Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This one is a docudrama about, you guessed it, Boggy Creek and their "Bigfoot" or "Swamp Creature" !!! It's a classic that is worth watching if you are wanting more Sasquatch to watch.Lots of eerie swamp atmosphere and a "spooky sounding" narrator. There's a strange comfortless watching this... must be the old 1972 film look that brings it back home. I'm from Arkansas, so it does feel closer to home for me. Fouke, Ark is about 3 1/2 hours from me and where I grew up. I saw this one as a kid loved it then, love it now.Not everyone that likes horror films and Bigfoot would enjoy this one... but it's a classic for a good reason - it's an interesting film.9/10

The Legend of Boggy Creek - like so many 'cult classics' - is a great example of how a film can carry a low critical rating and still be awesome.I remember seeing this film in Roger's Theater in the (then little) town of Poplar Bluff, Missouri - the nearest town to where I grew up, in very wooded, lakeside, Wappapello. So, I actually DID live in the same sort of woodsy, lakeside spookiness setting the film. Where I grew up, the word 'neighbor' meant the 'nearest house' and often you couldn't see their lights - or they may even be a nervous flashlight-trek through the pitch-black woods and along lonely, moonlit, gravel roads - and if the Fouke Monster happened to be tearing you apart out behind your place, they MIGHT hear your loudest screams. Probably not - and definitely not, if he got INSIDE.My pal and I got brought into town by my Grandma and dropped off outside the Roger's that night. Having been lured-in by the short, terrifying trailers on TV, we anxiously bought our tickets and headed for the center-front seats, shoving and prodding each other over our mutual certainty that the other would get a scare that would make him pee his pants.I can still remember ourselves - along with many others - cringing and ducking through several parts of this movie. As far as me and Bruce were concerned, to our eleven-year-old brains, the (then novel) documentary-like presentation and 'I-Sweah-Befo'-Gawd-Awmitey' testimony just seemed ALL too plausible - and real. We both KNEW people like those!Leaving the theater in shudders from flashes of snarling memories - and a new and real dread of returning to the remoteness of where we both lived - we climbed into the big, crimson-velor back seat my Grandma's Delta 88, wordless and white. To us, that Fouke Monster was REAL - and not only that, but it - or one just like it - could easily be living in the endless woods behind our very own houses!This film is a treasure for several reasons, not the least of which is the nostalgia it will hold for those of us to who got to see it at that perfect, naive age when it hits a kid exactly the way it was intended to - it's the perfect 'scary movie' for preteen sleepovers.I can watch it now and roll my eyes, of course, but, when I reminisce back to that darkened, all-enveloping theater, so many of us gasping, crying out, grabbing our armrests and jumping in unison - and the nighttime nervousness for a week, afterward... it still makes me smile. :}

Granted I was only about 12 when I saw this (the year it was released), yet it is the only movie that has ever really given me goose-bumps.Everything since then has made me, well, laugh - at their attempts to frighten me (inadvertently annoying those around me). Something about the possibility of something being out there. I know it ain't true, but due to this original classic, for a split second I wonder...I spend a fair amount of time camped out in the middle-of-nowhere, too. In an odd & interesting way this all helped me to get over unreasonable fears; made me get up and go our into the dark, alone, and appreciate it for what it is; different.

Sometimes low-budget works - and "The Legend Of Boggy Creek" is an example of that. Yes, it is obviously and sometimes dreadfully low- budget. The sound quality is often poor, the picture is grainy and sometimes blurry and the "cast" (such as it is) is composed of various local townsfolk from Foulke, Arkansas combined with a handful of otherwise unknown actors - and sometimes the quality of the cast shows. The movie also features truly one of the cheesiest theme songs ever used in a movie. There are a lot of terrible reviews here and in other places, and the rating here is awful. Now, having said all that, I say forget about the problems, reviews and ratings. This is a low-budget movie that actually works! It had to do something right. As I understand it, this was the 7th highest grossing movie of 1972, making $122 million on a budget of $165,000. You can't argue with that. People liked it - and I can understand why.It's based on real-life reports of a sasquatch-like creature seen in the area of Fouke, Arkansas in the early 1970's. The creature basically prowls around by night. The movie never offers a good look at it. The best you can say from what was shown is that it had a lot of hair, and there was a lot of emphasis on 3-toed footprints that were found. I understand one anthropologist later dismissed the footprints as a hoax because there's no such thing as a nocturnal, three-toed primate. Well, I don't know if it was a hoax or not, but wouldn't that be the point - it's an unknown creature! Who knows. I've never been to Fouke, never driven the local roads, never gone into the woods around Boggy Creek.The encounters are pretty well portrayed. Unlike a lot of these kinds of movies, there's even a degree of sympathy for the creature that's developed, as it's pointed out that the creature never tried to harm anyone until it started to be shot at, and there's a lot of emphasis on the creature's loneliness, as the narrator tells us that it must be the only one of its kind. Basically, this leads up to what's known as "The Ford Encounter" when the creature spends a few night prowling around the house occupied by two young couples, then one night sticks its arm through the window and then attacks one of the men who run out after it. The last half hour or so of the movie portrays that encounter, with some earlier encounters with the creature being taken out of chronological order of the reports. (For example, from what I've read, the beanfield footprints came after the Ford Encounter, not before it.)I have to say that I thought this was pretty well done. It's a quasi- documentary type film that's largely narrated. It established a pretty "spooky" feel, making good use of the heavy woods around Foulke and the fact that much of it takes place in the dark cover of night, and it builds the suspense quite nicely, especially as people hear the creature prowling around various homes. While the narrator is supposedly someone who heard the creature, the movie also acknowledges those who don't believe in it - especially backwoodsman Herb (who played himself) who's lived deep in the woods for 20 years and never seen nor heard anything.In the end - you decide whether to believe or not. I liked it. I think the low rating is unfair. You can't compare this to a mega Hollywood blockbuster. Based on the budget it was made on, this works really, really well. (8/10)