Comments on: ‘The Wild Man of the Navidad’ – Retro ’70s horror sans the scares http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/2009/08/11/the-wild-man-of-the-navidad-retro-70s-horror-sans-the-scares/ Movie reviews from award-winning journalist Christian Toto Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:12:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rokysyd http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/2009/08/11/the-wild-man-of-the-navidad-retro-70s-horror-sans-the-scares/comment-page-1/#comment-22457 Rokysyd Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:50:29 +0000 http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/?p=3602#comment-22457 I saw this film because it claims to hearken back to the early Seventies cult gore fests. They accomplished that. The film looks exactly like it was shot in 1973. They mainly accomplished this with poor quality film, bad lighting, bad sound and poor scripting. But it looks exactly like an early Seventies slasher film. Bacically, there's this Sasquatch-type creature living in the river bottom near this Texas town. The dumb Mexican loses his job and begins opening the "bottoms" up to hunting. The creature gets shot by this moonshine guzzling redneck. It survives and goes on a rampage. First, the creature looks really bad. Basically, they hung this guy with animal skins and gave him two deer antlers to use as weapons. He guts people with them and heaves their victles out of their bodies onto the dirt. But he looks like some guy hung with deer hides. There's lots of unnecessary perversity. Like, there's this wheelchair bound woman who cannot speak. The Mexican helper-person likes to strangle her until she's unconscious and molest her. I can'gt see where this savagery fits into the story. It sure is disturbing to watch though. I shut the film off about 2/3 of the way through. I shut it off right when the townspeople were getting ready to "clean out" the bottoms. They had all kinds of guns, dogs and moonshine. I couldn't watch any more. I LOVE Seventies cult horror films but avoid this piece of sheeeeeit. It looks like they shot this film for about ten grand. Then it gets released onto video? These guys are laughing all the way to the bank. Don't get suckered in. I saw this film because it claims to hearken back to the early
Seventies cult gore fests. They accomplished that. The film looks
exactly like it was shot in 1973. They mainly accomplished this with
poor quality film, bad lighting, bad sound and poor scripting. But it
looks exactly like an early Seventies slasher film.

Bacically, there’s this Sasquatch-type creature living in the river
bottom near this Texas town. The dumb Mexican loses his job and begins
opening the “bottoms” up to hunting. The creature gets shot by this
moonshine guzzling redneck. It survives and goes on a rampage.

First, the creature looks really bad. Basically, they hung this guy
with animal skins and gave him two deer antlers to use as weapons. He
guts people with them and heaves their victles out of their bodies
onto the dirt. But he looks like some guy hung with deer hides.

There’s lots of unnecessary perversity. Like, there’s this wheelchair
bound woman who cannot speak. The Mexican helper-person likes to
strangle her until she’s unconscious and molest her. I can’gt see
where this savagery fits into the story. It sure is disturbing to
watch though.

I shut the film off about 2/3 of the way through. I shut it off right
when the townspeople were getting ready to “clean out” the bottoms.
They had all kinds of guns, dogs and moonshine. I couldn’t watch any
more.

I LOVE Seventies cult horror films but avoid this piece of sheeeeeit.
It looks like they shot this film for about ten grand. Then it gets
released onto video? These guys are laughing all the way to the bank.
Don’t get suckered in.

]]> By: Robert Stanley http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/2009/08/11/the-wild-man-of-the-navidad-retro-70s-horror-sans-the-scares/comment-page-1/#comment-22021 Robert Stanley Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:12:32 +0000 http://whatwouldtotowatch.com/?p=3602#comment-22021 I enjoyed this one, but I admit I saw it as less of a "horror" movie than most. I have a suspicion that the gore in it was placed there more to appease the genre hounds. I was never convinced the directors were trying to out-scare the films it paid homage to like "Boggy Creek" and "Creature From Black Lake" - because those weren't really scary either unless you were 5 years old when they came out. It was pretty obvious the suspense and atmosphere were what they were after, and like you said, it has ladles of that. Cool movie. I enjoyed this one, but I admit I saw it as less of a “horror” movie than most. I have a suspicion that the gore in it was placed there more to appease the genre hounds. I was never convinced the directors were trying to out-scare the films it paid homage to like “Boggy Creek” and “Creature From Black Lake” – because those weren’t really scary either unless you were 5 years old when they came out. It was pretty obvious the suspense and atmosphere were what they were after, and like you said, it has ladles of that. Cool movie.

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