Charles B. Pierce was a popular regional filmmaker who made his feature film debut as director, producer, and cinematographer for the 1972 docu-drama The Legend of Boggy Creek. The low-budget film dramatized the legend of a Sasquatch-like creature known as the Fouke Monster, that was reputed to terrorize the small town in Arkansas near Texarkana. Boggy Creek became a major hit on the drive-in circuit. Pierce also directed and wrote a 1985 pseudo-sequel, The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, Part II, and appeared in the role of Professor Brian C. `Doc’ Lockart.
Pierce was born in Hammond, Indiana, on June 16, 1938, and moved to Hampton, Arkansas, with his family as a child. He operated an advertising agency in Texarkana, and began working in films as a set decorator in the mid-1960s. He worked on numerous film and television productions including Chuck Jones’ animated feature The Phantom Tollbooth (1970), and the films Pretty Maids All in a Row...
Pierce was born in Hammond, Indiana, on June 16, 1938, and moved to Hampton, Arkansas, with his family as a child. He operated an advertising agency in Texarkana, and began working in films as a set decorator in the mid-1960s. He worked on numerous film and television productions including Chuck Jones’ animated feature The Phantom Tollbooth (1970), and the films Pretty Maids All in a Row...
- 3/15/2010
- by Jesse
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
American filmmaker Charles B. Pierce has died, aged 71.
Pierce passed away on Friday at a nursing home in Dover, Tennessee. No cause of death was specified.
He is best-known for documentary-style 1972 horror movie The Legend of Boggy Creek, which cost just $160,000 (£100,000) to make and grossed over $20 million (£13.3 million), according to the New York Times.
The film is an acknowledged influence on 1999 hit horror movie The Blair Witch Project.
Pierce's other directing credits include Bootleggers, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Winterhawk, Sacred Ground and Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues, released in 1985.
His writing credits include the story for 1983 Clint Eastwood movie Sudden Impact - the fourth film in the actor/director's Dirty Harry series.
Pierce passed away on Friday at a nursing home in Dover, Tennessee. No cause of death was specified.
He is best-known for documentary-style 1972 horror movie The Legend of Boggy Creek, which cost just $160,000 (£100,000) to make and grossed over $20 million (£13.3 million), according to the New York Times.
The film is an acknowledged influence on 1999 hit horror movie The Blair Witch Project.
Pierce's other directing credits include Bootleggers, The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Winterhawk, Sacred Ground and Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues, released in 1985.
His writing credits include the story for 1983 Clint Eastwood movie Sudden Impact - the fourth film in the actor/director's Dirty Harry series.
- 3/10/2010
- WENN
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