 Hello and welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten's Trash or Treasure. I'm the treasure. I'm the trash. All torn up, looked like I've been beaten up by Bigfoot. I'm wearing Bigfoot's skin. A Patreon request by Gonzalo Valdez. 1980's Night of the Demon. This movie is directed by James Watson and he has done fuck all. This movie stars mostly unknown people who have done fuck all. Except for Lin Eastman Rossi who is also in Phantasm. Alright, yeah. So this movie starts off with this guy in a hospital bed and he's all bandaged up and there's the doctor and there's a cop there interviewing him. They want to know what happened to him. And he proceeds to tell his story. He's a professor teaching a class where he brought in this found footage of these people who ended up catching what they thought was a Bigfoot on camera. Eight millimeter footage with no sound. Suddenly when Bigfoot comes in you can hear RRRRRR Where does that cop come from? Carla Thomas kind of interrupts the class and she says that her dad was murdered in the woods and she thinks that it was a Bigfoot that actually did it. There's also a lot of legends of Bigfoot in the area, right? People have been going missing in that neck of the woods. Professor Nugent recruits a bunch of members from the class so they get an expedition together and they go looking for Bigfoot. All of a sudden they just have a boat and all these supplies. Take a boat, they find the dock. What dock? Is this a bunch of mud and shit? With some steak in the ground. But they end up going to Lou Carlson's cabin in the woods and he's all kind of aloof like they're trying to get in. Finally opens the door. I'm going hunting now. And then he leaves. They all have to wait there and camp out and then he comes back. He'll just only take a second. Why don't you tell us what we need to know. One of the guys brings him the elixir of life, a bottle of whiskey to loosen his tongue a little bit and he proceeds to tell them a story about Wanda who's a recluse in the woods. Apparently Wanda knows more about Bigfoot. They should go seek her out. The problem is apparently she no longer speaks. The next day they go to town and start asking everyone in town about this Wanda person. Everyone has got a slightly different variation of the story. But between talking to all these different people they can kind of piece together what happened. So apparently Wanda's dad was some weird preacher that lived out in the woods in this cabin and had these followers. They would do rituals in the woods and they had human sacrifices. He committed suicide and set himself on fire. Now Wanda lives out in the woods in this cabin all by herself as a recluse. They go out into the woods to seek out Wanda and they're camping out one night. They hear all this kind of weird stuff happening on the woods and two of them get out of the tent and there's a crazy ritual happening in the woods, fire going. They're all chanting and everything. There's this big Bigfoot like effigy made out of like shrubs and shit. It ain't no wicker man, that's for sure. And there's this guy in this weird kind of leather mask and he's about to like rape this woman who's like on this altar. Well we can't let this happen right? And they shoot off a bunch of rounds. Everyone scatters. Turns out some of these rumors about a cult up here are true. So they eventually find Wanda's cabin. They go knock on the door right? The rumor is that she loves candy. So they made sure to buy some candy presents the candy right? She grabs it, the door opens right? She lets him in. And she's just a mute right? She's not really saying anything but they kind of look around and there's this locked door and they can't really get much out of her. So of course being a professor and all try to hypnotize her and she can kind of dive into her past. It turns out that her dad was a very strict preacher. Super hard ass. He's all whipping her down. Bitch you whore. You're embarrassing me. Like what the fuck? Yeah cause she was in love with this young guy and they're just kind of hanging out by the stream. It's all nice and she comes back to the cabin. You whore. Turns out there is a Bigfoot in these woods. He's the last one. Bigfoot approaches her one night and rapes her. And it's a pretty crazy fucking scene. It's like whoa. They did this. They shot this. Bigfoot's got to get some too. He's got to procreate right? And the dad kind of like here's this happening. He comes out of the cabin with a shot and he's like oh my lord. He all shoots the Bigfoot too. But he got there too late and she's actually been impregnated by the Bigfoot. The dad tries everything in his power to kill the fetus. He tries poisoning her to kill the Bigfoot baby. But it doesn't work and she actually gives birth to the Bigfoot which is a crazy scene. The dad just sitting there not even helping. As soon as the baby's born the dad grabs it and he's all holding it up and it's all alive. Immediately kills the fetus and the Bigfoot sees all this and is mad and is like forever now terrorizing everybody because all this happened. Wanda wakes up from her being hypnotized and suddenly while Bigfoot is at the house smashing all the windows and breaking the doors and that's where we're going to end the plot because if you want to see what happens at the end of Night of the Demon watch the movie. It's pretty crazy. If it doesn't sound crazy enough already. I know that brings us to the treasure of this movie and there's quite a few actually and one of the best things is actually the plot it's the whole Bigfoot aspect very original done really well actually. It's ahead of his time in a few ways to found footage thing. Cannibal Holocaust did it first but this feels very Blair Witch like they find the footage of the Bigfoot find out whether or not this is true they're interrogating the town they get different stories from the town it's very Blair Witch must have bored from this movie. While they're camping out they get terrorized over multiple nights too. Yeah exactly so it's very Blair Witch. The whole addition of this weird cult and the woods rituals to kind of keep it at bay. Yeah ward it off. It's pretty neat like it's not just a Bigfoot out there there's a cult out there too which you never expected. Yeah it's an interesting take on the whole Bigfoot thing. The kills in this movie are really good and the funny thing is most of them were an afterthought where they filmed the movie screened it and they thought oh we need more so they filmed all these kills after the fact and put them in as flashbacks. The movie really did need it too right. And I'm glad they added those because they're great. The Bigfoot just walks up to some guys sleeping cry the 13th must have bored from this picks up the sleeping a little swing and throws him on that branch and spiked branch there's also that one with that guy that riding that motorcycle and he gets off the motorcycle to go take a leak and Bigfoot all comes out and chairs his way you'll see his way too. It's a fucking hilarious guy who pulls out his way and it just zooms in at full way full frontal fucking way it looks real I don't think it's real. How did they get away with that? I love the Bigfoot doesn't try to kill the guy or anything or eat him he just comes up he just rips the way and then lets the guy walk away and bleed to death. There's another good one where the story about these two girls in the woods together and they encounter Bigfoot and they both have knives try to defend themselves but Bigfoot just grabs their arms with the knives and like stabs them the preacher dad when he's burning alive in that shed and his hand comes out to kind of reach for help and it's all melting and everything oh that's really good. It looks good and then the cabin at the end where shit hits the fan and basically everyone gets destroyed by Bigfoot he throws that guy on that big soft takes that guy's face and puts it on the stove lifts his face up and they show the aftermath it's like yeah it looks good one of the guys tries to get a picture of Bigfoot while all that's happening and he drops the camera and exposes the film and the film comes out and it's like aw man nobody's ever gonna see what's been happening the setting is great too right I mean how can you get any better than the woods you're out in the middle of nowhere there could be anything out there terrorizing you doesn't have to be a Bigfoot necessarily and there's a cult out there too yeah these people could be nuts and not just the woods one this cabin is a great setting and they walk in the wallpaper is all peeling off that shotgun that's like you don't know if it's working or not which is placed I think pretty purposely there's like does that work if they need to grab it is it gonna work and there's that locked room with the padlock I love the mystery of that too and it keeps compounding too there's mystery on top of mystery yeah the mystery of this movie is great too because as you learn more you also there's more questions too but they can get answered like everything does get answered you've not left thinking about what happened no you know what everything gets answered at the end Bigfoot himself is kind of cool too but kind of cheap too on top of it right the Bigfoot design is cool yeah idea the trash does look kind of cheap especially from the shots from behind where you can see your pieces of hair glued onto the suit but his face and the rest of them from the front actually looks really cool yeah like torso up looks pretty cool a lot of the trash aspect of this movie is the budget yeah and you can tell by the Bigfoot design that yeah the budget maybe is not what it should have been for a movie with this kind of the idea the scope it's almost there right the Bigfoot design is almost there but you can tell it's done cheaply the actors could have been much better if they could have afford better actors it the acting is pretty bad professor in the beginning when he's telling a story like aren't you supposed to be disfigured and intense pain and un-morphine and shit and he's just like yeah we went out to the woods there's some good acting it's not all bad no no no but the thing is it it's noticeable it's enough to sort of take away from the movie a little bit and the editing too right lot of filler type stuff and it just didn't work right it ruined the pacing of the movie there's like some scenes they're shoved in there and you're like well what was that was that a flashback or was that happening in real time no clue we're down to the wire here night of the demon trash or treasure it is treasure I'm voting treasure too yeah besides the fact that the budget wasn't there to pull off a movie with this type of idea it worked for the most part it worked yeah it was a very enjoyable movie very intriguing and it kind of got the point across right it's a fun movie you know like the kills are fun the mystery is fun the plot is good would this movie make a good remake yeah not nowadays yeah like maybe like it's hard to tell if there were to remake this movie it would have to have that same kind of gritty dark feel to it couldn't be all glossy and Hollywood yeah have to be pretty fucking dark a lot of fun is so if you're in the mood for a good woodsy horror movie with a monster lurking in the background with some great kills and check out night of the demon is a lot of fun oh yeah and until next time keep drinking