Wicked Lake (2008)

I got into during a night of smoking and it was funny, sexy, gory, and, campy. I like Marc Senter, he's an underrated actor. He's also interesting here like in "The Lost". If you enjoy Troma type of stuff you may like it. For me I've watched the film almost a hundred times. Like the movie, that's quite over the top and outlandish. It will take a certain mind and a dash of madness to see things the "Wicked Lake" way.Takeaways: Lost of gorgeous women, sometimes naked. There are also dirty rednecks that are shameless in their pig style appeal. There was one jacking it as soon as the ladies rolled up. Nice. There's also a lot of offbeat humor that will either offend or delight you.

I came across this flick at the local shop and picked it up due the reason that Jourgensen of Ministry was involved in this flick for making the score. But don't think to get some industrial sound. On the other hand on the end credits it was stated as dedicated to Paul Raven. Raven I have met in the 90's backstage with his band Killing Joke. Sadly the bass player died a heart attack in 2007. But back to the flick.Wicked Lake is a weird flick to review because it has something to do with horror and on the other hand it has a bit of comedy and a lot of nudity. People who are raised in the nineties surely will remember The Craft (1996). With the new era of horror due Scream (1996) producers were searching were they could pick up some money, the answer was simple, teenagers. So with The Craft the decided to give the boys some sexy girls going into a coven. The Craft worked out fine but it was low on gore and didn't had any nudity in it so Little Witches came out the same year. That flick had a bit of nudity but was also low on gore. Wicked Lake, I see that as a follow-up to previous flicks. The flick starts of immediately with some jugg shots so you know what you could expect. The story itself isn't original but overall the flick takes too long before things go wrong. There's a lot of gratuitous nudity to keep you attracted but also you have to wait until the last part to see some gory shots. The acting of some was a bit mediocre and the way the reflect the rednecks was exaggerated. Maybe it was supposed to be a joke but for me it didn't work. The guy hanging on the door do say some funny things but I couldn't laugh with it. The story itself is a bit of a revenge movie. The 4 girls going to a cabin were they are confronted with some guys who want to have sexual pleasures with the girls. But the girls are waiting until midnight because they have supernatural powers. On the aspect of the red stuff, it flows but as I said you really have to wait until the last part. Some slaying are indeed a bit gory but I guess most people (read guys) will watch it to see some scantily clad girls. I noticed Carlee Baker (Mary) who went further to feature in The Women (2011). And then you see how small the world is, Angela Bettis was in The Women too. Mike McKee (Cyrus) did appear in May (2002) together with Bettis. So I guess it's a bit of all friends coming together. To cut the crap, it's a slow and sometimes boring flick with some exaggerated scene's and at the end the gory shots but overall, it's also one for the guys to see some girls naked in lesbian affairs and some slow motion shots, Tossers will be joining this!Gore 2/5 Nudity 3/5 Effects 3/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0,5/5

Some directors make films that go on to become cult classics. On the flip side, you have lazy, untalented hacks who desperately want their films to be viewed as cult classics and think they can accomplish this by making everything as loud, vulgar and obnoxious as humanly possible while populating their already annoying movie with jerks and weirdos who scream moronic comments at each other from beginning to end. It's about the cinematic equivalent of a 5-year-old brat having a screaming tantrum in hopes that someone out there actually cares. And that brings us to WICKED LAKE, an embarrassingly awful ADD horror-comedy from some guy named Zach Passero. It was written and co-produced by Chris Sivertson, who made multi-Razzie winner I KNOW WHO KILLED ME starring Lindsay Lohan, which actually looks like a genre masterpiece in comparison.Things begin with a nude model posing for some nerd who speaks in an annoyingly forced Michael Jackson-like girlish whisper tone. She goes home, he follows her, gives her a painting of a unicorn, basically makes an ass of himself and runs home crying while some horrible cover of the horrible song "Bang a Gong" plays over the credits. Then we get a brief glimpse at the home lives of both the model and the nerd. The nerd lives in a cartoon-like abusive household full of obnoxious men who beat each other up for no reason and SCREAM idiotic childish insults instead of having a normal conversation. Every single one of them seems retarded and/or unhinged. Yeah, this is real hoot so far... The model is a lesbian who lives with three other lesbians, none of whom have any notable characteristics that set them apart from one another or make them the least bit interesting. But as we all know, any time you get four inexplicably hot lesbians together they just can't seem to keep their hands off one another, which leads to a slow-motion group sex scene that lasts several minutes. Cause that's just what all lesbians do in their free time when they aren't fixing cars or playing softball.The four lesbians then head out on some sort of vacation and basically prove to be boring, unlikable bitches on the way to their rented lakeside cabin while another horrible cover (this time of "Radar Love") plays. When they stop at a gas station, Angela Bettis is seen exiting a bathroom. Thanks for stopping by Angela. Don't know why you bothered, but we appreciate the effort.The ladies finally arrive at their destination for some HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK-style unpleasantries. The nerd and his obnoxious, ugly male relatives use their apparent psychic abilities to find them. So the guys break in, overact, scream and act like obnoxious attention-starved cretins while holding the ladies at gunpoint and forcing them to do things they don't like, such as cleaning up a puddle of puke on the floor. One of the ladies gets her ass smacked with a belt before being forced to work the wheelchair-bound patriarch's "nub." I think this is supposed to be funny. But it's really not. At all. Unless you're about 11 years old. And since it's all so poorly directed, acted and written, it's not the least bit disturbing or horrific either. Just dull, unconvincing and tedious.Naturally the ladies get to turn the tables on their attackers and are revealed to be blood-drinking vampires... or something. Maybe demons. Or succubi. Or I guess they could be werewolves since the full moon sets them off and they growl every once in awhile. I couldn't really tell what they were. Maybe they said at one point and I just didn't care. They like blood and human flesh. And making out and rubbing up against each other while covered in blood. Since the main portion of the film is hardly enough to adequately fill 90 minutes (despite having no less than three music montages thrown in), there are completely pointless and boring scenes features detectives tracking the girls. One is played by Tim Thomerson, who has nothing of interest to do. To extend the running time even more, this resorts to several of those trendy prolonged 'torture' scenes a la HOSTEL where the victim is tied down and taunted/terrorized a bit before being killed. Zzzz. Gimme a break.The dialogue and acting are all beyond terrible, and not in an amusing B-movie sort of way. Every time a horror scene begins it's accompanied by an extremely annoying and clichéd metal guitar riff that's as bad as the rest of the soundtrack, which includes a clueless screechy metal redo of "It's a Wonderful World" over the end credits that fits in with the tone of the rest of this garbage. I usually give films with some blood and nudity at least a 3 because I think those aspects might redeem a film somewhat or give it some exploitation/guilty pleasure cred but this garbage doesn't really deserve any extra credit.

You gotta love a movie that has nudity in its very first scene- 20 seconds into the movie. A nude model in an art class befriends some shy loser (who overacts terribly by the way). We get to meet his family as he arrives home after dropping off the girl at her place. He's abused by his controlling brother. Another brother has some mental and muscular issue and constantly twitches. Their dad in wheelchair is a sick dirty old man, a gun-wielding war veteran. These guys are rather dumb and are meant to be inject some humor.We also get to meet the model and her friends: three smoking-hot babes who are also lovers. The girls decide to go on a trip to a cabin by a lake in a gorgeous classical car. On the way they stop at a gas station and tease and annoy the hillbilly attendants. While they drive or when they stop for a while they take time to frolic with each other.Eventually they arrive at the cabin and spend some time bathing in the lake. While the girls are enjoying themselves at night, someone knocks on the door. It's the family of idiots, who disappointed that the girls aren't into, them start getting violent. The model ends up being killed. So the other girls plan and eventually succeed in avenging her death. Things get quite gory here and it turns out the girls have some supernatural powers.Out of nowhere, two cops happen to be on the trail of our girls, too. They discover blood, teeth, and some evidence of foul play. When they get to the cabin, the older cop is killed immediately and the young one is captured not before he kills two of the girls. The remaining girl wants to use him before midnight to bring back her dead friends back to life through witchcraft. Last minute he escapes but someone will show up to help the witch in the end.This movie is lower budget. Despite the budget, the movie looks very good. The main characters, the 4 girls and a couple of the other characters act very well. It's all about the girls of course and they do a great job. They are beautiful, fun, mischievous, and sexy. The love scenes among the girls are very erotic and well shot. The comedic bits aren't all the effective, but the gore is good. There are too many characters here and not enough story and character development. It would have been nice to learn something specific about each girl, or some background about the bad guys. Also missing is a sense of fear that should have been there while the girls were captured. They are terrorized but it lacks impact. There are some good gore scenes, like a head exploding in a microwave. And also some effective horror scenes involving one of the witches appearing behind the cop.Despite the shortcomings, I liked this movie a lot. You can't take you eyes away from these girls- they are not your typical Hollywood bimbos, but have natural beauty and personality. This movie represents what B-movies should be about: blood, guts, gore, and pretty girls. Not sure why there isn't full frontal nudity though. The movie is unrated/ hard-R rating yet the camera and editor are at pains to keep things above the waist. Why not take full advantage of the rating. Yet male genital props are shown for some reason. I'm looking forward to future releases from this crew and hopefully a sequel to this movie. There's a lot of potential and skill. Most importantly this is a good start in resurrecting fun horror movies- a genre has been neglected while lame teen PG-13 "horror" as been favored.