Oh, this movie. Honestly, watching now anyone can tell that this is by no means a good movie even for a fake documentary. Hell, watching back in 1973 people knew they were watching a bad movie. But the funny thing about 'bad' movies is that they can become the greatest thing ever when viewed with an open mind and some wit. Boggy Creek is one of these gems.
The story takes place in Fouke, a small town found in Arkansas whose name insight many a laugh. The people in this town are the kind of back water folks with strangely big and dirty houses not unlike the Sawyer family in the cult horror classic 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. This movie did for Arkansas when Jaws did for the ocean... or at least it tried. The director Charles Pierce has done a lot of films I never heard of including 2 other sequels and does his best to invoke the terror of the monster.
Special effects are.... well, non-existent. Laughable cat stunts from the monster lightly tossing one in a driveway to another which was simply "scared to death". Boggy monster not big on cats. Then at the monsters big fight scene that needs not the bullet time of todays films was simply a guy with a rented Gorilla suit shaking a no-named actor while the camera did it's best not to catch a face shot of the monster. So basically, if you came here looking for a suit like one found in 'Harry and the Hendersons', well forget it, Toho studios put more design in their King Kong costume when it battled Godzilla, which I'm sorry to say didn't have much detail outside of it's drum-like nipples.
Then the introduction of Travis Crabtree to his own theme song, cooking eggs, hunting some animals, meeting up with some strange old man who managed to shoot his foot off in a boating accident (I'm wanting a prequel involving this). And with that 5 minute intro, he is never seen again... So I assume the real Travis Crabtree, who played himself, had an ego problem but frankly wasn't that interesting.
Basically, you want 90 minutes to waste with from friends some night... rent this movie for it is on DVD and has actual Special Feature, none of which are all that useful.
3/10
The story takes place in Fouke, a small town found in Arkansas whose name insight many a laugh. The people in this town are the kind of back water folks with strangely big and dirty houses not unlike the Sawyer family in the cult horror classic 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre'. This movie did for Arkansas when Jaws did for the ocean... or at least it tried. The director Charles Pierce has done a lot of films I never heard of including 2 other sequels and does his best to invoke the terror of the monster.
Special effects are.... well, non-existent. Laughable cat stunts from the monster lightly tossing one in a driveway to another which was simply "scared to death". Boggy monster not big on cats. Then at the monsters big fight scene that needs not the bullet time of todays films was simply a guy with a rented Gorilla suit shaking a no-named actor while the camera did it's best not to catch a face shot of the monster. So basically, if you came here looking for a suit like one found in 'Harry and the Hendersons', well forget it, Toho studios put more design in their King Kong costume when it battled Godzilla, which I'm sorry to say didn't have much detail outside of it's drum-like nipples.
Then the introduction of Travis Crabtree to his own theme song, cooking eggs, hunting some animals, meeting up with some strange old man who managed to shoot his foot off in a boating accident (I'm wanting a prequel involving this). And with that 5 minute intro, he is never seen again... So I assume the real Travis Crabtree, who played himself, had an ego problem but frankly wasn't that interesting.
Basically, you want 90 minutes to waste with from friends some night... rent this movie for it is on DVD and has actual Special Feature, none of which are all that useful.
3/10