Friday, October 18, 2013

Lake Placid 2


The Syfy channel is in the business of making garbage. For the most part this means combining various predatory animals with really bad CGI special effects and D grade actors. In the case of Lake Placid 2, Syfy shuttled Bo Duke and a handful of other actors off to Bulgaria in order to put together what is essentially a remake of the original Lake Placid, a process they would repeat at least twice more. Every aspect of the movie's production (ie: acting, directing, special effects, story, etc.) has been dialed back. It's as though someone at Syfy said: "You know that Lake Placid movie was really good. How can we piggyback off their success, but for a lot less money?"

Rating: 36%

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2 comments:

DCP said...

Are you going to commit yourself to the Lake Placid series like I've committed myself to the Hellraiser series?

October 18, 2013 at 7:51 AM
Quammy said...

I doubt it. When part 4 came out earlier this year I watched the first three (intending to watch all four). They're pretty much all the same, just with progressively shittier acting and special effects. Part 2 is leaps and bounds better than part 3, which really isn't saying much. I haven't been able to convince myself that sitting through part 4 is anything other than a complete waste of my time. Part of the problem is there is so little difference between each installment that I'm not sure I want to write another ten sentences about shitty crocodile movies filmed in Bulgaria.

You can however expect another five sentences about Ghoulies coming your way in the days ahead.

October 18, 2013 at 12:17 PM

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