Lake Fear

Saw this on Tubi recently and figured I'd give it a shot. Man, what a mistake. I'd rather watch 2 turtles cross a football field.

From the very beginning, nothing made sense. I watched this for over 80 minutes and have no idea what the hell that movie was about. Please don't watch this. I promise, it will be the biggest mistake of your life.

I don't know what to say.I watched Lake Fear 2 previously, and I actually enjoyed it.So I thought this would be similar. NOPE! This movie is just a mess.It's like a bad rip-off of Evil Dead,with elements of The Ring and House on Haunted Hill,all jumbled together in a completely incoherent manner.Do yourself a favor and just skip ahead to Lake Fear 2.

Four girls seek to spend a weekend at a mysterious cabin in the woods in Texas when all hell breaks loose (no, seriously).

"Lake Fear" (2014), aka "Cypress Creek," starts as a potentially worthwhile low-budget cabin-in-the-woods Indie with notable opening credits, a serviceable cast of females and an outstanding metal track, but 9 minutes in it becomes clear that this is a micro-budget flick. This would be okay, but the idea of an actual script is abandoned shortly after the teens arrive at the cabin in exchange for a tedious hour of horror F/X and creepy film techniques, which are well done, but useless when there's no attempt to offer an interesting STORY. It doesn't help that the guy who plays Remington is a lousy "actor."

The flick comes across as if the cast & crew of "The Evil Dead" (1981) dropped acid, threw out the script, and just screwed around with scary visuals & gore at a remote cabin; and then tried to make it work in the editing room. It's so utterly dull that I would leave the room to go to the bathroom or get something from the kitchen without caring about pausing it (something I never do). The fact that there are currently two sequels is incredible.

The movie runs 1 hour, 21 minutes, and was shot in Dallas, Texas.

GRADE: D

The DVD art of this film and the 2012 film From Beneath (a.k.a. Lake Fear) is utterly confusing. Trying to differentiate between the two is nuts. Both titles have alternate names, but two totally different directors, stories and casts.

Aside from the films themselves, it is hard to figure out which one you may be watching. Apparently, the correct poster for the 2014 Lake Fear is a lake house with the title in red lettering. The alternate title to this version is 'Cypress Creek'.