My dad and my uncle took me and my cousin (we were both 11) to the drive in to see this. Scared thee crap out of us. The 70s were awesome.

@aleafox1675

6 ай бұрын

The drive in. My God I miss my childhood. I remember my mom taking me and my friends. She would make popcorn, and buy some soda's which were in the ice chest. We would pack our sleeping bags, and our chairs. On Tuesdays they would have a special on car loads of people, and sell pizzas for half price. We would get there early, go to the playground and play, then head to the car to watch the double feature. Oh those were the days.

@truthbetold6496

4 ай бұрын

amen to that yes i remember the drive in. sadly there are no more today

@proto-geek248

4 ай бұрын

They sure were. Unparalleled freedom.

@rogerrendzak8055

3 ай бұрын

​​@@aleafox1675 BINGO!!! Yes, those were unduplicatable, times. I also miss, our local drive-in😞. Great memories 😉👍!!!!

@rogerrendzak8055

3 ай бұрын

​@@truthbetold6496There's actually still, some around.

These old 70s Bigfoot movies are more mysterious and convincing than any Modern Bigfoot podcasts/conferences! 👍👍

@proto-geek248

4 ай бұрын

Authentic. There was just something about them that could never be replicated today.

@mikethaxton4935

3 ай бұрын

​@@proto-geek248How can it be authentic when it doesn't exist to begin with .

@proto-geek248

3 ай бұрын

@@mikethaxton4935 Back in the 70s when I was a kid & believed in all that crap, those flicks had a certain feel about them that can never be replicated convincingly today. Trucker movies, exploitation movies, grindhouse flicks, etc., all that low budget stuff had it too.

@mikethaxton4935

3 ай бұрын

Convincing of what ? A Bigfoot? Lol If you buy that then I have some oceanfront property in Arizona to sell you 😂

@proto-geek248

Ай бұрын

@@mikethaxton4935 I'm talking about the authentic 70sness, not whether Bigfoot is real or not.

Jack Elam ❤one of the greatest actors ever. ThrillGore has the best movies

@mikephalen3162

11 ай бұрын

I always enjoy reading autobiographies from character actors. You learn so much. I'll have to see if Jack wrote one.

@cneterer

Ай бұрын

Jack used to claim he was the man killed most often on screen during his days on Westerns. His favorite was pitchfork to the stomach.

@cneterer

Ай бұрын

@@mikephalen3162 when Jack died, the obituary I saw had a great quote from him. "My career has had four stages. 'Who's Jack Elam?' 'Get me Jack Elam!' 'Get me a young Jack Elam.' 'Who's Jack Elam?'"

Still better than 99% of all modern movies.

@leelarson107

10 ай бұрын

I would say closer to 100%.

@rhondae8222

10 ай бұрын

Agreed!

@Harrythe1st

10 ай бұрын

Indeed, no "politics" or any other that shet, pure film 👍

@Noone-rt6pw

10 ай бұрын

Being there is only better.

@perrybabin8427

10 ай бұрын

And no preaching about global warming.

I love this movie! This is by far the cleanest audio and visual quality of this film on KZread. It's about time this movie was restored. Thank you.

@tyronescott7712

8 ай бұрын

thinking the same thing

@BigdaddyE71

8 ай бұрын

I actually went to Oil City to the cafe and barber shop where this was filmed. All closed down now, but still cool to see.@@tyronescott7712

@jamesprior2496

7 ай бұрын

I noticed that almost immediately.

Love these old creature movies ❤

@donniemayer

10 ай бұрын

99.9% to be precise

@perrybabin8427

10 ай бұрын

By 'creature' are you referring to Jack Elam (the real star of the movie) or the long-haired monster?

@einienj3281

10 ай бұрын

@@perrybabin8427 You decide 😄

❤️I love this movie. Brings back great memories as a kid

Revisiting my childhood. Who remembers NITE OWL THEATER?!... Good Ole movies. To whoever THANKS 👍

@jeffbryan4019

10 ай бұрын

I watched Nite Owl theater a lot !

@rogerrendzak8055

3 ай бұрын

​@@jeffbryan4019 I remember one called 'The Owl And The Pussycat Theater'. Was on, late nights, weekend's. Philly, or NY station, I think🤔.

Fun B movie with Jack Elam and Dub Taylor giving credibility. I remember this movie in the 70's, and it creeped me right out! It was a pleasure to watch it again! It was good enough that I remembered this movie well from when I was 18, or 48 or 49 years ago. I also liked the closing song. Thanks for putting it out!

Thank you ThrillGore for uploading this great Horror movie, I appreciate it! Please keep these great films a coming!

beautifully restored movie! I've seen it several times in the 70's and this print is great! and the funniest line in the movie: "chicken jello"... the two lead guys are great. also. A cult classic.

Wow, crystal-clear copy. Thanks.

Thanks Thrillgore for an oldie but a goody scary 70s flick!!👍👍😊😊👏🏻👏🏻❤️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦

I just love horror / monster movies with no social commentary or politics, which prevades contemporary films in the same genres. Can't we just have some horror for the sake of ...horror?

@PRHILL9696

5 ай бұрын

agree!!

Love the Old Stuff I was 15 in 76 Working .

I'm 63 and I seen this movie when I was just a kid. I've seen it 50 times after and I love it. Jack Elam, Dub Taylor and the 2 Yankees Great movie!!!

I've never seen this movie before, it just goes to show how many movies there are out there; I thought this was terrific effort from everyone involved, in front and behind the camera. As soon as I saw that Dean Cundey was the DOP I had an idea it would be worth watching, and dear old Jack Elam - you don't see talent like that anymore. Thank you for the upload. I am subscribed. 🤗😊❤️

@proto-geek248

4 ай бұрын

Same thing happened to me. I grew up in the 70s & never saw The Crater Lake Monster until recently. Don't know how that one escaped me. It's also available on KZread & is a total hoot.

Dub Taylor was an awesome presence on film and TV .

I've been looking for this movie for years! My uncle took me and my sister to see this at the drive-in. I couldn't remember the name of the movie but the scene with the van rolling over stuck with me. This movie, Jaws and Gray Lady Down fueled my childhood nightmares.

The good old movies thank you

I love everything 70's and I love everything Bigfoot!!

@ronalddunne3413

8 ай бұрын

The '70's were good years to be alive, in many ways.

@proto-geek248

4 ай бұрын

Unparalleled freedom. Crazy fun times.

really amazing scenaries slow pace enjoyable movie..better than 101% of modern era movies..love from Pakistan

Crazy city boys , hanging out where they shouldn’t be hanging out , love it

Held my attention, good movie!

As teenager many many moons ago- I worked at a local restaurant as a “ bus boy( person)” who assisted the waitresses with removing dishes from tables of customers having completed their meals-I saw celebrities occasionally- and one time I met Dub Taylor- got autographs for my Mom and I - when I got home I gave it Mom - she was impressed and thankful- Dub Taylor was a great Actor -and Mom had seen many of his movies- just a memory from back “ in the day.”

Loved it, definitely not a thriller or horror. Comedy all the way

@truthadvocacy

10 ай бұрын

horror comedy

Excellent movie. I love all kinds of horror and creature features. Jack Elam is one of the great actors. Thanks for sharing.

This is one of maybe THREE Bigfoot/Yeti movies that are actually good, fun to watch, and well acted. The other two would be (in my opinion) “The Abominable Snowman” from Hammer films, and “The Legend of Boggy Creek”. Each of these three films explores the topic in its own unique way.

@roddmatsui3554

10 ай бұрын

Cinematographer Dean Cundey built the monster makeup himself! Co-Star Dennis Fimple appeared in many genre films, including a featured role as “Sunfish” in Dino Di Laurentiis’ 1976 “King Kong” remake, which is also not half bad, and worth checking out.

@paul123ggggggggg

10 ай бұрын

@@roddmatsui3554 i love both boggy creek movies. i think there was a third but t wasnt as good.

@trotshot

9 ай бұрын

Well acted ? I must have watched a different movie

@lyndoncmp5751

8 ай бұрын

Id add in Snowbeast 1977 to those three.

@luv2eatpuss79

6 ай бұрын

Night of the Demon@@roddmatsui3554

What a pleasant surprise ! I thoght it was going to be a badly acted, cheap budget film. Excellent picture, sound, colour and two old time actors that were 'stars' in their day and still could teach a thing or two about acting. . Thank you for the upload. Well worth the watch.

The town i grew up in had a black lake that we use to fish,an that jont was scary as a mug

This is the greatest classic Bigfoot movie ever🦍👏👏👏

Just a great movie with a little bit of everything…humor, realism, drama, romance, human interest, great acting and most of all Horror.

Actually, this was pretty good, for what it is. I wasn't quite expecting this to even be watchable, considering what 'Dark Corners Reviews' channel, had rated it. Even Jack Elam (who kinda sucks, with his one-depth personality) was entertaining, and believable. He, AND Dub Taylor (another single, layered actor) played, their parts well. I grew up years ago, watching almost every Bigfoot type of film, I could see, but this is seriously, one of the best.

I just love the old creepy , horror movies ,bring back my child hood years 😮

GREAT movie...exelent memories

Good grief! I can still remember watching this on television in the 70's! It better then most of them!

I haven't seen this in decades. Thank you!

TY, I really enjoyed it. ☮️❤️ AWESOME 👍💪

Saw this back in the 1970s. Pretty good movie.

I remember reading about the skunk ape down in the south. The stories here do match the first hand accounts I'd read back in the day.

The ending was surprising. I am so glad.

Much better than expected ,great to see Jack Elam one of my all times faves. Seems it ended with the possibility of a second helping,be great if you found it. Nice upload.thanx.

A good funny movie reminds me of my countryside days in1970

Hey talking about getting in to a good movie , got to the part early where the two men pulled in to get gas . They did not show it but gas back then was only 70 cents a gallon . I am 54 and I know it was a long time ago but man the movie seeing it is like going back . Seems like yesterday for me for all the memories it brought back. Really good ones!

Really good movie, thank you! Believable, good acting, good dialogues. Far better than many known horrors from that era.

These movies will always hold a special place in my heart. That is why I still watch them. I can be a kid again.

1976! I moved that year on June 21st to Massachusetts from California. It was my 34th birthday!

@ronalddunne3413

8 ай бұрын

Out of the frying pan into the fire, eh?

@garyabbott3861

6 ай бұрын

San Francisco was pretty nice back then. It hadn't the problem with homeless in downtown it has today. But even now (My friend lives near the modern church called St. Mary of the Maytag It looks like the inside of a washing machine). His neighborhood is perfectly safe and while expensive (he pays for a small single room with shared facilities what I pay for a three-room apartment with a sunny deck in Portland, ME) he makes very good money. He is still working; I have been retired for 17 years. I lived in Cambridge, not Boston - There is a HUGE difference. @@ronalddunne3413

It looks spooky 🤯 ok I'm watching it now 👀🤪🍿🍪

I remember the trailer for this movie scared me. My uncle wanted all of us to go to the drive inn to see it. I was 6 in 1976. I didn't watch all of it. I was too busy playing on the little playground they had in the back. Ill never forget the level of fear i had from just the trailer on TV

That movie was good them to dudes were brave,an the one boy was so frisky for the girl when he said you ready for the north to meet the south

Dennis Fimple is funny as hell in this ! What a great actor! I also loved him in “House of 1000 Corpses” 🤓

Better then I thought it would be. Thank you. 😱😱😱

I'm guessing late 60's early 70's not a bad movie at all and actually one I haven't seen great video keep up the good work 👌

@toddlevine9377

4 ай бұрын

Says 1976 in the title.

Love see the older actors. 😊

This is 2023, the film was made what 1970's? I think I was in OK when I watched it, maybe, while visiting. Then in mid 80's, I relocated to North Louisiana, Bienville Parish. You live there, out of town, kind of in the woods, actually in the woods, it gives this movie more meaning.

I really enjoyed this movie!! Thank you!! 😊

Loved it ❤

I didn’t know I would enjoy this movie so much! I love the old movie charm, the actors, no pretentiousness, the Bigfoot was also scary. I would definitely watch it again! 👍

@richardwallace1405

2 ай бұрын

had that texas chainsaw massacre feel to it

@deepalall647

2 ай бұрын

@@richardwallace1405 Yeah, the 70’s movie style was great especially horror/triller/slasher and gore.

The best bit was when the mum saw the creature, ran off and left the child. What a woman.

@yogaswarisponnudurai2564

10 ай бұрын

😂

@mr.adventure0142

9 ай бұрын

Don't forget wth the other mum when she fight with a giant killer Grizzly after he attack the child. What a woman too.

@ronalddunne3413

8 ай бұрын

People panic, even young mothers. Unusual to leave the child, but it happens...

@phoebus

6 ай бұрын

You don't have to run faster than Bigfoot, just faster than your kid.

my interest was kept the entire time… quality film! Thank you so much for posting!

Love this one

Man, the incongruity in this flick is just unconscionable.

I have never heard of this movie until now, but if it has Jack Elam in it, I'm ready to try. Especially with Dub Taylor along for the ride.

What a movie

I've never seen a Ruger 10/22 with such insane recoil!! He must have been using HOT reloads!!!

@ronalddunne3413

8 ай бұрын

LOL! Mine sure doesnt kick at all. Frankly, I carried a .308 lever rifle on my '70's backwoods excursions. We were hunting Colorado cattle mutilators. Probably best we didnt find any...

@olcaptain4491

7 ай бұрын

That was 44 mag version of that rifle look at how he loaded it

@gern7535

7 ай бұрын

@@olcaptain4491 no it wasn't. I have both models.

@classicgunstoday1972

3 ай бұрын

I’ve been trying to figure out his rifle for years. For a long time I thought it was an M1 Carbine without a magazine and they were just working the bolt and shooting a blank. Now that the film quality is cleaned up, it looks more like a Ruger 10/22 but the cartridges he’s messing with in the van look longer than .22 LR...BUT it looks like he’s feeding them into some kind of tubular magazine like a shotgun or lever action from the belly.

Why are there no lakes named white lake? Why is it always black lake, black lagoon? Something wrong being white?

@Ivan-cr3vc

23 күн бұрын

There's a White Bear lake in Minnesota if that will do. 🤠

Great movie. Good acting. Love these old movies. 9/10 👋🇦🇺

Jack Elam must’ve been scrapped for cash, anywho great picture quality, good flick to kick back and let the time pass by:C-.

My late-brother and I saw this at the Saturday Matinee showing back in 1976.

Wow, this is right in line with "The legend Of Boggy Creek" 1973 movie. The early 1970s were all about Bigfoot! love it...

1:23:00 That good ol' classic Ruger 10-22. Still have one from 1964, and a newer Take-Down version, that shoots dead on, after thousands of rounds, and decades of use.

Great monster movie. Thanks!

This movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid

Jack Elam must've been in a million movies .

@cneterer

Ай бұрын

I love him with Willie Nelson in "Where the Hell's that Gold?" and with Dick Van Dyke in "Never a Dull Moment." Edward G. Robinson co-stars with them in that one.

you gotta love the 70s

Liked and subbed This movie was better than 95% of all movies made after 2001 ❤

Just found you. Wow! Defintely new sub.

Yea, the golden age of the 70s with all the strange animal horror movies!

Portland, Maine, has a crypto-zoology museum. They have a seven-foot Big-Foot. My favorite cryptid is the Jersey Devil.

@cneterer

Ай бұрын

Last year for Christmas my mother gave me the book "The United States of Cryptids." It profiles one unique cryptid for each state in America. If you don't know of it, it's a fun read.

This was good! Held my attention throughout and scared the little kid in me.

Pretty good movie, Thanks for the up-load 👍

The Choctaw War with Bigfoot is a great documentary.

I wasn't expecting too much with this, especially when I saw Bill Thurman was in it, but it actually turned out not bad.

I remember when people were seeing Bigfoot behind every tree… lol

@GG-jw8pt

10 ай бұрын

Maybe the same one? Tip toes very fast and disappears behind the thinnest of trees making a strange piano type tinkle whilst doing so. 👍🇬🇧

Now there a mother for you she justs leaves the baby and run mosts mothers get their baby before they run a good mother loves her baby❤❤❤❤.

Fantastic quality!!

I love this movie wish they would have made another one

@ronalddunne3413

8 ай бұрын

@@rammit.online2 Nah, not really...

Clearance or campty would have been a better town .. Oil city is around 80 miles away .. Cypress lake is right by oil city Louisiana..

Good solid film, with a nail biter at the end. Thanks to ThrillGore for the upload.

Saw this at the base theater, to forget the horrors of pulling out of South Nam a year earlier. Still love the movie today, for Family Friendly values, and more. Sure wish Hollyweird hadn't gone all gross, with their super Gore, Mayhem, and anti-Cultural Decency manure they put out today.

@ronalddunne3413

8 ай бұрын

I think you meant Hollywood IN-decency manure, but yeah.

@OdeeOz

8 ай бұрын

Keep taking people out of context @@ronalddunne3413 You'll believe your lies in the end.

Thanks for the upload, love the 70s ❤movie

As Cryptozoology related films go on the topic of Bigfoot, the present popular repeated reports were, for the most part, save for the artistic movie drama, were on target. I could've used much more of the acting talents of Jack Elam and character actor Dub Taylor . The ending lacked but all and all was worth the watch. Thumbs 👍 up.

အထူးကျေးဇူးပါဗျာ .❤❤❤❤❤😊😊..။။

One of the best made.

Creature from the black lagoon, oh, lake. Dammit.

I actually enjoyed this movie 🎬 😊

This is a drive in movie 4sure.loved it

Brilliant!

Interesting. Worth the watch.

@rickybobby6579

10 ай бұрын

6 ot 7 years after

RIP 1920-Jack Elam-2003 RIP