Rather than pay actors to tell a story, a new art form was created with The Legend of Boggy Creek. I guess you could call it a Faux Documentary with real folks from the piney woods of southwest Arkansas telling of their story with a Bigfoot type creature.This film has become something of a cult item. It shows that folks with absolutely no talent at all can get in front of a camera and just simply be themselves. For that reason I can't really criticize those in the film. It's not bad acting, it's no acting at all.Some apparently found some entertainment value in the Boggy Creek saga. I did not.

A documentary-style drama which questions the existence of a monster in an Arkansas swamp. It is really more of a glimpse at lower-class swamp culture from the seventies, though, than a monster flick.As the plot summary says, this is really more a look at Arkansas than it is a look at Bigfoot. There are some "horror" elements, but mostly we are getting to know the people in and around the swamp. This could have been a Les Blank film. How much the people are acting or being themselves is unclear, but it seems to be much more natural than scripted.The film is more than a little rough. This is probably partially due to its falling into the public domain (somehow). But even so, it appears to be more or less rough by design, with lower quality cameras and lighting. Could a proper DVD release fix this up? No way. But maybe it should not be fixed.

This effective docudrama about a legendary swamp monster from Fouke, Arkansas, was a surprise box-office hit in its day; with clever narration from the perspective of a man who lived through that time as a boy, and has gone back to his old house to reminisce.Recreates the look and feel of the people and their experiences of the monster, which range from skeptical amusement, to terrifying close encounters. The monster is speculated to be quite lonely and lost in their world, and this aura of melancholy permeates this film like a sad old fireside guitar song.Heavily atmospheric and genuinely eerie; only negative is that sometimes it does get goofy(the Crabtree song) and amateurish, but oddly, that just adds to the authenticity(though that monster costume is best kept in the shadows!)May have influenced "In Search Of...", which profiled similar cases.

How is this film considered a classic? It isn't even classically bad in a funny 'MST3K' way, or even something a drinking game could be based around.It's just plain BAD! Really really bad.In case you haven't heard this film is a fictional documentary on bigfoot. Of course all documentaries on bigfoot are fictional, but this one doesn't even try to be real or funny or entertaining on any level.The production quality is very very very low and nothing interesting or funny happens. Nothing that could even be made fun of. That pretty much sums it up, there's nothing more to say.