Plot

(#1 Will blow your mind) A clickbait journalist is sent to the Appalachian foothills to cover a Bigfoot Convention where he discovers there's more to this listicle than meets the eye.

This paranormal comedy follows a hopelessly millennial reporter on the most important assignment of his career: Bigfoot. But after following a prominent cryptozoologist into the Appalachian foothills, he's forced to answer the question "is a good story worth dying for?"

Brian Emond, a journalist from Compound, is sent to interview a rapper named Lil' SoundCloud (Derick Marchel) who is inside his home smoking with a bong. His handler refuses to allow Brian to talk to SoundCloud about any of the allegations against him. Brian pleads from outside the home before his producer and camera man Zach Lamplugh convinces him to depart. Just then, SoundCloud's handler calls Brian back and he earns his first exclusive interview without the camera man. Brian becomes a featured correspondent and is sent to the war torn Crimean Peninsula to learn about the craft beer scene there. Other stories the team covered included some drug users who lived on the streets claiming they were sustainable urban campers, the making of artisanal antibiotics, and CBD oil cryptocurrency. Brian becomes fed up with his job and tired of only being assigned clickbait stories about nothing. Brian's next story to cover the effect the story of Bigfoot has on the South Appalachia culture. Zach Lamplugh is Emond's producer and cameraman and seems to enjoy his job a little too much for Emond's liking. Zach becomes concerned when Brian states that he believes he is up for a broadcast lead position that he will be left behind. On the way to the airport, they share a ride with Dirty Dolla$ign$ (Tevin Williams) and his crew who are on their way to Canada. Dirty Dolla$ign$ does a show about food and weed. They stop at McDonald's on the way to do a food review. While they are taping in the van, much to Brian's displeasure, when Dolla$ign$ reveals he has already been offered the broadcast lead position at their company. In Georgia, Brian begrudgingly begins his Bigfoot story at a Bigfoot convention in northern Georgia. He meets the master of camouflage Darren Edwards (Grahamm Edwards) who drinks urine to mask his scent. The local sheriff's deputy (Chris Mayers) believe the Bigfoot rumors are actually bears. 45 minutes from the convention is noted Bigfoot hunter Jeffrey Stephenson who filmed "The Blue Ridge Tape" of a shadowy figure moving through the woods. Jeff makes the controversial claims Bigfoot uses tools and hates guns. Brian meets Jeff in his home. Jeff shows Brian the physical evidence of Bigfoot he has collected while bemoaning the breakup with his ex-girlfriend. Brian also witnesses Jeff and his drunken cousin Sid wrestle while he considers his career options. Brian is stunned to learn that he and Zach are going on an overnight expedition with the self-proclaimed Cryptid Commander. Cryptozoologist Jeff has a YouTube channel show. Brian is very apprehensive about sleeping in a tent. That night Brian is awakened by the sound of footsteps and distant moaning. When they open the tent zipper flap they film some movement in the nearby woods. The battery runs out. The next morning they film that their campsite has been trashed by something large enough to break a skillet. Jeff has disappeared but was defecating in the woods. Despite Brian's constant whining, he gets Jeff's continued cooperation for the documentary but promising to make Jeff's story the centerpiece of the film. Jeff teaches Brian how to make Bigfoot call and demonstrates that beating a stick against a tree communicates with the unseen Bigfoot. He also collects hair samples comparing it to picking up the pieces of his life after his ex, Jen left. As they hike, Jeff points out a glyph, a way that Bigfoots communicate to one another that appears to be a random pile of sticks. As they near a hidden lake, Brian discovers what he believes is Bigfoot defecation and collects a sample. Jeff points out that find was his morning effort indicating the toilet paper hanging in the tree. To avoid another overnight Bigfoot encounter, Zach and Brian's tent is pitched amongst some vines. The next morning Brian arises and finds Jeff enjoying the beauty of the lake. Jeff admits his obsession with Bigfoot cost him his relationship. Even Jeff's own mother considered him a loser but Jeff believes that the documentary is proving otherwise. Zach discovers a cell phone message that Brian has a job offer from PBS just before Brian's cellphone goes dead. As they are trying to film an introduction to their second day in the woods, Jeff continually gets into or otherwise ruins the shot. Brian begins to lose confidence in his guide when Jeff continually reads this compass continually near his magnetic belt clip. They discover they are hopelessly lost when they run into some no trespassing signs. Brian and Jeff begin arguing. Moments later they stumble across a dead body. Jeff cannot stop retching as Brian tries to describe their find to the camera. Freaked out, Zach stops the camera, something he seldom does. They try to use Brian's map that he obtained at the hotel. Their path would seem to lead to a ranger station but they only come across an abandon hippie commune. With only two hours of daylight left in the day, Jeff proposes they set up camp their while he goes to scout the area and get his bearings. He tells Brian to use the idle time to work on his anger management issues. Away from camp, Jeff tapes a confession for his YouTube show telling his viewers that he faked Brian and Zach's first night Bigfoot encounter saying he was just excited to have people to talk to about important things in his life. Just then the leaves rustle. Jeff exclaims that this could be an actual sighting of perhaps multiple Bigfoots when he is knocked out cold. At camp, Brian is irritated to be without water and that his guide has wandered off. Just then the sheriff's deputy appears and tells Brian and Zach that they are trespassing. He requests Brian put on handcuffs. When Brian refuses, two mountain men appear with guns pointed at Brian and Zach. Brian realizes they have stumbled into s much bigger story than Bigfoot. Trucknutz (Will Copeland) has taken Zach's camera and begins narrating a tour of their opioid and fentanyl operation. He displays the warehouse where fentanyl is packed in bricks for smuggling inside of stuffed animals. Trucknutz is proud of his gun collection and his truck. He also shows the stable where the prisoners are being kept. Trucknutz proves annoying to his associates who take away the camera which Zach recovers. Brian is in a foul mood and is disappointed in himself that he ever believed a Bigfoot hunter. Darren Edwards is reveals to also been captured by the same drug dealers. Suddenly Brian recognizes a familiar face from the FBIs most wanted list, Ma Pritchard (Virginia Kirby). Brian tries to explain to her that they are making a documentary on Bigfoot but Ma is skeptical. One of her boys, however, believes he has heard Bigfoot in the past. Jeff concludes that the sounds he hears in the woods are just Ma Barker and her crew smuggling heroin. Ma chooses Zach for further interrogation. Jeff gets very depressed that his life work has been for nothing, Being an Eagle scout however, he is prepared with a tool and breaks himself and Brian out of their handcuffs. They free Darren and then head off the save Zach. Jeff is now brimming with confidence and feels like a badass that he was able to free them. Between themselves and Zach is an armed guard. They assign the task of disarming the gunman to Darren after they distract the guard but Darren runs off. Brian uses the camera and attempts to interview the gunman, while Jeff sneaks up from behind and snaps the gunman's neck. Jeff frees Zach but one of Ma's boys, the Bigfoot believer, arrives pointing a gun at them. Brian makes the Bigfoot call which distracts their captor and Jeff knocks him cold. They run off into the darkness and lose their guide Jeff. Just as quickly, Zach and Brian are stooped by Ma and her boys with rifles. The boys argue about applying "Deliverance" tactics against their prisoners. Darren appears and is shot twice in the chest. Ma holds a knife to Brian's throat and tells him she is going to gut him like a fish. Just then a creature attacks the kidnappers giving Zach Jeff and Brian enough cover to get away. The creature had the opportunity to attack the reporters but went after Ma. Jeff proudly reasoned that Bigfoot hates guns. They run for what seems like hours but is actually only several yards and find an old service road that leads them back toward town. On the road, Brian, Zach and Jeff are stopped by the corrupt sheriff's deputy who tries to plant a gun on them so he can shoot them. Just then, Sid appears and knocks out the deputy. Brian, Zach, and Jeff are finally safe. Jeff loses interest in Bigfoot and his focus is in planning his wedding. Brian, along with Zach, becomes international correspondents who are kidnapped by drug smugglers so that they can teach Brian about the craft beer scene in Venezuela. Dirty Dolla$ign$ has his own show on Compound called Serious Fucking Issues. The premier show explores Canada. 7*