Cryptid: The Swamp Beast

This will sound strange but the acting is just to good. If it was a documentary the people would be much more stoic, these are to well rehearsed. Just take it for what it is "a wind up".

Seriously, when I found out this was scripted and ACTED, the show just got better to me. The performances of the real people are so beautifully done, shot, edited, and then, tied in with the actors whose performances are so good, it made me not even question this was fake documentary for a couple episodes.

But, when I found out it was, I just loved it more. The whole show is acted, shot and edited with such care and realism, it's brilliant. This could EASILY be a one hour supernatural drama and I would watch it.

I just wish that the History channel would embrace that it's a SHOW, and let whoever writes and produces this run with it. List the cast, the writers, producers, and stop shying away from what it is.

The Hysteria Channel (once known as The History Channel, before it started concocting "history" of its own) has gone and done it this time: they've given us "dramatizations" and "reenactments" that add up- in this case- to a VERY watchable "s/he said" mockumentary. I wholeheartedly agree with the reviewer who likened it to the LOST TAPES show done a few years back by The Animal Planet; both shows use(d) the BLAIR WITCH PROJECT "found footage" approach to good effect. From the 1938 radio broadcast of WAR OF THE WORLDS to THE ALIEN AUTOPSY video, it's all good. (One can almost see an upcoming Halloween broadcast on The Hystory Channel about an alien invasion of a small backwater town- told, of course, "through dramatizations and reenactments," and based on "eyewitness accounts.") If I have one complaint, it's that these shows aren't being aired where they rightfully belong- on The SyFy Channel.

I usually love these kind of shows but after watching a marathon of this show, there is so much chaos and you never see anything. Seems more like a really bad soap opera.

Well directed. There's a cohesive script. The local actors are convincing. The scenes with the actors are interspersed with real person interviews. Jami "Captain One Eye" Burns is one of the highlights. The history of the Rougarou and the various interpretations of the monster is informative. Entertaining and fun.