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Cry Wilderness

Cry Wilderness (1987) Movie Poster
  •  USA  •    •  93m  •    •  Directed by: Jay Schlossberg-Cohen.  •  Starring: Eric Foster, Maurice Grandmaison, John Tallman, Griffin Casey, Faith Clift, Navarre Perry, Joe Fuzz, Tom Folkes, Foster Hood, Gordon Gale, Don Pugsley, Darwyn Swalve, Gus Bass.  •  Music by: Fritz Heede.
      A Bigfoot-type creature befriends Paul, a young student. His father is a park ranger trying to capture an escaped tiger. Everyone in town is on edge and wants the tiger killed. David tries to keep Bigfoot a secret.

Review:

Image from: Cry Wilderness (1987)
Image from: Cry Wilderness (1987)
Image from: Cry Wilderness (1987)
Image from: Cry Wilderness (1987)
Image from: Cry Wilderness (1987)
Image from: Cry Wilderness (1987)
Paul (Eric Foster) is a young student who runs away from his school after Bigfoot tells him that his forest ranger father is in trouble. You see, the previous summer Paul and Bigfoot became friends but no one believes the kid. Now the kid is reunited with his father who is tracking down a dangerous tiger but there are bigger issues going on.

CRY WILDERNESS is a pretty darn bad movie but it's thankfully campy and silly enough to where you can get some entertainment out of it. The film comes from director Jay Schlossberg-Cohen whose only other credit was a segment he did for the even more awful NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR. This film here is certainly among the worst Bigfoot movies that you're going to see as everything they were going for just fails.

This was obviously meant to be a heart-warming tale of a boy and his friend ala something like E.T. but this film fails on pretty much all levels. The biggest problem is that there's really no connection between the viewers and the characters. All of the characters are pretty much one-note and even worse is the fact that the film just never builds up the relationships between them. We're supposed to care for this young boy and his father but we don't. There's supposed to be a tender moment between Bigfoot and the boy but it's silly more than anything else.

I will say that the film does offer up some decent performances but that's just about it. There's a lot of footage of various wildlife animals that is probably the most entertaining thing going on. It's really too bad that the film itself wasn't better or at least they could have used Bigfoot in more of the scenes. As it stands, CRY WILDERNESS will appeal to fans of bad movies but that's about it.


Review by Michael_Elliott from the Internet Movie Database.