The film teases that Tyler Laird and Jack Wells will return in The Monster Chronicles and I think I will join them.Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. I would also say I think I genuinely liked it. But as I have reflected back on the film I think I can safely say that I was impressed by it. I started off this review by stating that I really wasn’t sure how I felt about Big Legend. This was the only moment where it felt just like a guy in suit that was trying to get out of the shot. Additionally, the creature work in Big Legend is really very well done outside of one scene where it ducks behind a tree. The writing is pretty solid and the performances of the central characters are also pretty strong. Generally these kinds of lower budgeted monster movies are pretty weak on writing and performances but overall that’s not the case here.

Wells is there to recruit Tyler for a team he is putting together to fight monsters. The end of the film features a Samuel L Jackson-esque cameo from Lance Henricksen as Jackson Wells. In addition to Jaws, Lee also seems to have oddly found inspiration from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Particularly because it felt more that Lee was paying tribute to Jaws rather than simply ripping it off. These similarities to Jaws definitively increased my opinion of the film. However, its presence is felt throughout. For most of the film, the creature is barely seen as we only catch slight glimpses of it. Tyler is Chief Brody and Eli is Matt Hooper and their relationship as they are on the hunt is very similar. Writer/Director Justin Lee, clearly takes a lot of inspiration from Jaws. After his truck is attacked by the same creature he suspects took Natalie, he is befriended by a hunter named Eli ( Todd A Robinson) who is looking for the very same monster. One year later, after completing time in a psychiatric ward, Tyler is encouraged by his mother ( Adrienne Barbeau) to head back to the woods and find out what happened to Natalie. After discovering an odd tower of stacked rocks, he hears Natalie scream as something has grabbed hold of the tent, dragging it away with Natalie still inside. Figuring it’s probably a bear prowling around, Tyler goes out to check. That happiness fades when strange noises outside their tent makes Natalie concerned. She accepts and happily puts on his ring. Ex-soldier Tyler Laird ( Kevin Makely) has taken his girlfriend Natalie ( Summer Spiro) on a special camping trip.

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