Lake Placid

"I will NOT calm down! This is the second time I've been hit with a severed head and I DON'T LIKE IT!"
In LAKE PLACID, Stan Winston's special effects bring to life a monster lurking in the depths of a dark lake.

At the beginning of this story set in Maine, the sheriff (Gleeson) pulls a diver out of the water whose lower half is completely gone. The man is still alive when brought into the boat, but not for long. The creature responsible for his death is a 30-foot-long crocodile that an old lady (White) who lives on the lake has been feeding for six years, first with bits of bread when it was a baby and now with whole cows!

There's some scary moments and some sily ones, but the comedy misfires more than it works. "Lake Placid" is in the end a fairly brief and only so-so horror film.

Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.

(5.5) Lake Placid (1999) - Bull Pullman/Bridget Fonda/Oliver Platt/Brendan Gleeson/Betty White





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