DOVER, Tenn. (AP) — Charles B. Pierce, an independent filmmaker whose inexpensively made documentary-style 1972 horror movie “The Legend of Boggy Creek” influenced the hit film “The Blair Witch Project” decades later, died on Friday at a nursing home here. He was 71.
His death was confirmed by Wayne Anglin of Anglin Funeral Home. No cause was specified.
Mr. Pierce grew up in Hampton, Ark., and as an adult lived in nearby Texarkana, where he was running an advertising agency when he made the movie that became a hit at drive-in theaters and gained him fame.
