will be attacked and abducted, but watch the other characters in the scene. They offer almost no reaction. No screams. No "where did she go?". No running after her. They seem to be standing around looking at each other like, "who has the next line?". Gotta love independent films.

I was highly impressed with this movie. It had me on edge not knowing what to expect next. Great story line.