Lake Fear (2014)

Very Cool!!!

Fresh and Exciting

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Tina (Jessica Willis) wins a U-Tube dare and goes to a cabin in the woods with 3 other friends. Here there is a tape recorder and they break a TV as evil things happen as an homage to "Evil Dead."The acting was hit and miss, i.e. the girls did better as evil characters The dialogue and scenes were mostly stolen from other films. The commentary on the film tells you where they stole obscure scenes from other films: "Predator 2", "The Ring," "Skeleton Key,: "Feardotcom," "Carrie", and "Ichi the killer." The commentary was unprofessional as we get to listen to the rustling of a bag of chip as well as the crunching while being eaten. The rest of the time they discuss why the scene didn't work and the film they wanted to make had they been able to get the insurance for using chainsaws.( Most chainsaws don't use the blade and have their sound dubbed.)Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity. Girls in bra/panties or a bikini because Jori's mother wouldn't her be shot in her undies.

Stop me if you've heard this one before. Four pretty, young girls go off to an isolated campsite and some horrific things happen to them. Yeah, it sounds like a mid-80's horror flick but it's really a modern twist on that genre.Cypress Creek starts out like any other formulaic horror film. The four main characters are introduced to the audience as they get ready for their weekend trip to a secluded cabin. Once they arrive they have to hike into the woods to reach the cabin. They come across a lake that they need to cross. It's fairly deep so they have to strip down to cross. Of course they do.Once they get to the cabin all hell breaks loose. At this point Cypress Creek diverges for the genre in a big way. This is a low budget film to be sure but the director does an excellent job with the resources he has access to. There are crazy camera angles, very good use of light and shadow and some creepy special effects. To say it is surreal is an understatement. It is as if Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson and Quentin Tarantino got together to make a movie. Things get bloody and downright demented. While the acting is so-so, the movie itself really delivers. Any horror fan will like this film. I am a sucker for small budget films but I can only imagine what the filmmakers could have created with a big budget.

Awful isn't even enough to describe this failed piece of a movie. It shouldn't even be called a movie because it just has no beginning and no end. Even for a low budget movie it's "horrible"First of all, the movie starts like the average teenager horror movies. You get shown the crew, 4 teenager girls, who won a travel to a cabin in the woods via YouTube. Yes that is true a cabin in the fu**ing woods. And from the time they arrive, you just don't know what's happening. I watched the entire movie and I really have no clue what the f**k is going on. This is literally just some random visual effects put in a blender and this "movie" is the outcome. I have never wasted my time before in my life as with this piece of s**t. I hope, that everyone who finds this movie through IMDb, looks at the user reviews and reads mine because I REALLY WANT that NOBODY has to watch this movie ever again! I am outta here!

A rating of 5,5?! Really?!? I'm usually not someone to use big words and I like to look for the teeniest positive thing in every movie, however bad they may be, but here I stand with my back to a concrete wall: this is by far the worst attempt to a horror movie that I have seen so far!! Where to begin? The plot is non-existent, the direction (if any) is beyond amateurish, as is the photography. The sound is terrible, the voices sound sometimes loud and echoing, sometimes muffled or like someone speaks from under water. The editing is lame, many takes where nothing happens (someone walking through a room for instance) are prolonged too the extreme. There is no acting at all, it's like the maker (I won't give him the credit of calling him director) asked some friends to walk and talk before his camera just for the fun of it (well, definitely not OUR fun!). The camera by the way is never stable, every image trembles and tilts, as if they didn't have money for a decent trolley or even a tripod. And the special effects and scares? None whatsoever. They try to create a sort of The Ring atmosphere, with flashy images of supposed ghostlike persons, but you just watch it in bored disbelief in stead of fright. And what the hell was supposed to be going on there?! Never any explanation. It stays as mysteriously as why these girls went to the house anyway. In short: total waste of our time and of their budget of 8000 dollar, as IMDb pointed out. For a movie it's nothing, I know, but still 8000 dollars too much.