{"id":10641,"date":"2015-10-28T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T01:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=10641"},"modified":"2015-10-27T09:42:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T14:42:21","slug":"willow-creek-2013-bobcat-goldthwait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/10641","title":{"rendered":"Willow Creek (2013, Bobcat Goldthwait)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short, found-footage movie where Jim (Bryce Johnson, unsympathetic fiancee in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8534\">Sleeping Dogs Lie<\/a><\/em>) is a bigfoot obsessive visiting the site of some famous footage, and Kelly (Alexie Gilmore, Robin&#8217;s girlfriend in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8143\">World&#8217;s Greatest Dad<\/a><\/em>) is the girlfriend filming and humoring him.  In the first half they interview locals and get warned away from the woods, but they forge ahead, and in the second half they&#8217;re tormented then killed (after laughably not bringing a map or compass or any way of finding their way out of the woods) by the very bigfoots they hoped to observe.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image15\/willow.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It sounds very bad, but wait, it&#8217;s by the great Bobcat, creator of some of my favorite recent comedies, so surely there&#8217;s more going on, some subversive genius to this seemingly dated and pointless movie, or at least a great comic twist?  Nope, just the <em>Blair Witch<\/em>-meets-<em>Grizzly Man<\/em> premise described above.  There&#8217;s a kinda great 15-minute shot where they wake up hearing approaching bigfoots (making me imagine the movie&#8217;s better with surround sound), and the actors are both committed, but overall it&#8217;s a bust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short, found-footage movie where Jim (Bryce Johnson, unsympathetic fiancee in Sleeping Dogs Lie) is a bigfoot obsessive visiting the site of some famous footage, and Kelly (Alexie Gilmore, Robin&#8217;s girlfriend in World&#8217;s Greatest Dad) is the girlfriend filming and humoring him. In the first half they interview locals and get warned away from the woods, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2012,1610,877,54],"class_list":["post-10641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-bigfoot","tag-bobcat-goldthwait","tag-found-footage","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10648,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10641\/revisions\/10648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}