Creature Lake (2015)

Very well executed

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

This is number 8 bazillion in the list of low budget, lazy found footage films. Like many low budget films the box art is a lie. The monster you see doesn't exist. There are actually 2 monsters. The one you see for most of the film is a nude woman who does...something. There is also a tentacled monster you see for maybe 30 seconds - which is good because the CGI is awful. There are really no good death sequences or scares. This film is notable for having horribly unlikable characters. I mean these dudes are a notch below your standard slasher movie fare where they are not just stupid but also grossly offensive.

So I found this movie on Hulu during my search for a perfect Lovecraftian movie. The acting is bad, the special effects are bad, the story progression is bad, and most of the characters aren't very likable. But it is at least semi entertaining and has some Lovecraftian elements. D-Day's Lovecraft Score: 2 out of 5. Reason: While the monster looked a great deal like an elder god or outer god and it even had a cult following, its offspring was killed which defeats the purpose of "Cosmic Horror". And we never understand what the creature is. Is it an alien like Cthulhu that's older than our species existence? Or maybe an ancient dinosaur like Loch Ness? Also had the main character not been killed but rather gone insane or maybe even killed himself I'd have made it a 3 out of 5. Instead though the main character is just killed off by humans.

I recently watched Creature Lake, and it was a fun time. I didn't have high hopes for such a low budget indie/horror but the CGI was done properly and who doesn't like a lot of tits and blood. So the film starts off with one of the friends, who wins a deed of land from a poker game and decides to have a boys weekend. With that being said, if you guessed insanity ensues after that well you are correct. So if you are a fan of horror or the self found footage type of film, give creature lake a try, you wont be disappointed.

CREATURE LAKE is a VERY low budget found footage horror film from Canada. The main surprise about it is that it's actually quite good for what it is, the type of film that gradually involves you and gets better and better as it progresses. The main problem with the film is that the five cast members are all unlikeable twentysomething blokes who spend the whole of the running time swearing and screwing around, which doesn't really endear them to the viewer.Otherwise this is solid stuff with a workable plot. The guys stay in a holiday home on a lakeside and become aware of something spooky in the woods. Not much happens for a great deal of the running time, but the climax suddenly builds to a very raw kind of horror that reminded me of KILL LIST. There's some gratuitous nudity and a creature straight out of one of Lovecraft's nightmares, as well as cult members and bloodshed. If the earlier part of the film had this kind of content it might even have been decent; as it stands, it's a mixture of typically bad and unusually good.