Charles B. Pierce

After now viewing The Evictors, I have to say it's probably the least favourite of the three movies I've mentioned here.

I love the B movie style of Charles B Pierce and his movies always, despite budget constraints, seem to have something a little different and unique about them compared with other movies of this era.

He seems to always manage to capture that raw 1970s exploitation edge, similar to films like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hills Have Eyes, Last House on the Left, etc.

However, the one thing he seems to almost always lack is the terror and scares of those films in his own ventures.

But, man, this has been overwhelming trying to get all this together and trying to write the story.

I actually have a screenwriter who was a screenwriter for a guy named Charles Pierce.

And I don't know if you know who that is, but he did the original Boggy Creek.

And, um, know they were good friends and stuff and whenever i pitched him this story and you know i had my own version of it you know written out but i'm not a screenwriter so he helped me through that journey a lot his name is mike gliss and amazing guy um but he actually helped me a lot with that process because you know i had all these notes like all over the place and you know i had a good story but he was actually able to bring it together in a way That was digestible and you could actually, you know, follow it from point A to point B in a way that made total sense.

This event became the dramatic centerpiece of the story that would soon captivate the nation.

In 1972, the Fouke Monster became a drive-in movie star with the release of Charles B. Pierce's docudrama, The Legend of Boggy Creek.

The film blended dramatic reenactments with interviews of actual Fouke residents who claimed to have seen the creature.

Its eerie atmospheric portrayal of the Arkansas swamps and the unsettling testimonials of local witnesses transformed the monster from a regional tale into a piece of American folklore, inspiring a generation of monster hunters.

And it was kind of terrifying, even as an adult.

Yeah, it is peculiar because the thing about The Folk Monster is obviously the film was directed by a chap called Charles Pearce, who was quite a sort of auteur in cinema.

And one of his other big hits was The Town That Dreaded Sundown, which is also featured in your book because of this series of horrible incidents and murders that took place in Texarkana.

Yeah.

This event became the dramatic centerpiece of the story that would soon captivate the nation.

In 1972, the folk monster became a drive-in movie star with the release of Charles B. Pierce's docudrama, The Legend of Boggy Creek.

The film blended dramatic reenactments with interviews of actual folk residents who claimed to have seen the creature.

Its eerie atmospheric portrayal of the Arkansas swamps and the unsettling testimonials of local witnesses transform the monster from a regional tale into a piece of American folklore, inspiring a generation of monster hunters.

And they actually, when I was watching, I was like, I think they really filmed this in the sewer.

And, and I asked the director and he did, he said like, they just went down into the,

they didn't get any permits or anything.

And,

I think you guys will love it.

It was just crazy good.

And I interviewed just the other day the director, Casper Kelly.

I will upload that tonight.