The Untold (2002) (V)

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)

Badly written and directed

Look, I'm not one who automatically looks down on low-budget genre movies. In fact, I watch them all the time. But there's little positive I can say about this movie. The cinematography is okay, the locations look nice, and... well, that's all for the positive.

Now the negative. Hoo boy. It mainly boils down to a terrible script and aggressively annoying directing. First, the script. To put it bluntly, almost NOTHING of real consequence happens up until near the end. Most of the movie just consists of the characters wandering around, sensing something is out there, and blurting out various theories. What's surprising is that even though there is a lot of nothing, often when there is some important explanation it it left unfinished (probably more due to the editing, which is unbelievably inept at times). Sometimes whole sequences are missing. In fact, these and other lapses suggest the shoot had problems and the production wasn't able to shoot everything that was planned.

And the directing... well, as others have said, there is the annoying fade-to-black that seems to happen every four minutes, the images being manipulated by unfocusing and other techniques that make you utter confused as to what's happening, badly chosen camera angles, no sense of tension, no feeling of struggle, etc. etc. I could go on, but you get the idea.

A number of people have claimed that no movie involving Sasquatch has been any good. While I can't claim to have seen every such movie, this movie certainly adds considerable fuel to the argument. If you want to see a low budget movie about people stranded in the wilderness who are attacked by hairy creatures, I strongly recommend you instead watch the vastly entertaining "Dog Soldiers".