Bigfoot (2012 film)

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Bigfoot is a 2012 American action-adventure film produced by The Asylum and Syfy. It’s directed by Bruce Davison, who also stars as a local sheriff, and features Danny Bonaduce, Barry Williams, and Sherilyn Fenn, with a cameo by Alice Cooper. The movie runs 89 minutes and is in English. It premiered on Syfy on June 30, 2012 and was released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 14, 2012. In China, it was released as King Kong 3.

Note: This film is not connected to the 1970 movie of the same name.

Plot
A hunter tries to shoot a bear, but a large hairy creature appears and kills the hunter. The creature, believed to be Bigfoot, goes back to its cave. It later kills an elderly couple by overturning their RV. During a rock concert in Deadwood, South Dakota, organizer Harley Henderson wants to kill Bigfoot to turn it into a tourist attraction. His former partner, Simon Quinn, now an environmentalist, believes the creature is the last of its kind and should be protected.

Harley hires hunters to track Bigfoot, while others attempt to film the creature but are killed. Simon uses a hang glider to spot Bigfoot; Harley and his team try to kill it. Bigfoot kills several more men. Harley shoots down Simon’s hang glider. Army helicopters pursue the creature toward the concert. The activist friends are killed, and the town evacuates to avoid more casualties.

Sheriff Alvarez and her partner Gunderson decide to call off an air strike after seeing Henderson and Quinn near Mount Rushmore, but Henderson is killed when Bigfoot kicks a patrol car into a tree, and Gunderson dies as well. Bigfoot is finally killed by missiles fired by attack jets, destroying Mount Rushmore in the process. A year later, the mayor honors Henderson and Quinn for their actions, and Mount Rushmore is being rebuilt.

Release and reception
The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on August 14, 2012 (Gaiam International and The Asylum), with a later re-release in 2013. Critics gave it negative reviews. DVD Talk called it not scary or interesting and only mildly amusing in a bad-movie way. HorrorNews.net criticized the dialogue and preachy environmental message, while Oh, the Horror! described it as very bad, noting the film is sometimes self-aware about its badness.