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The Legend of Boggy Creek movie from 1972 also shares the same vintage of another legend in film-making. Although nowheres near the masterpiece quality of the movie called Deliverance, this movie is still is a wonderful artifact of country-south history and folklore none-the-less. The picture quality is typical cinemascope of the 70s (not too grainy but period soft) and the filmography taint too bad, neither. The documentary's portrayal of the geography, terrain and the locals around these parts of Southwest Arkansas is most accurate and even more interesting than the story about some silly prankster in a furry suit menacing around The Bottoms. Another true to life portrayal is that, for the most part, the chicks in Fouke are a rightly proud and fine looking. And who cares if Bigfoot is real or not. The answer is in Native American lore. That is good enough for me. If you come across a puma or black bear while exploring these swamps, you will be in greater danger. I know this from personal experience. The Fouke Monster just stinks real bad, and at worst he will throw his turds at you. I reckon I am partly tetched, having exiled myself to remain a child of the 70s, never leaving except for a few visits into the future. I have always enjoyed a pork loin biscuit for breakfast or eggs over easy, sautéed in bacon grease. This movie was made for me. If you were inspired by a long list of period living lengends the likes of Earl Hoyt Jr. and Fred Bear among many others, and if you are partial to materials like wood, manila-hemp, canvas, leather, brass and blued steel over the newfangled synthetics and aerospace aluminum alloys, then aquire this DVD and add it to your collection. Then fix up a pot of beans, Johnny cakes, some country ham and top it off with diced yellow onion. Crack open a Miller High Life or PBR, insert this movie into the DVD player, and have yourself a Richard Nixon of a good time. Try not to fuss much or get teary eyed because 1972 is long gone.Read full review
I am from an area about 40 miles from where this is based, so I have to say that I probably have more of an interest than the average person. That being said, all docudramas are cheesy, but I think this is a decent movie for being in that category. It's long been said that the Boggy Creek(or Fouke)monster inhabits the woods around southern Arkansas and north Louisiana, and my only complaint about it would be that it focuses on the experiences of one family that isn't even from the area...they rent a house for a short amount of time, and a group of teenage girls left home alone. Quite frankly, I've heard plenty more detailed scary stories just from word of mouth in the area. Creepily enough, there are people in southern Arkansas who claim to be related to this race of sasquatch type people, and there have been history/discovery channel documentaries produced with much more information about this legend. There was a woman interviewed in one of these documentaries who claims to not only be related, but to have had regular contact with more than one, and she even attempted to capture one and harvest dna samples. I would recommend to anyone interested to watch those films first. This movie is more about the emotional and psychological impact of the legend on two particular families who had very close-up encounters. It is a soap opera style re-enactment of these encounters complete with low budget B-movie effects, certainly good for a laugh or two. This movie seems to treat the legend as a loch-ness type of creature, one singular "monster", which makes all of the encounters about the legend over the last century seem that much less believable. In it's defense, it does atleast also reference factual information like that the victim's hospital records and police reports indicated that during the event in question an attack of some kind truly did occur.Read full review
Saw this many years ago as a child and was transfixed, now its my childrens turn. It is extremely dated now and not at all realistically acted, but its wonderful, great for kids, a little bit scary, but nothing really gruesome. Utterly charming and reminds me of a more honest age. The one question you ask yourself is: did the whole community fake it for publicity and tourism or was it true. I think the latter. A harmless quirky watchable docu/drama. Age 8 and over is my rating. No bad language or unsuitable scenes.
wow! this movie still give me the willies after all these years. even though an obvious novelty store ape suit was used, it was done in such a way as to add realism to all the "monster" shots. also, a surprise extra was included in the bonus features...the complete 8mm Castle Films home movie of Creature from the Black Lagoon was shown. For those not old enough to remember, these films were our version of home video. you saved your pennies for months and the clipped the order form from Famous Monsters magazine and mailed it in and the waited 6-8 weeks for your 5 minute, silent epic to arrive! get this disc! campy, spooky fun at its best!
Great Movie! As kids we use to have stay overs and watch late night movies on the weekends. This was like the third most memorable scary movie we watched and it scared us to death. Thank God we all got to sleep in the front room floor with blankets and pillows. The good ole days!
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