Real Monsters??!

[ddgaff1132]

SO any one else remember the Mocumentaries of the 70's. You know those Documentary films promising to expose real evidence of the exsistance of Bigfoot, UFO's, The Loch Ness Monster or confirm the validity of Nostradamus. They were always filmed on 16mm film stock due to budget. But this always lent a real journalistic feel. They proved so popular that TV took note and gave us "In Search of" and other such shows.
I remember seeing the one of the Bigfoot Mocumentaries on a visit to my Grandmothers. My Mom gave me a Buck to go off and entertain myself while she chatted with Gram. Luckily, My Grandma had a movie theater a few blocks away. I sat through this movie waiting forever to see some amazing unseen footage of the Bigfoot monster. Only to have it be some dot of a man on the horizon wearing a furry outfit shot from a speeding plane high in the air. There it is Proof positive of the exsistance of Bigfoot.
All this kinda crap seemed to be big in the seventies. Now we know of real things in the world that are far more scary. Little critters that can get in your blood and do horrible things to you.

[LadyZod]

I've more of these documentaries than should be allowed by law. My spouse is a big cryptozoology fiend. We have pretty much ever 70's Bigfoot thing either on tape, DVD (our transfers) or 16.

[ctc]

>All this kinda crap seemed to be big in the seventies.

It comes around. Since we just got through the 70's again we had another slew of 'em; ghost hunters, monster hunters, legend hunters....

Don C.

[jwyblejr]

Darn. This isn't about that cartoon series that use to air on Nick?

[johnmiic]

LadyZod, these are many of the Bigfoot DVD's I have. What am I missing here? I can't wait for In Search Of... to be released. I really enjoyed those. I liked most of Monster Hunters, a more recent show, too.

I remember seeing this at a young age. When I watched it again as an adult I wasn't as impressed with it:



This was re-run on a local TV station frequently. It would be a pretty good documentary if not for the fact that the narrator seems to be jamming all the info down your throat. If they had a better narrator maybe they could win over some more people. Still, somewhat informative:



I bought this off Amazon but the transfer is really not too good. I had a much better VHS copy back in the early 2000's as it was repeated on History channel but accidentally taped over it-D'oh! It's still very entertaining to watch. It covers Bigfoot-mostly and some Loch Ness and some Abominable Snowman. Hosted by Peter Graves, (Mission: Impossible):



This is also a pretty good feature, tho again the transfer isn't great. This is a narrative about a team going into the wild to film or capture Bigfoot. On their journey they recount famous tales and the stories are re-enacted.



This one is hosted by Leonard Nimoy, I think. There was another one from TLC or DISC channel, which I can't recall the name of, made a few years later:



This is probably it:



This is pretty good for the number of professionals invited to examine casts and vocal recordings.

[ddgaff1132]

After the patterson film (Female B-foot walks creek bed) was shown in the one Bigfoot documentary. The Bigfoot hype rocketed in the 70's. Still to this day. Westmoreland County PA. Just west of me; is supposed to be a Bigfoot sighting hot spot. This could not be said prior to the release of the first Bigfoot Mockumentary. After that, The flood gates opened for these type of Strange Phenomenon Doc's. Thanks to technology. These type of films went straight to VRC or DVD today. Back then shooting on 16mm poor stock. There was allot of leeway on capturing an unknown on film. Todays tech with Hi-Def and auto-focus and more educated viewers. Makes it hard to pass off hoaxes and the like.

[Brazoo]

>All this kinda crap seemed to be big in the seventies.

It comes around. Since we just got through the 70's again we had another slew of 'em; ghost hunters, monster hunters, legend hunters....

Don C.

I think that's true - these things tend to come in cycles of interest. There also seemed to be a resurgence of interest in Atlantis and Ancient humans being contacted by aliens. Mainly, I think, tied into the hubbub about the 2012 end of the world prophesies.

[Brazoo]

I don't know exactly when The History Channel became the fringe mystery channel - but that brought back a lot of this stuff too.

[MIB41]

As a kid those kinds of documentaries just fed my imagination like gas on a wild fire. But these days, I understand there is simply more of a "need" to believe these things exist than any real evidence. When I think about the odds of something like "Big Foot" existing, I weigh the probability like this...What are the chances that every single person that has ever claimed to have photographed or filmed "Big Foot" are always too far away to give a definitive shot? Think about that. EVERY SINGLE PERSON through the decades have consistently been too far away to provide evidence this thing is real. Yet they all claim they got a 'good look'. Really? And consider the communication age today, when everyone is being filmed for the slightest indiscretion by these HD phones everyone is carrying. Yet the amazing Yeti evades those too? Yeah right...

[4NDR01D]

Darn. This isn't about that cartoon series that use to air on Nick?

[johnmiic]

After the patterson film (Female B-foot walks creek bed) was shown in the one Bigfoot documentary. The Bigfoot hype rocketed in the 70's.

I would like to think that people who have seen a Bigfoot might see a documentary and become more inclined to report what they saw. A member of this very site once mentioned he saw one and reported it to the BFRO online. Reports are tracked by a number of sites nowadays. Hopefully this info could be useful to someone and the matter could be settled once and for all.

I forgot this one. I was reading up on this tonight and the guy who made it gets a lot of kudos for making a decent scary film. Also it was so cheaply made in the `70's it was the Blair Witch Project of it's time grossing many time more what it cost to make. I don't own a copy but maybe I should get one and re-watch it.

Entertaining review here:

Cryptomundo The Legend Of Boggy Creek (1972)(Charles B. Pierce)