Date set for ‘Boggy Creek’ restoration premiere

“The Legend of Boggy Creek” restoration has a date set for a Perot Theatre premiere in Texarkana next year.

The restored version of the Charles B. Piece creature feature cult classic is booked for a premiere June 14, 2019, although ticket price and purchase information has yet to be released. More showings are expected after the premiere. A Facebook event post, billing the premiere as “45 years in the making,” also states that the “original Ralph McQuarrie, oil-on-canvas poster-art will also be on display.”

One of Pierce’s daughters, Pamula Pierce Barcelou, gained copyright to the film and has worked with the George Eastman Museum in New York to have it restored. “We have a clean, clear beautiful print that is being remastered,” Barcelou said in an Aug. 1 Gazette article. She also plans to release the film on Blu-ray.

This past week, Newsweek magazine ran an article about the 4K restoration project, praising the movie as “truly one-of-a-kind, pioneering the horror mockumentary a full eight years before ‘Cannibal Holocaust.’ Pierce would refine his mockumentary style in 1976’s ‘The Town That Dreaded Sundown.’”

A brief, three-minute clip of the restoration available at bloody-disgusting.com offers an early preview of that clean, remastered footage, starting with “Pamula Pierce Productions Presents.”

“The Legend of Boggy Creek” explores the basedon-real-life encounters between people in and around Fouke, Ark., and the Fouke Monster—a shaggy, Bigfoottype creature who is said to roam the woods and waterways nearby.

Said Barcelou this past summer, “I saw it up on the big screen for the first time in 45 years and it made me cry.” She’s worked to corral the original prints and negatives needed to restore the film to its original glory.