House Squatch

Trying to get out of town unnoticed, a pair of criminals hiding in a house in a small town are the latest victims of a vicious house sasquatch running wild in the town and forcing the sheriff to take matters into his own hands to stop its rampage with the help of an old friend.

Overall, this one is quite the fun if flawed genre effort. Among the more likable features here, which also highlights the main flaws here, is the generally simplistic and one-note story for this one. Emerging mainly as an excuse to indulge in a non-stop series of random confrontations with the creature, the series of rapid-fire sequences here introducing new characters into the proceedings keep this one moving along into a series of confrontations centered around the residents doing something, and the creature attacks. This provides a chaotic enough timeline of events but is thankfully hardly ever dull by moving from one encounter to another which all leads to the enjoyably cheesy finale that comes off with some comical action scenes and a nice bit of humor. That does become one of the film's biggest drawbacks, though, when this one makes it so obvious that's the point here. By introducing a series of random sequences in this manner, there's a disjointed feel that makes the film come off without a defined focus which is quite painful at times. As well, the whole affair sports such a goofy, cheesy attitude that there's almost no way to take this one seriously ranging from the outright silly monster costume that is plainly just a person in a cheap gorilla suit and a horrible Halloween mask, to the whimsical musical score that ruins the suspense of so many suspenseful stalking scenes and the one-location setup that simply screams rented property on the weekends. These offer up enough to bring this one down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Violence.