***SPOILERS*** Slasher movie involving six over sexed collage students who take a weekend trip out in the country to "Fever Lake" for fun and games and end up, as in most of these brainless teenage and collage students movies, the victims of this mysterious slasher who feels that they've invaded his space. We get a glimpse of what's to come within the first few minutes of the film with this crazed green eyed and possessed by the devil looking lunatic breaking into a house and brutally hacking the death this woman with her 6 years old son hiding in the attic. It's now some 15 years later where we see these collage students planning to take a leisurely trip into the country to chill out from all their day and night studying for their final examinations.Lead by the studious Albert played by the late Corey Haim the students stopping off at a local diner are told by the people there to stay away from "Fever Lake" in that, "like Crystal Lake of the Friday the 13th movies", there's a deranged lunatic running around there who's over the years hacked to death some dozen persons. Eevn when the waitress of the Diner Lila,Lindsey Brooke, is later found ripped apart by this gray wolf, the first one seen in those parts in over 100 years, they still go on their merry way to "Fever Lake" hoping to take in the sun and go fishing. It's the town Sheriff Harris, played by Bo Hopkins, who tries to get the students to cancel their trip to "Fever Lake" knowing full well that there's death awaiting them there. But as usual in him dealing with lame brains like them that's way over their heads and to no avail.***SPOILERS***It's the local wise man clear thinking and Native American Indian Clere Springs, Michael Wise, who does his damnedest to prevent the impending slaughter from happening by doing a number of what looked like rain dances to keep, as he called it, the evil from surfacing or bubbling up from under the dark waters "Fever Lake". No matter how hard Clear Spring tried nobody not even Sharrif Harris listened and the inevitable butchery that he tried to prevent happened with all the students but Albert ending up as chopped and hamburger meat. Albert or Cory Haim for his part in being the star of the movie was given a , by the movie makers, stay of execution so that like with Jason in "Friday the 13th" he'd be available for the film, "Fever Lake", sequel. Which in it having bombed out at the box office happily never came.

Fever Lake tells the tale of six teenage high school friends, Albert (Corey Haim), Steve (Mario Lopez), Bobby (Randy Josselyn) along with Sarah (Lauren Parker), Danielle (Mary-Rachel Foot) & Christy (Mattie Samradek as Mathea Webb) who all decide to spend the weekend at a house by a lake, set up by Albert they all plan to party & have fun out in the sticks away from the big city. However once there they get a strange unnerving vibe from the local townspeople, they find out that the house & lake have several ancient legends surrounding them & that evil things happen there. The six friends aren't interested in such superstitious nonsense though & intend to have a good time. Unfortunately for them the legends are true as evil things happen once more in the house by the lake...Co-produced & directed by Ralph E. Portillo I hated Fever Lake, I guess it just about has everything I hate in a film. The script by Michael Edwards is as slow & boring as they come, after the obligatory opening (off screen) murder the next 50 odd minutes of Fever Lake introduces the six teenage character's & the fact that they are going to spend a weekend in a house by a lake which has Indian legends attached to it, seriously that's the entire first 50 minutes, nothing else of any significance happens at all. This thing is a complete total & utter snooze-fest, I've seen some pretty boring & uneventful films in my time but Fever Lake is right up there the absolute worst of them! If you can stay awake long enough to see the ending you shouldn't have bothered because personally I didn't think it made any sense, a conversation at the end suggests that only two females were found dead yet there should have been three, right I get that bit but so the hell what? What's the problem? Why the stupid close up on the woman's worried eyes? We never see where the third female went or why she wouldn't be dead & I just don't see what point the filmmakers are trying to make, I really don't. What about the guy in the back of the police car whose eyes start to glow bright green, isn't that meant to be the shock ending? Reading some of the comments on the IMDb I was surprised that many refer to the 'shock' or 'twist' ending, well I don't see any twist or shock ending at all, did I miss something? It was obvious who the kid with green eyes at the beginning was since it was 'his' house & he was an orphan. Anyway, I hate this film, it's slow, it takes itself way too seriously, the character's are awful & the story is both predictable & unoriginal. Interestingly Fever Lake was released the same year as Scream (1996) which revitalised the horror genre, comparing the two in terms of story & basic entertainment value Fever Lake feels like it belongs in the stone-age. Oh well, that's another 100 odd minutes of my life wasted I suppose...Director Portillo does nothing to liven things up, he directs at an absolute snails pace & Fever Lake really is one of the dullest films I've ever seen. It makes watching paint dry sound like fun. There's no scares, no atmosphere or tension & the horror elements are just lame. There's a distinct lack of bloodshed as well, as far as I saw there was an off screen axe murder at the start, a stupid bit when a woman is murdered but you just see her face with a few drops of blood on it & I have no idea how she died & a Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) rip-off where two lovers are impaled, this time with an axe which in the scene in question at first goes right through both of them & lodges in the floor beneath the bed but when the murderer goes back to reclaim the axe a few scenes later it's only stuck in the guys back an inch or two. Overall Fever Lake is very tame & won't satisfy anyone looking for the red stuff.It's with an element of surprise that I report to you that technically Fever Lake actually ain't too bad at all & to give it some credit where it's due it's quite well made with some decent photography, it certainly doesn't look as cheap as some straight-to-video low budget crap horror films that I've suffered through. It's still a really crap film though. The acting is predictably bad, Bo 'I'll appear in any crap for rent money' Hopkins slums it as the local Sheriff while it probably finished off both Haim's & Lopez's careers, if they ever had ones to start with.Fever Lake is a really awful teen horror that has no redeeming features or positive aspects at all, I pretty much hated it & I'm glad I caught it on TV rather than have to spend any of my hard earned money on it. Do yourself a favour & give this boring turkey a miss. Apparently also available in an edited version known as Demon Kid, I have no idea why.

Fever Lake certainly does not measure up to any of the classic horror films out there. However, there is one actress in the whole film, who stood out far above the rest- Mila Chagall. The strength of Mila's acting surpassed even that of the "stars" of the film, Bo Hopkins and Corey Haim. She was believable without being campy, and in my opinion carried the whole film.

Why is this movie only #99 on the bottom 100 list?! This is by far the worst movie I have ever seen. There is absolutely no connection between incidents - and the ending sucks. And who have ever heard of a wolf that kills without being there, but it still feeds of its victim??? This is the only non-comedy I have laugh all the way through.