If you want a horror film with brains then WICKED LAKE is not for you but if just want to have one hell of a fun time then just sit back, grab a beer, and put an arm around your loved one because this film is just one great ride.
Based on an original screenplay by Adam Rockoff (which was rewritten by Chris Sivertson) WICKED LAKE is the story of four attractive and bewitching women who go out on vacation to a remote cabin in order to let their hair hang down at midnight. Unbeknownst to the women their vacation is about to be interrupted by not one, but two separate group of over-sexed men who want nothing more then to have their way with the women. Things go supernaturally wrong when the Midnight Hour chimes and the four women are endowed with supernatural powers in which allow them to live forever and have extra-ordinary strength. There is no logic to this, you just have to roll with it.
For a film with as flimsy a plot as this one, one could mistake this film for the trash that it tries to emulate yet it has a strange since of charm especially in terms of the four leads (Carlee Baker, Eryn Joslyn, Eve Mauro, and Robin Sydney), who add spice to the otherwise pedestrian (in terms of plot) film. For horror-hounds the film has many allures in terms of excessive gore and nudity (a girl on girl orgy occurs early in the film) and it all works because the film hovers on the line between being too camp for its own good. Thankfully, this never occurs (although I can’t say the same thing in terms of how the male characters are portrayed in the film) and the film comes off as a manic witchcraft film.
Like I said, don’t think to hard about the film or you’ll ruin the fun.
Based on an original screenplay by Adam Rockoff (which was rewritten by Chris Sivertson) WICKED LAKE is the story of four attractive and bewitching women who go out on vacation to a remote cabin in order to let their hair hang down at midnight. Unbeknownst to the women their vacation is about to be interrupted by not one, but two separate group of over-sexed men who want nothing more then to have their way with the women. Things go supernaturally wrong when the Midnight Hour chimes and the four women are endowed with supernatural powers in which allow them to live forever and have extra-ordinary strength. There is no logic to this, you just have to roll with it.
For a film with as flimsy a plot as this one, one could mistake this film for the trash that it tries to emulate yet it has a strange since of charm especially in terms of the four leads (Carlee Baker, Eryn Joslyn, Eve Mauro, and Robin Sydney), who add spice to the otherwise pedestrian (in terms of plot) film. For horror-hounds the film has many allures in terms of excessive gore and nudity (a girl on girl orgy occurs early in the film) and it all works because the film hovers on the line between being too camp for its own good. Thankfully, this never occurs (although I can’t say the same thing in terms of how the male characters are portrayed in the film) and the film comes off as a manic witchcraft film.
Like I said, don’t think to hard about the film or you’ll ruin the fun.
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