Wow two horror deaths in less than one week (If you count Corey Haim that is) . The Legend of Boggy Creek director, Charles B. Pierce, died on Friday at a nursing home. No cause was specified. He was 71.

Pierce’s low budget documentary-type horror flick, about a creature lurking in an Arkansas swam, paved the way for and influenced movies like The Blair Witch. Other horror credits include The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Boggy Creek II and the 1973 made for TV movie Killer Bees.