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Carl Kitt (writer)
Release Date:
6 March 1984 (USA)
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Tagline:
Bog... A Creature From The Glacial Age Awakens To Kill... Kill... And Kill Again!
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Dynamite fishing in a rural swamp revives a prehistoric gill monster that must have the blood of human females in order to survive. full summary | add synopsis
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Gloria DeHaven | ... | Ginny Glenn / Adrianna | |
| Aldo Ray | ... | Sheriff Neal Rydholm | |
| Marshall Thompson | ... | Dr. Brad Wednesday | |
| Leo Gordon | ... | Dr. John Warren | |
| Glen Voros | ... | Alan Tanner | |
| Rohay North | ... | Chuck Pierce | |
| Carol Terry | ... | May Tanner | |
| Lou Hunt | ... | Kim Pierce | |
| Ed Clark | ... | Deputy Jensen | |
| Robert Fry | ... | Wallace Fry | |
| Leroy Winbush | ... | Terry Taylor | |
| Dan Killian | ... | Bill Beckley | |
| Don Daniel | ... | Jim Hotchkiss | |
| Charles Pitt | ... | Deputy Corbett | |
| Chris Harris | ... | Deputy Siegel |
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Rated PG for monster action and language.
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90 min | USA:85 min (DVD)
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The film was shot in 1978. A story in the August 18, 1978 issue of Boxoffice Magazine said the producer was Michelle Marshall; the monster was being played by a 30-year-old man who was living near Radisson, Wisconsin by the name of Thomas "Jeff" Schwad, who was 6'7", weighed 247, and took size 16 shoes. Shooting was around the Harshaw, Wisconsin area. Milwaukee actors Carol Terry, Glen Voros, Lou Hunt and Denise Bedner were in the cast. Theatrical release was expected in October (1978).
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I first discovered this movie back in college in 1985. A bunch of friends and I were into bad movies. Well, BOG buries all the others. Yes, I know that Plan 9 from Outer Space is generally considered to be the worst, but believe me folks, BOG is worse. Here is why. Ed Wood didn't know any better. He really thought he was making good movies. He was using absolutely no- name actors (with the possible exception of Bela Lugosi) and was simply oblivious to how awful his films were.
The folks that made BOG should have known better! My God, this movie is awful. There is no indication that the film makers are trying to make a comedy here, and nearly every frame of the film begs the question of why someone along the way didn't say "Wait a minute folks...we really don't want to continue with this."
The acting is abysmal, the editing is ridiculous. An earlier reviewer mention the "shoddy use of freeze frame." No, this is just bad editing where the editor freezes the scene in preparation for the next edit. The problem here is that the splicing of the scenes was so poorly done that there is a longer than necessary pause before the next edit. Bad, just bad.
BOG also includes the absolute worst double-take in the history of film. When the Dr. (Marshall Thompson) is informed about the creature, he does an absurdly exaggerated head- rotating, eye-blinking double-take, that doesn't even rise to the believability of a Looney Tunes short.
Now having said all that, I can't encourage viewers enough to check out BOG. It has brought me hours of enjoyment and laughs, and of you are a bad film buff like me, BOG is a definite MUST-SEE!