This isn’t a bad film, but it fails to cross the line to being a good one.
There are some brief moments that are legitimately creepy, but those moments are dashed by the two leads hamming it up. I feel like with a different cast this would have been a good little monster flick.
(It has Jack Elam in it, so there is that. It’s what got me to watch it in the first place)
Creature from Black Lake
Terror has reached new depths…
Rating
2.5 (1)
Release Date
3/1/1976Runtime
95 minsOverview
Some fishermen are attacked in the Louisiana swamps. When the word gets out of a mysterious Bigfoot-type creature, two researchers come to a small town to study and hopefully discover what the beast is. Their research from some farmers help the two men to learn that the creature may be a very angry and murderous missing link.
Status
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EnglishBudget
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A creature lurks in the Louisiana swamps, and two researchers navigate local suspicion and genuine danger to uncover its nature. Slow-building tension meets swamp-bound atmosphere in this '70s creature feature.
Mood
UnsettlingParanoidDread-soaked
Themes
SurvivalNature
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
NaturalisticDocumentary-like
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violence
Jack Elam
Joe Canton
Dub Taylor
Grandpaw Bridges
Dennis Fimple
Pahoo
John David Carson
Rives
Bill Thurman
Sheriff Billy Carter
Jim McCullough Jr.
Orville Bridges
Roy Tatum
Fred / Creature
Cathryn Hartt
Eve - Waitress
Becky Smiser
Becky Carter
Michelle Willingham
Michelle
Evelyn Hindricks
Grandma Bridges
Roger Pancake
H.B.
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