Savage (2011)
A decent cast - Tony Becker, Martin Kove and Lisa Wilcox elevate this Bigfoot saga into 'better than it deserves' territory. In truth the film hinges on the performances because the bad old Bigfoot is barely on screen until the final minutes as the film plays with genres and doesn't know if it should be a conservation drama about forest fires first and a horror film second.
When alls said and done, along with Snowbeast (1977) and the excellent Abominable (2006), Savage is one of the better simian folklore horror films of the last forty years.
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