Willow Creek (2013)
Directed by Bobcat Goldthwait
Looking to make a splash online with his research videos into the existence of Bigfoot, Jim and his girlfriend Kelly take a camping trip to the small town of Willow Creek, California, and the surrounding mountains where the infamous footage of the supposed sasquatch was filmed.
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But once their characters venture deep into the woods and set up camp, the film has nowhere to go but down the same narrative path as almost every found-footage tale since The Blair Witch Project began the craze back in 1999.
Despite the impressively committed performances by the two leads and the screenplay’s touches of sly humor, the proceedings are mostly all too redolent of the endless found-footage horror films that have followed in the wake of The Blair Witch Project.
As a horror movie, it's dull and derivative, its most obvious inspiration being The Blair Witch Project -- although you could say it takes its lead from any number of the ever-proliferating found footage horror fare of the past few years (which includes another Bigfoot-themed film, Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes ).
That’s nearly as groundbreaking as the film that unofficially started the found footage craze, 1999’s “The Blair Witch Project.”
He’s also clearly studied the most famous and effective of found-footage thrillers: The Blair Witch Project, to which Willow Creek bears more than a passing resemblance.
The film is clearly influenced by The Blair Witch Project, but Goldthwait ratchets up the suspense in an eccentric mixture of reality and fiction that consistently engages against all odds.