Lake Eerie (2016)
A young widow moves into an old house on Lake Erie to recover from the sudden loss of her husband; however, she soon discovers a dark secret and that she is not alone.
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It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.
The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity
The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Contains midpoint explanation plot spoiler.Kate (Meredith Majors) moves into a home in La Salle, Michigan on Lake Erie where in 1969 an archaeologist (Chris Majors) offed himself with a piece of junk jewelry. She is haunted by images and a quirky neighbor or two. Kate is on meds because her husband (Ben Furney) recently passed. Kate has dreams and sees stuff. The house has...plot spoiler....a portal to another realm, and not a very good one. It is one with big guys with bad teeth, black robes, and low budget make-up jobs.The film quality was worse than made for TV. The acting was bad. Chris and Meredith Majors were laughably bad as was the dialogue. The plot could have proved interesting if it was done correctly with real actors.Guide: 1-2 F-bombs. Nudity (Victoria Johnstone)
Lake Eerie started out with GREAT potential but starts to fade after awhile & then turns into complete & total..... The way it started was AWESOME.I had high hopes for this movie but after Kate found what she found & saw what she saw in the drawer, the movie starts to fade, things just get weird & it's all downhill from there.The story behind why the house is haunted was lame.The worst acting was between Kate & Autumn in the last few minutes & the ending was the worst part of the movie.It was just pointless & stupid.It made no sense at all.I should've turned it off earlier but I wanted to see how it would end.The best part of the movie & the only things worth watching were the 1st 15-20 minutes & Lance Henriksen even though he really wasn't in it.Lake Eerie is the type of movie I'd expect to fall asleep while watching so it really surprised me that I didn't.If you ever get a chance to see it, I'd skip it if I were you.Go see something elseLast but not least, I read on IMDb that Al Snow was The Man In Black.I did not know that while watching Lake Eerie.If you're a BIG wrestling fan like I am then I thought you might like to know
If a movie is bad, I just shrug it off and go about my day. However, Lake Eerie is a case all its own — I felt cheated and violated after devoting almost 2 hours of my time watching it.Everything from the actors, dialogue, photography, makeup to soundtrack sucks. The plot is also abysmal, complete with really unnecessary lesbian kissing and butt and breast exposures.I don't get why it has a 5.6 star rating on IMDb — I have seen lots of terrible, terrible movies that are way better than Lake Eerie.Oh, Lance Henriksen who is a great actor IMHO is in Lake Eerie. However, his presence did not give any sparkle to Lake Eerie. That's how bad this movie is.
I enjoyed Lake Eerie. I recommend it. Period.First off, I will say that IMDb is full of trolls. There are only a few people who know the ethics of writing reviews anymore. Reviews are not meant to spat idiotic, hateful garbage. It's so obvious these trolls know nothing about film-making, and apparently they want to give the film a 1 star because they want to balance the fake reviews?? What kind of logic is this? Anyway, Lake Eerie reminded me of artistic films of the 1960s. Such as Ingmar Bergman films. Oh how I would love to see the hateful, ignorant rants if the IMDb trolls reviewed Bergman films. My point is, there aren't enough smart people to discuss films in a respectful way anymore.Being a filmmaker myself, I feel bad when I see other filmmakers being attacked because trolls want to leash havoc on the internet.To me, Lake Eerie was meant to be like a dream. I didn't know what was real and I thought the actors performed according to that strategy. Similar to Bergman, the atmosphere is supposed to create dread. The other reviews (the negative trolls) speak of bad acting etc, but they don't understand that the filmmakers probably made these choices on purpose. That is the beauty of understanding film, and being able to notice intricate detail strategically placed by the Director in order to shift audiences' emotions to resemble the main character's experiences.It is amusing to read the negative reviews and know these people have no idea what they're talking about. I'm sure the trolls want to tell me that I'm crazy, but the difference is I know film.It is a shame that Lake Eerie will probably not get the appreciation it deserves because people don't understand the plot or that it is more artistic than mainstream. It is a shame that trolls are crawling all over this film for whatever reason. If you like Bergman, and are smart enough to understand films like that, you just may enjoy Lake Eerie. Especially if you enjoyed Persona!