Bog (1979)

I purchased the movie as I am a devout fan of Gloria DeHaven and had never even heard of it before. From the first scene I became aware of the poor quality of the film (which was factory-sealed) and also the mundane acting. The scary parts were just plain stupid. Gloria DeHaven was good in her roll as Ginny and the love story line was pat. I just couldn't believe that an actress of her quality could have stooped to such a clunker. I was also aggravated that I couldn't find a date anywhere on the tape. I knew by the cars and fashions that it had been done in the 70's, but the date on the cover said 1988. Not possible. Was this monstrosity ever released in theaters? Dear God who would have paid to see it? Looked like the most low-budget horror flick ever!!

The unfairly neglected cheap-rubber-monster-suit-on-the-loose flick, a rather abundant and often entertainingly abysmal 70's nickel'n'dime horror film sub-genre, hits one of its all-time most delightfully dreadful lows with this simply pathetic entry featuring a once-in-a-lifetime Hall of Shame has-been faded name star cast who should have called it quits a good ten years ago.A green-skinned bloodsucking slime creature (Jeff Schwaab in an extremely hokey and unconvincing shabby rubber suit) prays upon the various dim-witted hayseed locals in some lousy bayou burg located in Wisconsin. Out to stop the vile beast are geriatric Dr. Brad Wednesday (a long in the tooth Marshall Thompson), equally aged pathologist/gratuitous love interest Ginny Glenn (the similarly over the hill Gloria De Haven, who also plays a creepy, withered, fright-wigged old hag witch complete with creaky, rasping voice who looks after the monster), and paunchy, ineffectual redneck Sheriff Neal Rydholm (the inescapable Aldo Ray, delivering a typically woozy, glassy-eyed, two pints under "I hope my paltry $300 dollar check I'm making for acting in this turkey clears so I can score more booze" performance). Why, even yet another far past his prime fuddy dud thesp Leo Gordon pops up in the last few reels as your basic googly-moogly swamp monster expert from the big city.Man, does this stinker reek worse than dirty unwashed socks: we've got excruciatingly slow pacing, severely chintzy'n'ratty production values, clumsy use of freeze frames, a foul, grainy, washed-out look, some uproariously awful dialogue ("From the way these women are acting we aren't going to see any action in years!"), inept, zingless direction by Don Kesslar, no energy to speak of, a thuddingly dull emphasis on boring chitchat, uniformly flat and uninteresting characters, tedious acting from a noticeably out of it cast, annoying constant references to fishing for muskie, and an unforgettably horrid country and western theme song called "Walk With Me" that's tunelessly warbled by the tone deaf Pat Hopkins. All of these toxically terrible ingredients do their proverbial best/worst to make this brain-numbing abomination an oddly enjoyable, but undeniably wretched clunker of a shoddy fright feature. Nicest cruddy touch: the way the camera pans away at the last minute and zooms in on a gripping close-up of a nearby bush whenever the monster attacks someone, therefor entreating the frustrated and dissatisfied viewer to the victim's shrill, piercing off-screen cries of bloodcurdling terror as the beast allegedly rips 'em to shreds.

WOW where do i begin to describe this complete waste of time.i bought this on VHS for a dollar at a flea market and after watching it i realize that it is also the cost of the budget.the creature is so stupid and funny looking it could easily be on sesame street.but the puppets on sesame street are made way better.this is obviously a ripoff of humanoids from the deep about creatures from the sea that mate with females.humanoids from the deep is a classic and this pile of crap is a headache.the acting in this is worse than bruce campbells acting if you can believe that.no matter what you do do not watch this movie you will regret it.

Bog is a RIOT! I watched it twice in one week after I figured out what a PERFECT bad movie it is. This movie has everything a bad movie should. In parts it is reminiscent of both Pod People and Giant Spider Invasion. It has crazy hermits that talk like cartoon characters, bumbling outdoorsy city husbands who lose their wives to the mysterious creature and take off after it with whatever firearms they can muster up, a creepy old livin'-in-the-woods-tellin'-fortunes lady, a sheriff who says such wonderful things as "hypodeemic nerdle" instead of hypodermic needle, and... well you get the picture. Perfect MST3K fodder!!!