But he would laugh at himself because he couldn’t go out and do a gangster film or a standard love story. He was so skilled at scraping together a way to do things.
Pierce’s daughter Amanda Squitiero later said, “It’s amazing to me that he just always made things happen. In 2008, two years before his death, the Arkansas Times deemed him “a state treasure spirit of determination separates real independence from the stale marketing category we call the independents.” Though his pictures mostly did not draw much attention from national film critics, several became cult classics, and Pierce is now recognized as a pioneering, truly indie, maverick 1970s filmmaker. Pierce went on to direct thirteen features as a regional filmmaker, working primarily in Arkansas, where he became a local institution. Twenty-seven years later, it was also the primary influence on another documentary-style hit indie horror film: The Blair Witch Project (1999). Pierce had made his first feature, the pseudo-documentary horror film The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972), in his home state of Arkansas for $160,000 it became an indie sensation and grossed an astounding $25 million, becoming the tenth highest grossing film of the year. Pepperdine, and the director himself even takes a small role. Pierce’s son plays Joel, co-screenwriter Earl E. Filmed in Montana, largely in Glacier National Park, in the fall of 1975, the cast is sprinkled with a few familiar names such as Jack Elam, Jeanette Nolan and Dub Taylor, but is mostly filled with unknowns.
Pepperdine, realizes where Joel has gone, he grabs his guns and sets out after the boy. An independently made revenge western, The Winds of Autumn (1976) centers on an eleven-year-old Quaker boy, Joel Rigney, who sets out for vengeance against a band of outlaws who have wiped out his family.
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