If you and your friends found yourselves on
a field trip in the territory of not one, not two, but THREE murderous cryptids in the
woods, what would you do? I’m going to break down the mistakes made
by our grad students, try to make better decisions and ultimately attempt to beat the CRYPTIDS
in DAWN OF THE BEAST. Sometimes college credit just isn’t worth
the aggravation. Like when your spaced out professor and his
furry-fetish teaching assistant blackmail you into staying the night in a stretch of
woods where people frequently go missing. That A-minus isn’t worth getting your throat
chewed out by a demon weirdo who watches you through your windows before dragging you away
to eat you alive. Since 1985, there have been 200 sightings
of Bigfoot in the Northeastern Wilderness and they all occurred between September 4th
and October 2nd every year. In the same area and timeframe, 54 people
have gone missing or died. This time of year is called The Dead Month
by locals. Everett and Marie are lounging in an isolated
cabin, admiring a stolen necklace Marie says she wants to keep instead of pawning. Everett steps out for a smoke and notices
movement. Rounding the house, he sees two piercing bright
eyes staring out at him from the darkness. When Everett tosses a stick at them, the front
light snaps on, revealing nothing is in the yard. Something topples the trashcans. Everett grabs a flashlight and warns Marie
not to come outside before wandering into the night. Too bad Marie didn’t hear him. As she goes to get a beer from the fridge,
the bright eyes peer in at her from outside. She goes out to look for Everett and sees
the bright eyed creature. For some reason, she decides to take a closer
look. Everett, meanwhile, is stumbling around with
the world’s worst flashlight. He checks under a tarp and when he stands,
loud plodding footsteps draw nearer. He turns and a sasquatch roars and lunges
for him. We cut back to Marie standing stock still
in the yard, staring at the bright eyed creature as if bewitched. Everett rushes up to her and says they have
to go. She turns and tells him it’s too late, that
“it” is inside her. Suddenly the bright eyed creature grabs her
by the ankles. Marie claws at Everett’s arm before she’s
ripped away into the darkness. We get one parting shot of the creature as
it crunches down on Marie. Turns out Bigfoot isn’t the only cryptid
in this neck of the woods. I feel like every National Park mascot for
the last 100 years has put out this exact warning about messing with wild animals. It’s their forest, we’re just visiting
it. These shining eyes DON’T belong to Riddick,
a band of thieves or murderers. We know that because humans don’t possess
tapetum lucidum, the special membrane over the retina that gives off that shine in the
dark. You know who does have that membrane? Every scary forest predator you’ve ever
heard of. In Upstate New York, where Everett and Marie’s
cabin is located, you can find black bear, bobcats, lynxs, boar, foxes, moose, and deer,
all of which have that membrane over their eyes. However, only two currently known species
in New York would have bright shining eyes as high off the ground as those of a fully
grown human – the black bear and the moose. Both are territorial and have been known to
attack humans if provoked. That means that the best thing we’re going
to run into out there is a bear – that’s the BEST outcome. The worst is getting your throat ripped out
by the mythological cannibal demons rumored to roam these parts. If we’re in Everett and Marie’s shoes,
we’re not going outside for anything if we see two shining eyes in the dark. There is simply no reason for them to leave
the safety of their cabin here. And there’s DEFINITELY no reason to wander
off into the woods with a dollar store flashlight. Unless something attempts to break into your
cabin, four walls and a lockable door are your first line of defense when a wild animal
wanders past. Actually, the first line of defense is not
living inside a literal killing field. Ten years later, college students Oz, Jake, and
Isabella enter your friendly neighborhood Sasquatch Center in search of lighter fluid. Meanwhile in the car, Lilly’s boyfriend
breaks up with her over text and we meet Chris, a nerd so nerdy he makes a bunch of Bigfoot
hunters look cool by comparison. Chris learns that the group has come out into
the boonies to finish up a cryptozoology project for their Masters Programs. Back in the Bigfoot Emporium, we get a little
exposition about Dead Month. People go missing in the area every year over
a one month period and the theory is that Bigfoot took them. Oz is a big believer in the Squatch, but not
in his murderous tendencies. Apparently whoever sets the course requirements
for Lilly’s photojournalism major has a sense of humor…or likes feeding people to
monsters. Seriously, they could have picked any time
frame to do this, and they chose what locals refer to as The Dead Month. If you stupidly choose to go camping where
people regularly disappear, at least take the warning of those disappearances seriously. Between 1971 and 1983, at least 17 women went
missing in Anchorage, Alaska. It was later discovered that serial killer
Robert Hansen had abducted them, taken them into the wilderness in his biplane, and hunted
them for sport before killing them. That’s gonna be you if you ignore local
warnings. The locals usually know their stuff, so it’s
wise to heed their advice, as we’ll see in another upcoming video on Wrong Turn. Considering they’re coming here to look
for Bigfoot, they should also be carrying walkie-talkies with them so they can actually
alert each other if they see him in the wild. Oh, and ya know, a Tyrannosaurus 2 bore, double-barreled
Super Shotgun launching 34mm half pound hunks of lead. Half-kidding, the Double Deuce weighs 30 pounds,
is an atrocious aim down sight speed, and the ADS sway is wild due to the weight. A more practical option would be the .577
nitro express double rifle, or some type of modern high capacity DMR with thermal goggles. A first aid kit might be nice too, just in
case Chewbacca manages to tear one of our arms off. Out in the woods, their professor Dr. Kasdan
waxes poetic about Bigfoot with the passion of a tenured guy who knows he can’t get
fired forcing his students to join in his weird hobby for the weekend. Suppose we’re lucky his thing isn’t river
bathing. He tells the students to wander around looking
for footprints, fur and scat that might prove the big guy’s existence. He also mentions that forest cryptids have
been known to throw rocks at people as a warning. In the grand tradition of making terrible
choices, Oz, Jake and Isabella immediately ditch their nerdy professor and their nerdiest
interloper, Chris, to wander off the trail in search of Bigfoot. Meanwhile, Lilly stumbles across a Sasquatch
footprint in mud…as well as Everett – the guy from the open, who seems to have lost
an eye AND grown a country accent since we last saw him. He tells her the footprint is the “mark
of the beast.” He asks her where she’s staying in the creepiest
way possible and when she won’t tell him, he warns her she’s basically bait, wandering
around in the woods by herself. I’ve seen Scouts organized better than this. For starters, to find uncontaminated evidence
of anything to take back to the real world, the group needs to methodically search the
woods, either by marking off a grid and investigating sections in pairs or by staying together and
moving efficiently through pieces of territory. This increases the likelihood that smaller
evidence, such as tufts of fur and scat, as well as footprints, are noticed and preserved
BEFORE someone accidentally destroys them. It also prevents individual students from
getting lost in the woods or kidnapped by forest weirdos like Everett. Chris gets left behind to look at birds. Lilly wanders off on her own. Dr. Kasdan seems to be on his own trip wandering
off somewhere. Especially if you’re in a forest you’re
not familiar with, getting lost can be as simple as losing sight of the trail while
distracted or twisting your foot and falling down a hill. It’s even worse when you lack any means
of communication with your team. If you were going to go “off trail” to
look for Bigfoot, it would be smart to bring a topographical map of the area, as well as
a satellite-based GPS tracker. Or, if you can’t afford one, a simple option
would be to bring ribbon or twine to tie around trees as you move through the forest, so you
can turn around and follow them back to the trail. As for Everett, Lilly was smart to only give
him general information, but ultimately she doesn’t need to tell him anything at all. Even telling him they’re staying in a cabin
is probably more detail than he should have. She should probably lie and tell him they’re
staying in town. She should also take a photograph of him as
she’s walking away and then share that photo with her group so they know what he looks
like in case he suddenly appears around the cabin. Nearby in a meadow, Jake steps in crap and
falls beside a discount skeleton from Spirit Halloween. Oz tells them the scat probably belongs to
Bigfoot. Jake and Isabella want to cut the trip short
and report the body to police, but Oz has come too close to realizing his furry fetish
fantasies with Bigfoot to turn back now. He tells them the body’s at least 8 years
old and can wait a few more days to report, otherwise he’ll double the amount of homework
they’ll need to turn in to pass the class. They reluctantly agree to stay quiet about
the body, and then Isabella dabbles in grave-robbing as she steals a necklace off the corpse, the
same necklace Marie was wearing the night she was taken. Reporting remains you find is a gray area,
morally and legally. Depending on which state you live in, the
protocol ranges from being lawfully required to contact police and the coroner’s office,
to just registering the find with local historical groups. If it’s on your property, some states say
you can do whatever you want with them. Oftentimes, the bones are usually animals,
but even medical examiners have been fooled at first by bones that appear human only to
belong to somebody’s pet. Why risk it? As recently as 2020, remains belonging to
a kid were found on a New York property. Police were called and an investigation is
still ongoing. Not to mention that Oz isn’t a forensic
anthropologist or a medical examiner. Bodies can reach a skeleton phase within as
little as one month depending on the climate, bacteria, bugs, and animal damage. For all they know, this is a relatively fresh
crime scene where evidence could still be gathered if they don’t trample all over
it. Stealing the necklace is obviously a bad idea,
but not because we find out later that the necklace is cursed. It’s a bad idea because messing with a corpse
like this would likely obstruct any police investigation that COULD happen, potentially
destroying evidence and earning Isabella jail time and/or a fine depending on which law
they decide to charge her with. Back with Dr. Kasdan, Chris spots something
moving through the woods with his binoculars and Kasdan tells him it’s time to call it
quits for the night. The group returns to the cabin Everett and
Marie once shared. In search of cell service, Isabella and Dr.
Kasdan starts driving out to a nearby town. Left to his own devices, Chris finds a book
called “Forest Unseen.” Somehow he is able to read the doctor’s
scrawl inside. It tells him that the night brings evil – the
Wendigos – but with the dawn comes the light of Bigfoot. Deeper in the book, the pages warn him “Here
they come.” I think we can all agree – NEVER READ THE
CREEPY HANDWRITTEN BOOK OUT LOUD. Even if you didn’t have common sense, seeing
something like this should be a red flag. It might not inspire you to break for the
car and speed out of this forest like a bat out of hell right now, but once things start
going down, this is exactly where you should turn for more info. Chris reads all of four lines and then forgets
to tell anyone about it until a day later. He should have given it to Oz to obsess over. He’s their resident mythologist. He would happily spend all night going through
that thing and then tell us the highlights as soon as crap starts to hit the fan. Lilly goes to take a shower in the world’s
dimmest bathroom and something goes bump in the night. She closes the window, but gets ambushed by
Everett, who subdues her. Out on the dark road, Isabella spots a creepy,
bloody woman standing in the middle of the road. Kasdan doesn’t seem to see her and when
Isabella looks back, the person is gone. She looks over and sees Kasdan has been replaced
by a band member from Kiss and drives them into a tree. When she comes to, a wendigo breaks Kasdan’s
window and tears out his throat before yoinking him through the window. Isabella scrambles out of the car and crab-crawls
to the dark road. She turns and Wendigo Marie screams at her. Something unseen pulls her into the air and
breaks her neck. God dangit. Please tell me we aren’t dealing with some
OP supernatural bullcrap. Why can’t we just have normal Wendigos from
Until Dawn, that are simply vicious, demented creatures born out of cannibalism. Not these things that somehow harnessed Charles
Xavier's telepathic abilities. On that note, maybe we need to be more cautious
with the whole cannibalism thing. Don’t wanna turn into a Wendigo. I digress. Lilly is in a vulnerable position in the bathroom,
but also one where quick action could save her from being kidnapped. For one thing, Lilly should scream the second
she sees him and when he covers her mouth with the chloroform rag, she should kick the
wall with her feet so loudly that Chris, Oz or Jake can hear her. Chloroform in the movies also isn’t like
chloroform in real life. Real chloroform has been tested extensively
on animals, but use on humans stopped long ago after they found that exposure can lead
to liver function and cardiac arrest. Anecdotally from times when it was used as
an anesthetic, however, the chemical took around 5 minutes to incapacitate a human. Lilly would have time here to fight back,
namely by landing a sharp elbow shot to his stomach to push him back, then grabbing the
mirror on the wall and smashing it over his head OR by clawing at his only remaining eye
to blind him. As for Isabella’s ghost road, her best option
here when she sees someone standing in the road is to drive around this person and keep
going. If the person needs help, they’ll call out. Otherwise, they could be a distraction while
thieves or worse sneak up on the car. Classic damsel in distress ambush setup. Seen it a million times. She can’t do much about Kasdan’s resting
Kiss face, but it's a terrible instinct to slam on the gas and plow them into the tree. Especially since it turns out this car doesn’t
have airbags. Isabella needs to check on Dennis as quickly
as possible to make sure he is still breathing and has a pulse. If he does, she needs to get help before moving
him, and then hold his neck in place until help arrives. This is called “holding c-spine”. If he needs CPR before then, she should take
him out as gently as possible to perform it, or attempt to do it in the car if the seat
can go back enough and give her enough room. Moving a trauma victim can be terrible for
their back, but it’s better than them dying. Of course, this is all moot once the creature
attacks. Getting out of the car and running is probably
her best option, but in that case she needs to hope that the creature’s too busy munching
on Kasdan to watch her sprinting into the distance. Freezing isn’t an option. Her two options are racing for the cabin or
racing for town, and which she should go for depends on how long they were traveling before
the wreck. Ultimately, Isabella was just unlucky and
it probably wouldn’t have mattered which way she ran. Not with a cannibalistic Professor X on her
ass. Back at the cabin, Jake’s vibing to reggae. Chris dawns a miner’s light to go pee outside
because Lilly’s still in the bathroom. Just as he opens the door, something outside
throws a rock at the window. He retrieves the gun he found before venturing
into the woods. He tucks the gun in the front of his pants
and goes to pee when another rock hits him. Heavy footsteps approach behind him. He fires the gun, but Bigfoot knocks it out
of the way, picks Chris up and slams him into a tree before dragging him deeper into the
woods. None of this should be happening. If the bathroom’s taken, pee in the sink,
or a potted plant, or just hold it. Especially when something outside throws a
rock at you. And if you have to go outside, walk to the
edge of the porch, aim for a leaf and let it go, bro. And if you decide – like a total idiot – to
wander into the woods to pee, don’t aim the firearm you don’t know how to use at
your junk. I bet Chris couldn’t find the safety on
that gun if he tried. He’s only lucky Bigfoot knocked it out of
his noob hands before he shot his Johnson off. Or worse, shot one of his friends by accident. Unfortunately, Chris was probably the only
student too far away from Kasdan to hear his trivia about cryptids throwing stones as warnings
earlier. Still, if something hurls a rock at my face
as I’m stepping outside, I’m not stepping outside. Super simple stuff. North American animals don’t throw rocks,
so either it’s a human messing around or one of them cryptids the locals were talking
about. Chris isn’t prepared for either possibility. Still, if he’s going to bring a gun with
him, the moment he hears something stomping around behind him, he should have it in his
hand ready to fire. Lilly wakes up bound with duct tape in Everett’s
truck bed with a gas canister and a cooler marked “bait.” Everett tells her about the night he heard
Marie torn apart. He tells her he’s going to use her as bait
to lure out a bigfoot, who he blames for Marie’s death. Lilly DOES NOT want to let Everett take her
anywhere. Like John Mulaney says: “no secondary locations”,
unless, Ozarks spoiler alert, you want to end up like Ben Byrde. Here, she needs to wait until Everett gets
into the truck and begins to drive. Then she needs to use her arms to break the
duct tape off her wrists, by holding them out and then driving her elbows backward,
pulling her wrists toward her chest with enough momentum that the tape rips in half. At that point, she can quietly remove the
tape from around her feet and either wait for him to slow and leap out OR go full metal
on his ass and pour the gasoline in through the open window of his truck. This should get him to stop the truck, but
still be distracted to the point that she has time to escape into the woods. If he pursues, that’s the point at which
she can watch him from a hiding place until she can double back to the truck and drive
away if he’s left the keys inside, OR run in the opposite direction he’s currently
searching. At the cabin, Jake and Oz are awoken by a
knock at the door. Outside, Isabella is acting strange. She tells them that Kasdan is dead and wanders
into the woods because she’s hungry. The guys follow her for a distance until they
find Chris trapped under a fallen tree. He tells them he saw Bigfoot as Isabella guides
them to a meadow where they find Kasdan’s body impaled through the mouth. Oz, Jake, and Chris strategize how to escape. Town is an hour away and they don’t have
the gun or the car. Isabella murmurs something about “Spirit
of the Flesh” and Chris shows them the Forest Unseen book he found. When he mentions the wendigo, Oz tells them
it’s a cannibalistic beast that “preys on the selfish.” When the Spirit of the Flesh possesses you,
you turn into a wendigo. Oz realizes Kasdan knew there was a wendigo
before planning the trip. Isabella moans and cryptically tells the guys
“they’re coming.” Once they recognize the book’s significance,
they should be speed reading that thing for all the details and strategies they can. Depending on the time of day, they need to
gather any weapons they can find in the house and begin the hike to town. They may no longer have Chris’s gun, which
he lost in the Bigfoot encounter last night, but they have an ax, a shovel, and knives
from the kitchen if nothing else. With no vehicle, two people missing, and one
person confirmed dead, they need to make time while there’s still sun to see by. Not to mention Isabella’s sickly behavior. You don’t need a degree in cryptozoology
to know that Isabella is acting SUPER sketchy…and exactly like the book tells them people possessed
by the Spirit of the Flesh behave before they transform into wendigos. I don’t think it’d be an unpopular opinion
to say that they need to shovel Isabella’s head from her body before they start their
hike. Else you’re basically traveling with someone
that just got bit by a zombie who could turn at any moment. If they aren’t willing to hike that far
so close to sundown, the next option is barricading the house. Considering how big a cryptid fan Oz is, it’s
surprising he doesn’t know that wendigos are known to be able to unlock doors and break
through windows. Those are the first points they’ll need
to barricade to make it through the night. Everett guides Lilly into a meadow. When he cuts her hand loose she punches him
in the face and tries to run, but he catches her and ties her to a tree. As he goes to hide, she spots a mangled dead
body laying nearby and starts screaming for help. Same as with the bathroom fight, Lilly needs
to pick her moment. Instead of hitting him the moment he loosens
her duct tape, she should feign cooperation and either kick him in the crotch to get him
down on the ground where she can kick repeatedly until he passes out OR she needs to wait for
the right moment to gouge out his remaining eye. At that point, she could take his weapon,
return to his truck and get out of there before anything shows up. In the cabin, Isabella tries to sleep when
she sees two bright eyes staring at her. She flicks on the light to reveal the room
is empty and tries to sleep with the lights on. The Spirit of the Flesh turns them off again. A shadow of antlers appears above the bed
and the Siri on Isabella’s iPad suddenly apologizes for finding no results for “Kill
and consume the blood and flesh of the others.” A second voice says “your soul belongs to
me.” When she gets it to shut off, the camera app
turns on and Isabella is seized by the Spirit of the Flesh. When the possession stops, an entire hour
has passed in the blink of an eye. She tries to hide under her cover, but the
Spirit rips the blanket off and looms over her. Everett lays in wait for Bigfoot with a rifle
aimed at Lilly’s head, when something moves behind him in the darkness. He shines his light across the forest, but
as it is with all monsters, it’s the second check that summons them. He sees three wendigos coming for him through
the forest. As he screams, Lilly reaches around and unties
her rope from the tree. She sees a wendigo coming through the meadow
and bolts into the forest, tripping over Everett’s body. She hides behind a tree. A wendigo approaches but ultimately retreats
as a Bigfoot approaches. Everett the supposed Bigfoot Hunter let these
wendigos get the drop on him and for that, he deserves what he gets. As for Lilly, if she could reach back all
this time and undo her ties, she should have done that long ago. It also doesn’t seem advisable to run TOWARD
Everett’s screams, as that’s where the threat is. Perhaps she was going after his keys and gun,
but she doesn’t take them after she stumbles over his body, so…I don’t know what she’s
thinking here. Especially because he’s brought her way
the heck out into the middle of nowhere to entice the Bigfoot. Back at the cabin, Isabella screams. Oz rushes into her room. The door slams shut and Oz turns to see Isabella
transforming and speaking in a demonic voice. She crawls across the bed toward him. Oz picks up a radio clock to kill her when
she cries out in her normal voice and begs him not to hurt her. He promises to help her. Unfortunately, that’s one promise he won’t
be keeping as her transformation continues and the spirit inside her tells him she’s
hungry. She leaps onto Oz and begins feasting. Oz should know better. Wendigos are cannibalistic demons that feed
on selfish people. You know how I know that? Because Oz told me! If the Spirit of the Flesh could infect Isabella,
then she is a selfish person who will likely attack if given the chance. He needs to double tap her immediately. If it doesn’t kill her, it’ll at least
knock her out long enough for him to escape and alert the others. You can’t fall for the sudden feigned innocence
of demons. Unless you have a cage to put her in, it’s
off with her head. In another part of the cabin, Chris hears
a noise and opens a curtain to find a wendigo banging its head against the window. As Chris rushes into the hall and closes the
door, Lilly enters and tells him they have to go. Apparently, there’s a labyrinth in this
cabin because Jake hears none of this. He steps outside on the porch to see dozens
of wendigos approaching through a field. Isabella sneaks up behind him, her teeth sharpened
and dripping black goo. Lilly tells Chris they’re leaving with or
without the others, but Chris wants to check the house for their friends. Armed with a shovel, he ventures to the porch
and sees Isabella eating Jake. He manages to close the glass door before
she can get inside. Ax in hand, Lilly locks a wendigo in a bedroom
and when Chris comes looking for her, she pulls him into a closet and warns him the
house is infested. A wendigo nearly finds them. Lilly and Chris creep toward the door, but
a wendigo startles Chris into dropping his shovel. Lilly makes it outside to find she’s become
separated from Chris, who’s run into the cabin’s lower level. There, he finds a wendigo munching on Oz’s
body. Chris manages to escape outside before the
wendigo notices him. Lilly gives him his shovel back. Holy hell, there’s an army of wendigos out
here. How is this rapidly growing population of
invasive wendigos not being recognized as more of a threat by the locals. You’d think they’d have started inviting
hunters to thin the herd out a bit by now. It’s bad for business to have tourists getting
mowed down left and right. If they had properly barricaded this place
when they had the chance, they might have been able to keep the swarming hoard of creatures
at bay…then again, they would still have had to deal with Isabella. Since hiding in the closet worked so well,
it might have worked to stay there until the wendigos left the room and then quietly closed
and locked the door and waited out the dawn. If anyone had bothered to read the “Forest
Unseen” book, left for them like an AirBnb welcome gift, they likely would have known
the wendigos are most powerful at night. That, of course, doesn’t guarantee they
won’t keep attacking during the day, but it might have been useful to know. Chris should have grabbed his shovel after
dropping it, so he could fight off the wendigo and stick with Lilly as they escaped into
the night. It’s only thanks to Lilly’s quick thinking
to go back inside and get it and actually wait for him to find his way out that he survives
at all. Lilly and Chris run into the woods and find
Everett’s body. They search for his keys when a wendigo chases
them away. Afterward, the Spirit of the Flesh finds Everett’s
body and puppets him back to life. While planning to turn and attack the wendigos
head on, the wendigos grab them. One rips at Lilly’s arm, but they’re scared
back by the sudden appearance of a bright light. Chris rushes to her but she succumbs to her
injuries. Chris stands to find the wendigos watching
him in a circle. Chris and Lilly really have two options here. The first is to run and KEEP running until
the wendigos are out of sight and they can either hide or gather their energy for the
fight to come. The second is to press their backs together
and fight. In neither case should they have hidden behind
trees like this. It restricts their field of vision far too
much, allowing them to be grabbed. Had they turned their backs to each other
and fought, it’s likely Lilly would have stood a chance of surviving…or at least
guaranteed herself a cushy seat in Valhalla. Now that she’s gone, Chris needs to pick
up her ax and have it securely by his side in the event of their attack. Instead, the Spirit of the Flesh appears to
him. With nothing else to do, he tries roaring
at the wendigos to stay away. Something heavy lands behind him – a Sasquatch. Instead of attacking him, the Bigfoot steps
forward and the fight is on. Bigfoot kicks ass and takes names as wave
after wave of wendigo pours out of the dark. Some he ends with a neck snap, others he impales
or smashes into trees or just straight up curb stomps, scaring the Spirit of the Flesh
into retreat. Squatch is an OG. As dawn breaks, Chris makes it to Everett’s
truck, but his wendy girlfriend is there waiting for him. He can’t bring himself to drive her over. She chases him through Everett’s truck,
then underneath it. He jumps into the truck back where he finds
the gas canister. As Isabella comes for him, he lights her up,
then backs over her head, symbolically double tapping their unhealthy relationship. The truck sputters out over her flaming dead
body, forcing him to abandon it before it explodes. Chris should have immediately rolled up the
windows and locked the doors of this truck the second he got inside, with the key already
in the ignition and the engine already purring. You couldn’t pay me enough to hesitate one
second longer than I’d have to in a situation like this. I’d be driving that truck out of there before
Isabella even had the chance to show up. It should go without saying, but if your girlfriend
starts speaking in a demonic voice after ripping the throat out of another dude, she’s not
your girlfriend anymore. The only reason to let her even reach the
truck is to use the door as you crawl out to break her neck and crush her skull…but
that’s a risk he shouldn’t take. He also shouldn’t risk crawling under the
truck. He should get to his feet and dart back around
the truck, prepared to drive away as she falls out OR prepared to bash her brains in with
the shovel. He’s just lucky she gives him enough time
in the truck bed to spill the gas, find the matches, light one and throw it. Her politeness seems out of character, to
be honest. Once she’s down for the count, double tapping
her is smart, but the moment the truck pops over her head the second time, he should be
speeding away like his tail is on fire…because it is. Leaving the truck over a burning corpse is
a great way to check a car explosion off his bucket list, but he could have avoided all
of that by grabbing his shovel and killing her with that instead, rather than rolling
over her head. Not as cinematic, but at least you still have
a truck afterward and don’t have to WALK the 60 miles back to civilization. Chris begins limping away when possessed Everett
appears. He has the necklace Marie and Isabella both
had. He’s mid-transformation and tells Chris
that the last ten years he’s spent trying to find bigfoot wasn’t really about Sasquatch
or revenge for Marie’s death. He says the wendigo seemed to know him inside
and out. Everett tells Chris the Spirit of the Flesh
crept inside him long ago, and now he’s just ravenous. He walks toward Chris, whistling, only to
get his head lopped off by a shovel to the neck. In his final moments, Chris is picked up by
one of the townies from the Sasquatch Center, who only laughs at his blood stained clothing
and thousand yard stare. It’s Dead Month, after all, and he did try
to warn them. It’s cliche to say everyone could have avoided
their death by just staying home, but it’s true. If they hadn’t all tempted fate by going
to a dangerous area during a time of the year called the “Dead Month,” Everett and Marie
would have remained the wendigos only victims. As for the others, well, it’s like a cannibalistic
game of chess – any wrong or right move could have changed their fates. Isabella and Kasdan were likely doomed the
moment they decided that internet access was worth driving an hour out of their way for. If Chris had shared the creepy book with Oz
and Jake earlier, it’s possible that they both could have fled the cabin leaving Isabella
behind. If they had barricaded themselves inside,
they might have survived if they had realized Isabella was turning early enough to kill
her outright or force her outside. However, with the house properly barricaded,
Lilly wouldn’t have been able to get in after escaping Everett. If Oz hadn’t gone into the obviously possessed
woman’s room to check on her, he might have survived. If Lilly hadn’t waited for Chris and gone
back for his shovel, she might have survived…but turned into a wendigo for her selfishness. And ultimately, Chris only survives because
of Lilly’s good deed AND because Bigfoot is the superman of the forest AND because
wendigo Everett took so long monologuing that Chris had a chance to chop his head off. Yeah, this was a tough one. Because Bigfoot ex machina’ed this whole
situation, I think the CRYPTIDS in DAWN OF THE BEAST remain UNBEATEN. How would you have beaten Dawn of the Beast? Let me know in the comments. Hit the like button to save a stranger’s
life. Hit the subscribe button to save your own. Thanks for watching, and remember, when a
creepy local calls anything you’re doing a “Dead Month,” you turn around and go
home.
