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The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972)
The most frightening film I saw as a child...
Although I grew up in Arlington, TX, my grandparents all lived in the Texarkana area and I was well acquainted with the Fouke, AR monster, named for the small town where the creature was first sighted. I still get chills wandering the woods at night in that part of Arkansas.
My grandfather was in his 60's when this film came out and he took me to Texarkana to watch it the first time when I was 11. I think it ran at that location for over a year, as I remember it ran at the Arlington cinema for over 6 months (a record at the time). He was quite familiar with all the locations and took me to several places where the monster was spotted and it was quite creepy for a little kid, but rather exciting to see places that were actually in a movie.
I was fortunate enough to have gone through the area this past summer on a bicycle trip and found the residents very responsive to questions about the movie and the monster itself. I did stop at the little convenience store and bought a T-shirt, along with a Dr. Pepper, the official soft drink of the south. (I also went through Claude, TX where they hate the film "Hud", which was made there in the early 1960's.)
Should anyone want further information, I would suggest The Little River News in Ashdown, AR. They have back copies of the Fouke monster stories that make for intriguing reading.
One final tidbit of information: The financing for the film came from a trucking firm in the area, whose name unfortunately escapes me,which also sponsored the other Pierce film, "The Town that Dreaded Sundown", which I highly recommend. That movie scares the beejeezus out of my mother, who was a teenager at the time of the films settings.
Hysterical (1982)
Why? Why? For the love of God WHY???
Please, for the love of all that is holy, would someone involved with this movie please write and tell me why this movie was made? I just watched it on Showtime and my brain feels about to explode from the sheer "bad movie" experience. The zombie theatrical dance number was, without a doubt, the topper. Oh, the horror...the horror...