Some movies make you think.

Some movies make you laugh.

Some movies are guilty pleasures.

Alas, this is not any of the above.

Yes, Sci-Fi Channel is continuing on its mission to re-define "Science Fiction" as "brain-dead horror aimed at 9-year-old boys who find pro wrestling enjoyable".

The plot of Sasquatch Mountain is beyond stupid. Was it envisioned by someone deluded enough to find it quality? Or was it envisioned by someone who was selling out to an idea that a substantial number of fans WANT this drivel? We have become stupid enough as a nation without Sci Fi Channel trying to dry up what's left of our brains.

Oh, yes - DON'T BELIEVE the evaluations written by LIARS who are somehow invested in the movie PRETENDING to be fans who actually enjoyed it. First clue - these people voted this movie a 10/10. That's impossible. Even someone who is a fan of this kind of lunacy would never consider it among the BEST movies around. Don't believe the liars.

Saquatch Mountain, also known as Devil on the Mountain which is what I saw it under, is set in a small rural backwoods American town where a young woman named Erin (Cerina Vincent) is drifting through on her way to a new life somewhere, not that that matters though because while driving along Erin is involved in an accident with a gang of bank robbers lead by a guy named Travis (Craig Wasson),in an ensuing gunfight with the local Sheriff (Rance Howard) the gang kidnap Erin & flee into the forest with the local law enforcement in close pursuit. However there is something that lives in the forest, something that isn't human & the crooks & police are forced to work together to try & survive, but is it enough?

Directed by Steven R. Monroe Sasquatch Mountain is a pretty terrible film all round almost as if there weren't enough really bad low budget horror films already. The boring script by Michael Worth takes itself far too seriously & tries to mix the basic 'criminals on the run encounter all sorts of horrors' taken from From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) & the basic killer Bigfoot scenario from the much, much better Night of the Demon (1980) both of which I think are throughly excellent films by the way & a hell of a lot better than Sasquatch Mountain which is crap. Anyway, there are lots of problems with Sasquatch Mountain, from the basic concept which is pretty bad in itself to the truly awful character's including a getaway driver for a bank job who would rather go down on a pretty girl than actually wait outside the bank (actually when you put it like that...) for his mates who are shooting the place up, then there's the inevitable in-fighting & petty arguing rather than working together as a team to survive & an annoying British guy who I just wanted to die. I have to mention the ending which is terrible in itself, I think it's meant to be all 'emotional' but it comes across as just embarrassing. Then there's the fact it's incredibly dull, boring & predictable, not much really happens & there's an unforgivable lack of horror or gore or anything that might keep you awake. It's all rather obvious, it felt like the thing went on for hours & in my opinion it basically has zero entertainment value.

Director Monroe makes this thing even more annoying to watch as he uses all sorts of editing tricks like most of the time when the creature is on screen the picture goes very blurry, he uses slow-motion, there's some highly annoying & somewhat dizzying shots where he insists on spinning the camera 360 degrees around people for little reason, the whole film seems to lack colour so it's quite drab to watch & the creature ends up looking like a gorilla more than anything else. Forget about any gore as there isn't any.

With a supposed budget of about $800,000 the makers of Sasquatch Mountain didn't have the biggest budget ever but having said that it's still a terrible film. One of the most disappointing things about Sasquatch Mountain is that the always fantastic Lance Henriksen is in it, the guys just class, he deserves better & it's a shame that he's making films like this. Apart from him the acting from everyone else is poor.

Sasquatch Mountain is a terrible straight-to-TV piece of rubbish that I got no enjoyment or entertainment from at all & it's as simple & straight forward as that. One to avoid.

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