Lake Alice its a 2015 horror movie released in 2017 for some reason.Its a dull, cliché horror movie that fails at delivering scares, I really mean it when I say that the people making this trash have no idea of how to make a horror scene work, the execution of many of these "scary" scenes is just terrible. There's even a scene were a woman gets scared by her own reflection.Its very badly edited, its always fading to black in moments were it doesn't need to, its quite distracting and it just seems really incompetent. Nothing happens during the first 45 minutes or so, I guess they were trying to set the mood and establish the characters, but its so badly written, acted and paced that it just feels like 45 minutes of pure boredom. The killings are nothing special, in fact, the gore its really awful, but not in a funny way.It has a few decent shots and the acting isn't always terrible, but its not something I would recommend to anyone.
... View More"Lake Tomahawk" and "Lake Alice" are the same film. There is an axe in the film (once maybe) and I don't recall seeing the lake other than in a postcard scene. In any case this is really a cabin in the woods who-dun-it and has nothing to do with the title.Sarah (Caroline Tudor) comes home from California to Wisconsin to spend time with her parents at their cabin home. She brings along her boyfriend (Brad Schmidt) who proposes. The film then spends 45 minutes creating suspects for the killings we know are about to come. Then they happen. Two resurrections and one WTF ending later the film is over. The twist wasn't really a twist as it has been done in a dozen films or more. It is okay when it is done well, but they pranced it around too much and in fact it didn't make any sense to do it as far as the plot was concerned, it was done strictly for the audience. It was hard to judge the characters as they lacked consistency.Guide: f-word. No sex or nudity
... View MoreWow, I really have no idea what movie some of the positive reviewers were watching here. This movie that clocks in at barely 80mins was painful to get through. Awkward acting, terrible editing...just bad all round.Firstly the "action" really doesn't begin until about 65 minutes into the film at which point you're thinking to yourself "when is everything going to happen?, "At what point are people going to start dying?" By the time this does start occurring, you really don't care. I personally WANTED these unlikable characters to die..The editing in the last 30 minutes...will make you care even less about the outcome, characters pop in and out at different environments, even for a horror, I was like "how the hell did they get here?" "Characters act more moronically than they usually would in a horror, and that's saying something. The poster of this movie looked great, hence my reason for watching it...but as the saying goes, 'Don't judge a book by its cover'...in this case, the cover is way better than the content.As for spoilers...whatever you do, don't read the IMDb "Storyline" it essentially gives away the "big reveal" and I'm assuming the viewers who watched this movie and stated it was an unpredictable ending, hadn't read this...not that one really needs to, to guess who the killer may be.
... View MoreThis movie was absolutely terrible. It is so bad that I am actually writing a review which i never do. I can't blame this on the actors because they were just playing a role and they played it to the best of their abilities, but the writers did a horrendous job. Why did it seem like everybody in the girl's hometown had sex with her? And when the murderer came, he killed the dad and mom immediately so the writers thought oh uh so we still have about 40 minutes left (or however much, i gave up), so i don't know let's just throw some other people in there to murdered too. And when they ran to woods for the second time (the first time they had to run back for the mom who ended up dead by driving into a tree?), they actually made it out because the killers stopped looking for them because they were busy with the cop. But no, the writers made the girl not only a slut but a dumb one because she went back to house only to watch the cop die then ran off. I didn't even care to see the rest of the movie after that part.
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