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.

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.

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.

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!

This wasn't terrible but not groundbreaking either. It's a basic documentary covering all of the most well-known cryptids. Just an overview really without going into a lot of depth. There's not much new here for those of us who are into this kind of thing but it's a good introduction for someone less interested as a casual watch.

Many speakers are reputable, but some of their sources are of dubious credentials or seemingly ill suited to talk with any authority. That's one complaint I had. Along with authors and folklore researchers on this topic, they include others with titles such as "content creator" and "social media influencer." Why do I care what they have to say about cryptids?

Also as I stated before, I just wished they would have gone into the stories a little deeper to get those interesting, lesser known, local kind of facts.

For example, they have a segment about the Jersey Devil. That's in my backyard about 30 minutes away. What they don't tell you is that we still have people here descendant from the original Leeds family living in the area. They are actually "related" to the Jersey Devil. And you can still go to find the house where the Devil was born. The actual structure is mostly wrecked but the foundation and grounds are intact. Last I checked anyway, some 20 years ago.

Small things like that could have made the documentary more colorful. Maybe all of that wouldn't fit into the runtime.

Anyway, that's all. It's worth watching if you're curious or have somebody you'd like to introduce to cryptids. If you've been intimately acquainted with the subject, just don't expect anything extraordinary.