Lake Shit

"Sick minds make sick movies"....me




LAKE DEAD-2007-This begins with an old man getting shot in the head. Two sisters inherit a hotel from their grandfather. Sister number one is a foul mouthed drunken whore. Sister number two is nice and married to a construction worker. Their estranged father warns them not to go because granddad was a bad man. Slutty sis goes to the hotel herself and winds up being dunked in the lake and weighted down by a cinder block. Then nice sis and hubby take some friends up there (the more victims, the merrier). The place is run by Gloria (Pat McNeeley) a too cheerful lady who denies knowing anything about slutty sis so you know right away she's part of whatever nonsense is going to happen. The idiots decide to go camping. The stupidest part is when hubby goes for a swim underwater. He keeps his eyes closed and doesn't see slutty sis's body.  After one couple has sex two long haired dweebs attack them. The duo later go after the whole group but they escape. They ran afoul of the local redneck sheriff who's in on the plot which has to do with some hillbillys who want the married sister to help continue the hick inbred mentally deficient bloodline. 

Rape, torture and incest also figure in the screwed up plot. The "twist ending" in this HILLS HAVE EYES inspired garbage is given away early when hubby instead of killing one of the long haired geeks only knocks him out.

As of this writing director George Bessudo has made only one other movie. (keep your fingers crossed)

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Ghost Stuff

THE PRESENCE-2010-A woman writer, the victim of incest (Mira Sorvino, also one of the producers) spends time in a isolated cabin. She is observed (SIXTH SENSE like) by a ghost (perhaps her father played by Shane West from the cable TV show WEEDS). Nothing really happens until "The Man" arrives. This seems to be her boyfriend and he asks her to marry him. She accepts and then begins to display unusual erratic behavior. Meanwhile another ghost, the man in black (Tony Curran) advises the ghost on how to possess the woman. After the man in black fails to kill (?) the woman an African American ghost shows up and takes the ghost away.  This pretentious "art film" seems to have been made by a guy just out of film school who saw too many Ingmar Bergman films.  Movies like this don't surprise me though. It's typical of many actresses like Sorvino who wins an Academy Award early in her career then struggles to find  more mainstream roles and winds up co-producing vehicles like this for herself. Director Tom Provost edited episodes of TV's THE BACHELORETTE.

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