Crew
Director/Screenplay – B.C. Fourteen, Producer – Randall Finings, Animation – Crag Alma, Islam Bellal, William Bigtree, Charles Farmer, Carl Larch, Ken Livingston, Susy Tan, Laird Torello, Ryan Verite, Lin Wang & Laird Williamson, Visual Effects – Charles Farmer, Susy Tan, Arnie Topher, Ryan Verite, Lin Wang & Ted Williamson. Production Company – Ruthless Studios.
Voices
Marco Guzman (Van Helsing/Foot/Generalissimo Josef Stalin/Ra/Sylus/Xio), Ashley Tod (Princess Kali Devine), Edson Camacho (Dr Jeckyll), Mark Salsy (Wrathcheild), Wes Bruff (Aleister Crawley)
Plot
Earth has been all but destroyed. Princess Kali Devine leads the survivors of humanity as they fight off the invading alien Archons. The Archons, led by Josef Stalin, resurrect the spirit of Aleister Crawley and call upon the Ancient Egyptian god Anubis to lead them in the battle. Humanity meanwhile has cloned Jack Van Helsing. He now goes to call upon Bigfoot to fight for them and drive off the Archons.
B.C. Fourteen (his real name not known) writes and directs under a host of different names including Christopher Maitland, B.C. Furtney and Denise Schoolner. Fourteen has also directed the live-action horror films New Terminal Hotel (2010), Werewolf Rising (2014) and The Dead Window (2023), as well as the documentaries Trumpocalypse Now (2017), Uncivil War: Battle for America (2017) and Go Big or Go Home (2018). He has also written several other political documentaries and the scripts for a host of animated films including Planes With Brains (2018) and sequels, Pup Scouts (2018), Trolled (2018), Wee Dragons (2018), Penguin Rescue (2018) and Jumbo (2019), among others.
From 2020 onwards, B.C. Fourteen has made a series of CGI animated films in the same vein as Bigfoot vs the Illuminati with Trump vs the Illuminati (2020), Bigfoot vs Krampus (2021), Bigfoot vs Megalodon (2021), Tickles the Clown (2021), Bigfoot Goes to Hell (2023), Bigfoot vs Megalodon 2 (2023), Bundy vs the Wolfman: Closer Than We Think (2023), Dahmer & Frankenstein: Closer Than We Think (2023), Napoleon vs the Banks (2023), Space Masons and the Alien Conspiracy (2023), Van Helsing (2023), Xterminator and the AI Apocalypse (2023) and Bigfoot vs Megalodon: Resurrection (2025).
I saw Bigfoot vs the Illuminati after Trump vs the Illuminati. It left me unsure which preceded which as both had the same copyright year and I could find no actual release dates for either. My guess is that Bigfoot is the earlier film due to the fact that the animation has become more sophisticated by the time of Trump. Moreover, while neither film has much in the way of a plot. At least Trump vs the Illuminati seems to be taking place after the events of Bigfoot in that characters who are resurrected here such as Aleister Crawley and Anubis are established by the time of Trump.
In watching Trump vs the Illuminati, what B.C. Fourteen was doing had a satiric edge. Seeing the same thing a second time, it just comes across as amateurish. The animation of the characters is extremely limited – all of the human characters have their faces hidden behind visors and spacesuit helmets as a cut-price way to avoid animation (ie. no need to animate facial features), while their movement is limited and repetitive. The animation is inert – there are never any scenes that mount to anything dramatic. In fact, what it feels exactly like is piece of test animation or A.I. footage that has all been edited together and given a voiceover to drive it along.
The wacky novelty that Trump vs the Illuminati had is not the same and the bizarre mix of aliens, resurrected historic figures (Josef Stalin, Aleister Crowley, which the film keeps referring to as Crawley) in alien lizard bodies, along with Ancient Egyptian gods and Bigfoot seems dull a second time around. Bigfoot also talks and comes out with a basso voice that sounds like some kind of roughneck street brawler-come-gang kingpin.
Trailer here