Lake Eerie (2016) Reviews

• A waste of your time and theirs

  nabokov952016-11-18

  I like indie films and I'm prepared to give them slack that I wouldn't give to mainstream movies. I hated this movie. The acting was, throughout, bad. Sometimes painfully bad. Again, I can put up with that. Professional actors cost money that independent movie makers don't have and indie films give new talent a chance to make their marks. Plot and script writing on the other hand costs nothing and, in both, this movie literally falls apart. Horror movies, even the best of them, require a suspension of disbelief but, when the characters in horror movies start acting in ways that stretch credibility, you have a major problem. Example (one of many): There's a strange man in my new house. Response: Find a knife (check), find a light (check), take some pills, find a comfortable sofa, lie down, sleep till morning (nope). By the end I had completely lost interest in both the characters and the story line. The IMDb rating has been boosted by lots of positive reviews (no doubt from friends and family) and I'm confident it's only going to head in one direction. Don't waste your time watching it and, if you do, leave a suitable review. Don't be surprised however if your review is instantly attacked with lots of "This review was not useful to me" hits.

• Gives TV Movies a bad name

  tarquinotterfield-124562016-01-21

  Absolute trash, I'm tired of awful directors churning out this lower than b movie garbage. Unless there's an award for not being able to afford a steady-cam and constantly having the actors framed at an odd angle...if there is then this gets my vote! Unbeliveably fake reviews aside (different subject) the following issues exist: 1 horrible camera work 2 horrible acting 3 horrible script 4 seeing lance henrikson suck so bad hurt. The story itself wasn't horrendous but laughably cliché and i did personally enjoy the often bizarre incidental music as it seemed to want to build tension when quite often nothing was happening, dark and spooky unpacking for example. Who knows whats in your suitcase?? Oh clothes thats right you totally packed it. I am especially fond of demonic keyboards whilst walking or knocking on a door etc.

• Objectively bad

  neckelmann2016-01-23

  It's funny to see all these fake reviews and how the rating of the movie has been plummeting over the last few days. I'm not sure what to add, most points are covered by the previous reviews (the real ones, that is). The acting is stiff and amateurish, even Lance Henriksen somehow looked like he had never been in a movie before. The story is extremely stupid. Half the scenes don't serve a point, and could have been removed from the movie without making it worse. Actually, it might have made it better. But why stop there? If just all the scenes had been removed, maybe it would have been slightly watchable. Don't waste your time, not even if you're looking for a bad movie to laugh at. Go find something else to watch.

• Not good

  ksberry2016-01-23

  I went to Mask Fest and saw the World Premiere and I didn't understand the rave reviews then and don't understand the overly spectacular reviews on here now. I don't know if people were afraid of hurting the director's feelings or what, but it's not good, plain and simple. Not scary and down right laughable. I think there are some good ideas but it just didn't come together. I'm all for independent films but it needs to be better than this. A real disappointment especially given the fact that Lance put his name and his face on this project. Perhaps if he'd had a bigger part and it wasn't so obvious the director was trying to push his wife to the fore front it might have worked better. I listened to the comments at the premier and quite frankly I think people were just being nice so they could hob knob with Lance. The movie is just not good....sorry! Out of respect for the fact that I realize someone put their heart and soul in this project, I stayed and sat through the entire thing, hoping it would get better and it didn't. I generally don't write reviews but because of all the pre release hype that I found hard to believe, I kept waiting for someone, anyone to be honest... No one said what I and my husband were both feeling at the time, it was just not a good movie. I do give props to Betsy Baker and Lance...they were the ONLY reason we stayed til the end.

• Need to save others from wasting their time

  ncoleby2016-01-23

  I feel that I need to comment on this film in more detail, so I can save someone's time. Don't go by the high ratings. I have no idea where they come from. Must be friends and family of the directors. It already started weird but was sort of interesting. Anything could have happen and because I had no idea about this film, I kept watching. Then something happened but it didn't really fit in with the start. It seemed that I was watching a subtle horror, when suddenly a ridiculous story line emerged. It was so unfitting that I assumed it was purposefully bad in order to highlight a mental illness or something. But it never happened. The cartoon story was actually what the film was about. Stuff about Egypt and Pharaos and Princesses and a love story and a realm of hell and an amulet. I remember writing stories like that when I was 10. It was cringe worthy and tacky. Up to the very end I gave the bad acting my benefit of the doubt, waiting to find out that the main character was actually in a mental institution, having imagined all of it... But that would have been a good, clever ending. In reality, what you see is what you get. An incredibly bad episode of the Outer Limits.