Director: Ralph Portillo
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Starring: Corey Haim and Bo Hopkins
Body Count: 5
Review: If I had standards, this movie would not be listed on this page.
Fortunately (or, perhaps, UNfortunately), I don't really have standards for this page, except that in order to get a review here a movie must have at least slasher elements.
Fever lake is a slasher movie, but just barely--and a terrible one at that. In fact, this is one of the worst productions I've ever seen. Terrible acting, terrible plot, terrible editing (I still don't exactly know what happened), and some really, really, really terrible lighting.
There's this spirit haunting Corey Haim's parents summer house, a spirit called (get ready, this is a doozy) The Evil Spirit Of The Lake. This evil spirit possesses (I guess--I'm still not sure) the body of one chick in this group of college kids staying at the house, and then she grabs an axe and chops them to bits--but it's really hard to tell what she's doing exactly, because the lighting is so bad that we can't see it!
Can't say I didn't enjoy Fever Lake, though--I mean, Corey Haim is a god of 80s cinema, the birthplace and proving ground of the slasher genre--and it's always nice to see a familiar face in some familiar territory--even if it is as terrible as this piece-of-crap was. Still, the most enjoyable part of Fever Lake was just laughing at it--it's definitely the kind of movie you can watch with your friends and laugh at how crappy it is.
