Valley of the Sasquatch (also known as Hunting Grounds) is a 2015 American horror film written and directed by John Portanova and starring Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Jason Vail, David Saucedo, D'Angelo Midili, and Bill Oberst Jr. as a group of hunters who encounter a family of Sasquatches.
After his wife dies, Roger forces his son Michael to go on a hunting trip in rural Washington.
Roger belittles him for his theory, but Will tells a story of a group of people who were attacked by unseen creatures while visiting their cabin in the area almost a century earlier.
The stranger, who introduces himself as Bauman, tells of how he a few days earlier went up the mountain in search of a gold mine, at which point he was abducted by the Sasquatches.
For reasons unknown to Bauman, the creatures kept him alive in their cave, and he was eventually able to make his escape after killing one of them.
Guided by Bauman, Michael finds the cave and Roger, still alive, albeit with a broken leg.
[5] Ken W. Hanley of Fangoria rated it 2/4 stars and, though he praised Portanova's skill at directing and Hudson's special effects, wrote the writing is too generic.
[7] Ari Drew of Dread Central rated it 2.5/5 stars and wrote, "While Valley of the Sasquatch does not necessarily bring on the horror in a major or fresh way, it is at times a very effectively atmospheric film with some interesting ideas behind it.