Willow Creek Movie Review

Trailer here.

Willow Creek is a 2013 horror movie directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and starring Alexie Gilmore and Bryce Johnson.

A couple Kelly(Gilmore) and Jim(Johnson) are a couple who are going to Willow Creek to search for Bigfoot. They want to go to the area of the famous Patterson-Gimlin film footage. Kelly doesn't believe in it at all. They arrive in Willow Creek. They interview a woman who works at the visitor centre. She doesn't believe in Bigfoot either. The couple visit a bookshop and they meet a man called Steve. They ask him how to get to the site. He warns them to look out for bears in the area. The locals tell their own stories about encounters with Bigfoot. They drive out to the woods and they meet a man who tells them to turn back. They ignore him and keep going anyway.

The couple leave their car and search for the site of the video. They set up camp. They hear noises in the night. There are various sounds and they hear a woman crying. They turn off the lights in their tent and they hear footsteps outside. The next morning, they discover hair outside their tent. They hear more noises. They end up lost in the forest. Why does this always happen??? They are basically screwed.

They run into a woman who is wandering in the woods. She is the last thing they see before they are attacked by something. We hear Jim being killed and the snarls of some creature. Kelly is screaming for help as she is taken. The film ends with the sounds of more than one creature making its call in the forest.

This film is directed by Bobcat Goldthwait, who you probably know as Zed from the Police Academy films. This owes an awful lot to The Blair Witch Project. It is very similar. I liked the premise and the film isn't too bad. There are some genuinely creepy moments in it and if you enjoy found footage films, then this will be right up your street. I did like it and I found it fun. I will give it a 5/10.