‘Boggy’ has local take two in Shreveport
SHREVEPORT, La. — If you didn’t get your fill of all things “Boggy” earlier this year during the Charles B. Pierce-directed movie’s many screenings at the Perot Theatre, drive down to Shreveport next week.
The 4K restored version of “The Legend of Boggy Creek” will show at the Robinson Film Center starting Friday and running
through Thursday, Oct. 24, according to the venue’s website. Show times vary.
A special question-and-answer screening will happen at 2 p.m. Sunday with Charles B. Pierce’s daughter Pam Pierce Barcelou, author and cryptozoologist Lyle Blackburn, and cast members Bunny Dees, Jinger Hawkins Rausch and Cathy Cox Lee.
As the Robinson’s promotional blurb notes, “The Legend of Boggy Creek” wielded influence with future horror and and indie movies. Much of the film was done in Fouke, Arkansas, where the Fouke Monster’s reported sightings have occurred and where its legend has grown over the years.
“The Legend of Boggy Creek” was a drive-in creature feature shot on a modest budget, but it became a big hit in the early 1970s. The late Pierce, a longtime Texarkana resident, also found success with “The Town That Dreaded Sundown.”
Friday’s show times are 3:50 p.m., 5:45 p.m. and 7:40 p.m. “There’s about three shows per day, so it will give everybody a chance to get over there. If you can’t go on the weekend, perhaps you can go on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday show,” Barcelou said, noting Lee and Rausch were part of the trailer incident in the movie, while Dees plays Mrs. Ford.
“The Legend of Boggy Creek” will also have a Q&A screening at this weekend’s 2019 Texas Bigfoot Conference in Marshall, Texas. That’s happening Saturday night.
In mid-June, the restored version of the movie received a gala premiere and several screenings at the Perot, the same downtown Texarkana venue where it had a premiere decades ago, after Barcelou worked to have it restored by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York.
(More info, including show times and prices: RobinsonFilmCenter.org or 318-459-4122. The Robinson Film Center is located at 617 Texas St. in Shreveport. The movie theater is closed Mondays.)