It’s time for a piece a shit slasher! Teens must fight for their lives in a deadly game of survival against a supernatural evil while they camp at a lake and mysteriously die then whatever it doesn’t matter you’ve already got it.
This one has no brains, no ideas and no ability. The inability of the characters to generate a meaningful or convincing connection ensures that any interesting personality is thwarted. Since most of the film is based on relationships, its limited exploration is a major and fatal failing.
Despite the total lack of any budget or even any particular talent, the simplicity of the show has a little charm and shows some bravery, and there’s an efficiency of direction which makes the film watchable. It’s clear there was barely any money in this production and yet the participants still wanted to do this, and managed it somehow.
The blonde guy and black-haired girl provide some comic relief, the neurotic tall guy is kind of likeable, and the sociable Hispanic dude does a doable job as a leader. It’s clearly only meant to be a primitive knock-off; if you can manage to crawl through to the end there’s actually an interesting rewarding twist provided you paid attention.
Another sad casuality is the amazing “Lake Effect” song from the resident band which appears to have been forgotten by time. Based on the vengeful thoughts following an accident involving an ice cream van, it’s creative and brilliant. Took me ages to find the record and it was worth it.
This got featured on Bloody-Disgusting as “Number 5 of the 10 lamest days of horror of all time”. Yeah, it’s complete nonsense; no lie about that. At least it tries. Being stupid is fine, being dull is okay, being incompetent is alright. Not trying is the real crime.
3/10
Possession Media 