Film Review: Untold (Sasquatch, 2002)
When film makers are given the low budget, they compensate it with increased creativity. Or, at least that is what they are supposed to. When they don’t, as it is usually the case, what comes on screen is bound to sink into oblivion, like Untold a.k.a. Sasquatch, 2002 Canadian horror film directed by Jonas Quastel.
The plot begins with a car crash in the forest of Pacific Northwest. It turns out that one of the passengers was Tara Knowles (played by Erica Parker), researcher for Bio-Comp, company owned by her father, billionaire Harlan Knowles (played by Lance Henriksen). Weeks have passed without plane being found, so he organises expedition wanting to find his daughter himself. Expedition includes local guide Clayton Tyne (played by Russell Ferrier), author of survivalist books Winston Burg (played by Philip Granger), computer expert and cryptozoology enthusiast Plazz (played by Jeremy Raddick), insurance executive Marla Lawson (played by Andrea Roth) and forensic investigator Nikki Adams (played by Mary Mancini). They manage to find the crash site deep into the woods, but also realise that something or someone has moved entire plane and its passengers. At the same time, it becomes apparent that something or someone is stalking the expedition members. Harlan Knowles also admits that he doesn’t search solely for his daughter. During the crash she had with her “Huxley”, prototype of the machine able to instantly analyse DNA data, and apparently had her used to prove the existence of Sasquatch, legendary giant ape-like creature that is roaming remote forests of Pacific Northwest.
The best known member of the ensemble cast is Lance Henriksen, character actor whose prolific filmography had some iconic roles, but Harlan Knowles, despite Henriksen’s talent and charisma, isn’t one of them. Nor would audience particularly remember Andrea Roth, star of television series Rescue Me, as greedy and manipulative insurance agent, despite brief exploitative scene that features some nudity (almost certainly provided by body double). The film features some impressive British Columbia scenery that had been used in The X-Files and many popular films and television shows, and the motive of Sasquatch, legend associated with the area in the real life, does provide opportunity for more realism than most films of the genre. But this opportunity is wasted because of Quastel’s inept direction that employs all the worst tricks of MTV school of film editing. The actual Sasquatch (played by Taras Kostyuk) appears too late in the film and isn’t exactly convincing, making Untold look cheaper than it actually is. Henriksen later appeared in two more films about Bigfoot, both in 2006 - Abominable and Sasquatch Mountain.
RATING: 2/10 (-)
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