Wicked Lake Movie
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TAGLINES PLOT SUMMARY
Four beautiful but mysterious girls embark on a road trip for a relaxing weekend getaway in the woods. Unbeknownst to them, two clans of deranged male misfits follow them to their secluded and picturesque lakeside cabin in the mountains. The girls appear to be easy prey for the predatory perverts until the fateful stroke of midnight when all hell, literally , breaks loose and the tables are turned.
| Carlee Baker | Mary |
| Frank Birney | Sir Jim |
| Michael Esparza | Ray |
| Eryn Joslyn | Helen |
| Will Keenan | Palmer |
| Eve Mauro | Jill |
| Marc Senter | Caleb |
| Robin Sydney | Ilene |
| Tim Thomerson | Jake |
| J.D. Brown | Runt |
| Mike McKee | Cyrus |
| Justin Stone | Fred |
| Luke Y. Thompson | Half-Idiot |
| Angela Bettis | Mother |
| Phoenix Rae | Little Girl |
| Zach Passero |
3.40 out of 10 (141 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Boring Junk!!!!!!
posted on 07 Aug 2009Wicked Lake is frankly just a horrible and boring movie. The cast of young women is attractive but the characters are too shallow to care about and the so-called psychopaths are just stupid. i truly hate this film and I hope that there is never a sequel to it. very boring junk with a slick poster and DVD cover to lure in audiences. such a waste of time. i can't believe how bad it turned out to be. stay far away from this movie!!!! also there is a scene where a feminine dude literally cries (while running) at the camera for five whole minutes and you my mouth was open the whole time in shock. ughhhh!!!!!!Score: 0.5/10
Dreadful Film...
posted on 30 Jul 2009I agree with the other posters on this title, it is truly dreadful. The lesbian sex is not arousing and very dull. I'm not very sure what this film is about because there is not much of a continuous story. Robin Sydney is gorgeous and the only part that I enjoyed in the film. She is killed early on so we don't see much of her. Terrible settings and bad camera angles. I didn't care about any of the characters and the acting was horrendous. Everyone involved should best leave it off their resume and I am still angry for wasting the time and cash to see it. How this got a distribution is truly a shock. The poster is awesome but the movie isn't.
nudity couldn't save this
posted on 18 Jul 2009I gotta be honest when going in to this film i was expecting not much but i at least thought it would have been a half decent cheesy horror movie with plentiful nudity there was in fact a lot of nudity but in this case it did the film no help. The women in this are beautiful but that is the only thing this film has going for it. The character development was terrible the direction was all over the place and the acting is probably some of the worst i have ever seen in anything plus add shoddy camera work and you have the likes of wicked lake even though there are some nice nude scenes there just anit nothing here i can recommend this is seriously bad. Just my opinion
Wicked Lake
posted on 21 Apr 2009Zach Passero's "Wicked Lake" seems as if it will yet be another film inspired by Last House on the Left featuring four attractive college women besieged by a family of male weirdos while staying at a cabin by a lake. The four babes in this film seem like the kind you'd love to be in the company of during some wild orgy, but they're not..far from it. The male family, whose crippled patriarch(..proudly acknowledged as a war hero by his beloved sons) act as if they were afflicted with some sort of lunacy, the only member who seems even remotely innocent is Caleb(Marc Senter whose face is tucked away by hanging curls), but he's so petrified and psychologically damaged that even he is creepy. The ringleader of this vile foursome is Palmer(Will Keenan)who invites his family to their cabin and gets in thanks to booze he brought. Right away, Palmer forces his retarded brother to attack the girls, and it seems they are planning to sexually molest and degrade them, a signature of 70's exploitation. But, circumstances change when the clock strikes 12, Midnight, and they revert to pretty cannibalistic savages who eat human flesh with relish. Any man in their vicinity will become food on the menu. Unfortunately, two police, veteran coke-snorting, whiskey-guzzling, pot-smoking detective, Jake(Tim Thomerson) and his green partner Ray(Michael Esparza)are on the trail of these girls who leave grisly crime scenes behind, reminders of their ritualistic carnage. They partake in a ceremony, using a male victim, in order to remain immortal. Also, two hicks who work at a nearby gas station close to the lake(..the girls bought gas and goods from them)decide to attempt a chance at some action with them, meeting gruesome fates as well. These girls certainly enjoy the feasts and blood shed, very evident as they grin with blood-soaked faces as they feed.Entering this I knew not what to expect, and was startled at it's copious amounts of naked flesh and graphic violence. I felt this is a film closer in spirit to the 70's than many horror flicks I've seen over the past 5 years or so. The female leads of this flick, Carlee Baker(Mary), Eryn Joslyn(Helen), Eve Mauro(Jill) & Robin Sydney(Ilene)really let their inhibitions go, embracing their naughty sisterhood, during scenes where they are bare and kissing each other, or feasting on the brain of a bound victim. It seems we're entering a time in this decade where filmmakers are able to hire young women willing to commit to seedier material and the characters written as are;and independent horror cinema(..thanks to more affordable equipment)is starting to resemble low budget stuff from the 70's and early 80's. The festival circuit and direct-to-DVD provides an avenue for such filmmakers willing and desiring to release more potent shockers bucking the tame trends of Hollywood fare. It's nice to see these natural looking females as well, and their willingness to bare all left me rather taken aback. They really get into their roles as savage beasts, who remain in their present form(..except for their lighted eyes)displaying glee and erotic joy embracing each other's bloody lips with a kiss. One scene, my favorite, has Robin Sydney(..as nude model Ilene, whose delicious body is shone right from the opening scene setting up her gang's eventual confrontation with the loonies later thanks to her gracious reaction to bizarre student Caleb, whose infatuation with her is outweighed by his freakish behavior)immediately kissing Caleb's bloody lip after he was socked across the face by his brother after disobeying him. They are drawn to blood which is quite expressed in various ways by the director. These gals are stunning predators who truly adhere to the phrase "looks can kill". It was a little too weird and obnoxious for my tastes, but it is certainly violent enough and an obvious draw will be the naked flesh by these four attractive leads. Should appeal to the exploitation crowd, I think, but the film's meandering narrative(..and desire to elicit giggles with it's warped and noxious sense of humor)might even alienate some of them. Still, it aims to please that crowd yearning for more..blood, babes, and boobs are all her in ample doses. The flesh eating might appeal to zombie fans because a man's nipple is ripped away along with other fleshy parts throughout his body. Another's brain is actually sucked from by a straw! And, another victim's remaining member(..it was partially removed during a war)is yanked off and spit out(OUCH).
Lesbian vampire ghouls vs. ill-mannered, sex-starved mental defectives...
posted on 22 Feb 2009Some 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.
Unless you are a cast or crew member STAY AWAY!!!
posted on 20 Nov 2008Send 4 smart ass babes who interact all lesbian with each other for no real reason to a cabin in the middle of no where. Send 4 creepy Texas Chainsaw Massacre type guys to the cabin so they can torture them! Gross shock and blood peppered with attempts at humor. BUT WAIT! The lezbos are vampire witches!?!? YAY! LET THE REVENGE BEGIN!! Throw in a couple of Hillbillies and 2 Keystone cops, dicks getting bitten and shot off an you have the perfect blood and babe gore fest! I feel sorry for all the actresses (and some actors) involved. I now know people will agree to ANYTHING to get a credit on IMDb. Marc Senter as Caleb was very good. (wished his character was in it longer) and kudos getting Al Jourgensens music and some of the special effects (head in microwave for example)...but other than that.......Unless you are a crew or cast member STAY AWAY!
A fun combination of girls and gore
posted on 16 Nov 2008You 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.
Amateurish, Boring, All over the place, and PAINFUL TO SIT THROUGH.
posted on 25 Sep 2008Words cannot describe how terrible this "film" is. I would honestly rather watch House of the Dead four times in a row than ever sit through this garbage again. The girls are hot, there are couple of steamy, but brief, lesbian sex scenes -- but they are not worth a rental or even the time it would take to skip to them on an online copy of the film. The acting from Marc Senter (The Lost) is excruciatingly horrible and the filmmakers just wasted his talent. The plot makes no sense and I can't tell if they were trying to make the film comical or disturbing. It is NOT disturbing in the least and if it was supposed to be comedic, a film about a transvestite spewing "Yo Momma Jokes" for the entire runtime would be more entertaining and humorous than WICKED LAKE. The cinematography in the film is terrible and it looks like the director forgot to clean the camera lens because there are an alarmingly vast amount of noticeable water marks in certain scenes and the picture is washed and incredibly grainy. The acting is beyond awful, the score is OKAY, the plot (I stress that word) sounded cool, but the movie is not. What's even worse is that the filmmakers actually think they made a good movie, which they didn't. (At least they were kind enough to spare us with the numerous fake IMDb accounts tactic claiming this to be the greatest horror film ever made.) It looks like anyone can make a film these days, so grab your friends, any object that has a camera, and get to work!THE WORST MOVIE OF 2008, HANDS DOWN.A complete waste of $17 & and hour and a half.AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
Wicked weird, but not terrible
posted on 15 Sep 2008This is a rather odd horror film to say the least, and maybe, in some ways, it's also intended as a dark, DARK, comedy, but it doesn't quite hit the mark there.A quartet of young ladies, who are apparently lesbians & witches, hit the road for a cabin up in the hills to spend a little time away. But one of the young ladies is a nude model who has captured the attention of a rather strange young man named Caleb, who apparently has an even stranger family. And strangely enough, they all show up at the cabin for some "Last House on The Edge Of the Park" kind of partying, in which the girls are intended to be submissive and give the guys what they want. But these fools don't know what they're dealing with here & the tables are quickly turned. As a subplot there are a couple of cops (one of whom is Tim Thomerson) who are investigating the disappearances of several people at the house where the witchy women live, and have found enough evidence to put them away, including the ad for the cabin where the girls are currently, uh, staying, and of course head right on up there to arrest them. Oops. Again, they don't know who they're dealing with.This is a rather bizarre film & jumps around a lot, but if you can get past the gratuitous lesbian stuff, there's some rather nasty stuff too. Like brain sucking, and even a toothy, uh, member removal. This is kind of cheesy, and kind of goofy, and there are things that are just plain wrong (like people going in and out a door where a body is hanging from it, suspended by the fire poker on which it's impaled). Still, I can't see that it was as terrible as others have made it out to be, and I kind of liked it. Strange stuff, with kind of a cool soundtrack that even includes Ministry & Laika and the Cosmonauts. Not your run-of-the-mill stuff. In some ways this seems to be a tribute to other horror films, or maybe a rip-off, it's kind of hard to say. Also hard to say is what spirit this was made in. Worth seeing but apparently not for all tastes. 6 out of 10.
who knew rampant nudity and gore could be so boring??
posted on 23 Jun 2008Four lesbian girlfriends go on vacation to a lakeside cabin getaway only to be accosted by Caleb, an extremely shy classmate of one of the girls, and his incredibly horny dysfunctional family. The chicks aren't damsels-in-distress for long as when they decide to get revenge, all hell breaks lose.Some editing and pacing issues hamper the movie from being as good as it seems to have wanted to have been, as does a lack of sympathy for any of the characters, and a tired lame sub-plot involving two cops who are merely obvious cannon fodder. The highlight of the film for me was less what was going on in the movie and more the great soundtrack score via Ministry's Al Jourgensen, which I just hoped would be in a better movie.Eye Candy: Carlee Baker, Eryn Joslyn, Eve Mauro, and Robin Sydney all provide T&A (Robin I saw topless before in "Big Bad Wolf", the other three are baring for the first time) There's also nudity in some of the extras (noted with an asterisk) My Grade: D+ DVD Extras: Optional Intro by Al Jourgensen; commentary with Director Zach Passero, Actresses Robin Sydney, Carlee Baker, & actor Justin Stone; 19 & a half minutes of bloopers & deleted scenes*; photo gallery; Advanced trailer* & theatrical trailer* for this film; and Trailers for "The Oracle", "Love me deadly"*, "Blood Sisters", & "Witchery"*
i would vote a lower rating if i could.
posted on 21 Jun 2008the entire movie seems like it was an attempt to get a few girls naked. the plot is horrible. the acting is worse.looks like it was filmed on the cheapest camera available. the soundtrack was the best part of the flick, and even it wasn't that great. i'd rather have my eyes gouged out than be exposed to the shittiness of this movie again.i regret paying the price of the rental. it was like paying to be insulted. over and over again.if i had wanted porn i'd have stuck to the internet. to be honest, i could probably find a better quality movie on youtube.i sincerely hope that no one ever pays to see this movie again. i hope even more that no one ever gives the hacks that made this piece of crap enough money to make another movie ever again.i've seen better from first year film students.
Horrible
posted on 13 Aug 2009Unbelievable that a movie this amateurish even got a decent release, I purchased this clunker at Best Buy. How does this kind of thing even get released? Simple plot about vacationing girls "molested" by local redneck punks is needlessly complicated by boring supernatural twist and "cops" on their trail.Long, boring, and tedious with a coupla gore FX thrown in from Halloween Express, this thing looks like it was shot on VHS tape or a low pixelated DVD-R camcorder.The tone- unbelievable! Was it a comedy? An Ed Wood attempt? Or was all the stupidity accidental? One minute it's serious, one minute it's slapstick, the next...who knows, it's just completely confusing.The lead gals are lookers and the nudity is nice, but they aren't into their parts or the "lesbian" scenes enough to make it worth your time.I'm floored the lead singer of MINISTRY contributed some halfway decent music to this production, or the camcorder makers just stole it, synced it up, and put his name on it.Ineptitude of the highest order, I certainly hope this team of wannabes does not embark on any more ventures, pleeeeeze, I wrote all your names down so I will avoid all future projects each and every one of you "behind the sceners" are involved in.WICKED LAKE gives horror flicks...camcorder flicks...and underground movies...the cliché negative reputation it deserves because so many hacks hawk up luggies like this smegma.Stay far away from this thing, and shame on FANGORIA magazine for giving the camcordermakers so much publicity! Shame on everyone involved for making such crud! I'm telling you, you can't imagine how inane this thing is til ya try to sit through it...Ugh!