Lake Dead

Nothing new here, it has everything you'd expect from a movie like this.

It's a proper B-movie, but that doesn't mean it has its charm.

What is a bit strange is how high-pitch talk everyone has, and the sound guy wasn't doing the best job. Again - it's a B-movie, and it is what it is.

I look forward to Horrorfest each year, and I always expect a few clunkers in the group, but this one was truly awful. You can see the plot points coming a mile away, and it clearly plays to the teenage T&A crowd. While I don't mind a dose of that in a movie, the horror elements also have to be there for me to enjoy the flick, and in this case, there is just nothing there.

The deaths are a bit creative but, again, nothing that hasn't been done 100 time already. Also, there are enough plot holes to drive a truck through, and a few of the scenes and lines had the audience laughing out loud.

Wait for them to show it on TNT.

Three sisters, upon learning that their Grandfather that they never knew has recently died and left them a motel, decide to take a road trip with some friends to the property not knowing that some deviant lunatics are awaiting them there.

Imagine "The Hills have Eyes" and "Texas Chainsaw Massacre". Now imagine if those films had no wit, no finesse, and were deathly boring. OK now you have a good idea what to expect if you're forced to endure this crappy little film. Easily one of the worst of the second crop of "8 films to die for" that I've seen thus far (I've seen 4 of them including this)

Eye Candy: Malea Richardson provides the T&A

My Grade: D-

Yes, a lot of clichés and a lot of ideas from other movies - "Wrong Turn", "Last House On The Left", "The Hills Have Eyes"... and many more... And of course all of them have one starting point: original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1974).

Anyway, scenes were solid, camera was OK, even acting wasn't bad. We have young, good looking girls and boys, we have sex and violence... funny and stupid scenes, gore, freaking family... everything you can expect from B-Movie slasher.

Anyway, not expect something special, and something new... but you can take some beer and you can enjoy in this movie.

"Lake Dead" 5/10

I found the concept to be pretty decent, but the execution is pretty poor. The story seems pretty interesting with a couple of teenagers inheriting a motel from their deceased grandfather only to discover a dark secret. Unfortunately, the reveal is pretty predictable and seems similar to the wrong turn movie. It doesn't do a good job on building up with the opening already showing what is going to happen in the movie. The movie itself isn't that interesting because it goes through the same tropes like any other movie and is predictable to guess what happened next. It also isn't suspenseful because things happen pretty quickly, and there's a lack of tension that happened in the movie. The climax itself is underwhelming and ends really disappointing. The ending is also generic.