{"id":3375,"date":"2010-04-28T11:02:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T05:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:52:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:52:14","slug":"legendary-boggy-creek-creator-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2010\/04\/legendary-boggy-creek-creator-dies-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGENDARY “BOGGY CREEK” DIRECTOR DIES AT 71!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The New York Times<\/a> has reported that independent filmmaker, Charles B. Pierce<\/a>, director of the documentary-style, 1972 crypto-cinema classic \u201cThe Legend of Boggy Creek<\/a>,\u201d has died of unspecified causes on March 5, at a nursing home in Tennessee at the age of 71.<\/p>\n

Pierce grew up in Hampton, Arkansas, and as an adult lived in nearby Texarkana, where he was running an advertising agency when he made the monster movie that became a drive-in sensation. Pierce\u2019s daughter, Amanda Squitiero, said that notes made by her father indicate that \u201cThe Legend of Boggy Creek\u201d was made for $160,000 and ultimately took in $25 million, making it one of the most profitable films in history.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe Legend of Boggy Creek\u201d was a quasi-documentary based on a local legend of a HAIRY-HOMINID<\/a> known as the FOUKE MONSTER. The film included interviews with local residents as well as dramatizations of their encounters with the creature. Arkansas Film Commissioner, Christopher Crane, acknowledged Pierce\u2019s influence on the world of low-budget cinema:<\/p>\n

“He really did change the face of filmmaking. With his model, many filmmakers became successful with the drive-in creature-feature, so to speak.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>The inexpensively made horror film was an acknowledged influence on not only a generation of monster hunters, but the hit 1999 horror film \u201cThe Blair Witch Project,\u201d which took a similar approach and also created a flurry of imitators. According to \u201cBlair Witch\u201d co-director, Daniel Myrick:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just wanted to make a movie that tapped into the primal fear generated by the fact-or-fiction format, like \u2018Legend of Boggy Creek.\u2019 That was one of my favorites; it freaked me out when I was a little kid. I was beside myself with fear for weeks after seeing that thing.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Pierce directed numerous other films including \u201cBoggy Creek II\u201d and the movie made famous in Wes Craven\u2019s \u201cScream — \u201cThe Town That Dreaded Sundown.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even more notably, Pierce was the story writer for the 1983 Dirty Harry vehicle “Sudden Impact,” starring Clint Eastwood. Pierce is credited coining the phrase “Go ahead, make my day,” arguably the most quoted line in action film history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times has reported that independent filmmaker, Charles B. Pierce, director of the documentary-style, 1972 crypto-cinema classic \u201cThe Legend of Boggy Creek,\u201d has died of unspecified causes on March 5, at a nursing home in Tennessee at the age of 71.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,229,227,228,1121],"class_list":{"0":"post-3375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bigfoot","9":"tag-blair-witch","10":"tag-boggy-creek","11":"tag-charles-pierce","12":"tag-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/boggycreekposter31.jpg?fit=535%2C380&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10329,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/10329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}