There are worse movies from The SciFi Channel in my opinion, but that is saying very little in Sasquatch Mountain's favour. Lance Henrikssen and Tim Thomerson deserved much better but give good performances and the music(apart from the beginning where it is a little out of sync) has a haunting vibe and isn't too obvious. That's it. I do agree though that the monster is the most likable character of the entire movie and Cerina Vincent is gorgeous. Unfortunately, while it also looks decent the monster is severely underutilised and is not scary at all, and Vincent has none of the acting chops and charisma to match her beauty. A sad waste really. The rest of the acting is terrible, as with most SciFi Channel movies there is a weird mix of hammy over-acting and under-acting to the point of being non-existent. There is very little of an in between or acting that is right on the nose. The way their characters and script are written though do them no favours whatsoever though. When I said that the monster was the most likable character of the movie, that was very faint praise and hardly says anything.
With everybody else, paper mache objects have more personality and likability than any of these irritating cardboard cut-outs that pass for characters here. The script is too much talk, that became increasingly lazy and senseless as it went along, it also does nothing to flesh out the characters or to make us care for them. The film looks incredibly amateurish, especially in the action scenes it looks really blurry. That way the scares are diluted and makes the action incoherent, also managing to waste the monster some more. The story has no sense of momentum, no thrills, no suspense, no surprises, no anything. Everything just felt predictable, bland and tedious, with the second half dragging so badly that the temptation to turn off was getting stronger and stronger by the minute. The action is not thrilling in the slightest, partly because of the way it was shot and edited and partly because it looked clumsy. There is an almost complete lack of gore, so the scare factor is very low(I'd say on zero and going down into the negatives) on the authenticity or genuine shock scale. When any attack happened even I could feel myself cheering, saying to myself one less character to try and care about. The ending also falls completely flat and emotionally it was insufferably cloying and in a way manipulative. In conclusion, outside of Henrikssen, Thomerson and the music, Sasquatch Mountain is a big huge mess. 2/10 Bethany Cox
With everybody else, paper mache objects have more personality and likability than any of these irritating cardboard cut-outs that pass for characters here. The script is too much talk, that became increasingly lazy and senseless as it went along, it also does nothing to flesh out the characters or to make us care for them. The film looks incredibly amateurish, especially in the action scenes it looks really blurry. That way the scares are diluted and makes the action incoherent, also managing to waste the monster some more. The story has no sense of momentum, no thrills, no suspense, no surprises, no anything. Everything just felt predictable, bland and tedious, with the second half dragging so badly that the temptation to turn off was getting stronger and stronger by the minute. The action is not thrilling in the slightest, partly because of the way it was shot and edited and partly because it looked clumsy. There is an almost complete lack of gore, so the scare factor is very low(I'd say on zero and going down into the negatives) on the authenticity or genuine shock scale. When any attack happened even I could feel myself cheering, saying to myself one less character to try and care about. The ending also falls completely flat and emotionally it was insufferably cloying and in a way manipulative. In conclusion, outside of Henrikssen, Thomerson and the music, Sasquatch Mountain is a big huge mess. 2/10 Bethany Cox