The Untold (2002) (V)

User Rating:

2.9/10   

Director:

Jonas Quastel

Writers:

Jonas Quastel (written by) and
Chris Lanning (written by)

Release Date:

11 March 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

They found the missing link..... and it's not friendly.

Plot:

Based on a true story. Involving Sasquatch.

Plot Keywords:

Author | Sasquatch | Creature Feature | Grizzly | Drunkenness

Cast

Lance Henriksen	...	Harlan Knowles
Andrea Roth	...	Marla Lawson
Russell Ferrier	...	Clayton Tyne
Philip Granger	...	Winston Burg (as Phil Granger)
Jeremy Radick	...	Plazz
Mary Mancini	...	Nikki Adams
Taras Kostyuk	...	Sasquatch
Erica Durance	...	Tara Knowles (as Erica Parker)
Rob Clark	...	Pilot
Scantone Jones	...	Crew Member

Also Known As:

Sasquatch (Canada: English title) (DVD title) (USA) (DVD title)
Inexplicable (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, some violence and brief nudity.

Runtime:

Argentina:92 min | Germany:82 min (DVD version)

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Germany:16 | USA:R | Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Curb Entertainment

Goofs:

Continuity: When the character "Winston Burg" hears Sasquatch, he fires nine consecutive shots into the woods with a S&W .357 magnum, a gun that normally carries six rounds.

Quotes:

[after Winston aims at Clayton and pulls the trigger of an empty 357 Magnum which he didn't know was empty]
Clayton Tyne: Jesus Christ! You Jackass! I'm definently never gonna buy anyone of your books!

Movie Connections:

Followed by Sasquatch Hunters (2005) (V)

A disappointment

A plane carrying a rich scientist's daughter goes down in thick wilderness. He assembles a group to go and find her and the others, but the rescue party soon suspects that something is stalking them. Then ulterior motives for the expedition are revealed and that only adds to the already existing tension.

The movie is a decent idea and a take on the popular Sasquatch legend was bound to wind up on film sooner or later. However, the film's direction breaks a fundamental rule of horror/thriller directing and that is showing too much too soon. Of course the audience knows there is something stalking the characters, just read the title! But showing what should have been the film's kicker that early just ruins most of the suspense and, as a direct result, much of the fun. The film also lacks a good atmosphere and there are almost no landscape shots that show the expanse of the wilderness, but there are plenty monster point-of-view shots that add nothing to anything. They actually knock off 'Predator' quite shamelessly. The low-budget horror film 'Wendigo' did what this film tries to do much better.

Some of the character tensions and a non-cliché ending manage to make up for this rise above the crap pile, but it is still poor and given the premise and potential, very disappointing. --- 4/10

Rated R for some violence and profanity, but it's pretty tame compared to most R-rated horror.