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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Trinity
EAN: 0692865189336
Feature: When a local begins fishing with dynamite in Bog Lake, something a bit larger pops to the surface- a green, bug-eyed mutant monster awakened from a long sleep, which promptly begins killing and eating fishermen who stumble across its lair. When Biologist Ginny discovers the creature s nature, the local sheriff decides to use any method to destroy the tenacious beast. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:&
Format: Color, DVD, Full length, Full Screen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Trinity Entertainment
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Trinity Entertainment
MPN: T-1893
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Trinity Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 25, 2005
Running Time: 90 minutes
Studio: Trinity Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1984
Features:- When a local begins fishing with dynamite in Bog Lake, something a bit larger pops to the surface- a green, bug-eyed mutant monster awakened from a long sleep, which promptly begins killing and eating fishermen who stumble across its lair. When Biologist Ginny discovers the creature s nature, the local sheriff decides to use any method to destroy the tenacious beast. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:&
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Studio: Peace Arch Home Entertain Release Date: 10/25/2005 Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Pg
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I saw this film on the shelf of my local video store when I was a kid. I saw the box many times, and thought the movie actually looked kinda scary, but I never rented it for some unknown reason. Years passed and I'd see it from time to time in various stores and rental places, or read about it in a video guide. Well, after watching it recently, Bog definitely decided to kick my ass for all the years of neglect(though I should have just gotten it over with back when I was 6).
I've always loved the concept of creatures coming out of the ocean/lake/swamp, etc. This relatively simple story involves a fish-man type creature that attacks folks out in the woods and sucks their blood. Sounds like fun, but it really isn't. For me it wasn't the bad acting, the silly music or any of that stuff people usually point out. What bugs the hell out of me is that it looked so bad. Fans of low budget films are quite used to cheap looking films and bad picture quality, but even we have our limits from time to time. The look of Bog isn't camcorder, but it's very grainy, murky, dark and blurry. You really never get a decent look at the monster because of this. The movie was nothing to rave about to begin with, but it would have been considerably better if it had simply looked a bit clearer and slicker. Not Spielberg quality for crying out loud, but something. Hell, this made the Corpse Grinders look professional.
Movies like Bog and Blood Hook make me think that horror films made in Wisconsin should maybe be avoided in the future. This hurts me to say considering I friggin' live here!!! But hey, at least I'm being objective and not biased!
Venture into the Bog at your own risk, bubba.
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I found "Bog" to be everything I expected. It was made back in the day, way back in the day.
The rubber suit effects smacked of the original Godzilla all over again.
I was especially emamoured by the Kim Pierce character, played by the wild and wacky, Lou Hunt.
I think that everyone enrolled in a film school shoud examine this movie closely as there are lessons to be learned here.
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I'm writing this because, just recently, Chicago designer Leroy Winbush passed away. He played the lead scuba diver in "Bog," which was shot in the mid-70's. Somehow Leroy was lured into this movie, probably because he was a diver. He never got paid and never saw the movie until I found a copy in a video store. When he saw it, he just shook his head. Some, if not all, of the underwater scenes were shot in a quarry in Redgranite, Wisconsin, by somebody with a 16mm wind-up Bolex in an underwater housing. I know. I was there. Here is my speculation. Most likely the entire movie was shot in 16mm. I think Nelsen Entertainment was a local group of people who were slick-talked by some Hollywood types into funding the project. They later realized how bad it was and tried to cut their losses by putting it out on video for rental. It never made it to the theaters. It has all the earmarks of an unfinished product hastily assembled. I think the rough film cut was transferred to video and edited at a Chicago photo store. The poor film quality was made even worse by the poor video transfer. The occasional freeze frames at certain cut points are baffling. The open and closing credits were blue-bordered because the film titles were too wide for the TV screen. The disastrous script would have made this an amusing b-grade horror film if it wasn't for the poor production. Compare this movie with "Jaws," which was made around the same time period.
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Buying this movie I thought it would be like "creature from black lake", "The Legend of Boggy Creek", or "shock Waves". Well Im a lover of cheesey movies but this movie was too cheesey. Very sharp cheesey. I was time warping watching this movie. First I felt the 70's with the acting . Then I felt the 50's with the movie music. Then I felt the 70's again with the theme song in the begining and at the end of the movie. All in all I got what I payed for, a very sharp cheesey movie. Not bad but not that good, just very cheesey!
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Contrary to the snazzy packaging this is a decades-old film. Fishing with dynamite on Bog Lake releases a deadly creature (although later scenes hint that it has been running around for a while). We see the action as it pertains to a couple of tourists who are almost never without a beer can in their hands, the local sheriff, the coroner and a doctor. Although local law enforcement is slow to accept the cause, they do recognize that there is something killing people.
Eventually people believe there really is a creature. That's when it gets really odd. The Sheriff gets some friends to go diving in the lake after he already knows doing so is deadly. In the early scenes, the creature's point of view makes it huge but when we see it, it is only man-sized. The ME and doctor spout a lot of scientific words that make little to no sense as is typical in these movies. But in the end we have a typical low-budget film with some final revelations and mysteries.
Nothing great here although the characterizations are almost all humourous, from the drunken Avery Schrieber look-a-like to the bi-polar sheriff. Trying to make sense of the science will tie your brain in knots. There are no clear shots of the creature an only a few un-clear ones. Mostly we just get the characters running around acting silly. Still, if you like rubber-suit monsters there is a slim chance you might get a kick out of this one.
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