#the legend of boggy creek (1972)

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SUMMARY: A documentary-style drama about the "Fouke Monster", a Bigfoot-type creature that has been sighted in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s.

Again, the mod is not the biggest fan of Bigfoot and Bigfoot lore, but if you are, this movie looks pretty interesting.

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On August 25, 1972, The Legend of Boggy Creek debuted in the United States.

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That creature feature, “The Legend of Boggy Creek!”

The Legend of Boggy Creek is a 1972 docudrama film directed by Charles B. Pierce that tells the story of a series of encounters between local residents and the Fouke Monster, a Bigfoot-like creature said to inhabit the swamps and forests of Fouke, Arkansas. The movie is based on real-life sightings and encounters with the creature, and it uses a combination of dramatic reenactments and…

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The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)

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Happy Birthday to Dave Coleman! Hear him on our LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK episode: https://www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2012/05/episode-65-legend-of-boggy-creek.html

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Schlocktoberfest XIV - Day 15: The Legend Of Boggy Creek

The Legend Of Boggy Creek (1972) Trailer: *Spoilers Throughout* What’s This About: Part one of a Bigfoot series that didn’t really need to progress past this entry. Here are some of my observations as I watched the film: Black screen and croaking frogs, strap in for excitement! As if trying to bullshit everyone by saying this is a true story wasn’t enough, Pierce has the audacity to add: “Some…

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The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)

More documentaries ought to have shoddily written theme songs inserted into them. Never in a million years would I have predicted that halfway through Charles B Pierce’s docudrama about a Bigfoot-type creature in southern Arkansas, some dude would start crooning about camping and Sasquatch and some shit. Are some of the rhymes particularly tortured? Absolutely, but that just enhances the charm. While not really a narrative and not really a documentary, the film tries to play to both forms in its recreations of encounters with the "Fouke Monster” be they brief or protracted, benign or frightening. A title card at the front of the film assures the viewer of the veracity of what is portrayed and also makes a point of informing them that many people play themselves in these scenarios. Whether hiring the subjects to recreate their own stories plays into the credibility of the encounters is up for debate, as the clunkiness of the action at points bogs down believability. Most episodes tend to boil down to one or more parties firing shotguns at random into the night while others scream. Having the whole thing narrated by actor Vern Stierman as if recalling boyhood memories certainly beggars belief to an extent. This is perhaps most successful in a few points in establishing atmosphere: in the opening, a boggy idyll of herons and beavers is interrupted by the strange vocalizations of the creature, causing wildlife to flee. And while the regrettable Squatch suit is too silly to be taken seriously, much less be viewed as frightening, there are a few beats when people suddenly feel less than secure within the walls of their own homes which quicken the pulse serviceably enough. Ultimately this feels like a PBS special of some sort, and probably deserves about as much attention as an after-school matinee before snack time.

THE RULES

PICK ONE

Select one documented creature--BEAVER, LIZARD, BIRD, or INSECT--and sip whenever it appears in B-roll footage.

SIP

Someone says 'Fouke'.

Strange vocalizations are heard.

Someone mentions the creature being lured to civilization.

BIG DRINK

A song begins.

Someone is introduced with a chyron.

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Opinion on the movies The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972) and Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues (1985)

never seen | want to see | the worst | bad | whatever | not my thing | good | great | favorite | masterpiece

Haven't even heard of these ones 🤣 I'll add them to my watch list

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the 1972 CLASSIC, the legend of boggy creek

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Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

The Thing (1982) had the most votes with 2,313 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

Shaun of the Dead (2004) was the most watched film with 69.30% of voters saying they had seen it.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

The Wicker Man (2006) was the least watched film with 67.02% of voters saying they hadn't seen it.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

Friday the 13th (1980) was the best known film with only 1.04% of voters saying they'd never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

The Doll Master (2004) was the least known film with 88.49% of voters saying they'd never heard of it.

The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.

The Faculty (1998) You're Next (2011) Matriarch (2022) May (2002) Black Christmas (1974) Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006) Friday the 13th (1980) Jason X (2001) The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016) The Tunnel (2011)

Scream 2 (1997) Climax (2018) Raw (2016) Tusk (2014) A Serbian Film (2010) Waxwork (1988) American Mary (2012) In the Mouth of Madness (1994) The Fog (1980) The Mist (2007)

Ginger Snaps (2000) Scream 3 (2000) House of Wax (1953) Shaun of the Dead (2004) Night of the Living Dead (1968) Basket Case (1982) Malignant (2021) Attack the Block (2011) Insidious (2010) Trick 'r Treat (2007)

The Wolf Man (1941) The Invisible Man (1933) The Invisible Man (2020) Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Scream 4 (2011) The Last Broadcast (1998) Dark Water (2002) Dog Soldiers (2002) One Missed Call (2003) V/H/S (2012)

The Houses October Built (2014) Occult (2009) Willow Creek (2013) Savageland (2015) The McPherson Tape (1989) Waxworks (1924) Scream (2022) Possum (2018) Cemetery Man (1994) The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

The Thing (1982) Count Yorga, Vampire (1970) Night of the Lepus (1972) Puppet Master (1989) Gargoyles (1972) From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) The Fourth Kind (2009) Dead Silence (2007) The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972) American Gothic (1987)

Netherworld (1992) The Bad Seed (1956) Satan’s Triangle (1975) The Creeping Terror (1964) The House That Would Not Die (1970) The Wicker Man (2006) Scream VI (2023) From Beyond (1986) Castle Freak (1995) Beyond the Gates (2016)

The Phantom Empire (1987) The Evil Clergyman (1988) Would You Rather (2012) Chopping Mall (1986) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) [REC] (2007) The Bay (2012) Happy Death Day (2017) Happy Death Day 2U (2019) Mayhem (2017)

Child's Play (2019) Freaky (2020) X (2022) Pearl (2022) Possession (1981) Possessor (2020) Hush (2016) Us (2019) Creep (2014) Creep 2 (2017)

The Witch (2015) Eyes Without a Face (1960) The Void (2016) Annihilation (2018) Color Out of Space (2019) The Thing (2011) The Relic (1997) The Doll Master (2004) Hellhole (2022) The Howling (1981)

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BIGFOOTNOTES

Now streaming:

Summoning the Spirit--A young couple living in a beautiful, isolated house in the forest find themselves neighbors to a hippie commune led by an obsequious creep.  Emotionally vulnerable after a recent heartbreak, the couple (Krystal Millie Valdes and Ernesto Reyes) are increasingly drawn in by the insufferable cultists. Meanwhile, off in the distance, a glowering Bigfoot keeps an eye on things from the woods.

Bigfoot has had a long if largely low-rent history in movies, from 1972's redoubtable The Legend of Boggy Creek to the amusing 1976 Creature from Black Lake to the big-studio Harry and the Hendersons in 1987, and on TV from Bigfoot and Wildboy on '70s Saturday mornings to the "Messin' With Sasquatch" commercials for Jack Link's jerky. The best Bigfoot movie may have been a startling, too-little-known 2007 chiller by David Blair and Adam Pitman called Paper Dolls, later re-released as The Sighting. But the micro-budgeted Summoning the Spirit, directed by Jon Garcia from a script he wrote with Zach Carter, can probably lay claim to being the weirdest Bigfoot flick yet.

It has an undeniable atmosphere of unease, however, deriving more from the human than from the cryptid element. The movie is hampered by a sluggish pace--pauses between the actors' lines big enough for the creature's foot to fit through--and a frustrating vagueness, but the growing sense of unsavory menace generated in the group scenes within the repellent yet somehow plausible cult is quite distressing. 

Jesse Tayeh is effectively loathsome as the leader, and Isabelle Muthiah makes an impression as an intense, seductive flower child. When you watch their overtures to the hapless couple, you're likely to think that you wouldn't tolerate these people for ten seconds, but of course, in life, politeness and group compliance really might overrule wisdom.

Toward the end, after the cult's connection to Bigfoot is explained--sort of--the movie finally downshifts all the way into horror and some rather half-hearted gore, and much of its eerie mood is dissipated. But the final reveal is sort of sweet.

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Now showing on DuranDuranTulsa's Plenty Scary Movie 🎬 🎞 🎥 🎦 📽... The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #scifi #monstermovies #creaturefeature #bigfoot #sasquatch #TheLegendofBoggyCreek #thefoukemonster #Fouke #Arkansas #foukearkansas #CharlesBPierce #70s #vintage #VHS #durandurantulsa #durandurantulsasplentyscarymovie #plentyscarymovie #8sThePlace #ktul

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"The Legend Of Boggy Creek" - from The Legend Of Boggy Creek (1972)