How long will he be unconscious?
He'll be waking up soon.
We've had him under sedation.
It was my advice.
It was an extreme shock when your men brought him in.
Shock and pain.
His face is horribly mutilated.
Most of the skin has been burned away.
-Hmm.
You said on the phone that he'd be able to talk today.
I would like to ask him some questions.
- Oh, he'll be quite able to answer your questions.
However, Dr. Paxton and I aren't sure you'll
be able to make much sense out of what he has to say.
- Did he say anything
about the five students that are missing?
- Yes, a great deal.
- That's an improvement.
He was incoherent when he was found in the forest.
- Well, he's not incoherent now.
He's telling us the same story over and over again,
and he's thoroughly convinced
that he's telling us the truth.
Ow.
- Professor nugent.
Professor nugent.
Dr. Harris?
- Inspector slack from the sheriff's department is here.
He has some questions he'd like to ask you.
He'd like to know what happened to you and your students.
Oh, yes.
I want to tell him.
I want to tell everyone what's going on in that forest.
Inspector, those stories, those horror stories
you heard about in the forest?
They're true.
They're all true.
There is a demon, a creature.
- Perhaps it would be in everyone's best interest,
professor, if you were to begin
at the beginning of your story.
Oh, yes.
Inspector, do you remember reading
about that fisherman that was brutally
murdered not too long ago?
- Yes.
His daughter came to my anthropology class
at the university.
She wanted to join our field trip, which was heading out
into the forest to find evidence of where
the creature was sighted.
She had hoped to find out what happened to her father.
His body was found horribly mutilated.
Apparently he had set up camp and wanted to go fishing.
Okay, class.
Pay attention now.
Officials found a camera with this film in it
but no trace of the people.
- What happened to the people?
- Well, if it was a bear, it sure didn't move like one.
- Was this the same area?
- I remember that.
About three years ago they found tracks, footprints
by the camera.
That's right, but they never found the people.
- But then didn't they decide that was a hoax.
- Officially, yes.
Except that this is now being called a hoax.
Hey, why don't you pass these back.
Same area, circumstances nearly identical.
But what do we do with the evidence?
Carla, I know it's been a trial.
Do you feel like talking about it?
Good.
Class, this is Carla Thomas.
She has a special interest in our project,
and I think you may see why we have
a chance of finding something.
- So what's this now?
- He was my father.
Dr. Nugent came to talk to me after he heard about it,
because apparently there have been a number
of similar things
but somehow all turn out to be fakes
of fanatic's imaginations.
Well, that footprint in the newspaper
was taken by a deputy, except the negative is now lost.
And I sat right at the hearing and listened
to the same deputy
deny there was ever such a thing.
Other killings have taken place in the same area
where my father was killed.
Ayoung girl saw her boyfriend brutally murdered.
They were in a Van parked on an isolated road.
Hi honey.
- The meatloaf is in the refrigerator.
I finally put it away.
It's probably still warm though if you want some.
- Had a bite with the kids. - Mm, mm.
You did, huh?
- I didn't intend to stay this late,
but we had a change of plans.
- You're not going. - There'll just
be a few of us.
The college withdrew there sanctions so we're
going to have to go on our own.
- Well, maybe you shouldn't go at all.
After all our preparation?
- Well, maybe you're getting involved in something
you don't know anything about.
You know, what's her name? Carla's father and all that?
Right.
It's strictly to see those footprints,
because if they exist, it's important to know now.
Some creature surviving up in the forest,
he won't be much longer.
Some asshole's gonna kill him.
You know that.
- Are you sure it's not just an excuse
to be alone in the woods
with some student femme fatale?
- A student femme fatale?
That would be more of an anthropological
find than bigfoot.
- Well, I know this doesn't sound very scientific,
but somehow it bothers me.
I've had bad feelings about this all day.
- Bad feelings?
Where?
- Show me. - Stop.
It's an old home remedy.
Good for temporary relief of-oh, the instant relief.
- This is it.
I remember this part of the river.
It was only a few miles back in there
where my father was killed.
Well, we're only about another 20 minutes
from the town.
There.
There's a dock.
That must be Lou Carlson's.
- There's someone in there.
- How do you know?
- I saw him.
- Are you sure?
- Oh.
-Are you all right in there, Mr. Carlson?
- What do you want?
-Are you Lou Carlson?
I'm professor nugent.
These are some of my students and friends.
- Oh?
Could we talk for a few minutes?
- Well, I wish I had more time.
Well, no, it would just take a few minutes.
I mean, we could make it at your convenience.
- I'm going to go hunting right now.
- What do we do now?
You think he's the one
who sent Dr. Clifford those news clippings?
- I don't know.
But he's our only good contact.
We have to talk to him.
- He sure wasn't planning to go hunting.
He wasn't carrying any supplies, nothing, only the gun.
- You know, it's funny his attitude
changed so much after writing all those letters.
- Hey, we might as well set up camp here.
He's got to come back tonight.
- What time is it? - Almost five.
- He can't be gone much longer.
The sun'ii be down.
- Now, according to his letters, the location of the site
is about 13 miles east of here.
No roads leading in at all.
And remember, he did mention that someone
else looked back in there.
- I think there's someone in there.
- Typical.
We stand here like a bunch of idiots.
He probably crawled in the back window hours ago.
- Yeah.
- Who wants to dance?
- You promised to cook and scrub if we let you come.
- I lied.
- After the dishes are done.
- Oh, all right. - Hi, Mr. Carlson.
Any luck?
- Nope.
- Hope you don't mind our camping here,
but I thought the forest wouldn't
be such a good idea since we're not familiar with the area.
I'll make sure to clean up real good in the morning.
- Yeah, personally.
Would you like some scrambled eggs or something?
- No, thanks.
How long do you plan to be here?
- You know, Mr. Carlson, your letter
is one of the major factors that brought us here.
Now, it's plain you're not very enthusiastic about it,
so if we could just talk for a few minutes,
find out what we need to know, we'll be out of your way.
- Yeah, well, uh, in the morning.
- It shouldn't take more than a few minutes.
It won't.
- Just a little bundle of charm, isn't he?
I wonder if he ever thought of show biz?
- I wonder where he was all this time.
He sure wasn't hunting.
- There's nothing up on that direction of the map.
Anyway, let's not stand here.
I think we're being watched.
- I don't mean to bother you again, because we're already
an imposition, but I wanted you to have
this to let you know that we appreciate
you letting us camp here.
- Uh, I'll uh,
come in, come in.
That's mighty nice of you.
- You've got a nice little place here.
- I guess.
Say, uh, how about a drink yourself?
- Oh, sure.
Thanks.
- And by the way, I'm Roy. - Yeah.
- Well, I guess it must get lonely sometimes, though,
being here by yourself all the time?
- Well, it was better when my wife was alive.
I guess it was rougher on her than it was me.
Women, you know, they like convenience.
- Well, thank you.
Cheers.
Cigarette?
- No, thanks.
I had to give that up when the old pump started acting up.
- So, uh, where you from originally?
- Sacramento.
Just got tired of the rat race.
Been up here nearly 20 years.
- Hardly any place to get away from it anymore.
I wish we could just go fishing
and forget all this bullshit.
But I need the extra credit, so we've got to keep
humoring old man nugent.
But don't let him get to you.
He's really a pretty good old dude.
He's just a sucker on the subject of, uh, bigfoot.
He just wants to believe it so bad,
he'll listen to anything.
And you can't blame people for telling
tales if it makes their lives seem more interesting.
Who cares?
- Give you some good advice, son.
Don't be too quick to poke fun at something
you know nothing about.
- I agree.
But there's one thing I do know.
There never was any bigfoot walking
around here or anywhere else.
It's just another version of the Loch Ness monster.
- You're pretty sure of that, are you?
What would you say
if I told you there's somebody living back
there that's not even-not only seen the footprints,
they say she's even-
- they call her crazy Wanda.
She lives by herself somewhere back in the forest,
but it's hard to get to.
- It must be the same area he talked about in his letters.
- According to Carlson, she can't talk or won't.
He didn't elaborate, and I didn't want to provoke him.
But it sounded like it had something
to do with seeing the bigfoot.
- Jesus, you don't suppose
she saw Carla's father get killed?
- No, it was long before that.
Oh, look at these.
Smoked today and Carlson doesn't smoke.
Somebody was in there.
- Christ, and probably listening
to every word we said all day.
That's all we need.
- What else did he say?
- Nothing.
I think he wanted to, but he was afraid.
He seemed real nervous.
He downed four shots of whiskey before I left.
- That would explain everything,
why he changed his mind.
I mean, if somebody's leaning on him.
- What now?
- Well, the next logical thing would be to go
to herb's general store.
Okay, this is what we'll do.
We'll go into town tomorrow as soon as we can.
I'll talk to herb at the store.
The rest of you split up, talk to people around town,
find out all you can about,
what's her name again?
Crazy Wanda.
- Yeah, she shows up once in a while, poor thing.
All she ever buys is candy.
- Really?
Why don't you put in a couple for me, huh?
You know what I'd really like to find out
is how to get to her place.
- No.
Nobody can find his way in there, only her.
Mcginty saw to that.
- Mcginty.
Who's he?
- Father.
Preacher.
Been dead about nine years.
Left her all alone out there.
She doesn't talk, you know.
- Oh, yeah?
How come?
- Had a baby, affected her speech.
That'll be $6.24.
How much is this postcard?
- 10 cents.
- No family at all, huh? - Nah.
Her mother's around, but she don't count for family.
Don't think she and crazy Wanda ever met.
Mcginty saw to that too.
What do you want to know for?
- Oh, I,
I just thought I'd get completely away
from civilization for a while.
Thought it would be a good opportunity.
- Ain't such a good idea.
Besides, you'll see enough nature out alongside the road.
- I don't know anyone who goes back in there anymore.
Old mcginty planned it pretty well.
Even the rangers don't go back in there much.
But that's been like nine years since mcginty died.
That's a long time, and Wanda still
seems to come up with money.
Where does she get it?
Somebody else must be living back in there too.
She can't be entirely alone.
- Some of his followers, but they live in total isolation.
- Yeah, some people who live up the river.
But we don't talk to them.
We're not allowed.
I don't think they speak the same language.
- There are no records here, because Wanda never
attended our school at all.
- Someone claimed she had a baby.
- Yes.
I heard that.
Illegitimate.
But it died at birth.
A blessing.
- Why?
- Well, it's only a story.
They say it was awful to look at.
Deformed, you know, mongoloid.
Could have been from malnutrition living like that.
- It doesn't seem as if that would be enough to make
someone stop talking.
- I don't know.
Those people are strange.
Reverend mcginty took a for a sign of the devil,
committed suicide.
- Crackpot set himself on fire is what he did.
Thought he'd seen the devil.
He probably did.
They'd have been a good match.
- What about the rest of his followers?
- All fanatics.
Just went wild, living like animals.
There's been hunters come out of there,
swear they have human sacrifice.
Cannibals.
- Really? - Yep.
I mean, anybody you know actually see it?
- No.
But I wouldn't put it past them.
All of them.
Crazy.
- It's hard to tell how much is fact
and how much is fantasy.
But at least we've got something to go on.
- You think it might have been those forest people
that killed Carla's father?
Maybe trying to scare other people away?
They might be inbred and just crazy enough.
- It would be easy enough to fake those footprints.
I mean, no experts even seen 'em.
- Nah, they'd have to be pretty out of touch
not to realize it would only intrigue more people
to come looking for the thing.
- Now I wish we had grabbed more than two guns.
- Yeah.
Well, here we are,
- wherever this is. - Got to be the right place,
- the end of the river. - Doesn't look like
there's much of a trail.
Well, we can always drop bread crumbs.
I pulled the boat up on the front.
- Let's hurry up, get this set up.
I don't want to be camping out here in the dark.
Now, wherever we go from here, I'm leaving
it up to you to plot it out.
Now, obviously it won't be accurate,
but at least we'll have some orientation.
- Yeah.
I can make note of anything recognizable for landmarks too.
- I can climb some high tree when it gets light.
Might save us some mileage.
- Good thinking.
Take a geographical picture of this area
too where we're leaving the boat.
- We couldn't put anymore on this fire
here unless someone can stay up and watch it.
- Oh, yeah.
Linda's going to stay up and watch it.
It's part of herjob.
- What?
- Well, I'm afraid after tonight someone is
going to have to stand guard.
We're already in bigfoot territory
where all those people were killed.
Not far from here, a motorcyclist was found.
Apparently he'd been riding along
and stopped for a moment at the side of the path.
- Oh, oh my god.
- By the time they found him, he bled to death.
Well, we better get some sleep.
I want to get a fresh start in the morning.
- Bill, hey.
Ssh.
Come on out.
Wait a second.
- Should we go see?
- Yeah.
- Come forth now this man your power.
Through him, mighty moloch, implant your seeds in the body
of your unholy bride.
Nurture those seeds within her to produce your demon child.
Infuse him with your strength.
Let your seeds of hell grow deep within her.
- I can't believe I'm seeing this.
That could start a forest fire.
-Ah, never mind.
We're not equipped to take care of it.
Let them handle it.
They live in these woods.
At least it'll keep them busy for the rest of the night.
- Yeah.
- Let's get back to the kids.
They must be frantic.
- I think we should go find them.
- Do you want to get lost out there in the woods?
- Where have you been?
We were ready to tear this place apart.
- What the hell is going on? - Just a little
country entertainment.
- For example.
- It looked like a woman was getting raped.
So we fired a few rounds and scared them off.
- Them?
How many were there?
- Just the basic act.
It was some kind of ceremony.
But what's really interesting as far as we're concerned,
is the whole thing was centered around a
huge anthropoid-looking effigy.
- Bigfoot. - Yeah.
You think it's safe to stay here?
Well, it beats walking around in the dark.
I suggest you keep your ears open.
- Come quick. Come quick.
- What is it? What's the matter?
- Just come quick. - What is it?
- The boat's gone.
The post was completely pulled out of the ground.
Now, what could have done that?
- Something huge like an elephant.
- Maybe whatever it was is still around here somewhere.
Oh, my god.
My god.
What are we going to do?
Hey, everybody.
Look at this.
Exactly the same.
- Exactly. - You think it could be real?
Everyone keep a watch.
Roy, make a plaster cast of this, okay?
Right.
You look around for some more footprints.
- It looks like it comes up and then
goes back down into the water.
- Maybe so we couldn't follow it.
- You think it could be that smart?
- It just not some of those people.
- Well, it certainly makes for mixed emotions.
But so far, this thing looks authentic.
- So we're stuck, right?
- Well, we can always build a raft
and go back down the river.
Losing the extra supplies is going to hurt.
- So what are we going to do?
- Well, we've come this far to find Wanda.
I say we go ahead and make the extra effort.
- Oh, no.
You know what I just realized?
Our radio and ammunition are gone.
- Wanda.
You want to avoid any trouble.
So if you see anybody, especially after crashing
that party last night... yeah.
Get off into the bushes
until we find out who it is.
- Well, what if it's in the bushes?
Run like hell.
- One thing we can't deny, the heel
is certainly more humanoid than ape.
Aside from the gross size difference,
the metatarsals have the same configuration,
- don't you think? - Mm-hm.
Jackie.
- Charming, good hearted and maybe even insatiable.
Now, not only that, but look at it from the side.
See how the pressure points are distributed equally?
I can't imagine a fake foot being
constructed so accurately.
Look how the weight is distributed from the heel
to the ball of the foot.
Even the tendon is stretched.
- Why don't you move down to la?
An accountant can always get a job there.
- I've thought about it, but I've already got four
years' seniority where I am.
- Doesn't matter.
You get a vacation?
- Uh-huh.
Sometime in June or July.
- See, perfect.
I graduate in June.
I figure I'll take about a month,
maybe two before I settle down to anything full time.
You ever been to Hawaii?
- Oh, yes.
It's fantastic.
- So come be my guide.
- Are you serious? - Of course.
You do that, I'll jump you.
- Are you talking about this or Hawaii?
Both.
-Jeez.
- Oh, Christ.
Get something for his back.
-Are you all right, Linda?
Gary.
- Oh, my god.
Look at those marks.
- Just wrap him up, Roy.
Just -hem.
I'll take care of her.
I think she's okay.
You help him.
- Okay.
Grab the corner of the sleeping bag.
- We'll carry him that way.
Okay.
- Come on, come on now.
Get you all warmed up by the fire.
- Well, it's not as deep as I thought.
But you're in for quite a hefty backache there.
Do you know what happened?
- I saw,
I saw this terrible, terrible face right over us.
You want to tell us what it looked like?
- I don't,
I don't know.
- Hey, it must have gone off this way.
The weeds are all squashed.
- Hey, hey, hey.
Don't go too far into there.
That thing was huge, by the size of the branches it broke.
- It's got to be the same thing that got the boat.
- An intelligent animal, whatever it was.
- Could have killed Gary with one stroke or both of them,
for that matter.
But it didn't.
Why is what we have to find out.
- And why didn't it attack us when it took the boat?
- Well, that could have been just because there
were more of us together.
- I have a feeling it was protecting its territory.
- Maybe that has some connection with why these people back
here treat it like a deity.
Maybe in a way it's protecting them too.
- Well, if it isn't trying to kill us,
it's sure trying to scare us.
- Well, if that's the case, why did it kill Carla's father?
- Let's get back to the others and go look for Wanda.
I have a feeling she's at the root of all this.
That's got to be it.
Mcginty's cabin.
- What a spooky place. - I wonder what the bars
- are for. - Don't ask.
- Shall we?
Hello.
I'm looking for miss Wanda mcginty.
My friends and I are doing some research work,
and we heard that she might be able to give us some help.
Also a friend of ours is injured,
and we'd appreciate if we could rest here
for a couple hours.
My name's bill nugent.
I'm a professor.
Are you Wanda mcginty?
Been nice chatting.
- What now?
- Would you mind if we came in a minute and talked?
- Same woman we told you about that
was going to get raped in that ceremony.
- Wanda?
We appreciate it.
Got a nice little place here.
Spent several days hiking just trying to find it.
Linda.
Let's open the curtains.
- I'll tell you why your help is so important to us, Wanda.
We know that people living back in this area
are able to see things that average people
would never have a chance to.
We believe that there is a creature living
in these mountains that's on the verge of extinction
and possibly a close relative to man.
All we're interested in doing is finding
out what it is for certain.
Some of the stories go back to the Indians,
centuries-about a large ape-like creature they
called sasquatch.
- Damn, I'm sorry. - Wanda, just go get-
I'm sorry.
I should know better.
- Never mind.
Just go outside.
There's too many of us in here.
- Maybe I can help.
- I'll talk to her and then we'll see.
- Well, there's nothing wrong with her voice.
- She sure knows what that footprint is.
- I just hope she's all right.
- She needs care, that poor woman.
- And not the type she gets back here.
- You see those graves? - Yeah.
I wonder if she saw her father burn to death?
Oh, it just makes me sick.
- Maybe tomorrow she'll be calmed down.
I have a feeling she can talk if she wants to.
- Stop worrying.
Why don't you fix the radio for us?
- Oh, I'm not in the mood.
- It's not your fault.
Nobody knew she'd react that way.
- It was just a dumb thing to do.
- How's your back feel now, Gary?
- It's all right.
It'll be better when I've had some sleep.
- He's got a bit of a fever.
I sure hope Wanda can help us find our way out of here.
We're supposed to be on our way back tomorrow.
- There's no doubt we're in the same territory
where hunters disappear and people are killed.
It wasn't far from here where the body of a woodsman
was found.
It was horribly mutilated.
The skull had been crushed with his own ax.
And it was in the same area
that two girl scouts disappeared.
Apparently they had wandered off the main hiking trail
and were plotting a new path for the rest of the group.
- I think we've come a bit too far.
- Yeah, it's too hilly, and there's
too many rocks for climbing.
Let's go back to the main trail and take
off in a different direction.
- It's so quiet.
Their bodies were found a few days later.
But there was no trace of the thing that killed them.
Now, bigfoot's not playing games anymore.
Maybe the next time he won't be happyjust to scare us.
So someone's going to have to start standing guard.
So you, Pete, and I will start taking shifts.
- I can stand guard just as well as anyone.
-All right.
That'll shorten the shifts.
I've got a police whistle we can use too.
- Hey, do you think we could take a chance
on that old shotgun in there?
- Are you kidding?
Probably blow up in your face.
- Well, if we clean it up a little bit.
- Well, we could take a look at it, I suppose.
- Beats having two guns and no ammunition.
Hey, did you leave the door unlocked?
- Yeah.
- Well, I'll go get them.
I'll be right back.
- Pete.
Pete, where are you?
- Something over here. - Quick.
Where's the other gun?
Oh, Jesus.
Pete.
Answer us.
- Oh, god. - What?
- Something's happened to Pete.
- Hurry.
I heard something over here.
- Grab the flashlights.
- Pete.
Here.
Get back to the others.
Follow me.
- We've got to get out of here before something
happens to the rest of us.
All we've got is that crazy in there to help us.
- Hey, we don't know anything for sure yet.
Maybe he's-maybe he's still out there.
I know he's dead.
- There were tracks for a ways.
It was the creature, but we lost him.
- I want to start back right now.
- Yeah.
I better go talk to Wanda.
Has she come out or anything?
- No.
- You know, I was thinking about something on the way back.
Oh, it won't hurt to try.
All of you, inside.
Keep watching the key, Wanda.
Concentrate.
Try to relax.
Damn.
Well, she's probably been in this state too long.
There still should be some reaction.
We need something vital to her.
- Look at this.
Nobody's touched this lock in years.
Almost solidified.
Yeah, you're onto something.
- Yeah, it's good.
Just stand back a little.
What's in here, Wanda?
Is it a storeroom?
How come you never use it?
Is something important in there?
Is that why you keep it locked?
Or something you don't like?
Screwdriver.
Let me just try something, okay Wanda?
You may have to hold her.
Oh, all this stuff.
You need a gas mask.
Holy mother of god.
Mcginty's little shrine.
My baby.
- I think she's under.
Wanda?
You can speak now.
Can you understand me?
If you can understand me, I'd like you to say yes.
Say yes.
- Yes.
- Good.
Now, I want you to remember a long time
ago when you were just a young girl,
when you were about 15 years old.
Can you remember that?
- Yes.
Good.
Remember exactly how that young girl felt.
You are that young girl, Wanda.
You are 15 years old.
- Lying bitch.
Stinking lying whore.
I bring you to the lord.
This is the thanks I get.
My own daughter, you disgraced me.
You disgraced me.
- Papa, please.
I didn't do nothing, I swear.
I swear, papa.
- You laid with him.
You betrayed me in the sight of god.
- Papa, please don't hit me again.
I can't stand it.
I didn't do nothing.
I swear.
- I'm saving your soul, you ungrateful bitch.
I'm saving your from burning in hell,
just like your retched mother.
- Blessed mother, please forgive me for what I done.
My papa says I done it, but I don't remember.
Don't let me burn in hell, please.
And help me not to be ungrateful for the beating
he done for my sake.
I repent myself and beg your forgiveness.
In the name of the lord, the father,
the son, and the holy spirit.
Amen.
- Get out.
Get out of this holy place.
You defile the ground you walk on.
Get out.
- Papa, help me.
Papa, help me.
Papa.
Help.
You did this, papa.
- Lord, lord, lord.
You confound me.
You deserved it.
Thou has cursed me with an evil daughter,
dispatched a devil into my house.
Mercy, oh great god almighty.
Save me, they faithful servant.
I will obey thy every command.
Cast it out of her.
Burst her belly with fire.
Lord, lord, give me the strength
to bear up under this horror
that's squirming in her belly.
Give me strength merciful father
to force my daughter of hell
to drink the medicine that will kill
the demon child inside her.
Oh, lord, what sins could I have committed
that would cause you
to curse my house like this?
I can hear the demon devil that did this to her.
Lurking in the forest, it watches her every move.
Ihearh.
I hear the thing prowling around, waiting waiting
for the birth of its damnable offspring
from my unholy daughter.
Kill that evil thing growing inside her,
and take the girl too, if it by thy will.
Lord god.
- No, no, don't kill it.
Oh my god, my baby.
- Wanda, it's all over.
- Papa, don't kill it. - It's all past now.
It was a long time ago.
Calm down.
Relax.
That's the way.
That's good.
Be very quiet and very relaxed.
When I ask you to open your eyes, you will be awake.
You will feel fine.
And you'll be able to speak again.
Do you understand me, Wanda?
Good.
Now, open your eyes.
How do you feel?
- Mcginty killed that baby.
- Well, she's crazier than a loon.
- Well, she told us what she believes.
- Yeah.
But the baby's father could have been
that boy she spoke of first.
- Probably, as a matter of fact.
Some species are able to interbreed
like the horse and the donkey.
Usually, if offspring are possible,
they're usually all deformed.
- Hey, wait a minute.
Miss tarbell, that schoolteacher.
She told me Wanda's baby was horribly deformed, remember?
- That's right.
- Oh, it's just another story.
If mcginty killed it the minute it was born,
how would anyone know?
- Well, there's one way to find out.
- You don't really think we're going to find anything,
do you?
- The point is, there is something human-like
running around this forest.
Gary's back is getting worse, and he needs a doctor.
We could leave right now if we just
knew how to get back to town.
Wanda, would you show us how to get out of here?
I know.
She seems just like she was before.
I'm going to go boil some water and see if I can
fix your back a little better.
- That's it.
- Oh, I hope I don't get sick.
-Also, in the way it was killed,
it may have looked deformed.
But we'll see by the skeleton.
Oh, my god.
Wanda was telling the truth.
And it is the bigfoot.
- Come hold the door.
- Jesus Christ, you nearly killed all of us.
- She pulled my arm. - Never mind.
Hold the door.
- Hang on.
I'll load it again.
- There aren't any more shells.
Ilooked.
- We've got to get out of here.
Wanda.
- Control yourself.
- Now's the chance.
- Frighten her and we'll never get out of here.
It's dark now.
You want to spend the evening out in the woods?
- Okay.
The water's boiling in the kitchen.
Let me fix your back.
They're presents.
Brings me presents.
Leaves them outside by the door.
- What do you do with them?
- Nothing.
- What do you give him?
I mean, when he brings these things?
- He likes me.
- That's incredible.
That is incredible.
- He knew that dead baby was his.
You could tell.
- Like a last desperate act to save his species
from extinction, to produce one more offspring,
even if it's half of something else.
That's mind boggling.
- It probably feels that she's its mate.
- If you're not afraid of it,
why do you have bars on the window?
- Papa put them there.
- What about those fanatics, those people who used
to be your father's followers?
- They're crazy.
- Aren't you afraid of them?
- What do you do about it?
- Nothing.
- But they're using you.
- Why do they worship the creature?
Is it because of what your father told them?
I mean, he thought it was a demon.
That's why he burned himself to death.
That doesn't make sense.
- I burned him.
I burned him because he killed my baby.
No.
No, Wanda.
Wanda, let me out.
Let me out.
Lord.
Lord, preserve me.
Lord, don't abandon me.
Save me.
Don't let me burn.
Lord in heaven help me.
Help me.
God.
- I burned him because he killed my baby
and to save its father.
- As soon as morning comes, you've got to insist
on us starting right back.
I'll keep this as clean as I can,
but it's got to be taken care of.
It's, it's getting festered.
- The wind.
Dr. Nugent!
- Here, you take this.
Cut him down.
- Oh, god.
Oh, god.
Why do you think he did it?
A trade for Wanda or what?
- Out of the question.
- He got you good.
I have to tie this thing up.
- Be careful. - Wait.
Let me take it off.
- Roy, watch it, he's still out there.
Those bars aren't going to hold.
Go on.
I can take care of this.
Get out of the way.
Clear the door.
- Did you get him? - I don't know.
Either I stuck it or it grabbed the poker.
Just lie still, it's broke. Don't move.
Mary, get me the camera.
I've got to get some pictures of that thing.
- Watch out, the window.
He can't with the bars on.
The ax.
- No, let me go, let me go.
Let me go, let me go.
No, no!
I became aware of wandering in the forest.
The next thing I knew, I was in this hospital room.
Inspector, what I'm telling you is the truth.
There is a creature out there in the forest.
Find crazy Wanda.
She'll tell you. Make her talk. She knows.
- And all the students were killed.
Yes.
And others will be killed if that creature's
not found and destroyed.
- Professor nugent, please, please.
- Here, this will help you rest easier.
Please, inspector.
You must find that creature.
It must be destroyed.
- What do you think, inspector?
- I don't know.
You're the psychiatrist.
What do you think?
- Well, he fully believes he's telling us the truth
but such an incredible story.
- Yeah.
And I've still got five missing students.
- Under the circumstances, I don't feel we can release
him from the psychiatric ward.
- Of course not.
There will be a full investigation
and hearing on his sanity.
I suppose we will require your testimony, Dr. Paxton.
- Of course.
I can tell you now.
Unless his concept of reality changes,
my first diagnosis will stand.
I have no alternative but to certify
this man as criminally insane.