I honestly hate rating any movie the dreaded 1/10. In some respects, giving a 1/10 to a bad movie is taking the easy way out. I do my very best to find something positive to say. As hard as I try, I can't do that with Fever Lake. The only glimmer of anything remotely positive I can come up with is the marginally decent acting on the part of Lauren Parker. But she's not good enough to raise the rating. Overall, Fever Lake is a dull, lifeless, mess of a movie. I have a hard time understanding why it was even made. There is absolutely no reason to watch this disaster.So, what makes Fever Lake so bad? Acting – Horrible. Mario Lopez never could act and Corey Haim gives the laziest performance I think I've ever seen. Plot – Unoriginal. Gee, a group of college age kids heads off to a house on a lake – wonder what's going to happen? Direction – Uninspired. Ralph Portillo brings nothing new to the genre. Special effects – Lame. It's easy to see there was no budget for Fever Lake. Music – Annoying. Whoever wrote the score should be taken out and shot. Treatment of Native Americans – Insulting. Not only does a white dude play the part of Clear Springs, he does so in a ridiculously stereotypical stilted speech pattern. Sets and costuming – Unremarkable. The whole things looks like it might have been filmed in my neighbor's house with the clothes found in their closet. Characters – Stupid. These are some of the most idiotic people put on film. This list could go on and on. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. Again, as much as I hate doing it, I cannot in good conscience rate Fever Lake anything but a 1/10.

This is one of those terrible movies that is really good for the guys at RiffTrax to skewer. In my opinion there is still a lot of mileage to be gotten out of "teens in the woods encounter evil possessed killer" plots. But this thing is just such a mess! Other people have blamed the actors, the costumer, the director, the scriptwriter. I'll take a new approach and blame the editor. I see an outside possibility that the script was coherent, but that the editor rendered it into an incoherent mess.The truth is, after watching the riffed version five times, I still don't quite understand what was going on in the movie. The "rules" of fantasy and horror don't need to make real-world sense, but these rules have to be explained clearly, and then stuck to, and make internal sense. The filmmakers failed at all this.There is a lot to laugh at here. The wolf attack that did not include a wolf, the terrible acting of the "novelist," the assumption that college students play a lot of hide and seek and truth or dare still, the non- Indian, and everyone mispronouncing the word "wolf."Poor Corey Haim. Being molested as a kid actor by producers, his drug addiction, and this movie. There must be a special place in the afterlife for someone who suffered that much.

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.

Some people say if somethings bad, there's no need to go on about it. With Fever Lake, I respectively disagree.It all starts one dark night. (hmm ...) As a young boy watches from his house's attic as his mother is murdered by a man (possibly his father) who we see is possessed by the "evil" of the lake. (This is indicated quite clearly by the green, evil glow in his eyes.) Flash forward to sometime in the future. We're introduced to a college school setting and a quick intro leads into Corey Haim (yes one of the "Corey's") and Mario Lopez (of TV's "Saved By The Bell"). Seems Haim has a country home up in Fever Lake so he invites some male buddies, including an undersexed idiot, and a trio of girls, two airheads by definition, up for the weekend. Of course, they know nothing of the strange events that happened at this house in Fever Lake. Sure, right, whatever.Meanwhile the local sheriff has his hands full with Clear Springs. He's the local native American Indian (played by a white dude?) who knows the evil is coming back. He warns the sheriff again and again, but to no avail as naturally the sheriff thinks he's nutty. Plus he's busy tugging up his pants that seem to be weighed down by his gun belt (which seems to be a full-time job in itself). Not that it matters the sheriff is a classic cliché. By horror movie definition, sheriffs have to ignore any warnings especially those from faithful Indians who are quiet and deeply intelligent. Just wonderful.Most predictably, weird things start going down. Cars are acting oddly and there's an evil, foreboding grey wolf stalking the woods. Meanwhile Haim's having these mind trips into the evil of Fever Lake and the local townsfolk won't talk about "that stuff". Rack up another cliché. Of course, there's always someone willing to talk about it ... explain it to an audience that's assumed to be too stupid to put it together for themselves. Then they drop this "innocent" bit in dialog that tells us Haim's character is an orphan. Like before I was told that, I wasn't supposed to have figured out yet that Haim's character was that young boy from the beginning all along. Downright dumb.Hack, hack, scream, scream. A false scare or two, making out, then dying. Panicking, then dying. Running off and dying. Wiping down car windows (!!!) and dying. The evil gets stronger, the Indian's fires burn brighter, he screams, again more of the evil wolf and a "shocking" ending that's cheating on the part of the writers. Don't be deceived by the movie box either. It's not even scary. You'd have to watch the movie to find that out. Maybe now you won't.