31 Days of Halloween: Willow Creek

[Once again I'm going to attempt to do a horror(ish) movie review a day for the entire month of October. I've done this the last few years on The Cleveland Movie Blog. Most of the time I succeeded. Other times I didn't. We'll see if I can pull it off this year.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

So this one has been out for a while, but I’ve held off watching it until now. I like Bobcat Goldthwait as a director, and for my money SHAKES THE CLOWN is one of the finest comedies ever made. Subsequent films like WORLD’S GREATEST DAD and GOD BLESS AMERICA were intriguing dark comedies as well, even if I didn’t love them quite as much. So I’m generally interested in seeing anything the guy makes. And yet, the idea of Goldthwait directing a found footage horror movie about Bigfoot just didn’t grab me.

Turns out, my instincts were wrong on this one, as WILLOW CREEK is one of the better found-footage horror films to come out in the wake of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT.