The commercials for this movie are what sparked my interest in unexplained phenomena. I was six at the time, and one of the commercials featured a guy flying a plane over a Pacific Northwest forest. He looks down and sees a huge dark figure walking along the forest edge. The camera closes on the pilot's incredulous face, and the narrator ominously says, "What does this man see?". These commercials scared the crap out of me at the time. I only saw this movie about ten years later. It's pretty good, with dramatizations of several real sasquatch encounters, most notably the Ape Canyon incident (as told by Fred Beck in many Sasquatch books). In style, the movie is similar to Legend of Boggy Creek: low budget, creepy atmosphere, and the monsters are never directly shown. If you are into this sort of thing, and if you can find this movie to rent (good luck), I would recommend it.
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The Legend of Boggy Creek
(1972)
Pretty creepy and a little funny
6 June 2002
After hearing about this movie for a long time, I finally found it for rent while visiting my in-laws in August of 2001. It was only the second time in my adult life that I have been scared by a movie (Kubrick's The Shining was the other one). The low budget only adds to this. Having most of the encounters take place at night in a desolate swampland was quite chilling. I nearly jumped through the roof when my brother-in-law crept outside and made wild animal sounds from just outside the window in the middle of the movie (at 2 AM in a rural area). I recommend this to any sasquatch buff.
The funny part comes when the principal character goes to visit an eccentric friend and mentions that this guy "shot himself in the foot during a boating accident". Huh?
The funny part comes when the principal character goes to visit an eccentric friend and mentions that this guy "shot himself in the foot during a boating accident". Huh?
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