Alpine Lake

I've seen a lot of bad films. I've seen a lot of inept films. But this is on a different level. It fails on every level as a story and as a film.

The sound throughout is painful. Sometimes, you could hear the actors. Sometimes not. Most of the time, they were using a microphone on the camera to capture interior dialog, and all the echoes and reverb that provides. And most brain melting, is that sometimes, they had a wireless lav on actors, but for shots of the actor running around in the woods, so you hear more clothing rubbing than anything else.

The cinematography is equally bad. 90% of all the shots are on a tripod with a not-so-fluid head, so any panning was jerky and NOT smooth. 9% of the shots were from a cheaper consumer drone, with an operator who couldn't get very smooth movements, and it was too small to not have that floating around footage when trying to stay still. The ONE shot that moved was when they put the camera on a towel on the floor and dragged it across, simulating a slider. But the shot was pointless as it didn't show or reveal anything a static shot wouldn't have established. And then they put a go pro (or maybe an actual camera) on the hood of a car for a driving shot, but the reflections on the windshield were so extreme that you couldn't see into the car. So much fail.

It appeared that they had one small LED panel that was battery operated, so any exterior night scene (and there were many many MANY exterior night scenes) were all lit by this one small LED panel.

And then there's the editing. Oh, my, the editing. Characters would teleport. There was no way to judge the passing of time. After a certain point, it was impossible to know where any character was at any moment, since they could be literally anywhere in once scene, and then cut to the next scene and they were also there. I also think there was a scene that was accidentally put in the wrong place in the film.

The writing is ridiculous, and the characters even more so. The acting is wooden and unmotivated.

I could go on and on, but I won't. This is quite possibly the worst waste of time I've ever seen for everyone involved in this film.

I'm ashamed I even live in the same state as this movie takes place. What's worse is that the actors, and I use the term loosely, are also from here and a little younger than me. Who's bright idea was it to create this? Lighting was horrible in the dark, the "made for tv" movie soundtrack cut off abruptly in every scene it was used in, and the acting I've seen better on Netflix dubs. Two chicks are eye candy, if that's your thing. Or one guy is eye candy, but is dumber than the girls combined. Glad this was free on Amazon Prime. I'd get revenge if I actually spent money to see this.

BAD acting, POOR storyline (too cliche), Awful filming mostly too dark and redundant screaming, killing and unnecessary spoken lines throughout the movie. This entire movie was and is a waste of time and hopefully the writer/director NEVER, EVER makes another flop like this unless that is your intention.

Really! I should be paid for time wasted on this crap. Dang! Dang! Dang!

Since I have to write more in order to get this review thru, here it goes......Boring, not scarry, poor acting, poor sound quality, plot sucks, no original concept, and too predictable. To plainly put it this movie SUCKS! SUCKS! SUCKS!

The best part of the movie? It made it onto IMDB listing so other could be warned.

This is one of the worse movies ever. I can't believe anyone is allowed to put movies out like this. A 5 year old could have put a better movie together and the acting in this movie these people should be ashamed to have even considered being in this movie. Why? That's all I have to ask why as actors would u do this to ur self. Just please do not watch this.

It was in strange places. Acting was pretty good but overall I would not recommend this movie.