Lake Placid (1999) 21:00-22:35 Thu 11th Jun 2020 100m Horror Channel
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Starring Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, Betty White
Director Steve Miner
When bodies pile up around a Maine lake and a giant tooth is found lodged in one of the victims, local fish and game officer Jack Wells teams up with big-city scientist Kelly Scott and mythology expert Hector Cyr to solve the mystery.
https://www.radiotimes.com/film/cxx6b/lake-placid/
Writer/producer David E Kelley, of Ally McBeal fame, here turns his hand to a daft creature feature that will tickle fans of
Tremors. There's something under the surface of Black Lake that's making monster munch out of visitors, so warden Bill Pullman, palaeontologist Bridget Fonda (Kelley's first choice for the role of Ally McBeal), grumpy sheriff Brendan Gleeson and nutty millionaire Oliver Platt decide to hunt down the critter before any other bits of semi-digested locals pop to the surface.
If you fancy something that isn't remotely brain-straining, this perfect popcorn entertainment could be for you.
So, not a great film, not even a good one, but like Tremors, oddly enjoyable, containing "humanity and humour with the occasional gore and fright" .....
Critics are scathing in their dismissal of the movie:
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film currently holds a 46% based on 93 reviews (43 fresh, and 50 rotten), with an average rating of 5.06 out of 10. The site's critics consensus reads, "Betty White's delightful supporting turn may be worth the price of admission alone, but
Lake Placid is swamped by a smarmy script and inability to deliver on the creature feature mayhem."
On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 34 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "
generally unfavorable reviews".
Nevertheless, the movie remains hugely popular with a certain type of viewer (myself included) .....
