Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

screenman 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.

lazarillo Two college students go down South looking for bigfoot. The locals try to warn them off. They get into some mild trouble with local girls, one of whom is naturally the sheriff's daughter. But the real fun begins when bigfoot shows up.Many of us who were children in the 70's harbor a certain misbegotten affection for bigfoot movies. Many of these were actually "documentaries" or "docudramas" that are pretty hard to find these days. Another one, "Snowbeast", is a pretty decent TV movie. This may be the best, certainly one of the better at least, of the purely fictional, cinematic movies. It's pretty tame like most of these movies were (with the exception of the wonderfully gory "Night of the Demon" and the short-lived "bigfoot-rape" movies), but it has some pretty good suspense and likable characters (including the guy who played "Ponce de Leon in the 70's cult classic "Pretty Maids All in a Row"). It was a local production made in the South by a director with a great affection for the region, who for once doesn't treat small-town Southerners like a bunch of dumb hicks (OK, maybe they really ARE a bunch of dumb hicks, but its still refreshing).This movie kind of fell into the shadow of the similar but more successful "Legend of Boggy Creek", but I personally liked this one a lot better. Tragically it's not available in widescreen yet, but I'd still recommend it.

ZachCryder Even though I may not have enjoyed the movie so far as Braveheart enjoyment goes, I loved this movie. The reason? My grandfather was the executive producer, and two of the actors are my uncle and my cousin, so watching this movie growing up with the rest of my cousins and family was more fun than scary and more laughing at our relatives bad acting. This movie is great if you're going to watch this with friends and family, it will create a lot of laughs in this day and age because we have big time scary movies now, but Creatue of Black Lake isn't one of them. It's just a Louisiana good time.

kfb1960 I remember seeing this movie in the now defunct 'Jerry Lewis Cinemas' chain when I was a teenager. Living in a rural, and I mean rural area, the movie affected my brother and I that summer. My little brother wouldn't go near the woods at our house (all we had around were woods, LOL), and would check all the door locks before going to bed for almost a month because of this movie.Myself, well, I'd get some goosebumps when I was riding my motorcycle through the woods. But back to the movie. You either love it or hate it. Black Lake does have some slow scenes, but does deliver a punch, especially with Dub Taylor's flashback scenes. Jack Elam made the movie for me, I just wished they had given him more screen-time. I loved the way he chewed up his lines!The creature is never really seen in detail, just in shadows or blurry footage, but that adds to the suspense. It's available on VHS or VCD from Bijou Flix. Watched it the other day with my wife and teen daughters....and it did scare them.For its time and budget, a good Bigfoot film IMHP.