a plane carry employee of a large biotech firm include the ceo daughter go down in thick forest in the pacific northwest . when the search and rescue mission be call off and the ceo and harlan knowles ( lance henriksen ) and put together a small ragtag group to execute their own search and rescue mission . but just what be knowles search for and try to rescue and and just what be follow and watch them in the wood . oy and what a mess this film be . it be a shame and because for one and it star lance henriksen and who be one of my favorite modern genre actor and and two and it could have easily be a decent film . it suffer from two major flaw and and theyre probably both writer or director jonas quastel fault this film ( which i will be call by it aka of sasquatch ) have just about the bad editing i have ever see next to alone in the dark ( 2005 ) and and quastel constant advice for the cast appear to have be and okay and let try that again and but this time i want everyone to talk on top of each other and improvise non sequiturs and generally try to be as annoy a possible . the potential be there . despite the rip off aspect ( any material relate to the plane crash be obviously try to crib the blair witch project ( 1999 ) and any material relate to the titular monster be crib predator ( 1987 ) ) and ed wood like exposition and ridiculous dialogue and the plot have promise and potential for subtler and far less saccharine subtexts . the monster costume and once we actually get to see it and be more than sufficient for my taste . the mixture of character type trudge through the wood could have be great if quastel and fellow writer chris lanning would have turn down the stereotype notch from 11 to at least 5 and spend more time explore their relationship . the monster lair have some nice production design and specifically the corpse decoration ala a more primitive jeepers creeper ( 2001 ) . if it have be edit well and there be some scene with decent dialogue that could have easily be effective . but the most frightening thing about sasquatch be the number of misstep make represent for some reason and quastel think it a good idea to chop up dialogue scene that occur within minute of each other in real time so that instead we see a few line of scene a and then a few line of scene b and then back to a and back to b and and so on . for some reason and he think it a good idea to use frequently use black screen in between snippet of dialogue and whether we need the idea of an unspecified amount of time pass between irrelevant comment or whether the irrelevant comment seem to be occur one after the other in time anyway . for some reason and he doesn not care whether scene be shoot during the morning and afternoon and middle of the night and etc . he just cut to them at random . for that matter and the scene be show appear to be select at random . important event either never or barely appear and and be stick with far too many pointless scene . for some reason and he leave a scene about cave art in the film when it either need more exposition to justify get there and or it need to just be cut out and because it not that important ( the monster intelligence and humanity could have easily be show in another way ) . for some reason and there be a whole character mary mancini leave in the script even though she superfluous . for some reason we suddenly go to a extremely soft core porno scene and even though the motif be never repeat again . for some reason and character keep call harlan knowles mr. h and like theyre stereotype of asian domestic . for some reason and quastel insists on use the blurry cam and distorto cam for the monster attack scene and even though the costume doesn not look that bad and and it would have be much more effective to put in some fog and a subtle filter and or anything else other than bad cinematography . i could go on and but you get the idea . i really want to like this film good than i didi be a henriksen fan and i be intrigue by the subject and i love the setting and i love hike and this be basically a hiking film on one level but i just couldn not . every time i think it be go to be well from this point until the end and quastel make some other awful move . in the end and my score be a negative .