Creature Lake

Creature Lake....2015...not rated...80 minutes...starring Jonathan Matthews, Mike Kekich, and Brandon Dhue...written by Damien Slevin...directed by Drazen Baric

5 friends decide to take a weekend excursion to a piece of property one of them claims to own close to a lake. The place seems like an ideal getaway spot, but the group gets warned off by some of the local Native Americans. Heedless, they go for their vacation and soon learn why they shouldn't have.

Again, I have a short plot synopsis because again I have found more found-footage horror with a fairly simple premise. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but as these stories are becoming more and more prevalent, I do think that something needs to make each one stand out on its own. This selection did not really deliver anything new...or anything all that terrifying. I was mostly confused and bemused.

At risk of throwing out spoilers, I was left with several questions. Why was this local tribe so intent on appeasing the ...whatever it was... in the lake? Was the naked woman merely an illusion the thing projected...and why was it chasing our protagonists? Why was the thing so goofy looking? Why did I sit through more dialogue laced with insults and racial epithets? (I get that in reality, people say some really messed up things at times...but maybe I don't need that much reality)

I can understand the limitations of a budget, but where this movie...and a lot of others...breaks down is that there is no internal consistency apparent in this supernatural world. I understand the characters would not have all of the information about what's going on and why,  but the viewer needs to have a sense of the whole situation if the story is going to work. If the movie doesn't somehow convey all that info, it suffers...much like it does from bad acting, which didn't help this one either.

Overall...bleh, meh, and urgh for the time lost. 1 tentacle creature out of 5.