Directed by Dan Riesser
Ben and Annie are a young couple on a weekend trip to Annie's small North Carolina hometown who, after meeting a charming old friend, embark on an impromptu 'Bigfoot hunt' that threatens both their relationship and their lives.
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Rural North Carolina native Annie returns home from Chicago with her tech geek boyfriend and winds up bringing him along on a camping trip/bigfoot hunt with a former flame who still has a thing for her. Predictably it doesn't end well! Third time watching this very low budget but surprisingly well crafted and acted obscurity and it still holds up..I'm a big fan but has anyone else even heard of this film? What makes 'Stomping Ground' a fun watch is the tense dynamic between Annie and her pair of bickering admirers, the uptight nerdy city boy panicking he's about to lose her versus the folksy but calculating former love pouring on the charm in an attempt to lure her back.…
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This is my movie. We shot it in 2012 for barely any money. It was a blast to make, one of the best times of my life, got to make some art in a cabin in the woods and form some lifelong friendships.
Thanks to anyone who went into this with an open mind and found something to appreciate about it. Always nice when something you spent a lot of time with resonates for anyone.
And hell, thanks to the horror chuds who trash the movie too… I don’t mind too much anymore. A lot of them are good for a laugh.
Let’s see your feature film sometime.
So after one hour Bigfoot cameo finally came. What a stupid flick.
the fact that the director came on here to give his movie 5 stars is so funny to me. props to him though.
Since Sasquatch Sunset is one of my most anticipated films for the year, I have decided to get into the spirit and check out (and maybe revisit) some of the more popular or well regarded films that involve the famous cryptid. Stomping Ground was quite a bit different from what I was expecting, as most of the film is a bit of a romantic and cultural clash where a Chicago guy goes to his girlfriend's hometown for the holidays and from there sparks shoot off on his assumptions about the people and with one of her old romantic flames. In truth, some of the best moments in the film were in the characters shooting down his assumptions and humbling his…
Feels like a Joe Swanberg film with some Bigfoot thrown in there, with all the pluses and problems that entails.
It’s a wonder that there aren’t more low-budget horror flicks featuring Bigfoot. In terms of practicalities, the yeti movie would seem an economical winner; there’s no need for sets as the filming would have to take place in ready-made forests, a tall fella in a monkey mask glimpsed lumbering about in murky background is somehow more forgivable than poor werewolf effects, and the lost in the woods dynamic has been a narrative staple since Perrault sent his Red Riding Hood into the forests of seventeenth century Europe. Unlike vampires and zombies, who we (sadly) know don’t exist, there’s also a little question mark over the prospect of the yeti, the sasquatch, the abominable snowman, which manifests in real life cryptozoological…
pretty middle of the road dramedy with some horror elements sprinkled in the last 15 mins or so. Acting is great but the film doesn`t have much to say and it drags even with its short running time. This gets 2/5 stars.
Barely a bigfoot movie to the point where you see it for at tops 5 minutes throughout the entire film. The core of this movie is a relationship drama where a woman comes home to introduce her boyfriend to her family, then follows the basic tropes of insecurity and masculine dick swinging between the boyfriend and her friend/Ex. That makes up more than half of this movie, bigfoot is basically the last 15 minutes of this hour and 20 minute movie. Those last 15 minutes feel like an afterthought anyway, with also one of the weakest endings in how they get away from Bigfoot. Overall, don't come in expecting Bigfoot because you're getting a relationship drama that you've seen a hundred times before.
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Forventede egentlig en larmende Big-foot film. Hvad jeg fik var et meget langsomt drama. Der på trods af en spilletid på under 80 minutter virkede ret lang. Skuespillet er svingende fra helt udmærket til lige netop acceptabelt. En enkel replik fik mig til at grine højlydt (og det var meningen)
Filmens æstetik lugter langt væk af brug af billigt udstyr, der på sin vis ser pænt ud, men bare ligner en vimeo-video. Med utallige nærbilleder af blade i skoven og vandråber og den slags, så man virkelig kan se at det her kamera kan noget.
Filmen mister totalt grebet til sidst i filmen da Bigfoot endelig dukker op og indtil da var jeg mere frustreret over end indvisteret i karaktererne og historien.
Ærgeligt for synes egentlig der ligger en okay historie gemt et sted i den her film.
Damm. Really effective Bigfoot thriller. Looked great, performances were great. 👍👍
Definitely not the best Bigfoot movie I've watched, but nowhere near the worst. Decent story. Terrible Bigfoot costume. Seriously, with all the advances in technology, no one can make a costume that makes me say "hey, maybe that is what they look like."
