THE WILDMAN OF SHAGGY CREEK

Name: THE WILDMAN OF SHAGGY CREEK
Item: THE WILDMAN OF SHAGGY CREEK
Author: Review

"Enemies Can Become Friends"

Family Content: +1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)

Entertainment Quality:

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Violence
Sex
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What You Need To Know:

THE WILDMAN OF SHAGGY CREEK is a family adventure movie. Scott is a Middle School boy whose family has moved to a new state. Scott isn’t happy about leaving his friends. Their new backyard abuts a small, mysterious forest. Scott hears strange noises emanating from the dense woodland. He has the feeling something is watching him. Scott meets four children, including Haley and her older brother, Zach. They tell him a hairy Bigfoot living in the woods kidnapped a boy 10 years ago. Zach relentlessly teases Haley and Scott. To stop the teasing, Scott proposes a challenge to spend one night in the woods.

THE WILDMAN OF SHAGGY CREEK is a spirited and engaging, but scary, adventure for older children. The child actors do a fine job, with the primary focus on Scott and Haley. They’re played by Hudson Hensley and Ayla Bullington, respectively. THE WILDMAN OF SHAGGY CREEK has a strong moral worldview. It stresses family, courage, hospitality, and helping and protecting others. It also has a strong positive message against teasing other people. The movie is too scary for younger children.

Content:

(BB, V, M):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong moral worldview stresses family, courage, hospitality, and helping and protecting others, with a strong positive message against teasing other people and two enemies reconcile and become friends;

Foul Language:

No foul language;

Violence:

Light but scary violence as boy and girl spend a night in some dense woods that may hide a scary Bigfoot creature lurking there, there’s a scary encounter during the night, children get scared and scream, boy takes out a knife to defend himself and a friend, boy takes a shortcut through the scary woods and runs through the woods;

Sex:

No sex;

Nudity:

No nudity;

Alcohol Use:

no alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Boy disobeys his parents about spending a night alone in the woods, and an older boy relentlessly teases his younger sister and her new friend in a mean way, but it’s rebuked.

More Detail:

THE WILDMAN OF SHAGGY CREEK is a family movie about a Middle School boy whose parents move into a new house next to a creepy forest with stories and legends of a Bigfoot wandering around loose. THE WILDMAN OF SHAGGY CREEK is a spirited and engaging, but scary, adventure for older children, with positive messages about courage, teasing, family, hospitality, and helping and protecting others.

Charlie is a wilderness expert. He and his wife, Charlotte, have brought their son, Scott, to live in a new house in another city for Charlotte’s new job. Scott isn’t happy about leaving behind his friends, but he ignores his friend Bridger’s texts and calls. Making matters worse, the moving van with all their furniture and Scott’s bike hasn’t shown up yet.

Their new house abuts a small, mysterious forest. In the backyard, Scott hears all sorts of strange noises emanating from the dense woodland. The family comes to find that there are stories about a hairy creature, a Bigfoot, lurking in the forest. Scott’s parents discount the stories, but Scoot meets three children, a girl named Haley, her older brother, Zach, and their friends Brent and Emily, who tell him that the family that last lived in the house 10 years ago, left when their son was found dead in the woods.

One day, Scott’s mother is stuck at work and can’t pick him up after school. So, Scott decides to take a short cut through the woods, where he finds a clump of hair along with the usual strange noises.

Haley’s older brother, Zach, relentlessly teases Scott and Haley. To stop the teasing, Scott decides to spend an evening camping in a tent in the forest. If he does, Zach must promise to stop teasing Haley. Haley warns Scott not to do such a foolish thing. She thinks Zach and Brent will pull a prank on him if he goes through with the bet.

THE WILDMAN OF SHAGGY CREEK is a spirited and engaging, but scary, adventure for older children. The child actors do a fine job, with the primary focus being on Scott and Haley, played by Hudson Hensley and Ayla Bullington, respectively.

THE WILDMAN OF SHAGGY CREEK has a strong moral worldview. It stresses family, courage, hospitality, and helping and protecting others. It also has a strong positive message against teasing other people. The movie is too scary for younger children, however.