Lake Dead: Horror Movie Review Hey, that Girl Tara from Paradise Hotel is in This Flick!

I love, love, loved the reality show Paradise Hotel, and the second I flipped the movie Lake Dead on, I noticed that Sam, one of the early main characters in the flick, had a huge resemblance to Tara Gerard, who was one of the winners in the original Paradise Hotel reality show.

I had to, of course, go online to see if this girl was the Tara I remembered from the original reality show. Lo and behold, it's the same girl. This gave me an even more reason to continue to watch the movie. I liked Tara, she was cool, she was hot, and whoa look at her, she barely aged a bit! (Okay, maybe a little).

Anyhow, Lake Dead is part of the 8 Films To Die For collection. Most horror flicks in the collection though have failed to impress me, and truly there are only around 3 or 4 movies I've seen in the collection that I actually found to be horror movie good...or I should say, acceptable.

Lake Dead unfortunately failed to impress me, even with Tara Gerard being one of the characters in the flick. Sadly for Tara though, her role is so 'short lived'.

Lake Dead is about 3 sisters who recently find out that her Grandfather has died. In his will he leaves behind his home/hotel in some back woods part of... errr... 'the middle of nowhere' (literately one of the main characters calls it that).

So they gather up and head down to nowhereville, where a large group of crazed psychotic rednecks picks them off one by one in the typical psycho in the redneck in the woods type of way.

Now Lake Dead seriously has nothing going for it, except for a few good looking blonds.

Besides the easy on the eyes chicks, this horror flick has been done time and time again. It is basically another 'Hills Have Eyes' or 'Texas Chainsaw' type of movie. In fact, I just watched a show called Sideshow that had nearly the exact same plot, only without the whole inherited property thing thrown in.

As far as the acting goes, some do a decent job, and others they fail. All in all though no one really stuck out any more than the other, besides Sam (Tara Gerard) who unfortunately is picked off nearly 3 minutes into the movie. Sigh. The only reason she sticks out though, is because she has the foul mouth of a truck driver. F this, F that, F you, and F her.

Mostly all scenes involving horror, or gore are pretty predictable thanks to the background music that plays loudly just before, during, and after the murder scenes. Yep, no guesswork here, you pretty much know what is going to happen, before it even happens.

There are however a few scenes where all of a sudden one of the rednecks will pop up into the scene completely 'shocking' the group. How they went about this in plain open areas in still confusing. If someone was lurking over my back, I sure as hell would see them before they had the chance to get close to me. Yet in this flick, in the middle of an open field, the crazed rednecks just materialize in thin air or something. Go figure.

All in all Lake Dead is another wanna be back woods horror flick, with a plot that has been done time and time again.

You have a group of mentally ill rednecks who want nothing more than to kill, kill, kill, then they threw some hot chicks, and flopping tits into the mix, and wallah, called it a horror flick. Actually a horror flick so boldly labeled 'a film to die for'.

Overall:
 
You could do without. There are plenty of lake/campfire flicks where similar things will occur, only they are more scary and believable than Lake Dead.

Lake Dead earns a 1.5 star rate from me.