{"id":24936,"date":"2025-08-03T18:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattshorroraddiction.com\/?p=24936"},"modified":"2025-08-03T18:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:24:23","slug":"legend-of-boggy-creek-and-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/?p=24936","title":{"rendered":"Legend of Boggy Creek and Sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Legend of Boggy Creek<\/em><\/strong> – 1972, US, 87m. Director: Charles B. Pierce.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Return to Boggy Creek<\/em><\/strong> – 1977, US, 84m. Director: Tom Moore. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues<\/em><\/strong> – 1983, US, 92m. Director: Charles B. Pierce.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK<\/em><\/strong> (1972)<\/em> Independent filmmaker Charles B. Pierce single-handedly created a cottage industry with this mockumentary<\/em> about a Bigfoot-like creature that stalks the surrounding swamps of a small Arkansas town. The film’s gimmick is its documentary-style presentation, featuring interviews with fishermen, hunters, and other citizens who claim to have encountered the “Fouke Monster.” Many of the stories are recreated quite effectively\u2014the film’s grainy, low-budget quality give these scenes an unnerving detail. Although often hokey, it’s Boggy Creek<\/em>‘s sense of realism that makes the movie work, and provides an element that would ultimately be influential on the television series In Search Of…<\/em> as well as the found-footage subgenre revolutionized with The Blair Witch Project<\/em>. A surprise hit, this was followed by an unauthorized sequel in 1977 (Return to Boggy Creek<\/em>), and a legitimate one directed by Pierce in 1983, apply titled Boggy Creek II<\/em>. Ironically, neither subsequent film was made in documentary fashion. B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RETURN TO BOGGY CREEK<\/em><\/strong> (1977)<\/em> Soggy, family-friendly sequel to Charles B. Pierce’s creepy Legend of Boggy Creek<\/em> (1972) about the adventures of a Sasquatch monster haunting a fishing community. In the Pierce film, the aggressive creature is referred to as the Fouke Monster because of its close proximity to Fouke, Arkansas. In Return to Boggy Creek<\/em> the creature is called “Big Bay-Ty” and is more of a misunderstood gentle giant that goes out of its way to rescue a trio of kids caught in a storm while on a wilderness excursion. Competently acted\u2014Dawn Wells of Gilligan’s Island <\/em>and Dana Plato of Diff’rent Strokes<\/em> play mother and daughter\u2014but about as exciting as watching paint dry. Years later, Pierce himself would make his own sequel with Boggy Creek II<\/em>: And the Legend Continues<\/em>, which completely (and wisely) ignores this movie. D<\/strong>+<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BOGGY CREEK II<\/em><\/strong>: AND THE LEGEND CONTINUES <\/em><\/strong>(1983)<\/em> An anthropology professor and three students investigate claims of the Boggy Creek monster in this direct sequel to the 1972 cult favorite The Legend of Boggy Creek<\/em>. The sequel ignores the documentary-style presentation of the earlier film but offers flashback sequences of creature attacks narrated by the professor (director Charles B. Pierce), none of which contain the atmospheric effectiveness of Legend of Boggy Creek<\/em>\u2014there are so many close-ups of the monster that it’s obvious it’s an actor in a mask. The scenes with the monster have an undeniably cheesy charm, but whenever the beast isn’t on screen the movie plods. And 92 minutes is a lot of Boggy<\/em> time to fill. Better than Return to Boggy Creek<\/em>, but not by much. C<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Legend of Boggy Creek – 1972, US, 87m. Director: Charles B. Pierce. Return to Boggy Creek – 1977, US, 84m. Director: Tom Moore. Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues – 1983, US, 92m. Director: Charles B. Pierce. THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK (1972) Independent filmmaker Charles B. Pierce single-handedly created a cottage industry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,21,12,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-70s","category-80s","category-capsule-reviews","category-cult-classic"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}