Lake Placid: The Final Chapter

This movie is so bad it becomes comical, hence why I can give it a vote well above the lowest possible. Also there are some half decent special effects. The story is nonsense about zombie crocodiles attacking people especially a group of students who have gone to the wrong beach. The acting is atrociously bad. Whoever directed or edited this film seem to have the continuity all over the place as at one time a rescue team is in a park then suddenly on a motor boat. The scariest thing about the film is the actress Yancy Butler, and almost all the players in this film are laughable and the longer this movie goes on the more I was cheering for the crocodiles.

4/10.

TV movie, originally shown on Syfy, and the fourth (although not actually final) entry in the Lake Placid series. We get Yancy Butler reprising her role from the previous movie (a seriously retconned death! 😂), Elisabeth Rohm (late of Law & Order), a couple of British ex-soap 'stars' - plus a handful of British and Bulgarian (where it was filmed) models, whose main purpose seems to be losing their bikini tops. Oh, there's Robert Englund.

Very low budget, poor CGI, with a story that does little more than simply string together some croc attacks and bloody deaths. Yancy Butler (good to see her again) is actually pretty badass, and the best thing in it, and Robert England always makes a good 'despicable excuse for a human being'. Otherwise, the performances are pretty poor. Okay for background watching, but not worth making a point of seeing. 4/10.

At the end of the third film we are left to assume the feisty "cougar" Reba is dead- This is not the case. The fourth film opens with her having survived the attack and now working with the local authorities to contain the vicious reptiles. Enter the new sheriff of the city, her daughter and a ruthless, out for himself poacher played by Robert Englund of Freddy Krueger fame.

This film is better than the standard SyFy fare, and as for the franchise better than parts 2 and 3. Yancy Butler is once again an entertaining and ass kicking force. If you suffered through the last 2 sequels then give this one a chance because as far as entertainment value goes it's way beyond the previous offerings (except of course the first.)

The Black Lake is isolated from the local inhabitants by an electric barrier built by the Army engineers. The engineer Ryan Loflin (Paul Nicholls) and his son Max (Benedict Smith) are working in the protection barrier and Sheriff Theresa Giove (Elisabeth Röhm) is trying to exterminate the crocodiles from the lake working with the former poacher Reba (Yancy Butler). When the sheriff's daughter Chloe (Poppy Lee Friar) accepts the invitation of her schoolmates to go to a camping party by the lake, the reckless driver does not pay attention on the road, crosses the gate and mistakenly stops by the Black Lake. Meanwhile a group of poachers led by the hunter Jim Bickerman (Robert Englund) also trespass the gate to hunt crocodiles and seek worthy crocodile eggs. Soon they are attacked by giant crocodiles.

"Lake Placid: The Final Chapter" is a TV Movie with lame effects and a very funny story. Yancy Butler is awful in the role of the non- charismatic Reba. The cast has names such as Robert Englund) and Elisabeth Röhm. Despite the reference to the final chapter, the conclusion seems to indicate a possible sequel of the franchise.My vote is four.

Title (Brazil): "Pânico no Lago: O Capítulo Final" ("Panic in the Lake: The Final Chapter")

Stumbled upon this cinematic gem this morning by chance and was I pleasantly surprised. The effects were absolutely horrible when it came to the crocs but in a good way. I imagine this would have aired on SCIFI aside from the profanity and brief nudity. Overall I would recommend if you got some time to kill or find your insomnia acting up.