Cry Wilderness

Cry Wilderness is a 1987 family adventure film in which Bigfoot befriends a young boy whose park ranger father is tracking an escaped tiger. Location shooting occurred at Mono Lake in Mono County, California and Devils Postpile National Monument in Madera County, California.[1]

Cry Wilderness
Directed byJay Schlossberg-Cohen
Produced byJay Schlossberg-Cohen
Written byJay Schlossberg-Cohen
Philip Yordan
StarringEric Foster
Maurice Grandmaison
John Tallman
Music byFritz Heede
CinematographyJoseph D. Urbanczyk
Production
company
Visto International Inc.
Distributed byVisto International Inc.
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The film was re-released on DVD in 2014 along with the 1970s documentary In Search of Bigfoot.[2]

In 2017, the film was the subject of parody by Mystery Science Theater 3000, as the second episode of Season 11.[3]

Plot

Production

Cry Wilderness was written by Philip Yordan. Yordan had an estimated 100 writing credits in film since the 1940s, including 1945's Dillinger, 1955's The Big Combo, the 1962 film adaptation of The Day of the Triffids, and 1964's The Fall of the Roman Empire. In 1986, Yordan was hired production company Visto International to make a Bigfoot movie, with the company having previously made a Sasquatch movie in 1978 that made a $4 million profit on a $150,000 budget. Writing the script became difficult for Yordan as he was told to cut out horror scenes and be restricted from adding any violence, profanity, or sex. These restrictions resulted in the script writer telling the distributor he would be writing a movie about nothing, to which the distributor acknowledged that is what they wanted.[4]

Reception

The 1988 edition of The Motion Picture Guide gave the film zero stars, describing it as "an inane and poorly made feature", criticizing its acting.[5] Eric Harwood for Variety called it one of the worst movies ever made.[6]

See also

References

Citations
  1. "Economic Development, Tourism and Film Commission". Mono County. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  2. Rob Hunter (August 12, 2014). "'Locke,' 'Breathe In' and 'Cry Wilderness' Are Among the Best New Blu-ray/DVD Releases of the Week". FilmSchoolRejects.com. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  3. Jim Vorel (April 14, 2017). "MST3K Review: Cry Wilderness Shows the New MST3K in Bloom". Paste. Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  4. McGilligan 1991, pp. 330–370.
  5. Nash 1988, p. 56.
  6. Harwood, Eric (March 21, 1987). "Cry Wilderness". Variety. Vol. 326. Penske Media. p. 20.

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