 In an Orlando Sentinel article that ran on Halloween, Myrick identified "The Legend of Boggy Creek" as the one film that most inspired him.On September 2, 2010, Pierce was inducted into the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion in Little Rock.Pierce is part of the plot of the 2014 film "The Town That Dreaded Sundown", a meta-sequel to Pierce's 1976 film of the same name.