It helps that most of the film is brightly lit. This is a highly detailed, sharp and very crisp image. Plenty of fun for a lazy Saturday afternoon.Ĭlarity/Detail: Unlike the previous 1999 film Scream Factory released this summer (Ravenous), Lake Placid fares far better. The film is funny, gruesome, campy and I’ll admit…had a few well done jump scares. A real kind of tribute to types of films Joe Dante was famous for. The film is definitely the Piranha for the 90s/early 2000s.
Now, its a film I will definitely revisit here and there and am actively looking for something that would make a perfect double feature. It really has a lot of fun that I wasn’t akin to back in 1999. Well, done Scream Factory, you turned me around on Lake Placid. But, really you can see the genesis of all these films right here in Lake Placid. It also has a more loose feeling to it as well. However, I think this film was in on the joke where Anaconda wasn’t. This film and the previous year’s Anaconda definitely were the inspiration. When watching this movie, it actual itself feels like one of those movie, albeit with slightly better production values (the croc still looks pretty awesome). You can really see this movie inspiring almost every SyFy Channel original production that would spring up in the next decade and still ongoing. Maybe she’ll make a comeback in the near future, but who knows. Makes me think she’d be fit perfectly in a Joss Whedon production. She appeared in a brief, pretty much non-speaking, role in Army Of Darkness of all things and later appeared in Sam Raimi’s A Simple Plan. Not only was she super attractive (Wow, was she gorgeous in Jackie Brown), but she also had a knack for picking some really interesting projects and roles. According to her IMDB, she hasn’t appeared in a film since 2002. Whatever happened to Bridget Fonda? She was one of the most fun actresses I enjoyed back in the 90s. He totally gets and excels running this material. Bill Pullman, an actor I’m kinda iffy on in general, really works in this film. If anything, the film is worth watching for just this. The two have an absolute blast butting heads together and snarking back and forth with each other. Highlighting it is the interplay between Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Platt. The cast of the film really gels with each other. Its a fun little romp with a giant crocodile if you’re willing to kick back and let the film run its course.
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The cast really clicks and full understands the material as well as director Steve Miner.
Its got some fun snappy dialogue that actually elevates it above most of its ilk. Lake Placid is a really fun Saturday afternoon matinee B-picture. Well, this is not the film I remember it being. They discover a giant crocodile haunting the lake and being fed an nurtured by an old woman living on the lake. This brings together an investigation involving a Fish and Game officer, the sheriff, a paleontologist from the American Museum of Natural History and a crocodile enthusiast. In Lincoln County, Maine, a marine Fish and Game officer is bitten in half while scuba diving in the lake. I don’t think I fully grasped or appreciated films like this back when I was 17, so I feel I obviously went in realizing it was probably on me last time and I may have not been on the same wavelength as this film on my initial outing.
What’s great is that I get to revisit this film with fresh eyes and an older, wiser mind. It’s spawned some straight to SyFy Channel sequels over the years though. I remember watching it back when it came out on video and not really caring for it. For one, it was a newer film (weird to call a 15 year old film that), but as we’ve seen they are starting to explore late 90s and early 2000s films. I’ll be the first to admit, when Scream Factory announced they were doing Lake Placid, I was kinda like “Hmm”.
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