1984 sequel
Bad Movie Rating: 3/5 (J.D.: 3/5; Josh: 3/5)
Rating: 4/20
Plot: A professor and three students go hunting for the elusive Boggy Creek monster. They have no business doing any sort of thing.
Charles B. Pierce decided he wanted to star as an action hero in a horror-adventure movie, and this was the result. You have to love how he wrote himself a character that is not only tough but really smart. I mean, he's a professor and all. He's not an action hero who knows how to change the inflection in his voice (though that might be part of what makes him so tough), and he's definitely not an action hero who knows how to pace a movie's narrative. A large chunk of his movie shows the characters driving around. Intermittent flashbacks are often more comical than scary, especially one where a guy is attacked in an outhouse. That flashback climaxes with the character having shit hosed off his pants. One student likes to go shirtless, a wardrobe choice that I'm pretty positive was Charles B. Pierce's.
This movie kind of has its own unique rhythm, and it very nearly put me under its spell.
The monster is never really all that frightening. Honestly, that's part of the point. That's probably a spoiler though. The mad dog which comes along and has Marty Nipples screaming, "Mad dog!" and Pierce transitioning into full-on action hero mode is more threatening than the monster ever was. Of course, try telling that to the dude in the outhouse.
Favorite character: Old Man Crenshaw, played by Jimmy Clem. As Josh said, he was sort of like a Duke boy ancestor. This was Clem's final movie after just seven roles.
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