The Curse of Bigfoot (1975)

An incredibly shoddy film, which takes a rough 1958 student horror film (Teenagers Battle the Thing) and pads it out with more modern footage which is even rougher! A bunch of bored American schoolkids are being told about monsters. The teacher has pretty much lost them so he calls upon his secret weapon... a rather stiff and inarticulate guest lecturer to tell them about Bigfoot!

This sets up the original film which involves a bunch of dorky kids and their teacher (Bill Simonson) desecrating Indian burial grounds. They find a strange mummy and take it back to their chalet. The mummy then comes to life and begins to menace the community... or one house anyway.

The film is incredibly slow and stretches things out with endless footage of logging and people looking at trees. The monster is horribly cheesy of course in the great tradition of men in rubber suits. Approached with the right frame of mind the film is campy and cheesy fun. Quite what an Indian mummy has to do with Bigfoot is of course the film's biggest mystery.