Lake Dead (2007)

• Year: 2007
• Released: 11 Jul 2008
• Country: United States
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0839880/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lake_dead
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Horror, Thriller
• Runtime: 90 min
• Writer: Daniel P. Coughlin
• Director: George Bessudo
• Cast: Tara Gerard, Vanessa Viola, Kelsey Wedeen
• Keywords: motel, lake, incest overtones,

	4.1/10
	18% – Audience

Lake Dead Storyline

The Lake sisters – Brielle, Kelly and their step-sister Samantha – receive a surprising inheritance from their unknown grandfather that has just died. Brielle and Kelly join a group of friends and travel in an RV to visit the Lake Motel and decide what to do with the property. Soon they find that their unknown relatives are deranged psychos.

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The Lake sisters – Brielle (Kelsey Crane), Kelly (Kelsey Wedeen) and their step-sister Samantha (Tara Gerard) – receive a surprising inheritance from their unknown grandfather that has just deceased. Brielle and Kelly join a group of friends and travel in a RV to visit the Lake Motel and decide what to do with the property. Sooner they finds that their unknown relatives are deranged psychos.

“Lake Dead” is an average slasher B-movie and has an unoriginal story that I have seen many times: “The Hills Have Eyes”, “Wrong Turn”, I can not count many movies with stories similar to the original “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” plus a collection of clichés of the genre (naked women, friends surrounded and under siege by psychos etc.). Even the incestuous relationship among relatives is not original – “Timber Falls” is better and better. But entertains, and my vote is six.

Title (Brazil): “Lago da Morte” (“Lake of the Death”)

A checklist of horror movie clichés

Drivel about a couple of (admittedly hot) sisters and their stepsister who inherit an old motel out in the middle of nowhere. The stepsister arrives early to check out the place, and is violently attacked, and then thrown into a lake and drown. The two sisters arrive the next day with friends of theirs and begin the usual fun-in-the-sun activities by the lake, but when two of their number disappear and they go looking for them, they find them dead, hanging from a tree. They are then the targets of a couple of inbred hicks who apparently are distant relatives of these girls, and are trying to “keep it in the family”, so to speak.

Scenes and ideas lifted from Friday the 13th, The Hills Have Eyes, Motel Hell, Mother’s Day, etc. thrown randomly about, but this movie is without any charm or style of its own. The inbred hicks, the lakeside setting, the bad cop, the elderly mother who’s responsible for nearly everything are all present and accounted for, but it’s all shown here with little enthusiasm or style, so what we’re left with is a veritable checklist of horror movie clichés with only a few brief scenes of any real suspense or creativity.

It’s well photographed, and I liked when the guy beat one of the killers over the head with a wooden chair while he was still tied to it, and a couple of other scenes, but as soon as the movie would come to life, it would quickly fall back into a familiar predictable pattern of said earlier movies in the very next scene.

The two inbred killers look like mechanics in need of a shower and shave, nothing more. So no effect was put into their makeup, that aspect ended up being very unconvincing.

The climax wasn’t very memorable either, as the film makers completely screwed up the killing of the bad cop, we don’t even see it on screen, nor do we find out if the antihero survives or not. Kelsey Wedeen is cute and likable and fun to watch, but she can’t carry this entire movie by herself.

nothing new but it delivered suspense

I enjoyed this flick although many hate it. Don’t think that you are going to see something original. It does look sometimes like Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Wrong Turn or other hillbillies gone mad flicks but it worked out fine for me.

George Bessudo the director only made two flicks so far, both horror, Farmhouse(2008) and this one a year earlier. So having in mind that it was his first attempt he did really well. It was also Daniel P. Coughlin first writing and I guess they both know their stuff. It’s a mediocre flick which have to get it from the suspense built. The acting was okay and you do get involved with the sisters. Naturally with horror becoming mainstream they had to add something for the youngsters so there is a bit of gratuitous nudity in it. We have the pis*ed and proud sister walking around in her underwear and showing off to her sister’s boyfriend. We have a love scene were nothing is revealed although they are naked but one scene in the woods do has it’s gratuitous nudity.

So with the nudity hanging over the beginning and POV shots from the killer it was a bit of going back memory lane. I dare to say that it reminded me of the old horrors from the eighties. It will never be a classic, for that reason their are to many rip-offs of other horrors like I mentioned before.

There are a few killings going on and a few shots aren’t for the squeamish. You will figure it out for yourself which one they are. It’s a bit low on the red stuff but as I said, the suspense gives you enough thrills to watch this flick.

Another flick in the hillbillies look-a-like going berserk with a little twist. It’s one you can watch with two pints of lager and a packet of crisps.

Gore 3/5 Nudity 1,5/5 Story 3/5 Effects 3/5 Comedy 0/5