Lake Dead
| Lake Dead | |
|---|---|
 "Lake Dead" Film Poster | |
| Directed by | George Bessudo |
| Produced by |
Mike Karkeh Todd Chamberlain Hector Echavarria Jason Hice |
| Written by | Daniel P. Coughlin |
| Starring |
Kelsey Crane Tara Gerard |
| Music by | Mark Petrie |
| Cinematography | Curtis Petersen |
| Editing by | Eamon Glennon |
| Studio | Alliance Group Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Alliance Group Entertainment |
| Release dates | November 9, 2007 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
Lake Dead is a horror film that was released as part of the 2007 After Dark Horrorfest.
Synopsis
The film follows a group of teenagers who inherit a motel on a lake, only to uncover a series of dark and frightening family secrets.
Plot
Three sisters, Brielle, Kelli, and Sam, are on a college break. They discover that their grandfather has just died and he has left them a motel in his will. Their father, John, tries to persuade them not to go, but the sisters ignore him and head off, accompanied by their friends: Tanya, Ben, Bill, and Bill's girlfriend, Amy. Sam is the first to arrive, and while drinking wine in Room 6, two inbreds forcefully enter and attack Sam, where with a collection of duct tape, an iron bar, and an axe, they bind Sam's legs with the tape, place the iron bar beside her ankles, and use the axe head to force the bar through both her ankles. Afterwards, the three are in a boat, where the inbreds tie a badly beaten Sam's legs to a concrete block, and dump her into the water, where she is still alive as the concrete block pulls her beneath the water, where she drowns. The rest drive to the motel and meet the caretaker, an old lady who appears kind. After finding a lake on their property, the group of friends take a swim, not noticing that Sam's dead body is floating in the lake beneath them. After the swim, the friends return to their trailer, where they set up a small campsite. Bill and Tanya go out to the woods to get some firewood, and end up having sex (much to the chagrin of Amy). After encounters with large, strange-looking, unkempt men, the friends are terrified. Bill, Tanya, and Amy are butchered, while the remaining friends escape but are picked up by a mysterious, pushy cop. He tricks them into coming back to the motel where everything slowly falls into place. It is later revealed that the cop and caretaker are all a part of the evil scheme to make Brielle and Kelli a part of their devious plans. The cop and caretaker are in fact son and mother, respectively, and their family has been perpetuated by incest for generations (hence the inbred characteristics of the two aforementioned unkempt men). It becomes apparent that the girls' father had rejected the family "tradition" and escaped; however, their grandmother found out about this and concocted the inheritance scheme to lure the sisters to the motel so that her son could forcibly impregnate them and continue the family line. The sisters manage to overcome joining their family's footsteps. Ben seemingly manages to kill both of the inbred men and attempts to rescue the girls from the barn where the cop has taken Brielle to rape her (in the process the grandmother is shot in the head by Ben). When they arrive at the barn Ben is shot unexpectedly by the cop, but the girls' worried father, John, shows up at the last minute and kills his brother, stating "That's how you fuck family", and ending the gruesome tradition. John takes his daughters and the still alive Ben to a hospital. At the end of the movie, four teenagers are shown going into the motel to see if it is abandoned. One of the teenagers has strange feelings about going into the motel; it turns out that one of the inbreds has survived. The inbred man stares at the girls from behind a tree and then screams.
Cast
- Kelsey Crane as Brielle
- Kelsey Wedeen as Kelli
- Tara Gerard as Sam
- Jim Devoti as Ben
- Alex A. Quinn as Bill
- Malea Richardson as Tanya
- Pat McNeely as Gloria
- James C. Burns as Sheriff
- Vanessa Viola as Amy
- Kenn Woodard as Priest
Production
It was filmed in 2006 in Santa Clarita, California and Simi Valley, California.[1] It was produced by Alliance Group Entertainment, Executive Producer Robert Rodriguez and is director George Bessudo's first film. Lake Dead was written by Daniel P. Coughlin.
Release
The film was released as part of the After Dark Horrorfest in November 2007[2] and came out on DVD on March 18, 2008.[3]
References
- ↑ Lake Dead on Alliance Group Entertainment Website
- ↑ "Lake Dead Distribute through After Dark Films".
- ↑ "Lake Dead DVD Release".
External links
- Lake Dead at the Internet Movie Database
- Lake Dead on Myspace
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