Wicked Lake (2008)

Wow! Such a good movie.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I've seen a lot of bad movies over six decades, but this is the first that I find truly detestable. Yes, it's incompetently made—terrible acting, muddy photography, plus non-existent script. But what really disgusts me is the celebration of sadism in so many bloody forms. In fact, that's what the execrable 90-minutes really glories in. Then too, mix all the pain and blood with nude scenes that never get past the teasing stage, and you've got the truly dreadful. Heck, even the bare breasts lost any allure. There is, however, a subtext that in the hands of a competent filmmaker might have been worth salvaging. Something about abused girls finding the strength to finally fight off their red-neck abusers. But that would have meant putting this crew back in the playroom, and hiring the merely adult. All in all, I'm ashamed to admit I watched this aborted mess. But if I can warn just one person away, it may be worth it.

Four young, well-endowed hotties rent a cabin in Hicksville, USA where they've been followed by a group of morons consisting of an ultra- feminine art student, a mentally challenged (?) pervert, a geriatric war veteran in a wheelchair, and their sadistic ringleader. Also hot on the girls' tails are a couple of greasy, dirty, toothless country bumpkins whose most impassioned lines are, "God damned city bitches!" Let me not forget to mention two detectives who are pursuing the damsels in distress. Only they're not damsels in distress. At the stroke of midnight, they transform into bloodthirsty demons - bloodthirsty LESBIAN demons.This is... one of the worst I have ever seen and I have watched some major stinkers. Unfortunately, not even all of the T&A could save Wicked Lake. The tone of the film is constantly changing and confusing for the viewer. Am I supposed to laugh? Is this character to be taken seriously? Much of the movie looks like it was shot with a camcorder, the dialog made my ears numb, and the acting is deplorable. I live for B-movie horror and low-budget amateur efforts so I've made it a habit to overlook sub-par acting but, in this case, it's so bad that it's unforgivable. Even worse, when they're not 'acting', they're zoning off, unresponsive to anything that's happening with the rest of the characters. It's a complete mess.I'm irritated that I wasted 95 minutes of my life on this cinematic piece of excrement.

I didn't know much about the movie, before I watched it, expecting the usual horror fare with a predictable plot. While it isn't exactly how I expected it, it's still pretty predictable ... At least with the Director's Cut of the movie ... which in this case is much shorter than the actual cut of the movie.And without having seen the "normal" cut of the movie, I guess this is the better cut, but that's me. While I thought it was a nice spin on a well known story (even if you can guess where this is leading too), what really let's down the movie is the acting (and the script of course). The effects are OK and the movie does look quite good for a low budget movie (saw the DVD on a plasma and it really lived up to it). But again, if there is not that much substance behind it, it kinda tends to get dreadful. Which happened here quite a few times ...

Unbelievable that a movie this amateurish even got a decent release, I purchased this clunker at Best Buy. How does this kind of thing even get released? Simple plot about vacationing girls "molested" by local redneck punks is needlessly complicated by boring supernatural twist and "cops" on their trail.Long, boring, and tedious with a coupla gore FX thrown in from Halloween Express, this thing looks like it was shot on VHS tape or a low pixelated DVD-R camcorder.The tone- unbelievable! Was it a comedy? An Ed Wood attempt? Or was all the stupidity accidental? One minute it's serious, one minute it's slapstick, the next...who knows, it's just completely confusing.The lead gals are lookers and the nudity is nice, but they aren't into their parts or the "lesbian" scenes enough to make it worth your time.I'm floored the lead singer of MINISTRY contributed some halfway decent music to this production, or the camcorder makers just stole it, synced it up, and put his name on it.Ineptitude of the highest order, I certainly hope this team of wannabes does not embark on any more ventures, pleeeeeze, I wrote all your names down so I will avoid all future projects each and every one of you "behind the sceners" are involved in.WICKED LAKE gives horror flicks...camcorder flicks...and underground movies...the cliché negative reputation it deserves because so many hacks hawk up luggies like this smegma.Stay far away from this thing, and shame on FANGORIA magazine for giving the camcordermakers so much publicity! Shame on everyone involved for making such crud! I'm telling you, you can't imagine how inane this thing is til ya try to sit through it...Ugh!