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The People Across The Lake (1988)
Topic Started: Apr 17 2013, 08:01 AM (331 Views)
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In an effort to get away from the city and all its crime, Chuck Yoman and his family move to a big old house in a peaceful lakeside town. The discovery of a mutilated corpse in the lake and another body in the woods, however, suggests that the Yomans would have been safer if they had stayed put...
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The plot sounds great! Hopefully the movie is too. Been seeing too many bad movies with good plots lately.
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In an effort to get away from the city and all its crime, Chuck Yoman and his family move to a big old house in a peaceful lakeside town. The discovery of a mutilated corpse in the lake and another body in the woods, however, suggests that the Yomans would have been safer if they had stayed put...
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ew that poster
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mergining this
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it looks okay.
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Fascinating poster and a nice enough plot.
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it looks okay.
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The music in this was pretty good. The dialogue in this was amusing (we get great lines like "my skin is turning pea green" and "I don't wanna be a redneck - we're gonna be POOR! (un) "). The deaths were disappointing. The setting was good. The characters were decent enough.

I'll start the rest of this by saying that I'd be totally pissed if I walked in to see popcorn popping all over the damn place. Lisa's interactions with her mother were really funny. I wanted more cooky stuff between the two of them. I wasn't expecting the mom to pretty much be the lead character - instead, I thought it'd be one of hundreds of films where the teen daughter, forced to move with her family, is the lead and the parents fall into the background.

The effects were really good so I wish that we had gotten more than just one or two onscreen deaths. I loved the hatchet to the back, the look of all the rotted corpses, the nasty bodyparts covered in seaweed and so on. I have a feeling, though, that even if this weren't made-for-TV (I think it was anyway) they still wouldn't have went all out with the kills despite the fact that the bodycount was almost in the double digits. John was cute, the sheriff was more likeable than the one in The Hearse but was still borderline useless, I didn't care for the husband and kids, and the villain ended up being surprisingly effective - and one of the guys reminded me of James Karen (WAS that him?!).

Much like the people in The Hearse and those I've encountered in real life, the locals in this film were very uneducated and unwelcoming to 'them city folk.' My skin crawls whenever I see people like that in movies since I know it's NOT just a meanspirited anti-South stereotype. I did love how odd and wonderfully gossipy Ruth was though. She should've been one of the leads.

Even though this wasn't a full on slasher film, it paid homage to other slashers from the 80s, which I appreciated. The father/son stuff at a certain point was really warped, the climax was mostly satisfying (yay for the inclusion of fire!) and the final scene was so-so but not bad at all. I recommend watching it once. I'm glad I did. But I also know that I probably won't be seeing it again, lol.

5.5/10 quality, 6/10 entertainment.
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