The group dissects one of their absolute favorite terrible movies, Suburban Sasquatch! The terrifying story of a guy in a shitty gorilla costume ripping rubber arms off terrible actors!
One of the most amazing things about this movie is the director's decision to spend a lot of time and effort 3D modeling a net over the sasquatch only to have it look way worse than an easily obtainable, cheap, prop net.
And the sasquatch itself under said net also looks like it was put in there post production. When one guy pokes at it with the gun, the whole section of the body kind of morphs inwards
@@williamskay109 It has to be that they just didn’t want to shell out the $300 for a big fancy net, when Dave can just cobble it together for free on his break from Foot Locker.
Lets just consider the fact that the director had an actual police cruiser for the movie. Couldn't get uniforms or holsters. But he got a police cruiser,
It's wicked easy to get a police cruiser, just go to a police auction. They sell them dirt cheap when they're done with them, but they remove the paint though. Cop uniforms have to be special ordered through only a couple companies, and you need proof you're affiliated with the police.
@@mattcrosby2310 Cool, but no one cares about the stitching on overpriced fashion statements. Any generic black pleather holster, some empty pouches, a cheap belt, and a pair of trousers or jeans with black jacket or raincoat is fine. You can get a good, workable police uniform for like $50 tops at a surplus shop. Maybe another $50 for specific patches and a holster. Throw in random boots and it's fine. No one with a social life will be able to tell the difference on camera, or if they do, they won't care. The funny thing is that since cops are a captive market they're being taken for a ride by everyone from the city council, data storage services for body cams, and their own uniform suppliers. Imagine paying $200 for a $20 shirt. Lol.
Having seen the first Dave movie, Fungicide, it looks like it’d be a ton of fun to work on a Wascavage production, I get being excited. Especially if they’re local
I'm a currently raising a nearly 2 month old baby, and the smile the sasquach noises in this give her are almost as wide as the ones she gets when Rich laughs. This video is a great father daughter bonding experience.
Well, if I had to support my joke argument... I'd say the scene applies the survival of the fittest into a setting in which it's rarely seen in a brutal demonstration of the relentlessness of nature's inhabitants? Hence we witness the pathetic death of a defenseless creature whose ancestor, ironically, is a majestic alpha predator.
I'd like to know, are you another "fuck nature" right wing person, or are you just commenting on the fact that this movie is mind boglingly horrendous?
Can't believe y'all forgot to mention arguably the best line of the entire movie where the mom tells the kid "Monsters are not real, like the boogeyman or your father. They're not really there." Like even if that's a line that was supposed to be funny it's made a thousand times funnier by how incompetent everything surrounding it is.
I don't know if I already commented this or just thought I did, but this review made me recommend Surburban Sasquatch for my mom, who loved exactly this kind of movie. She watched it during her last year of life and was so absolutely thrilled by it-- So, thank you guys for introducing me to something that made an awful year just a little bit more enjoyable for her.
I'm so glad Jack hadnt seen this movie beforehand. He's the everyman character the audience can project themselves onto. And his reactions are priceless.
I can always tell who edits the episode. Looks like a professional and well put together video? Jay did it. Filled with close ups of reactions and embarrassing loops of people? Definitely Mike.
It is pretty interesting we can tell who is editing because of their style. I'm glad they take turns. So far Mike has the best edit though. Parole force violators: even. So fucking funny.
I just watched this movie tonight with some friends, because for some reason we hadn't had enough dumpster fire with the Super Bowl. You guys left out the part that gave us the hardest laughs. We joked the whole time about the grandma character being the director's mom. Not only was that actress the director's mom, but she is also credited with catering. She literally baked Little Dave Wascavage and his friends cookies while they made their little Bigfoot picture. There are, in fact, at least four separate Wascavages in the credits. These Wascavages are a national treasure and I cannot wait to see the next Dave Wascavage feature.
Director: Dave Wascavage Writer: Dave Wascavage Editor: Dave Wascavage Camera: Dave Wascavage Music composed by: Dave Wascavage Now that's what I call commitment to art.
What’s funny about the production designer saying “I’ve always wanted to work on a Dave Wascavage film” is that, at the time of Suburban Sasquatch being filmed, Wascavage only had one other film out.
Yeah...I think that gave away the game a little. Up until then I could buy that this was just the work of a complete incompetent...but you can't get me to believe that line is genuine.
The best terrible movies are the ones that had creators who genuinely cared about what they were doing. The most hilarious atrocities--ones like The Room, this film, or Birdemic--are genuine efforts to entertain or spread a message. This movie is a beautiful mess!
and people try to do that on purpose and its just boring, like birdemic 2, like they become self aware and try to play along with the joke but it just feels pathetic
As a physician I can tell you with certainty that when the left handed species of Suburban Sasquatch, or 'Southpaw Squatch' in medical terminology, tosses a human arm directly into the sternum of a living being the victim will perish before hitting the ground. It really fuckin' hurts too.
As a medical records clerk with a medical terminology certificate which I received 12 years ago, and haven't studied up on since, I'm not so sure I can agree with your premise. If Wascavage's in-depth research for this film is to be believed, it seems that if a Sasquatch, even the predominantly left-handed "Southpaw Squatch", which you referenced, softly lobs a human forearm directly into a human sternum, the victim of said trauma is immediately plunged into what appears to be a form of medically induced coma, via the magic of nature one might assume (perhaps one could call it a Sasquatch induced coma), in such a manner that they can avoid brain death even while positioned face down and prone in a creek for several hours, with absolutely no need for oxygen, and will regain consciousness several hours later with no side effects. The victim certainly initially presents as exhibiting all of the hallmarks of being deceased, but as we are able to gather in the excellent example which Wascavage provides, this condition is purely temporary in duration in the case of a Sasquatch attack. It honestly might not be a bad idea to return to the old tradition of "safety coffins" in Sasquatch infested areas.
This may just be the best triple-joke from RLM ever Jay: "Looks like a confessional tape from someone admitting to murders" Jack: "Just off screen is a lamp made from a face" Mike: "...I wanna talk about why I did what I did" * Rich Evans laugh *
@@aaahzpervect5755because mainstream success doesn't come just out of nowhere. You can be the funniest person ever, but if you're not working to a mainstream medium you won't appeal to a mainstream audience.
I _refuse_ to believe a movie this bad could be made unintentionally. Christ, it's actually HARDER to do a fake CGI net on the ground then to just use the real one you clearly already had on set in the previous shot! How the hell could you do that by accident?
Maybe the director thought the real net didn't look right in that angle. He could have adjusted it but probably it was too late to go back and change it.
LittleJimmy835 I wonder if there was a continuity error? Some mix up that they forgot to put the net on the sasquatch in the second shot, so that wascally wascovich took it upon himself to render a creepy crawley net!
The commentary reminded me of the one from Pig Hunt. It was so adamant that I'm not sure if it was a parody or not. (I was impressed with the pig puppet seeing as it wasn't CGI and looked good)
Yes. So subtle; it's almost as if the natural undercurrents are not there at all. Hmmmn, this film is so incredibly deep in it's narrative that one must watch it several times to truly grasp the full tale that's being told here....now where's my bong?
I'm impressed that they resisted the urge to zoom in and repeat rich's Hotdog Eating Gesture at 23:53 , but then again Jay edited it so maybe things would be different had Mike been at the pc
Whoa, the behind the scenes videos of the Director talking about it is insane. This is next level forms of arrogance and complete detachment from reality. It makes Tommy Wiseau look humble in comparison.
I think it’s all just an elaborate goof. He intended the thing to be all time bad and the directors commentary is a tongue in cheek jab at self important morons like Paul Feig.
Idk if he was joking you think he’d have more comedic material out there, even just a couple of skits on RU-vid or something. Seems to just direct crap movies
stacey murray Tony, this is a perfect chance for you to advertise your channel and Mummy Cop. Make a video about Wescavage, fans for days, and RLM fans are of the highest quality.
Turns out Troubled Moon Films, the "production company" that created this "film" has a website that looks like it's from the 90s, with "Designed by Dave Wasvage" at the bottom. I'm pretty sure I just paypal'd the man $8 directly for a DVD copy of Suburban Sasquatch. Crossing my fingers it actually arrives. I mean, SOME of the pages on his site say "Copyright 2016"... the ones that don't have it listed as 2009, so maybe he still does business?
19:18 "The first thing that was necessary to be done was to take a 'frame model' look, which is a wireframe model of the moon in the sky." *generates a generic sphere* I laughed so hard the neighbors probably got concerned.
Seeing as Len Kabasinski and Vitaliy Versace have appeared in the RU-vid comments ( thank you to you both ) - I would be severely disappoint if Dave Wascavage doesn't show up to take part.
What really puts this over the top is the “behind the scenes/making of.” Hilarious that they took this film so serious. I actually admire their dedication yet marvel at their delusions.
Hack The Movies channel has an interview with Wascavage about Suburban Sasquatch. He seems like a legit cool and funny guy who did his best but also got lazy. Him describing his process of creating the rrrRrrRRRRR effect had me laughing. Mike's guess wasn't that far off, heh. Hack The Movies being Tony, James the AVGN's newer buddy. Turns out he acted in Wascav's first movie.
its insane how dispassionate this film is. every scene, every cut, every special effect came from an incredibly passionate man. this is a chris chan type experience
I saw Fungicide the other day. It's another movie by this "director" also on Rifftrax. It's the first movie he made according to IMDB. All the actors in that were in this as well so it's familiar territory. It's also really "good," but the notable element is that it has even more of those amazing digital effects this "director" is known for. Also of note. His IMDB says he's going to be in another movie announced this year which is probably Red Letter Media's fault.
@@sorryifoldcomment8596 The movie uses all sorts of classic samples. During the big shootout you can hear Doom pistol sounds, among other things. The crunchy eating sound in one scene really struck me as familiar, but I can't remember where it's from. It's not taken from games, he was just ripping sounds from the same sample CDs, like the famous Series 6000 that's used in lots of video games. Actually, I think the groaning may not be an original recording, it's kinda similar to Quake and Thief zombie sounds.
He probably got a collection of royalty-free sound effects, used in many video games and low budget films. Like the wilhelm scream that you hear in many films.
I am now rewatching this for the 20th fucking time and I *still* said, out loud, "YES! SUBURBAN SASQUATCH!" and clicked the button instead of waiting for autoplay. I love this program, I love this channel, and I love this crew. If I wasn't literally homeless, I'd pay them money.
This is so cool! I know the actor at 3:43. David Sitbon was in a web series which featured a song I wrote. I also composed a really simple theme used in the next episode. Thankful for IMDB to help me verify it was him.
23:03 My grandparents literally have 2 of those exact chandeliers hanging up in their living room at this very second, I never knew they were filthy fucking rich.
Okay it's been 3 years and I just realized, after a rewatch, I didn't understand what Jack said. The cc has something weird like 'new skirt'. So what did he say?
@@ross4814 I’m not a native language speaker but I think he says ’he might win an Oozcar’ I believe its callback to where guy in the movie want Poolitzer price.
no, he's getting better. i watched an early botw right after watching this one and it's really clear that jack used to be way worse at comedic timing and just coming up with clever things to say in general. props to him
5:33 Oh my god. I think this isn't supposed to be that the gunmen are charging bigfoot, it's the other way around. But they couldn't have Bigfoot running because he's standing on a box.
Yep, this is him "charging them" but it's as you say. I was so horribly confused the first time I saw it but eventually worked out this was his "super genius camera trick" for when your monster spends most of the movie standing on boxes. You even get to see the box in a bunch of shots lmao.
Gore Vidal once said that the three saddest words in literature was "Joyce Carol Oates." Now I know the eight saddest words in cinematic history is "I've always wanted to work with Dave Wascavage."
Pennsylvania... home to Len Kabasinski, Black Ninja (Clayton Prince), and now Dave Wascavage. Leads me to wonder... what other genius is hidden in the great land of Punxsutawney?
I saw this movie in a video store once. It was conveniently placed next to bottles of bleach. I think I'll go back and get both for a future movie night. Thanks for telling us about this classic! 😁
Over here where I live, we have deals like Buy one bad B movie and get 2 bottles of bleach free in a "Forget what you just saw" pack. Highly recommended while watching the Star Wars prequels btw! You get 3 movies and 6 bottles of bleach! WHAT A DEAL!!! lol
That movie's got to be a prank. No way, from the director and costume designer commentary track, is that movie something serious. Unless they are completely out of touch with reality.
I thought that *maybe* the director was for real, but after they showed the bit with the costume designer, I now question all of it, too. There's just no way that's for real. Either way, the fact we are even talking about it means he is a genius.
