Review – Willow Creek

Okay, kids. Let’s try to learn something from this experience. The premise is solid enough: two filmmakers venture into the woods in search of the site where the famous Patterson-Gimlin footage of Bigfoot was shot. The acting is fine. Bobcat Goldthwait has demonstrated elsewhere that he has enough talent to write and direct a good movie. Yet this still turns out to be a dreadful, meandering bore. Lay it squarely at the doorstep of the decision to shoot this as yet another found footage travesty. If even talented people can’t make this sub-genre work as anything better than a Blair Witch parody, then let’s treat this as conclusive proof that there’s no value in pursuing it further. See if desperate