What starts out as simple exploration of underwater ruins quickly turns into the release of an evil once thought sealed nearly forty years before. One woman is haunted by visions of being the daughter of a child molester, in addition to her mother that is always away on location for work. Not much is given to the opening introduction of two boys playing knights, until much later in the film. All havoc breaks loose once the evil comes back to haunt everyone. The movie is unusually hard to follow and it feels fragmented between scenes; if there is a lot going on here, there seems to be more emphasis placed on action than actual plot – the plot is just that, a plot device and nothing more. I do not recommend this movie.Originally posted to Orion Age (http://www.orionphysics.com/?p=4977).

It was a terrible friggin movie. Not sure where to begin. The box makes it seem like a horror movie that takes place by the beach or something. But nope, it's a lake. A small lake. No scary moments. No scares. No jumps. No acting. No monster/killer. Just terrible acting, terrible directing and worse story. Stay away.And because I have to have 10 lines of dialogue, I'm going to talk about a movie I did like that had a beach and a lake. It's called Lake Placid. And it was awesome.Another horror flick with a lake or beach that I liked was any of the Friday the 13th films.

The concept for this is total greatness, and pretty much original (it's based on a novel that I'll be looking for in used book stores). Forty years ago a town in Spain was abandoned so that a dam could be built to create a lake. Evil things are happening under the water as the 40th anniversary of the dam's construction approaches. There is evidence that the dam itself is unsafe, but the mayor insists the festivities must go on (I'll be generous and call this a tribute to JAWS and not copying).Good idea. Nice photography on locations in Spain.Limp direction. Uninspired writing. And, worst of all, terrible actors. For some reason it was decided that actors whose native language was Spanish could deliver dialog in English. Oh, no, they couldn't.The story goes from one predictable crisis to another. An warlock returns to the town to take control, only to be sort of thwarted by the granddaughter of the town's former mayor.Meanwhile, down in the town, the celebration is turning into an orgy.The warlock is vanquished. The granddaughter is saved and it looks like things will be all right. Then a little boy the granddaughter was babysitting gets a crazy look and tells her he hates her as strange lights shine on his face, thus setting up a sequel......if anyone should ever want to make a sequel to this. If, however, Michael Bay should ever decide to spend several million bucks remaking this through Platinum Dune's I'll be there for the 7 PM show opening weekend. It's a good story. But telling it takes talent on both sides of the camera, something very much lacking here.

The story behind this film is sound: A town is submerged to keep a fiendish demon from taking over the world. Two kids unwittingly release this evil & 40 years later it's ready to rampage over the earth. Unfortunately, the story is thrown off kilter by awful acting and characters you just can't care about.You have the mother/reporter who looks like she's only a couple of years older than her daughter & whose overt indifference to her daughter makes it impossible to care what happens to this character.The character of the daughter is not quite so irksome but ruined by awful acting on the part of actress Charlotte Salt.Mordecai Salas, the demon-type character, is wonderfully creepy but feels slightly like a ripoff of the Reverend Kane character from the Poltergeist trilogy.The creature/makeup effects are excellent - the non-supernatural effects are dreadful. The green screen technology is obvious, painfully so during the diving scenes and the divers appear as large as the roof of a house. Forced perspective can work fine--just look at Lord of the Rings, but it's very sloppy in this film.Watch the trailer and that should suffice.