Night of the Demon (1980) James C. Wasson

A dippy college professor and an entourage of students go trekking into the North American wilderness to confirm local stories about a girl who allegedly got knocked up by Bigfoot and had his half-man, half-beast bastard offspring. Well, these jokers sure stumble across more than they bargained for, with the Sasquatch in question turning out to be a lethal shagrug humanoid animal who most definitely does not like strangers poking around his neck of the woods.

This marvelously tasteless and trashy low-budget horror splatterfest compensates for what it lacks in pacing, acting, writing, direction and basic narrative coherence (the incredibly ramshackle and episodic mess of a story unfolds in an awkward and confusing flashbacks-inside-of-flashbacks elliptical manner) with a terrifically teeming and uninhibited surplus of outrageous nutty touches, hideously graphic gore set pieces, and good old fashioned bottom-of-the-barrel grindhouse exploitation brazenness.

Director James C. Wasson enthusiastically pours on the nauseatingly explicit grue by the gleeful bucketful: one hapless hick has his arm torn right out of its socket (the stump bleeds over the opening credits!), two libidinous teens doing just what you think in a parked van are rudely disrupted by Bigfoot, who proceeds to paint the van's windshield a saucy red with the amorous guy's blood; two girl scouts accidentally stab each other to death, intestines are yanked out and waved in the air, a man dozing in a sleeping bag gets impaled while hanging upside down on a tree branch, the professor's face gets severely burned up after he's pressed against a hot stove, and, undoubtedly the picture's wince-inducing splatter highlight, an unfortunate biker winds up being brutally castrated (ouch!) after he makes the fatal error of picking the wrong tree to do his business behind. Almost as bent as the copious ghastly violence are a few first-class fruitbag flourishes, such as the deranged backwoods devil cult which worships a giant statue of the misanthropic monster and the shockingly repellent moment when Bigfoot viciously rapes, defiles and impregnates a sweet 16-year-old virgin. Plus we've got both patricide and infanticide occurring one right after the other within the very same movie! All in all, this choice nasty chunk of hardcore deviant and depraved cinema sickness rates highly as a thoroughly warped blast.