Earth vs Soup Ep 271 - Creature From Black Lake (1976) - ThisWeekInGeek

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But aren't you fellows ever positive only about doomsday?

Speaker 2 (00:03):
What could be worse than disappointing a little girl disappointing
a big girl.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
I have other ways of securing your cooperation. Sorry, miss
I was giving myself an oil job.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
When was it just azumbly? As we've seen attitude to
it since we gave to a few low cabbages.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
An intellectual carrot. That mind boggles you see you see
your stupid lives.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Stupid, stupid, I said Santa Claus.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Long enough, we will.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Bring him to Mars.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I've been afraid a lot of times in my life,
but I didn't know the real meaning of fear until
until I kiss peck me.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
One thing will be clear.

Speaker 4 (00:42):
It's not from man to interfere in the ways of
God's life.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Good evening, everybody, and welcome to Earth Versus Soup, Episode
two seventy one. I'm Aaron Pollier, I'm Darlene. We watched
an interesting movie today. Actually I didn't know what to expect.
I've never seen it before. Have you seen it before?

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Not that I remember.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
This is a movie called Creature from Black Lake from
nineteen seventy.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Six, and it's supposed to be something on the fulk Monster.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, not at all.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
It's using that. It's using that same creature.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Like it is a bigfoot slash sasquatch like creature in
this movie. That is in northwest Louisiana. Because they actually
tell you where this is. It's Oil City, Louisiana. You've
been there before?

Speaker 1 (01:52):
No, I have not been.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
You've never been because it's just north of Shreetport. You
said it's.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
North of Sheriffs Reeveport, almost on the Texas.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Okay, so you haven't been there before. I haven't been
there before unless we drove right past it on one
of our trips going north. No. So, uh, it's it's
a Bigfoot movie. I expected. I expected schlock. What I
got was a lot more than that.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
It's it's ninety one minutes long.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
And I want to talk about the cinematographer.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Okay, go ahead, Darley Dean cou.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Dan kou Donnie.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Okay, do you pronounce his last time? I don't know, Darling,
you have it written down.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
See you in d e y.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
He did Halloween, The Fog and the Thing, Condy Cundley.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
So he is actually a fairly well known cinematographer. And
it shows in this movie. This movie looks a thousand
times better than what it likely should have. And I
need to say that, like, even before we get into
the plot, this movie's pretty right.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Yes it is.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
It's very well shot.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
It's well shot. It's in a pictures picturesque area.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's swamp. It is swamp, but there's some really good
setting shots. And I think we can talk about the
plot and then we'll we'll we'll probably stop while we're
talking about the plot to kind of go, oh, there's
a really good shot here or whatever.

Speaker 1 (03:31):
But it starts with one.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yeah, it does. We have the sounds of the swamp,
and it's at sunrise. It's either sunrise or sunset, one
of the two. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. The
sun is low on the horizon. We have the sounds
of the swamp. We see a heron roosting in the tree,
while not roosting, but it's in a tree. It's almost relaxing,

(03:55):
or it is relaxing, I should say, because it is.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah, because you got the cypress with the beautiful the
Spanish moss hanging down.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
I see there were some flowers. I wrote down that
it looked like an orchid. But I don't know if
it's an orchid just beautiful. It could have been. I
just wrote.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Downsible orchids are very prominant down there.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Okay, so.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
I was.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
I just wrote down it looked like an orchid. I'm
sure it wasn't. But these little shots look very natural.
They're clearly properly lit with natural light. That means the
guy that's running the camera knows all the exposures. But
it's it's clearly actually in a swamp. I respect the
hell out of that. We see a boat with two men.

(04:45):
We learned that the We learned later that the men
are Joe and some dude. Is it Rufus Walter Walter?

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Okay, it's w Joe is Joe Canton Okay, and Walter.
I do not know any last.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Joe is played by a character actor that you probably
have seen before. His name is Jack Elam. He actually
has top billing in this movie, even though he is
not the main character by any way, shape or form.
He is not the main character, but he is driving
the boat. He is at the engine, you know, turning
the engine to steer it. And we have this is

(05:31):
This is an odd bit of the movie where it
cuts between the swamp, and then it cuts between the
swamp and a university lecture. Okay, now in the swamp,
I'm just gonna go with the plot that's in the swamp.
We have Joe and Wade going to traps and they're

(05:52):
finding the traps with like a leg of an animal
still in it, bloody, but there's no animal, right, And
they keep finding this over.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
And over all the traps are damaged.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
And some of the traps are.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Damned because Wade is getting angry.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Wade's getting angry, but Joe is just kind of quiet
at this point. And finally we sort of see that
there is a creature watching the two guys in the boat.
They remark that there's a bad smell in the air,
but they don't see the creature right away. Okay, And finally,
while they're at another trap, a hand comes over the

(06:32):
side of the boat out of the water, a big
hairy hand and grabs Wade and just throttles them and
drags him under. It's pretty brutal, and you see you
see Wade getting pulled deeper into the swamp like under
the water, and Joe's freaking out.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
And later in the movie, Joe says that his neck
was instantly snapped, so he did not even drowned.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
No, he was dead before he hit the water because
the hand that came up like grabbed him and throttled him.
He was done right. So at the university lecture this
is we learn later the University of Chicago. Yes, and
there's a guy that's giving a talk about cryptids.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
And specifically specifically.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Humanoid cryptids of like human Yeah, bigfoot like creatures. So
bigfoot yet skunk he mentioned specifically. If you really want
to get down to it, you could probably he didn't
mention it, but since this is taking place in Louisiana,
you could probably mention the rugaroo or the honey swamp.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
The gu is more of a werewolf, yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
But it's still a large humanoid, hairy creature that that
roams roams the swamps.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
And then up a little bit north is the.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
You have the falk monsters in Arkansas, Arkansas. Yeah, but
you have the honey the honey island swamp creature, things
like that. But he does not mention. But the only
reason that I can mention it is that I'm weird
that way. That's that's it, right, Like Darling, you know
about the rug Guru because you grew up in Louisiana

(08:07):
and the rug Guru has a little exhibit in the
Audubon Zoo in New Orleans that is always a joy
to go see because everyone's always weirded out that there's
this rugaro exhibit there.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
It's funny, it's funny, it's.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Uh, it's not meant to be serious at all. It's
them like.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
And most of the time a lot of these museums
of these cryptids are.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Kind of tongue in cheek tongue anyway, and this is
tongue in cheek at the Audubon Zoo. But if you
ever go to the Audubon Zoo, make sure to see
the rugaroo exhibit in New Orleans.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
You'll find it in the Louisiana Swamp section.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, it's it's sort of by where the outdoor Alligator.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
Louisiana.

Speaker 2 (08:49):
But that's if you're looking for the outdoor alligators. It's
right by close to the river.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Actually.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
So so this this lecture on cryptids is very basic
in does not seem like it's a real lecture for
nineteen seventy six University of Chicago. I will say that
it did not fit it made.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Me feel almost like a not a lecture of a class,
but one of those where you have a guest speaker.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Company with a presentation. Yeah, but this seems really far
out for the University of Chicago. Now, if it was,
if it was like, if it was framed in such
a way as to be like, this is a presentation
about myths and things like that, that would have been okay,

(09:43):
But it clearly wasn't.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
In the two students after the lecture walk with what
I called the professor, but they call them doctor something
or rather.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yeah, and their names are Reeves. It's it's written as Rivs,
but it Reeves.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
And Poho Paho Paho. Okay, which I've got to say
something right now that kind of will sound bad. But
these two are from Chicago and they've got the weirdest
names in the.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
Okay, Well, they're not originally from Chicago though, either one
of them. Remember pop Pa, who's from like Iowa, I think,
And I looked.

Speaker 1 (10:25):
That up and it's supposed to be an Indian.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Name and Native American name.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Yeah, you could you remember which one? I said, because
I didn't write it down.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
I think it's supposed to I don't know. I don't
want to say, because I would probably get it wrong.
But I don't think it's his actual name. I think
he uses it as a nickname because we learn about
the character later on that he was in Vietnam for
a while and is suffering from PTSD, and they this

(10:54):
is not done for laughs. This is actually a problem
in the movie and Reeves while he Reeves is a
much younger grad student. Let's put it that way, Like,
it's clearly the Pa who is like in his late thirties,
and Reeves is like in his supposed to be in
his early twenties. Reeves is dealing with this older man.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
And at one time Paho, yeah, actually goes into a fit.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
And when he goes into the fit, it makes sense why.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
It makes sense why but he accuses Reeves of going
to Canada instead of going to the war. Yeah, but
you look at how young Reeves is supposed to be
compared to Paho, and you know that he's just talking
about somebody else, yes.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Or he's because he's a young man, that Pa who
just kind of lashes out like that, clearly Pa who's
seen some shit throughout this entire movie, and it only
comes out a couple times, and each time it's not
done for laughs, which I respect, and Reeves actually handles
it with respect and.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Like he's known that he does this or just.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Has known somebody growing up that had PTSD from the war.
I'm not saying this is a perfect portrayal of PTSD.
I'm just saying that, out of all the awful.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Movie, Reeves knows how to deal with it.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
I'm just saying it's it's a it's a respectful it's
it's more respectful than most. Anyway, they go up to
this professor and they say, hey, look I we have this.
We have this, We've we've read reports about this one
area in Louisiana that has had all these like bigfoot
like sightings. Our only problem is we don't have money

(12:48):
or or or or a ride. Can you fund us
for the summer?

Speaker 1 (12:54):
No, it's not for the summer. It's a spring break.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Oh it's spring. This is not a spring break. They drive,
taking a good long time to go down to freaking Louisiana,
and then they're.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
There, done it nineteen hours.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yes, but they clearly are in a giant like panel
van and taking their time. I don't know anyway, Yes,
I've I've gone.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
It takes two days.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah, it takes two days. Spring breaks a week, two
days back, and they're there for at least a few days.
I don't know. It's it's well, there.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Are there more than that because of the and.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
They also talk about the heat, which I mean still,
it's Louisiana, so spring break could be hot. Point is
I thought it was summer, especially with all all the
swamping the way it was. Anyway, So this guy basically says, hey, look,
i'll fund you.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
The reason why is because they said two weeks.

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Okay, that's fine, whatever, two weeks spring break. Okay, it
does not matter. But you're if that's the case that
they said two weeks spring break, cool, Okay. So this
guy gives him a panel van and money.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
That has the Chicago.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Yeah it actually has. It has Illinois plates and a
University of Chicago parking tag on it. And I'm like, okay,
you know what, most filmmakers wouldn't have actually paid attention
to that detail. They would have just said, oh, you
rented a van somewhere.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
And below and one paho, where's.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
The where's a University of Chicago sweatshirt?

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Sweatshirt?

Speaker 2 (14:27):
Through a lot of the movie, which I thought was
really cool. Okay.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
So, and the one thing we do get out of
these two is that Paho on their way down likes Hamburgers.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
We get a reason why, we get an actual story,
and it.

Speaker 1 (14:43):
Happens to be the true believer of the creature.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Yeah, Pa, who doesn't really believe in the creature, but
he's interested in like the uh, he's interested in the myths,
I guess, and the beer and the beer and maybe
finding some hot Cajun women, like I said, who says
that is, yeah, maybe we can go find some hot
Cajun women and party. It's like, okay, that's funny. At

(15:08):
least they know Cajun women, all right. So anyway, they
go down, they stop for gas, and they end up
they end up like hearing about that creature killing a guy. Okay,
and this is clearly a reference to Wade that we
saw at the beginning of the film. And they end

(15:32):
up like just staying at a camp one night on
the lake. And this is before they really start their
full on investigation and they're drinking beer and then Pa
who ends up pissing his pants while taking a leak
because a random guy just comes up behind him and
scares him in the middle of the night. Big beard
a guy and he's like, hold on, I get this

(15:53):
guy some coffee. I gotta change my pants.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
With the biggest hair that I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
He has like this giant like helmet of hair and
like a huge bushy beard. And he goes, what guy
is just like creeping up on Paho taking a piss
And then he like comes up out of the bushes
and goes, hey, how's it going. That's a little creepy
and weird. Right, that's a little creepy weird.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
To me since it's dealing with seventy six, I thought
it was he's a hippie.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
This this guy was just high and like sleeping in the
bush and pie who comes by and starts pissing next
to him? I don't know. So they arrive at Oil City.
They start looking for the guy that they heard about
who survived Joe Cannon Okay Canon, and uh No, one
seems to know this guy. Everyone's just like nope, Andy.

(16:42):
They're walking around asking, hey, do you know Joe? Have
you heard about this creature? Everyone's just blowing him off. Finally,
Reeves comes into a barber shop and he goes, all right, look,
does anybody in here know Joe Canton and anything about
this monster? And everyone's kind of looking at each other

(17:03):
while the barber and this guy this kind of like
younger guys are looking at it.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Well, they make a comment that he needs a haircut.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yeah, that he needs a haircut. Oh, because Reeves comes
in and he has long hair. He's a long haired
hippi freak. Yeah that at least according to everybody or
down there, he's got long hair. Damn, it's nineteen seventy six. Yeah,
you get this kind of thing. But finally the barber goes, look,
I don't know anything about it, but the guy that
you want to talk to is right here, and he

(17:31):
takes like the shaving towel off this guy. And it
turns out this guy is the sheriff. This is sh
Billy Carter. Okay, that's weird, Billy Carter. Billy Carter's here,
He's the sheriff of the parish. If you know anything
about parish sheriffs in Louisiana, they have a lot more
power than you think.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
They vot voting it.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
They're elected, they're elected, but that gives them like a
little more power than what you would expect from a sheriff.
They're more like old West sheriffs in a lot of ways.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
And it's about that they have.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
A lot more power, is what I'm saying. Yeah, so
as long as they're in office and they're not getting
like recalled or whatever. The point is. In the nineteen seventies,
Louisiana sheriffs are kind of forces. They're kind of forces
unto themselves. They're not quite that way anymore, but they
still have more power than a typical county sheriff and

(18:30):
anywhere else in the nation.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
And you made fun of me because I would have
been living in Louisiana.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yeah, you would have actually been in a well, maybe
Alabama at that time because you were still young.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
I was thinking about that. Yeah, I probably was in Louisiana.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Okay, all right. Time, So the sheriffs. The sheriff gets
gets up out of the chair and he looks at
he stares this kid down, and he goes, kid, I
don't know anything, and if you know what's good for you,
you're gonna leave. And Reeves is like, what the hell?

Speaker 1 (19:03):
He wants them to stop saying anything and doing anything.
He doesn't want the.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
He doesn't want the population riled up. Okay, Now, if
you're an investigator coming down and asking about a creature
and the sheriff suddenly says, you best damn well stop
talking about it, it means one or two things. They're
hiding it or they're ashamed of it. Either way, this

(19:33):
is kind of an important thing to investigate, maybe not
as a cryptid thing, but as like an anthropological thing,
like a myth type. You know, let's what what the
folklore about this is.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
I would have said at this point, I would have
been doing the investigation as journalism.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
Well at this point, yes.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
After the sheriff and the next thing would have made
me even go further.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
Well, yeah, because Reeves asks for like a police report
on the guy that was killed, and the sheriff says,
are you serious, Like, get the hell out of here, kid,
that's it, right, Like we go to the next and
then we go to the diner. We go to the
diner where Reeves and it's pah Pahu's flirting with the waits.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
We didn't tell him why the hamburger.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Oh we didn't. Well, it's because we learn about it later.
We learned about it later. It's that Pahu grew up
on a chicken farm in Iowa, and all he had
to eat as a kid was chicken, chicken, chicken, chicken.
Everything was even made a joke of.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Chicken jello.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Yeah, there was chicken jello, which you know what you know,
jelly chicken, probably chicken in like a jelsaw, you know,
like you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
Yeah, I've seen it in the Victorian.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, like no, it's it would happen right, Like, so,
he hates chicken, never wants to eat chicken again in
his life. So everywhere he goes, all he eats are Hamburger's,
French fries and a coke. And I'm like, okay, that's
cute because does it pay off later? Yes, thank you movie.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
And there's this when he walks in. There's a waitress,
she's cute, she's cute, and she's being harassed by a dude.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
And I think this immediately. I think if this was today,
this guy would have had like four dudes on him,
pitting him to the ground and telling him to get
the hell out of the diner because he basically like
smacks the waitress's ass going by it. And like thence
at that time. Yeah, at the time, well, I don't
know if I would say accepted, but it would have

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been common.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Then, after they find out about Pahoo doing the asking
about the creature, Yeah, the waitress and that same dude
make fun of Paho.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Yeah, basically start telling a tale and Pa, who's listening
intently because he's actually interested, and it turns out there
just playing a joke on him by basically saying, oh,
but you know, I went out to the bar and
it turned out it was my wife or something like that,
and everyone in the in the in the diner just
laughs and laughs and laughs, and Pa, who's pretty pissed off,

(22:21):
and yeah, that's really that that that's awful. But it
turns out that Joe is actually in the diner at
the time, and Joe gets angry hearing this joke because
he's like, you sons of bitches. He grabs this guy
that told the joke that smacked Eve's ass, the waitress,
and he's like, you don't know what the hell you're

(22:43):
joking about. This isn't a.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Joking matter because Wade died.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, Wade died, you son of a bitch, and he
like pushes him down and then stumbles out of the diner.
Because it turns out Joe is a drunk. He just
used to be. It was after the attack, it seems
like he became.

Speaker 1 (23:01):
He drinks his own.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Man bathtub jen stuff. Yeah, so he's If you know
Jack Elim, you know that he has an eye that
kind of roams around you. You've seen him in such
movies as Cannonball Run as the crazy Doctor, and so
when he's drunk, he just lets his eye roam and

(23:25):
it is actually both unsettling and funny at the same
time because he does physical humor fairly well.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Right, He also does this kind of character.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
A lot times. Yeah, so he's pretty known for it.
So Joe stomps out Pa, who doesn't actually catch Joe.
Joe just seemingly like runs down an alleyway and.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
He tries to catch him, and then he runs into
his friend, who stoles him from getting getting.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Joe, and he's like, what the hell? But this guy
from the reeves and Pa, who are outside the diner,
and the guy, the guy that was getting a haircut
at the barbershop, comes over and goes, Okay, look I
know something about the creature. I'm not telling you a tale.
I just want to ride home as payment, okay. And

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they're like, oh, okay, fine. So they get into the
van and this guy's like, I'm not saying a thing
until you turn off the tape recorder. And they're like,
how do you know about the tape recorder? Goes, I'm
not an idiot. You're asking about the creature to everybody.
You're clearly either reporters or something like that. Turn off

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the tape recorder. And they actually did have a tape recorder.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
It might be from the backwoods, but I'm not that.
I'm not an idiot.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Yeah, And so they turn off, they turn off the
tape recorder, and he tells a story and we get
a flashback. We get a flashback like fifteen years or
something like that. And I'm gonna sum up an a
an actual, very well shot scene.

Speaker 1 (25:03):
But you just have to stop you in the middle, Okay,
or I could just say it right here. When they
show Orville as a young boy, that person happened to
been a w c.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
W wrestler later in life. Yeah, So this guy the
what's his name? I don't think I even have his
Orville Bridges, Okay, Orville Bridges, he says, look, I have
seen the creature. I just don't remember it because I
was too young to remember it. But my whole family did.

(25:36):
And here's the story. And basically it was his parents,
him as a as like a toddler, and his grandparents
were all in this beautiful old car and they're driving
down a wooden slat road in the swamp, which impressed.
You don't see those very often anymore. Impressed, And the

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car gets a flat tire, so Dad and grand but
go out of the out of the car to start
changing the tire. Grandma, mom and baby Orville go out
into the shade of the trees.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
The grandpa tells them to.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
And Orville kind of wanders off, as toddlers tend to
do when you have parents that are kind of inattentive.
He wanders out into the woods and starts screaming, and
it turns out the creature is standing there. Now, whenever
we see the creature in this movie, it's not very
clearly shown, which works. I'm saying that right now, the

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creature works in this because they don't. They don't show
it very very clearly or for any long length of time.
But you know it's humanoid you know, it's large. You know,
it has long black hair all over its body. It
has like some sort of like large eyes. It's anyway,
Orville screaming. Mom runs out there and screams, grabs Orville,

(26:55):
but like, the grandparents get back to the car, but
his parents are actual killed by the creature, right, no, no, no, no, no
no no, no, I'm sorry. I apologize. The parents get
back into the car in the front. The grandparents dive
into the car in the back with Orville. They're all like,
so the grandparents are in the back seat.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
They run off with a flat tire still the file
plat stire or a tire that is not on yet.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
No, it's they didn't even get a chance to change
the tire. So the flat tire is still on there,
and they're swerving all over the road to try to
get away, and mom and dad are in the front
and they slam into a tree at full speed. They
are both killed. And then Orville says, my grandparents still
blame the creature for my parents' death, even though it

(27:45):
was technically a car crash that killed them. That's why
I said, oh, the creature killed them. And he says, look,
don't mention that I said any of this to my
grandparents because they don't like talking about it.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
And Pahou, I will say, at this point in time,
breaks every promise he ever makes.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
I think I don't think he intentionally does, but you're
right he does. So they get out to drop him off,
and his grandpa comes out, and he's actually a pretty
nice guy. He's he's kind of a typical, typical old
country kind of bumpkin type dude. Right. They have a

(28:31):
little farm with horses, and he's like kind of shocked
that there's Yankees down here on his property. And then like,
why did you bring my son out here? What are
you doing? Oh? And Reeves is like, well, he needed
to ride home. He was in town getting a haircut.
We decided to take him back, and he said we

(28:52):
should see the farm, right, And then Pa, who's like
and and he told us all about the creature. And
Grandpa gets a look on his face that he's he
drags Orville aside, what the hell you doing telling these
stories to Yankees? You know, blah blah blah blah blah,
and Orville is chastened. He he's he's actually ashamed that

(29:17):
he said anything. And Finally they're asked to leave, but
then Reeves sort of goes.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
No, Pa, who's the one that talks about the twenty
five dollars?

Speaker 2 (29:29):
Yeahho, Pa, who says, but what about that twenty five
dollars that we have for anyone that helps us with
information about the creature? And Grandpa his demeanor pop it changes, sorry,
Darlene switching her notes right against the microphone. His demeanor
completely changes. He's like, whoa twenty five dollars, Well, I'm

(29:51):
happy to help you, blah blah blah blah, and that's
a lot of money at the time. That's like one
hundred and thirty bucks.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Today we looked it up. It was one hundred and
thirty and.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
For or dirt farmers out in the middle of nowhere swamp, Louisiana.
One hundred and thirty dollars today, well, twenty five dollars
at that point, what about a lot of money? So
Grandpa is a static, Well, why don't you boys stay
for dinner, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
And finding makes some promise not to talk about.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
The creature in front of Grandma Grandma because it really
upsets Grandma. So the evening starts with Grandpa playing banjo
out on the front porch, and believe it or not,
it's actually kind of cute, all right, this whole scene.
And finally Grandma comes out, who's been cooking all day

(30:41):
for these guests that are here. She's very she's excited
that there's guests and that she got to cook for guests.
And she announces that they're having fried chicken for dinner.
And Pa, who's just like, goddamn it, you know, like
the immediate like look on his face of utter dejection,
which is the payoff of the hole I never eat

(31:02):
chicken because he has to have a he has to
have a big grin on his face this entire dinner,
and he's being forced to eat chicken, which he despises,
and we know why he does.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
Yes, but they're probably chicken farmers with horses.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
Yeah. And but everybody else, like Reeves, is like this
is this is delicious.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
This was that was good fried chicken.

Speaker 2 (31:24):
It looked like good fried chicken. I mean it looked
like a good layout.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
So anyway, except that they had one of your favorite things.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
That you do. I hate. I hate collar greens. It's
just it's just slimy green mush and I've never had
collar greens that are.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Good, and you only eat spinach raw.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
I only eat raw spinach because cooked spinach is just
a slimy green mess. It's the texture. It's that like
mush string texture that I despise.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Okay, we get it.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Oh all right. I am sure that there is good
collared greens out there. I am sure there is.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
But noise right at the end of the the of
the dinner, a noise comes, a guttural noise.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
And and Pa who freaks out and goes as out
the creature is not the creature, And Grandma goes silent,
silent and looks like all of her blood drains from
her face and walks out silently. She just walks out.
And Pa, who like, well, Grandpa goes, that was a
donkey yankee.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
And he's pissed. Yeah, so he kicks him out.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
He goes, you're sleeping in the barn tonight.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
No, No, that was Orville coming back out.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
And so you can sleep in the barn barn.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Because they go out, and Orville follows him and they
were like, where can we camp? And he goes, why
don't you just go.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
In the bar, Because Grandma's not gonna want him in
the house, not after that, because I assume at this
point Grandpa has to basically calm her down for hours because,
to be fair, one of her children, I don't know
if it's ever stated which which of the parents. I

(33:10):
think it's the father, that they were the parents of
the father.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Well, certainly because they're they're all the same last name.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
So it's that her son was effectively killed in front
of her because of a giant, scary monster that they
were all running away from. Because remember, Grandma saw the.

Speaker 1 (33:27):
Creature, so did so did Grandpa.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
I mean, and they they lived through it, right, and
they clearly know what's a real thing. So any any
Yankee coming down here and just mentioning the creature and
freaking out because they heard a donkey and never heard
a donkey before, like clearly pissed her off, I guess.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
So they go into the barn. Paho is in his
shirt and underwear.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
And Reeves has like a and he's like taping notes,
and suddenly there's another rule.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
First, you got the horses going mad. That's how we
know it's they've got horses that they're breeding.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
So you you have the horses going nuts, and then
you have this girl scream this.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Roar and again on film on tape.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
They get it on tape and they start screaming.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Paho runs out in his underwear and shirt.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
He's just like, we gotta get out of here. We
got to get out of here. And Reeves and him
run to the house and pound on the door, and
I think it's Grandpa that ants.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
Grandpa already is opening up the door.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
And get in, get in, get in, because he knows,
he knows it's the creature that's out there, and he
doesn't want even Yankees being torn apart by by this creature. Okay.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Then the next morning.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
So the next morning they go to the diner.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
And an outside phone is.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
What they're calling to the University of Chicago something like that.
They called to the University of Chicago to say, hey, look,
we have a recording of this thing's roar. Okay. They
play it over the phone, and I guess the Professor's like,
I don't believe you. I think you might have faked that.
I'd like to have that analyzed by a outside expert,

(35:31):
because there's outside expert bigfoot roarer analysts, and clearly Reeves
and Pahu are pretty pissed off about this because they
can't wait around here for the weeks that it will
take to get it sent wherever to be analyzed and
then hopefully the guy thinks that they didn't freaking fake it,

(35:52):
and clearly they did. We know as viewers they did
not fake it, so they have every right.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
To But you have to assume, since this is strangest
strange things that you're gonna.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Have to have, you're gonna have to have outside proof.
But the fact is that this guy that's basically funded
their expedition immediately discounts any proof that they bring him
and refuses to come down.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
Okay, but that's.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
That's part of it, all right.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
So they go into the diner and there's two local girls,
two local girls that make them and and flirt with.

Speaker 2 (36:30):
Them across the and they're bitching at each other. Pahu
and and Reeves are bitching at each other about like,
I can't believe this guy doesn't believe it. I mean,
have you ever heard a roar like this anywhere? And
they have the tape recorder and there and they hit
play as the waitress is bringing out their food, and
it's this huge bigfoot roar and she freaks out and
throws their food, you.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
Know, at them.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Yeah, and get the hell out, get the hell out
of here. And they have to run out, and they
go out to the van and these two girls follow them. Now,
these two girls, this is literally their only film role.
Both of these girls are.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
And their names are their names like Becky and.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Michelle, And I can't believe that both of them this
is their only role because they do not come across
as amateur actresses. They do not. They actually come across
as seasoned actresses.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
Yeah, but it might be direction too.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
I can't put it down a direction. The cinematographer in
this is very good. The director hasn't done a lot
of stuff. I'm not saying he's bad, but these girls
actually seemingly knew how to act.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
And at first I thought they were supposed to be sisters,
but they're not.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
And so they're like, hey, how's it going, boys? You know,
they're they're being flirting, and they the guys start flirting back.
You know, what, what's there to do around around these parts,
you know, on the weekends, And they're like, I don't know,
we just kind of find things to do and it's
clearly what it's clear what they're suggesting. Right, So they say, hey, look,

(38:14):
we're sitting up camp out in the woods at this spot.
Can you meet us at seven thirty? And they say sure.
The sheriff comes up and goes, hi, honey, how's it going.
It turns out like I think it's I think it's
Michelle that you know.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
It's Becky.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
It's Becky, the sheriff's daughter, and he's the sheriff is
glaring at these two, going, get the hell out of
my towent, you sons of bitches. I'm sick and tired
of this. Right.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
So, and here is the next funny comment that if
you follow it. The comment is as they're waiting for
the girls really late.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
And.

Speaker 1 (38:56):
I don't know which one it is, says they probably
went it's probably read they probably went to a prayer meeting.

Speaker 2 (39:01):
Yeah, I'm not worried about them being late. They probably
went to a prayer meeting. And I'm not sure if
he's being ironic or not, but it turns it turns
out to be funny because it show up.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
They come in a VW bug.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
They come out and sorry, we're late. We were at
a prayer meeting, and I'm like, the hell is happening here?
This is it's funny, but I don't know why it's funny,
Like is it ironically funny? Is it funny in that like?

Speaker 1 (39:27):
But it was setting it up, Yeah, the punch came.

Speaker 2 (39:31):
It's like they really were at a prayer meeting, because
it seems like they or they.

Speaker 4 (39:34):
Are making a joke that they had to both of
them were making the.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
Joke of just having to try to get away from
their dad. So it's gonna rain, and they actually set
it up. It just doesn't start raining. There's actually like
thunder in the distance as the scene starts, and they're
drinking beers outside the tent. Okay, fine, it starts to rain.
Hey maybe we should go in the tent. Okay, And
I thought, okay, this does not seem like a movie

(39:59):
that will have any nudity in it. Turns out there
isn't any nudity in it, but you.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Think about it coming that way at this thunderstorm because
he grabs, he grabbed, He goes back out when the
rain is pouring and gets the cooler.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Yeah. Yeah, so they're all drinking beer inside the tent.
But then there's the Bigfoot roar, and it's at this
point that like Reeves g I think it leaves.

Speaker 1 (40:23):
Reeves went back outside with.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Pahu no, no, no, with Becky, with Becky, with Becky sorry,
and they hear the roar.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
And they hear the roar. They're talking about something, you.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
Know, they're flirting, and it's Reeves grabs the rifle that they.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
He pushes her in and grabs the rifle.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
And he's loading the gun. And this thing is like
clearly walking around the outside of the tent, right. It
is very clearly the Bigfoot. It is really there. And
then it like stops making noise for a little bit,
and they're kind of freaking out, and then there's more waves.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Polls aims the twenty two rifle.

Speaker 2 (41:08):
I don't know if it's twenty it's probably is, but
it's it's a rifle, seems at the at the opening.
And then the sheriff comes in and and honest to God.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
This is dangerous for a sheriff because you're you.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Don't just walk and you should announce yourself, which he
does later on. He if you're out in the middle
of the woods in the middle of the night and
you're just gonna walk into somebody's tent. A asshole, right, asshole.

Speaker 1 (41:39):
It's amazing that he didn't get shot.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Well, even if there wasn't a gun, that's a dick move.
Number One, people could be sleeping in there, People could
be naked, people could be having sex, they could be legitimate.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Well that is what he was afraid of.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
But that's but that's the point. That's the point. You
should have said, Becky Michelle, get out here, something like that.
He could have done that, and it would have.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
But instead he walks in and almost shot, and he
arrests the boys.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Well, he says, he gets the girls to go first,
and then he's like, I asked you not to ask
about the creature. I have reports that you're talking about
the creature and you scared people at the diner with
an animal roar. I want you guys to leave. I'm
gonna give you ten minutes to get out of town,
to pack up and get it, get out of town.
And then Pa who goes ten minutes? Why so much time?

(42:33):
And then it immediately clips to them being thrown into jail,
like it's Pa who opened his mouth, and the sheriff
was like, okay, fine.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Boom poo always gets them in trouble. But then Pa,
who is standing on a table in the jail.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
Yeah, reading graffiti, graffiti, and there's this another joke that
comes through the sheriff graffiti. And then there's also the
stupid grass sign out the oh no.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Keep off the grass that he knocks over and then
just can't put it back in the ground. I don't know. Anyway,
we go to Joe sleeping in his shed and it
turns out the creature stalking him too. It's like the
creature does not want human beings around, fine, okay, encroaching
on his turf, and Joe shoot Joe shoots him through

(43:24):
the window with his own gun.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Yes, But Aaron thinks that something's gonna happen to the
shed that he's living in.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Because it's a ramshackle shed and the property that it's
built on we see later has a very well manicured
lawn even though it's a shed on the on the
edge of the swamp. And I'm like, that's clearly a
built set. They built that, and they mowed the grass
to build it. That shed's gonna blow up. It doesn't, though,

(43:52):
which I'm shocked, Like if I if this was any
other movie, I guarantee you though. We do have an explosion,
but it makes come at least complete.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
So we're giving it kudos for that.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
The movie has a lot of positive points going for it.
But anyway, Joe shoots it. But because he's so stressed
out about this creature, he's drinking drink. He's been drinking
path tub gin. He is shit face drunk. He can
barely walk, and he gets down to the sheriff's office
waving his rifle around.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Oh wait, there was he called him first. Yeah, he
called him, because that's where you get the they're in
the jail and the sheriff is talking to Joe.

Speaker 2 (44:34):
To Joe, Joe, you need to so broad. But anyway,
Joe shows up at the at the sheriff's office waving
his gun, drooling on himself because he's so drunk and
there's a monster it's outside my house.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
I shot him.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
And the Sheriff's like, okay, I want you to stand
up straight. I want you to touch your nose. Hold
your hand out and touch your nose. Joe cannot do it,
and he's like, okay, Joe, I'm gonna have you go
into that cell I'm gonna sleep it off, and I'm
gonna let you go in the morning, okay, but I'm
gonna take your gun till that. And they throw Joe

(45:11):
together with the guys in the cells. So like the
next morning, the sheriff releases all of them, but all
the guys are like, so you're Joe Canton, we need
to hear your story. Holy crap. So they all leave.
They all leave. They go out to Joe's house and
Joe says, he says, like, after they killed, after this
thing killed Wade, I was tracking the creature and I

(45:34):
found I was looking and looking looking. There's all these
like I would find tracks and all that, and then
I found something that really upset me. And he goes, nothing, Well,
what do you mean you found nothing? No, no, I
heard nothing. There's no animal sounds. It's completely silent. And

(45:55):
if you know anything about a swamp, that's wrong. And
then he starts fighting like just broken animal bodies. He's
talking about like hogs, put four hundred pounds hogs broken
in half and put in trees and things like that,
and he goes, this thing's terrible and there's like nothing

(46:17):
out in this one area of the swamp. So he
found basically where it lives. So these guys are like,
we're gonna go out and we're gonna find this thing, Joe,
and she's like, you're gonna get yourselves killed. Okay, fair enough, right.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
They go to uh make a camp site after they
unstick themselves from mud.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
And this the van is really covered in mud, but
it does not really look like mud. It looks like
somebody basically had too much taco bell and shat all
over the side. That's what it looks like. It was.
Didn't it didn't it it did.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
But then Reeves goes around the corner of the van,
it's just all it's just covered.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
In must maybe laugh harder, I don't know. So they
go out and they get they set up camp in
the swamp, and this is where like Powhun has his
PTSD episode, being out in the middle of the swamp,
and he accuses Reeves of fleeing to Canada during the war,

(47:22):
and Reeves just kind of like, well, if you feel
that way, you need to leave, okay. And and Pa
who goes into the tent and starts packing his things.
But like Reeves isn't pissed off, He just kind of
understands that that the anger really wasn't directed at him.
So he's making dinner and he and when Pa who

(47:43):
comes back out with all the stuff, he goes, hey, man,
you want some you want some beans for dinner, and
pabably kind of looks at him and goes, okay, okay, Yeah,
that sounds pretty good. And they sit down and it's
all okay, It's all okay.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
And then Reeve Reeves goes somewhere well because the.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Next thing, well thing the reason is is that he's
it's it's Pa who calms down, and Reeve says, something
is circling the camp while they're eating those beans. He
grabs the gun, but there's no ammunition in the gun,
and he's like, I didn't think we would have to
have ammunition in the gun right away, Like I figured

(48:21):
it would take this thing for a while. So they
find some large footprints and Pa, who at this point
is knocked the hell out, He's like knocked down to
the do He's still.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
At the the tent where Reeves.

Speaker 2 (48:36):
Is not Pa who is knocked out by the creature.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
And the creature just tears up and trashes the tent, but.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
He drags Pa who away. Reeves comes back and finds
the camp trashed, Pa who is gone, and Reeves is like,
oh shit, Pa, who's dead? This thing killed it. I'm
gonna go hunt this son of a bitch down, but
I need to call for help first, because me alone,
I'm not taking this thing down. And I know for

(49:07):
a fact that if I ask for it, even though
the sheriff is a piece well he isn't really a
piece of shit, but he's a piece of shit if
I actually ask for help.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
He's afraid of anyone that's an outsider.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Yeah, But if he says like, hey, look we talked
to Joe. Joe was scared, but my friend is gone.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
What he does, Reeves does is go to the for
the van yeah, and calls may Day over the CB.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
And the sheriff picks up. He's like there's a lot.

Speaker 1 (49:38):
Of chedder going on, and he's like, guys, stop it,
may Day.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
May Day Yeah, and he calls out in. The sheriff
answers basically and says what's going on. He goes, look,
the creature is out here. We are like X amount
of miles west or whatever of Joe's cabin. It has Pa,
who I need help now, and the Sheriff's like, okay,

(50:06):
I'm on my way. And you know that, Like the
sheriff is, this is either a prank and these kids
are gonna go to jail right, or these kids are
in trouble and there really is something out there, be
it a creature or a person that's killing people. And
either way, I'm gonna go out there and help. It's
not a waste of my time. So the sheriff grabs

(50:29):
his guns, gets in the car and tear asses out right.

Speaker 1 (50:34):
At this time, though, the creature attacks Reeves in the van.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
He rips the steering wheel right out of the van.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
Yeah that's what I was gonna say, Holy, and then
turns around and rolls. The van goes a little bit,
and then he rolls.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
Rolls the van and Reeves is still in it, dude.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
And now he's in the back apartment.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
He gets thrown out of the driver's seat into the
back as this thing's rolling down the hill, and like
the back door is open, he starts climbing out. Reeves
is clearly badly hurt.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
He really does a good job with the broken arm
because you see, yeah that he never uses it. It
hits his right hand.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
And I also have to say he clearly is concussed
because the actor is making sure that he's never still.
He's kind of like wavering back and forth all the time.
He's concussed and has a broken arm.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
He gets out, but then he has to go back
and get the rifle.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Yep, he shoots the creature, but it doesn't die, does it.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
No, But we're also seeing this is the good effect
that we had at the time of the rolling of
the rolling of the van stopped.

Speaker 2 (51:43):
You see there's wires everywhere in the compartment because it's
a garbage van from the nineteen seventies. Right, Nothing is seated.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
But you see the tank and a electrical thing.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
There's fuel leaking out of the engine.

Speaker 1 (51:57):
Engine and sparks.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
There's sparks from like a broken battery cable. It makes
complete sense. And finally, like the van just explodes. It
just it just blows up in a big fireballb Right.
Sheriff ends up at Joe's place and getting getting Joe
to come out with them to help find these kids,

(52:19):
because Joe knows this area better than anybody, and it's like, okay, actually,
that good job. That that makes a lot of sense.
Actually this is where we excuse me, So.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
This is where the this is where the sheriff was
being smart, yes, because he knows Joe has a gun.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Yep, I need backup if there is a problem.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
And he calls from not just outside the door.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
He is like, he's like fifty feet away from Joe's house.
He goes, Joe, it's sheriff, you know whatever, sheriff, Sheriff Carter,
I need your help.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
The boys are in trouble or.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
Boys are in trouble. And Joe Oh comes out like
half half ship face again, but he's like, okay, let's
go okay. So at this point, you have Reeves out
in the woods with a rifle that a knife and
a knife because he and Pa who had a knife.
But I think it's Pa who's knife. I think it's
Pa who's knife. In my opinion, it's Pa who's knife,

(53:20):
because we see Pa who always has a knife on him,
a big knife and this is a big knife. Right.
But but remember Reeves has a broken arm and is
badly concussed. So he's up against a tree and and.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
We've seen the creature grab is actually tracking him down.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Yeah, so he's scared. Can cussed, broken arm, obviously in shock,
and suddenly an arm comes out and grabs him from
behind and he just stabs. It turns out that it's Pa,
who also badly concussed with like broken limbs, that found him,
and Pa who's like the the hell and Reeves is

(54:04):
immediately shocked like oh no, oh no, bud.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
But both of them are staggering together to get out.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Yeah. So, like Reeves is helping drag Paho back out
and the sheriff ends up finding him, and they end
up all getting to the hospital and I'm like what
what Wow?

Speaker 1 (54:26):
Okay, So our next scene just jumps to the hospital.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
So the sheriff apologizes for not believing them and Joe
and Joe okay. So, so Paho is like unconscious in
in a bed, bandaged up.

Speaker 1 (54:41):
With a an oxygen he Reeves is sitting outside for some.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
Reasons, in shock. But Reeves is not as badly injured
as Paho. But Reeves is wearing an X rayce mock.
Still Okay, his arm is is cast. Yeah, it's cast up.
Well it's not even cast it's in a sling. At
this point, they haven't even gotten a cast on him.
And he walks in and sees Pa who all wrecked, right,

(55:11):
Pa Who's out, And the nurse is like, I don't know,
he might wake up and he might not. And so
like Reeves sits down and just starts kind of talking
to him and Pa Who.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
But that scene with the sheriff and Reeves is really
a great drama.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Yeah, He's like, I'm sorry, I didn't believe you. We're
gonna take care of this. And Joe swears that he
is gonna take care of this, and and and stumbles
out of the damn.

Speaker 1 (55:35):
Hospital and says, I'm gonna kill that.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch. And but
Reeves is like, man, if there's anything I can get
get you, Pa Who, I'll get it. And and Pa
Who just kind of hunters two hamburgers, French fries and
a coke and I'm like and and and they just
kind of look at each other and like and smile,
and they swear to each other that they're going to

(55:57):
go after that creature and find them and they shake
hands the end, Like the creature isn't dead at the
end of the movie. The creature's still out there. Okay,
now we have talked about this it's pretty darn clear
after listening to us talk about the plot. We are
almost an hour into this, Darling, this is a good movie.

(56:21):
How can we talk about a Bigfoot movie for fifty
five minutes just with the plot?

Speaker 1 (56:26):
Aaron, just just calm down a little bit.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
I'm just saying, like I apologize everyone for having a
long review here, but this is a good movie.

Speaker 1 (56:34):
The cinematography, like I was saying from the beginning, was excellent. Yes,
I did not. Did you see any fault with it?

Speaker 2 (56:46):
There was one bad day for night shot. That's it.
That's it.

Speaker 1 (56:50):
But that's director shit.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
I don't know. That's also cinematography. I will give it that.
But there were good night for night shots. So you know,
credit where credits do?

Speaker 1 (57:01):
The girls that are not actresses played their part. It's
a small cast. Some of the people. We had a
purple haired old lady in the background, and you're like,
this is probably.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
The people of oil City. Oil City, including the report
because they I guess there's parts that they did film
and tree Port. The girls were probably locals, but they
were good actresses. Like it's it's down to you can
tell when it's somebody that's even just like a I
was in a high school production of Oklahoma, Like, you

(57:42):
don't get that kind of quality of acting out of
those people, Like these girls actually seemed legit. And this
is both of those girls. This is their only credit.
All the acting in this was pretty darn good. I
don't think any acting I would have said was bad.
It was at least serviceable.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Okay, so we have a movie that is what rated
as a five ten?

Speaker 2 (58:07):
What is what is internet movie database sing five out
of ten? Five out of ten. This is not a
five out of ten movie. Okay, Look, Darling, before we
go into it, a lot of things worked, right. Did
anything truly not work overall in this movie? Like I say,
there's one shot one one day for night shot that
didn't work. But is there anything that as a category
truly falls into this didn't It did not work.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
When they went into the tent, the girls and them,
it looked like they were in a blue box.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
It is a tent. It was a tent.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
It wasn't a tent at that point.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
No, it's clearly a set. But that does not fall
into the category of it does not work.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
And whoever set the the.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Sequence of that van did well. They set up they
set up.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
They they they finished it, and it's PG.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
It's PG because there isn't really blood in it. But
in my opinion, no category falls into the it does
not work. There are many categories that are this.

Speaker 1 (59:14):
Does work, and I will say this it does. The
five is wrong.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
This is not a five out of ten movie.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
Not if you know and you look at movies that
we like today and you look at this movie and
you're like, Okay, the setting is using natural setting and
it's great.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
They don't overuse the monster.

Speaker 1 (59:36):
They don't overuse the monster. The monster stays.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
There's good character actors and there's good regular actors. Right, Yes,
creature stays in the background. What you do see of
like its arm is clearly a costume. But it's not
bad because it's not overused. Right It really like three
frames or four It really.

Speaker 1 (59:58):
Looks like somebody actually took a put long hair on
their arm.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Yeah, with like spirit gum or something, and yeah it
So we both recommend it. We both recommend it. What
would you give it out of ten?

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
I would give it not the five. I would go
higher than that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
Okay, which is well, you said I know what I'm
going to give it. I can tell you what my
number is.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
So mine would be six to seven, six.

Speaker 2 (01:00:28):
To seven, six. I would give it a solid seven.
This is seven out of ten. I would watch it again.
Not immediately, but I would watch again. I don't really
have a big complaint about the movie at all. There
are things that could have done better, yes, but mostly
it was way above the grade for these kinds of movies.

Speaker 1 (01:00:50):
Oh, and the poster is wonderful.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
The poster's wonderful. Watch this movie. It's on Amazon Prime.
It's on Amazon Prime. You can just watch it for free.
Is it worth it for free? Yes, it's worth actually
paying money for it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:05):
I would pay five dollars for this to strain it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
Absolutely. You don't have to. But I might look to
see if it's for sale on something and buy a
physical copy of it, because, as I said, i'd watch
this again. It's a nice little time capsule of the
nineteen seventy six Louisiana movie with good acting, with a
decent plot, very good pacing, great cinematography.

Speaker 1 (01:01:31):
And you can see here even though this one's before.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
The fog, you can see like the yeah fog. Yeah,
because the cinematographer did the fog.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
The cinema photographer did the fog.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
And I was always like, you love the fog.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
I love the fog, even though it scares the crap
out of it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:49):
I think that's a movie that we will do for
Earth Versus Soup. That's verging, that's verging on. Well. It's
not that it's too late, because we have done nineteen
eighties movies as well, but it's whether it truly feels
like it fits into the whole Earth versus Soup idea,
because there's a point in the nineteen eighties where science
fiction and horror really stop having any kind of connection

(01:02:11):
to the night, you know, the early stuff, which is
what we generally talk about it. But this clearly still
fits into that, even though it's seventy six, and I
can name at least a few movies from the eighties
that also fit into it very clearly. It's just that
it's it's rareer, right. I'd even go so far as
to say there are modern twenty twenties movies that aren't

(01:02:32):
Earth versus Suit movies, but very rare.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
Very rare, because most of those things are tea for TV.
We matter of fact, had to stop a movie that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
We are watching because we found out it was a
TV movie. It was a TV movie, so we recommend it.
This is Creature from Black Lake, nineteen seventy six.

Speaker 1 (01:02:51):
I'm Erin, I'm darling.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Good evening, you keep watching the skies. At no point
in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to
anything that could be considered a rational thought.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
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(01:03:26):
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