Revisiting this after a good 25 years of not seeing it. It still holds up as a heavily (read: entirely) narrative based mystery/drama documentary that as long as you can deal with a very slow build, not just about Boggy Creek but also about the townsfolk and the goings on, much like the simple towns-folk of Fouke are, a simple story unfolds in a style that rarely gets used for the genre
Review by whitsbrainVIP 5BlockedParent2022-01-15T17:27:23Z
This is not a good movie. It's one of those artifacts from the past that manages to retain the temperature and the mood of the time that it was made. This is crude and could be called a predecessor to today's Found Footage movies, but that's giving "The Legend of Boggy Creek" more credit than it deserves. Most of the Found Footage movies today are made on the cheap. It can be an effective way to generate scares in the Horror movie genre. "Boggy Creek" however, looks how it does because it had to. It's cheap by nature. And by accident, the cheapness is the most effective part of the movie.
The grainy shots of swampy nature scenes sets an eerie tone. Later, the mood set by these earlier shots gives the monster scenes impact. A great choice, most likely out of necessity, are the blurred images of the monster. These scenes were still effective and if I had seen this as a pre-teen, it would have given me some solid nightmares.
This is not a Horror movie to be taken seriously. It's too poorly made. But it's enjoyable because there's a dirtiness to it. That, along with the horrible acting of the cast as a detriment, makes "Boggy Creek" look like an old film reel that someone could have found in a dusty desk drawer in a cabin deep in the swamps of Arkansas.