Comments on: The Legend of Boggy Creek

By: fallohide

fallohide — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:11:38 +0000

I saw this one as a rental tape, having not been able to see it onscreen the first time. (Too young, and my parents wouldn’t have stood for it. ^_^) Later I bought a DVD copy, which is part of my collection.

“The creek…. It always follows the creek…”

By: isaacsp

isaacsp — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:38:54 +0000

I was eight when this movie came out. When the trailer for the movie came on tv, it scared the crap out of me. I wanted to turn it off, (before remotes of course), but I just couldn’t. I’ve watched this movie dozens of times over the years. I never could figure out why the guy in this scene would actually sit on the commode with his underwear still up though.

By: DWA

DWA — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:53:01 +0000

Nope. I’ve never seen it.

I got launched onto thinking about this by two things: (1) my lifelong interest in animals and (2) a surprisingly unbiased article, by the then-editor of National Wildlife Magazine, in that mag the spring after P/G went public.

It never seemed spooky to me; it always seemed just a critter, if it was real. And I never cared for monster movies beyond my teen years anyway.

But as Carlos Santana says, it’s getting it, not how, that matters. And if this film has brought in serious researchers, I suppose we should be happy about that.

By: Grant

Grant — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:22:53 +0000

I got to see it when it came out (in fact, any given day tihs month or last month might be the anniversary). But I think it both did and didn’t influence my interest in the whole Bigfoot subject in a big way.

By: isny

isny — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:07:31 +0000

I remember this film from when I was about 8…my dad had a copy on VHS from somewhere. I remember, it gave me repeated nightmares for several years. When I recently rewatched it, it was still spooky to me! Yeah, the music is a bit cheesy these days, but the docudrama style (Blair Witch, Cloverfield) was pretty awesome.
One of my friends and I watched it, and every time we were out in the woods, we would always throw out the line, “well, it’s getting kinda dark and the fish aren’t biting” as an excuse to go back.

By: Valen

Valen — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:52:53 +0000

Like krs9864, I was 9 as well when this came out. My dad took my sister and I to see it and I remember it scared the living daylights out of me. I didn’t want to go by an open window at nights for months afterward.
It did spark an interest in cryptids for me, one that was further fueled later by “In Search Of” and the movie “The Mysterious Monsters”.

By: krs9864

krs9864 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:03:50 +0000

I remember it VERY well! I was 9 years old and my family went to watch The Legend of Boggy Creek at our local drive-in! I just ordered the DVD so my own daughter can watch it now.

By: RedLandsBigfoot

RedLandsBigfoot — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:52:49 +0000

Remember seeing this a kid in California(mid 70′s)..then moved to east/central Oklahoma in ’78…have been all over the Faulk area many times…huge influence indeed!

By: Mr. Rush

Mr. Rush — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:44:19 +0000

This was the 1st movie I ever saw. As a 5 year-old, I was scared
out of my wits the entire viewing. I had nightmares for 2 weeks following . . ha ha. That “bathroom scene” you posted from YouTube was the clincher. I remember the kid next to me spilling his “red hots” all over the movie theater floor.
I saw it again 10 years later on a horror movie show called “Creature Feature” on channel 44 from Tampa, Fl. (Dr. Paul Bearer hosting). After viewing it again I felt silly for being so scared as a child & I reevaluated the film as a “B” grade monster/documentary flick typical of those shown on Saturday afternoons.
In 2002 I bought a copy on DVD as an “homage” to the memory of this film & that it had gotten me interested in CryptoZoology.
Anyone notice that Herb Jones has Prince Albert in a can? . . ha ha. Yep, it’s in the movie . . 39min 24sec mark. Enjoy.

By: southernfriedbigfoot

southernfriedbigfoot — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:33:15 +0000

I caught this on TV when I was six or seven years old, probably in 1977 or 1978. It was something of a cult classic among my mother’s family and in the pre-VHS days, LOBC used to air several times on local UHF TV stations. My late grandfather knew people who lived in Fouke, Arkansas, which made the movie seem more real to me.

While it’s easy today to laugh at some of the scenes and music in LOBC, I know plenty of people who grew up in and around rural areas who were really freaked out by this movie.

Both the window and the bathroom scenes scared me as a kid, and they’re obviously still having an effect. Last spring, my wife and I spent the night at a bed-and-breakfast on the outskirts of Rayne, Louisiana. The b&b consisted of several unattached shotgun cottages that surrounded a frog-filled lake. Our cottage was on a secluded end of the property, and upon arriving, I noticed that the bathroom window overlooked a small field and a dark patch of woods. I immediately pulled down the shade and when my wife asked why I was doing this at three o’clock in the afternoon, my only reply was “Legend of Boggy Creek.”