Black Lake

Like too many 'horror' movies these days, Black Lake is 100% scare free. Worse, it is stultifying. Nothing happens, just a lot of arty photography and throbbing music. How does someone get the financing for a film this awful?

40 minutes in.....still nothing happened. Not recommended.

Contrary to those that scored this 9/10 and 10/10, this is NOT a film for horror fans that want a movie that "packs a punch". This doesn't pack anything at all and couldn't punch its way out of a wet paper bag. I'm not sure which movie they watched but it wasn't Black Lake, that's for sure.

While the visuals try to be stylish, they're just as dull as the plot. The only time I held my breath was in anticipation of passing out so as not to have to see the rest of this dreadful offering masquerading as a horror. Eventually, I could take it no more and killed it after 40 mins of slow and dreary nothingness.

I'd rather watch snails mating.

Wow was this harsh or what?!? I have to say: the intro of the movie blew me away a little and indeed got my hopes high. I was ready to see a cool horror, perhaps a tad bit artsy fartsy with one great soundtrack. Only problem was, that intro was the movie, the intro could have been used as the trailer and you would have not known the difference.

Every few minutes..and I mean few minutes, as in 3-4, a new song starts playing, some slow motion scenes, all the symbolism one could imagine and then we have another 3-4 minutes windows where pretty much nothing happens. This is such a roller coaster of the same thing happening over and over again, it was truly difficult to watch it all the way. At about the 60% mark of the movie something does happen, in the same pattern it did till then, and you're stuck there, going through it again and again, knowing that whatever happens next, it will have the exact formula.

Black Lake was a hard experience for me, one that I would not recommend to anyone. There are some ambiguous horrors out there indeed, but this one, it gave away nothing, relying on...what exactly? I truly have no good things to say about it, excepting the intro. That is all, watch that and then skip the rest.

Cheers!

A beautiful and sinister piece of art. I got completely absorbed into the world of this haunting film, and was affected by it for days afterwards. The imagery and soundtrack are uniquely powerful and the atmosphere created by these is truly uncanny.