No Burgers For Bigfoot
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 8th, 2008
This is a new motion picture about the making of a bad Bigfoot flick. Haven’t we seen this film before?
The following is the official trailer for the feature length mockumentary, No Burgers for Bigfoot, about the supposed making of a terrible Bigfoot film.
For more info, you may or may not wish to read an extended Phil Hall Film Threat interview with Jonathan Grant about his movie, No Burgers for Bigfoot here. Phil Hall’s Film Threat review is here.
Frankly, having taught a documentary film course for 23 semesters and discussing this very subject every year, I am a little worried by the less-than-creative humor displayed in the mockumentary movement. After all, what more can you do after This is Spinal Tap (1984)?
But Phil Hall promises in his two articles on No Burgers for Bigfoot that it is “original and delightful [and] it locks the viewer’s attention from start to finish.”
Forgive me if I am a bit skeptical and I guess I shall have to watch it to believe it. Even Hall notes that the movie-within-a-movie, “the Bigfoot film eventually gets made and the result (complete with an out-of-left-field country music number!) has to be seen to be believed.”
Just like Bigfoot!?
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
This also reminds me of ‘Brutal Massacre’, another mockumentary, which has been described as ‘The Spinal Tap of Horror’. It’s about worn-out horror director Harry Penderecki (played by David Naughton, known for his role as David Kessler in An American Werewolf in London). This is a very amusing movie, with plenty of (sometimes) subtle humour and with a great cast.
Of course, there is such a thing as too much and we’ll just have to wait and see about this one.
I think I feel a little dumber and anemic after just seeing this trailer. I don’ think I could risk watching the entire film.
“Alot funnier than Napoleon Dynamite”???
Well I’m not gonna pass judgement on the trailer, but saying it will be Alot Funnier is a big statement in my opinion. I guess I’ll give a shot, the cast looks pretty quirky that may give it a little potential for being witty and funny…..we’ll see.
“You’ll laugh! You’ll Cry! You’ll kiss three bucks good-bye!” – Hardware Wars, 1977.
i peed alittle….
that was halarious
Now you know why drive-in theaters have disappeared. 😀