The Untold (Video 2002)

Based on a true story. Involving Sasquatch.

Director:

Jonas Quastel

Writers:

Jonas Quastel, Chris Lanning

Stars:

Lance Henriksen, Andrea Roth, Russell Ferrier

Cast

Complete credited 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

Storyline

Based on actual accounts, The Untold is the story of Harlan Knowles, billionaire and President of Bio-Comp Industries who heads up a team of experts in a quest to locate a company plane that disappeared over the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest. Knowles is obsessed with finding the plane and rescuing his daughter, who was one of its passengers. The assembled team includes local guide Clayton Tyne, renowned wilderness expert and author Winston Burg and the beautiful Marla Lawson. Soon, the team begins to suspect that Knowles' main objective is actually to recover the prototype of a DNA testing machine called the Huxley Project, which his company has spent years and millions of dollars developing. After finding the plane and its crew torn to shreds, the group tries to piece together clues about what could be responsible for the carnage. With the help of the Huxley prototype they discover they are facing a menace whose very existence is one of the world's greatest mysteries and ...

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Plot Keywords:

sasquatch | author | creature | nudity | binoculars | 

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Taglines:

They weren't looking for it... but they found it.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, some violence and brief nudity

Details

Official Sites:

Wilderness Productions

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 March 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

Sasquatch

Filming Locations:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$3,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Curb Entertainment, Wilderness Productions, Bergman Lustig Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min 82 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Erica Durance's feature film debut.

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Goofs

Flopped shot: near the end of the film, when Harlan goes back alone, the first time he fires into the air, it's left-handed, with a left-handed bolt-action rifle. Subsequently, the rifle is right-handed and Harlan is right-handed.

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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!

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Connections

Followed by Sasquatch Hunters (2005)

User Reviews

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.