upcoming

Sci-FI Pint & Pizza Night

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Hosted by the boys of Missing Link Records in Arcata! There will be storytelling, venders and more with  a special sponsoring by Steven Streufert of the Bigfoot Blog (and books)!

Back by popular demand! The best in B science fictions movies, drive-in classics, psychotronic weirdness and more.  We’ll also do raffle prizes throughout the evening so expect some very cool, very strange science fiction prizesincluding figurines, posters, books, cards, VHS movies and more for that inner science fiction enthusiast in us all. *Sponsored by Bigfoot Books, *La Dolce Video, The Arcata Eye, Daisy Drygoods, Vintage Avenger,  Tin Can Mailman, The Clothing Dock and more.

A True Story.

The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972) is a horror docudrama about the “Fouke Monster”, a Bigfoot-type creature that has been seen in and around Fouke, Arkansas since the 1950s and described as having a foul odor, completely covered in reddish-brown hair, having three toes and known by leaving tracks found in beanfields. The film mixes staged interviews with some local residents who claim to have encountered the creature, along with fictitious reenactments of said encounters. Charles B. Pierce, an advertising salesman from Texarkana on the Arkansas/Texas border, borrowed over $100,000 from a local trucking  company, used an old movie camera and hired locals (mainly high school students) to help make the 90-minute film. Although The Legend of Boggy Creek was not the first ‘creature feature’ by any means, it was pioneering in that it marked the motion picture debut of Bigfoot. From that point on, Sasquatch was a star. Countless similarly-themed films followed in the wake of Boggy’s successful 1972 release, including Creature From Black Lake, Sasquatch, the Legend of Bigfoot, The Capture of Bigfoot, and later Harry and the Hendersons. In recent years, influence on modern moviemakers is still strong. Its docudrama format, ahead of its time in the 1970s, was purposefully echoed in 1999’s The Blair Witch Project.

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