The Lake

I did not like this movie. I thought it was slow paced and that it did not have any scares. The acting was terrible. I feel like in a few scenes the lead actors forgot their lines. It is clearly a horror movie, not a thriller, but it has no horror.

The characters are very one-dimensional as well. We have seen them all before.

The plot is a retread as well. There is a creative twist at the end, but it is too little, too late.

I did like this movie, I thought Anja Knebl was quite adorable! Her acting skills were good, I hope to see her in more movies, she has a very likable face.

The story held my interest through most of it, the typical bully/revenge story with some twists. The antagonists were not that great, but they were effective enough to make it believable, and led to some good suspenseful moments. And yea, I think all the young women in this film were pretty good eye candy as well!

The last parts of the film got pretty weak, predicable and almost silly, the ending may leave you hanging, or saying "What?". But overall it was a decent B movie as long as you dont expect too much. Best of luck Anja, you are quite accomplished and I hope to see you do more!

Seriously the only good part of the movie was the beginning with the Rumanians who lost her daughter before the opening titles. Those were the only people that can act and they hardly said anything. The rest of the movie was one of the dumbest, poorly written and poorly acted movies I have ever seen. Not one person after the opening titles could act at all. Worst bunch of amateur acting ever.. The littlest boy of the family was the only one that was believable when he was scared by the ghost.

Needless to say that I had never heard about the 2017 horror movie titled "The Lake" prior to now late in 2022, as I happened to get a chance to sit down and watch it. I wasn't really expecting a whole lot from the movie, as I didn't know anyone on the cast list and never had heard about it.

But I do believe in giving a movie a fair chance, and thus I opted to sit down and watch what director Elgin Cahill had to offer with "The Lake".

And let me just say that it wasn't a whole lot that was offered. Nay, this movie was amateurish on every level. Sure, there was ambition behind the project, but the script from writers Elgin Cahill and Wendy Winterbourne was just so very slow paced, monotonous, generic and uneventful. So yeah, you're not going to find yourself in for a grand horror experience if you opt to watch "The Lake".

The acting performances in the movie were wooden, rigid and fairly amateurish. But then again, it was fitting for a movie of this magnitude. I can't really point out a single actress or actor and say that this performer stood out.

For a horror movie then "The Lake" was a swing and a miss. Well, unless you consider a slow paced narrative of practically nothing happening as horror.

My rating of "The Lake" lands on a generous two out of ten stars.

Was a pretty good movie until the 2 comedic "Sheriffs" showed up... lost my interest at that point because they made jokes about how someone died... as I said... it was a good movie up till that point it became a joke.