SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Scarecrow-88 Underwhelming, rather gore-less creature feature with no surprises concerning a Sasquatch(Taku he)running loose on Echo Mountain, attacking those illegally hunting. Miles O'Keefe is the true heavy of this flick as poacher Ed, out to get the Bigfoot and an Indian Ranger Eagleheart(Nathaniel Arcand)who actually saved his ass. Ed loses some pals to the angry Sasquatch, inlisting others in town to go back into Echo Mtn. to get those he deems responsible. The local media consider the poacher attacks as merely caused by an endangered grizzly. Richard(Dylan Purcell)is a smart high school kid who understands nature and wild-life regarding their habits and behavior but has been having trouble passing tests in class. He's asked by his disgruntled professor to join up with jock Jay(Brandon Henschel)who needs an A+ to graduate the class..and high school.. to develop an assignment on endangered species. Jay will coerce Richard to spend a weekend on Echo Mountain with his cousin Jenny(Chelsea Hobbs), who has a crush on him, and sweetheart Shea(Casey LaBow)hoping to find a grizzly recorded on camcorder therefore achieving that elusive grade he needs to pass class, hopefully impressing his teacher in the process. Sheriff Drake Kassel(Jack Conley)attempts to keep order with a mayor breathing down his neck to find that bear which killed those poachers so that locals will quit worrying about it..that, and the mayor doesn't wish for some killer bear to ruin tourist season. Into Echo Mountain with the dreaded Sasquatch shown from time to time spying on potential victims behind bushes and hanging leafy branches and uttering guttural growls when enraged. "Clawed.." is practically ready-made for the Sci-fi channel in that most of the violence occurs off-screen and even when we see the aftermath of the monster's attacks, rarely are they that gruesome or stomach-churning(..one hunter's holding his recently removed guts, another's face was torn into). There's a light amount of profanity and a peek-a-boo shot of LaBow's nicely developed breasts. The kids aren't that obnoxious(..well, except for Jay who likes to play practical jokes on his peers and hurl lame insults at nerdy Richard), and O'Keeffe as Ed, hides his eyes under a cap most of the time, speaking his dialogue under a bearded scowl. The Sasquatch isn't the least bit scary, and looks like a costume. Nothing that memorable here. You'll probably forget about it soon after it's over.."Clawed.." will hide quietly in the ever-growing number of Bigfoot/Sasquatch flicks that have increased in size over the years. Even the location itself can not enhance the rather dull experience.

lorenellroy "The Unknown " is not a particularly appropriate title for the movie as any experienced creature feature viewer will pretty much know what to expect virtually as soon as it starts .The set up involves a legend surrounding Echo Mountain where a mysterious Big Foot type creature is said to walk .The creature ambushes and slays most members of a small hunting party .This prompts the surviving member of the group to set up a revenge mission with some of his buddies ,to the displeasure of the local law .Also stumbling around on the mountain are a quartet of high school students seeking material for the term project on Endangered species ,and a Native American ranger The budget is obviously shoestring in nature but the director is able to disguise this by judicious camera angles and cutting .The creature is pretty convincing however and this does help .Variable acting and a rushed conclusion are downsides but if you approach this in the right frame of mind it is moderately satisfying and unpretentious movie making

Paul Andrews The Unknown is set in the small Pacific Northwest town of 'Pine Creek' & it's surrounding forest's & in particular an area called 'Echo Mountain' which has been the location of a series a mysterious disappearances & the center of lots of local legends about monsters. While out illegally poaching Ed Janzer (Miles O'Keefe) & three of his mates (Don Brady, Paul Cagney & Art Hickman) are attacked by something which slaughters Ed's mates & almost kills him but is saved by Indian forest Ranger John Eagleheart (Nathaniel Arcand), back in town & the general theory is that they were killed by a Grizzly Bear while Mayor Potts (John Patrick Lowrie) tells Sheriff Kassel (Jack Conley) to try & keep things as low key as possible & keep it out of the papers in fear of bad publicity. Meanwhile Ed has rounded three more of his mates up & head off into the wilderness for some revenge. At the local high school two pupils Jay Kelter (Brandon Henschel) & Richard Winslow (Dylan Purcell) are forced to work together & hand a report in on endangered species or they will both fail, along with a couple of chicks Shae (Casey LaBow) & Jenny (Chelsea Hobbs) they head off to Echo Mountain to gain some 'feild' experience & impress their teacher. I won't bother saying anything else as you can easily fill in the blanks yourself...Co-edited, co-written, co-produced & directed by Karl Kozak The Unknown in my humble opinion is boring low budget crap, it's as simple & straight forward as that. The script by Kozak & Don J. Rearden is far too slow & boring to have any impact, after the first ten minutes when the three poachers are killed it's the best part of three quarters of an hour before anything even remotely exciting happens & someone is killed, imagine all that time just sitting there watching a really slow, dull & boring film pass by as the hope that something will happen rapidly turns into desperation. There are simply not enough attacks in a film that has no other redeeming features, the character's are OK in context but they're still dull & clichéd, the angry hunter, the good natured Sheriff, the corrupt town official worried about bad publicity & scaring tourists away & of course the horny teenagers. A lot of the story doesn't make much sense, what is the creature protecting? Why did Ed shoot his mate? What the hell happened at the end? Everyone just sort of stands there for ages. What are those stupid flashbacks all about? Are we to believe that this creature is in fact 100's of years old? After three armed men are brutally killed four teenagers decide to spend the night in the same location for a school project? These kids are stupid yes, but that stupid? Most of The Unknown is just people walking through a forest, well that's the overall impression I'm left with anyway. I can't believe how many people have given this piece O' rubbish a good review, I clicked on three of the users who gave The Unknown 8 stars or above & they all only have one comment which really isn't a surprise is it? I am in hysterics at how these comments try to paint this film as deep, scary & meaningful!Director Kozak does a pretty good job on a low budget, although obviously shot on video The Unknown has good production values & the locations used are nice & have have lots of trees. Forget about any scares, shocks or surprises because there aren't any, at all. Forget about any gore either, the opening scenes feature two mangled bodies & someone whose guts slide out of their stomach wound but apart from that it's just the odd splash of fake blood. At the end of The Unknown a video tape of the creature is given to a news program who give it to an expert who claims that it's a hoax & is nothing more than a 'guy in a monkey suit', well I reckon he's giving them too much credit because the Bigfoot creature in this looks really naff.With a supposed budget of about $700,000 The Unknown was filmed in 2003 but not released until 2005, need I say anymore? The acting was OK, hey I don't mind giving credit where it's due.The Unknown is a really boring Bigfoot film, there's no gore, no scares, a dumb looking creature, really bad dialogue like 'we may be dumb but we ain't stupid' & a 'join-the-dots' plot. This is one to avoid, watch Night of the Demon (1980) again instead as it's the perfect example of how a killer Bigfoot film should be done. Released on DVD under the title Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch although a bucket of s%*t still smells as bad under any name.

iarepacman Take Jaws, replace the beach with the woods, and the shark with a bigfoot, mix with a bit of "Pumpkinhead" and there's your movie. VERY run of the mill storyline, with nothing new in terms of plot to edge it out over any other creature movies. That being said, the acting is decent, not the best, but certainly better than most direct to video genre fare, the movie is shot well enough, with a nice moody atmosphere, and the creature suit and make-up is wonderful. You never really get a feel for any menace with the creature, as he just kind of lumbers around, and all his major action is shot pov through its eyes, but thats okay. Fun movie to catch on cable, but unless you are a die hard monster fan who likes to see a well executed monster, save your money.