Wicked Lake (USA. 2007)

Director: Zach Passero

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From Fever Dream Productions (Machine Girl, Tokyo Gore Police) the straight to DVD Film Production Company that seems to KNOW what the fans want comes...uh...something we don’t really want. Wicked Lake does out the greatest sin in the exploitation film world: It’s not fun.

Four girls go to an isolated cabin to have fun. A bunch of rednecks show up and torture them. The girls turn out to be witches and torture the men. All of it is quite dull. The film ends at some point.

Jeez, I don’t want to rip into this film too much because by now even the readers in cheap seats know I it didn’t it for me. There’s nothing original here. The acting is terrible and not in a “So BAD its GOOD” way. The kills are dull and mostly off-screen. For a gore film, it was pretty gore free. Nothing funny happens and the few attempts at laughs are forced and awkward. No fun here. The editing is completely wonky (There are two cops’ characters that come out of nowhere). It lasts forever.

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Well, the film looks pretty good. It’s well lit, colourful (four colour comic book style at times) and most of the camera moves are smooth. And there’s NUDITY! The voluptuous pretty girls (in a porn star kinda way) strip down and make-out for about 1/3^rd of the running time! That’s all swell and good , but porn can give me all the busty naked hot girls I want. Most of it is more interesting than this.

I met the director afterwards, and he was a nice guy all around, so I hope that this was a budget issue that he’ll fix on his next film. Best of luck man! You’ll need it.