Do not waste two hours of your life watching Discovering Bigfoot. I am a bigfoot agnostic, and typically enjoy sasquatch-hunting programs like Animal Planetās Finding Bigfoot, because life gets boring and sometimes itās fun to pretend there are fuzzy giants chilling in the forest. But this documentary sucks. Itās a molasses-paced slog through anonymous backcountry forests (presumably in Canada, but who knows) led by director/star Todd Standing.
Hereās the thing: According to the very trustworthy-sounding blog Team Squatchin' USA, those in āBigfootdomā have some serious doubts about Standing. Apparently heās known for sharing āevidenceā thatās obviously fakeāin other words, heās a hoaxer! I did not know this before viewing Discovering Bigfoot. My eyes were willing to trust what I saw, even if they glazed over after 20 minutes of watching Standing wander around the wilderness and yell into the darkness every night. Every so often, heās joined by fellow bigfoot expertsāsome, he emphasizes, have PhDsāwho gasp at odd footprints in the mossy earth and stick apples on tree branches while yelling āGIFT!ā The tagline of Discovering Bigfoot is āyou will feel the fear.ā I did not feel any fear, but was reminded of an excellent bigfoot film that did scare me: the 2013 found-footage horror movie Willow Creek, which is set in the tiny California town where the Patterson-Gimlin film was recorded in 1967. Watch that instead.