Review – The Legend of Boggy Creek

I can't believe this movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Maybe it was just that at the time my family lived in Southern Illinois, a place not all that different from the picture's Texarkana setting. Certainly the preponderance of rednecks was the same, and it wasn't that big a stretch to imagine that a Bigfoot might live somewhere nearby. In this case the beast is the Fouke Monster, a three-toed Southern swamp variation of the standard Sasquatch. The docu-drama style is fun in a cheap, 1970s way. But the monster's MO is pretty much limited to killing livestock, making an unpleasant noise and emitting an unpleasant odor. Mildly amusing