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Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

In truth, any opportunity to see the film on the big screen is welcome.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

I am quite the fan of older horror movies, especially grainy and plain strange ones. I wasn't sure what The Creature From Black Lake was going to be like when I read the review on Bleeding Skull. Well I am here to tell you now, I rather enjoyed it, in all it's grainy and terrible sound quality goodness. The score put you on edge and the extreme darkness of the night scenes works out very well in this movie's favor. Yes, I laughed when I saw the name Roger Pancake in the beginning credits. I also laughed at Dub Taylor and Dennis Fimple. Yes I'm a grown woman. Anyways, if you can take grainy quality and not always 100% sound quality then I would recommend it. It's a very good Bigfoot movie, something you don't see many of. Being a Washington resident, Bigfoot movies and "documentaries" quite fascinate me.

For some reason, I don't know why, I just can't get enough of these terrible VHS bigfoot movies. I guess they just instill some form of nostalgia in me of a time that I wasn't even born in. But anyway, if you're looking for a well-made Hollywood horror film here, then look the other way because this is just straight up low budget bigfoot geek stuff right here. Granted it has some decent scenes within, the acting is the typical badness you would expect from such a film, the premise is equally as predictable, we know what is going to happen pretty much the entire time we're watching it, and yet it's still entertaining to watch.Our cast here is made up of our typical non-actors who probably had to improv half of the dialog, and that is why it is equally as terrible. All of this is what makes the movie great in the first place, I've seen bigger and better produced films than this that were god awful. ('The Final Destination', the fourth film in that series).Nothing spectacular here, and you can get the same thrills elsewhere from countless other bigfoot flicks, namely 'The Legend Of Boggy Creek' and 'The Legend Of Bigfoot' the two this film probably borrows the most heavily from. I'd say they are all probably equally worthwhile, but know what you are about to watch before you watch it.CREATURE FROM BLACK LAKE -----7/10.

Even allowing for its mid-1970's vintage, this movie is absolutely wretched. An idea obviously filched from past flunkies like 'Creature From The Black Lagoon', This effort doesn't even come close to some of the corniest creature features of 20 years earlier. The classic 'Them' can kick it into a dirty puddle. It stars Jack Elam. He's the stalwart who's been providing B-list comedy/baddie characters for westerns since as long as I can remember. And given a movie worth watching, and a director who knows how to direct it, he can give a very good turn. But he's certainly no lead.The movie begins with a deliverance-style take on the gloomy, isolated Louisiana swamplands, reminiscent of 'Southern Comfort', but without a fraction of the emotional or psychological impact. Two men are punting about and finding their traps tampered with. Before long one of them is leaning over the side of the vessel and reaching into the water as such a patently obviously prelude to being dragged overboard that you wonder if the monster has forgotten to come on set. We glimpse one of those big, hairy, rubber hands that can be bought as a Halloween gag for £10. From there on, it's downstream all the way.Its vintage is simply no excuse. Just the following year, George Lucas brought us 'Star Wars' with a similar, but much more plausible Wookie. And there were any number of lesser - but far more worthy movies - doing the rounds both then and before. In every technical aspect, from filming to editing to script, this is a complete bummer. I've given it 2 stars because it's nearly Christmas & I'me feeling festive; but really, it doesn't deserve any. Check out 'Southern Comfort' to find out how it should have been done. Run 'em back-to-back if you have the patience. I sure haven't.It came from the charity shop, but I threw it away instead of taking it back because nobody should pay for garbage, not even in the name of cancer research.

Pahoo and Rives,two anthropology students from the University of Chicago travel to Oil City in Louisiana to track down Sasquatch.They try to find old-timer Joe Canton,whose best friend was allegedly snatched in the swamps by Sasquatch,but run into a wall of hostility and opposition from the locals."Creature from the Black Lake" is a Bigfoot flick,unfortunately Sasquatch is rarely seen throughout.Still the rural atmosphere of Louisiana is well-captured,the acting is okay and there is a few suspenseful moments.The downside of this is that the film becomes absorbed by its portrait of a small town to the extent of almost everything else.Still if you are a fan of Bigfoot horror flicks like "Night of the Demon","Shriek of the Mutilated" or "Screams of a Winter Night" you may give it a look.7 out of 10.