A bunch of the most annoying chuckleheads you ever saw in a no-budget shot-on-video horror movie go on vacation to their summer home by the lake. There, they talk (and talk and talk) about sex, drink beer, smoke pot, and waterski. Little do they know there’s a killer in a big-brimmed hat lurking around the lake with a hunting knife looking to make mincemeat out of them.
I watched Blood Lake right after Ray Dennis Steckler’s Summer Fun, and it almost feels like a slasher remake of that film. Both were shot using crummy camcorders on a low budget at a lakeside resort. (There are instances in both pictures where you could swear the directors are trying to pass off home movies of someone’s vacation as a scene for their movie.) This one had actual dialogue, but the sound and acting was so poor it made me wish I was watching a silent movie instead.
It doesn’t help that all the characters are raging buttholes. They almost seem like they came out of a live-action version of Beavis and Butt-Head. Minus the laughs, of course. The constant use of waterskiing as padding is also a bit much and the hair metal song that accompanies these sequences (“Feelin’ Free”) gets annoying quickly.
None of this would matter if there had been some gore or nudity to take the sting out of it. There is a little blood, although not enough to live up to its title. Besides, the nighttime scenes are so dark that you can hardly make out the blood anyway, and the red-tinted POV killer stalking sequences are irritating as well. All the sexual innuendo involving a couple of preteens is a little creepy too. To make matters worse, just when the movie should be over, it continues on uselessly for another ten minutes.
In short, all involved should go jump in a lake.
I thought this was an interesting film.
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