Scariest Monsters in America

Essentially a mixture of The Lost Tapes and the UnXplained series combined for a full length Doc. While the "experts" are absolutely pitifully comical with their supreme insights, the visuals are actually well put together. A mixture of updated creature CGI renderings as well as ominous camera work/reenactments keeps crypto fans intrigued.

The trailer made this look semi interesting but after watching it I must admit this show absolutely sucks...They show random footage but fail to explain what and where this footage is or who captured it...The narrative is annoyingly typical..Awful production if you ask me.this is a great subject matter but lacks anything that would be even remotely interesting...It is based on urban legends and folklore more than on actual encounters and all the encounters are haphazardly thrown into the already nerve wracking script so you never really get a grasp or any real understanding of with you are looking at.

Tubi has been putting out a number of true crime/paranormal documentaries lately such as Americas Most Haunted: Amityville, Fresh Meat: Jeffrey Dahmer and now Americas Scariest Monsters. Having watched them all I can say they keep getting worse.

The current trend in these type of documentaries is a more slow, dreadful approach. Tubi however says forget all that, we're going to edit our documentaries in a style that was popular in the late nineties and early aughts - the hyper-edited, fast paced style.

They also continue to use 'social media influencers' as the majority of their interviews which basically consists of these people just regurgitating what they read off Wikipedia and saying "ooh how spooky".

Just like the other Tubi docs, if you want to actually learn anything, you won't here. 10 cryptid stories across 85 minutes, you do the math.

Put it on only if you want something in the background.

Could whoever produced this consider having a word with the President of the USA to maybe make an "American" national anthem, then you can leave the "British" national anthem out of your 'murica the great' opening, says alot that this got past Everybody!

A lot of the paranormal and cryptozoological documentaries you find on streaming are painfully boring and way too drawn out. Scariest Monsters in America avoids this by having absolutley no filler. There's no investigations where nothing happens or heavily teased evidence that also amounts to nothing. The program simply talks about the featured legends and then moves on organically, which is so refreshing. You see that on podcast and Youtube videos, but actual movies and specials are rarely so concise.

I would also describe this as a bit of a throwback to the cozy monster documentaries that aired on the Discovery Channel in the late '90s. It's not super comprehensive on the folklore, and if you have even a passing interest in this subject matter, there's probably very little that would be new to you, but it's a fun thing to curl up and watch. Tubi once agian exceeds my expectations.