Have you ever thought to yourself, "Gee I wish that someone would remake 'The Blair Witch Project', only make it about Bigfoot instead of witches. And I also wish that that someone was Bobcat Goldthwait"?
Well, you wish has come true! Willow Creek is, you guessed it, a found footage movie about a couple o' twenty-somethings heading out to the town where the infamous Bigfoot footage was shot. Of course, they encounter tons of backwoods weirdos before isolating themselves in the forest.
I may seem like I'm making fun here, but Willow Creek is actually pretty sweet. Goldthwait's dialogue is snappy enough and the couple is likable enough, and the promise of Bigfoot (which may or may not be an empty promise) is intriguing enough that we stick around long enough to get to the massive single shot of the couple cowering in their tent. It's not a very long wait. The movie is only 80min and the climactic tent scene starts around minute 55. This sequence (which is about 15 minutes) is the high water mark of the flick. It is intense and engrossing. The capper of the movie, where they really get chased, is kind of just the icing on the delicious cake.
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