The Creature From Black Lake
Posted by: Dave Coleman on October 27th, 2012
When Charles Pierce wouldn’t sell the distributor Howco his epic THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK (Pierce told me he was offered $1 million for all rights prior to his self-releasing the film and grossing over $20 million via four-walling), the southern drive-in king owner of Howco, Joy Houck Sr., produced his own version instead: THE CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE. Though profitable, it was no TLOBC.
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I love the Creature From Black Lake….great movie poster too.
One of my favs growing up as a kid,..my sister took me to the theater to see it,soooo scary.
I have it on dvd along with Boggy Creek and Sasquatch. Pure classic.
Just a plain fun and scary movie. First saw it on the Sunday Afternoon Movie from one of the local independent stations in Memphis before cable hit the area. The monster’s hand coming out of the water and grabbing the fellows head and jerking him under was the classic scene from the movie. Picked up the DVD a few years ago.
I actually watched it about two weeks ago.
The guy playing the guitar in the movie wrote the movie and is the singer of the song at the end.
Excellent! Never saw this before. Thanks for posting it.