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Summary: disappointed in a way
Review: I thought this was a movie I remembered from a fright night feature, but it wasnt!!! All te same it was told from a documentry style, the people in it { I HOPE!} were not actors but truely country folks, talking/ reliving the events [ so it seemed]
I had to deduct at least 2 stars simply for the goofy song they sing in the middle of it. good scenery, not a great movie but something unique for the discerning viewer. I actually liked The creature at black lake better. It was fictional but entertaining!
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Summary: BOGGY PAN & SCAN
Review: I was excited to pick this DVD up recently, but became less excited when I started viewing it. Unfortunately, this Techniscope (2.35:1 AR) film has been released in a pan & scan (full screen) presentation only. Just a warning to widescreen diehards.
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Summary: LEGENDS LIVE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: I was lucky enough to be able to witness this great classic. The story is based off of true happenings which gives you a spooky feeling as you watch it. Of course this movie doesn't have the greatest effects or actors but it is a great movie to sit around and watch with a nice bowl of popcorn with friends and family. I am fascinated by the Bigfoot phenomenoun and although I have never had an encounter I personally am a believer. I highly doubt so many people could see somthing that doesn't exist, unlike UFO'S AND LOCH NESS it is a very logical probability when you think about it. Anyway back to the review, this movie takes place in Fouke, Arkansas, and did I mention this movie has a great opening. It features the legendary Fouke monster and features many people who have seen the creature in an actual movie. Many raidings by the creature take place as well as a sighting by three women and a baby completly isolated twenty or so miles in the woods having a sighting(hows that for spooky), anyway they explain many different sightings and many interesting chases after the creature, who truly just wants to be left alone(they even have a sad song for the monster) in conclusion this is a good movie that I think is worth seeing, it goes out with a very good ending as well, but I won't spoil it for you, but the narrator(who saw the creature as a child)has some very good ending lines, and although the creature isn't really seen face to face it just adds to that creepy filling. The final line in the movie is "Yes he's still here, and if your ever in Fouke and you see somthing peering at you in the woods", or somthing like that. A movie about a true legends which like all legends will never die.
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Summary: scared me
Review: I watched this movie and I am a big horror movie buff and it scared me I jumped a few times. Believe me if you weren't a believer before watching this movie you will be afterwards.
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Summary: Finally to be immortalized on mylar!
Review: I went a little nuts (okay, ammend that: A LOT nuts) when I learned yesterday that this film was finally coming to DVD. I loved this movie as a kid, and still do to this day (I probably put my much-watched & weathered copy on VHS in the player at least once every other month or so, sometimes far more frequently). While it's not as creepy as it was 16 or 17 years ago when I was living in rural, Northern New York state, surrounded by forests and deeply-treed areas (instead of my current, largely treeless, urban Denver suburbanite existence), it's still an intensely fun movie, and I can't WAIT to own it on a DVD that will, with any luck, last longer than I do (the problem with that VHS copy being that no matter HOW well you take care of it, every viewing warps the tape just a little bit more). It may not scare you so much as an adult, but this is that rare "horror" movie that you can share with the kids (warning: it WILL scare THEM silly - aside from a slight aversion to wooded areas for a while, nothing that will scar them for life - but unless they're EXTREMELY sensitive, they'll have great fun with it, too) without worrying about anything too terribly distressing - no blood, gore, death, teen sex, or nudity in the entire 90 minute "documentary"; the most distressing image is probably the three second shot of a dead kitten.While the video and audio transfers will probably not be perfect (I have a hard time believeing that there are any original masters of this film, essentially a cult classic, left in pristine condition nearly 30 years after it's original release, and the original production values of the film were, to put it euphamistically, rather low, to begin with), but who cares? I, for one, will own this one the day that it comes out on DVD, and while it may never command a place of PRIDE on my movie shelf, it will always be numbered among those titles that inhabit a warm, nostalgiac place in my heart. Definitely recommended, just don't go into it expecting another Blair Witch Project.
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Summary: Better half a Legend than no Legend at all.....
Review: I'll avoid covering the merits of this classic as they are featured elsewhere on this page. This review refers to the quality of the disc itself. Ok...so it's not widescreen. Alright..there are no features. Who cares !?! For true fans (and first-timers) this is the best possible print available to date.I know this version is pan and scan and omits upto half the picture information but really (and widescreen purists will hate this), half a picture is better than no picture at all..! Far better than any previous VHS versions and a world away from terrible UK disc version, buy this classic now!!!
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Summary: I ain't going in no woods never again!!!
Review: I've had an interest in Bigfoot since I was a little kid, and BOGGY CREEK was one of the first experiences I'd had with Bigfoot Docudramas. There's a part in the movie where the narrator says "I was a boy when I first heard him scream. It scared me then, and it scares me now." Know what? It scared the bejeezus out of me too, and it still does! There's a lot of behind the scenes stuff about the making of BOGGY CREEK that makes me wonder about the integrity of its director, but personal politics aside, this is one fine example of why at 33 years of age I STILL won't go wandering around in the woods. Sure it's just a guy in a ratty monster suit, and the reenactments are sometimes on the cheezy side, but there's something about this movie that gets under your skin and stays there. If you like the Sasquatch like I like the Sasquatch, then throw away that godawful fourth-generation VHS copy and pick up this DVD. It's about as good as BOGGY CREEK is ever gonna look, and with it on disc you can jump right to your favorite scenes. Mine's the one where the monster grabs at the guy sitting on the toilet. :)
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Summary: Nothing like it and there probably won't be ever again
Review: Keep your expectations low and you will like this docu-drama about Vern Stierman's journey back to his hometown of Fouke and Boggy Creek in Arkansas to remember, relive and interview his friends and neighbors about the mysterious Bigfoot/Sasquatch type creature called the "Fouke Monster" that literally frightened a whole redneck town for months on end. If you are expecting a documentary like you see on the Discovery channel or a horror movie of the type that you will find in the new release section of the local DVD store, then forget about getting this movie. If you are expecting this film to have you jumping out of your seat with fright then forget about it too. This is not what the film does. It lingers with you psychologically long after you have seen it and you will think twice about taking a walk in the woods as you would taking a swim after seeing "Jaws". Basically it is a family documentary, with a universal rating but it is certainly not for kids.. which is how most people remember seeing it in the first place and explains why it gave them nightmares. Looking back I can see how many people can say that it was a truly frightful experience watching this movie... if you where 12 years old. In fact if you are 12 years old and want to see a tame horror movie with family values that will live with you long after you have seen it - then watch this one. If you are a parent then I am sure that this film will have your kid more interested in science and zoology than a trip to the local zoo park. The film makers establish this little backward town out in the middle of nowhere and you get to see and listen too some very strange characters that look like they just hopped out of the movie "Deliverance" or "Southern Comfort". Then you start to hear them talk about this strange creature that just happened to be out in the woods, or making a racket in their barn, or running around the outside of their house raising all sorts of hell. Many of the different stories about the creature are reenacted but these can be a little corny at times. The print is also shockingly bad, but I think it was probably shot on 16mm or the original has gone through a lot of wear and tear. All in all I would have to give this docu-drama 5 stars for a least documenting the local townsfolk of Fouke, Arkansas. That alone is gold. There was also this trapper man who lived way out in the middle of a swamp and looks like some sort of a redneck guru. He claims to have never seen the monster in all his days out there in the wild and maybe his words should be heeded for all those who are still scared of being alone in the woods for a few hours. Enjoy this low-budget documentary monster romp because there is nothing quite like it and I doubt there ever will be again.
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Summary: A movie so bad, it's brilliant!
Review: Let's get this out of the way: To paraphrase Kevin Spacey from "Swimming With Sharks," if this movie "were in my toilet, I wouldn't bother flushing." This is a horribly bad, B-grade, redneck drive-in documentary, highly fictionalized and aimed at making pimpled greasemonkey trainees look slightly better to their airheaded girlfriends than the guy in the gorilla suit on the screen. On the other hand, it is actually a plausible effort considering it had no budget (in his autobiography which inspired the film, Smokey Crabtree claimed none of the cast of Fouke, AK, residents were ever paid for their appearances), it had no script (unless "He shot part of his foot off in a boating accident" strikes you as good), and the background music is so bad it's positively hysterical (the ballad of Travis Crabtree will leave you weeping, for one reason or another). Yet it possesses -- in abundance -- the one element for a successful horror story: Atmosphere. What do you do when you set out to make a really scary movie, and you have no stars, no script, no budget and, frankly, no talent? You go into the woods, and you wait for the sun to go down. The Arkansas "bottom lands" are about as creepy a place as you will ever find, so it doesn't take much imagination to create a chilling environment when you put three woman and a baby alone in a cabin in the woods and something comes a-knocking at their door. Well, that's about all you can say for Boggy Creek. It's not too bad of a movie for kids, particularly when you consider the mind-rotting garbage that is sold to them these days. And silly as this movie is, the reported eyewitness accounts of the so-called "Fouke monster" date back to 1940, long before Bigfoot hysteria swept the country after Roger Patterson filmed that "thing" walking in the woods in northern California. Does this film lend credibility to the legend? NO! But it remains a campy, cult classic that, with the help of a few beers, still has the ability to send a sharp chill down your spine...if you watch it late at night...with the windows open...in a house abutting the woods...on a lonely street...alone with no phone.
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Summary: "This is Where the Story Plays..."
Review: Okay, you can toss your bootlegs, the greatest Bigfoot Docu-drama of all time is -finally- available again, and in DVD for the first time (legit, anyhow.) No, the print isn't fantastic, no it's not in widescreen, but it's THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK, people! C'mon! You get to hear a guy wonder if maybe an orangutan was in his sweet potato patch! You get to listen to another guy who got part of his foot shot off in a freak boating accident! You get to ponder why so many people in Arkansas seem to be named "Crabtree"!! And that way cool SONG! How many other bigfoot movies have a love-theme for the MONSTER?!! (And there's another song about...another guy named "Crabtree", but hey...) In all honesty, I'd have LOVED to have seen this restored and released in widescreen. However, I share the opinion that a widescreen print of the film may not -exist- now. At any rate, the DVD is head and shoulders above any VHS copy that's been released to date. Some of the colors come in like gangbusters at the least expected times, and you can actually see the grain on the tree bark in the darker scenes, so this is the best transfer this film has ever had, without doubt. My biggest complaint is that annoying little white speck about halfway up on the right side of the middle of the picture. What the heck IS that? "The Legend of Boggy Creek" is one of my absolute -favorite- films from my childhood. It has withstood viewing after viewing, it doesn't get old, it's just it's own sorta good, clean FUN. There's never been anything like it, before or since. Gotta love that song...
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