Creature Lake (2015)

I'll tell you why so serious

I wanted to but couldn't!

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Jason wins a hand written deed in a poker game and goes with five guys to the lake cabin property located on sacred Native American ground. They are warned about a lake creature, the Gitaskog (original title) which only makes them more eager. They brought along plenty of beer and cameras...this is a found footage film.On the plus side, the guys who made the film didn't star in it. There was less jerky footage than usual without the excessive night cam and ground cam...although there is some. We do get to see the creature, for what it was worth and the girl on the cover minus the bikini...worth a little more than the rubber blob with tentacles creature.My biggest criticism was the overly lame filler material of drinking, passing gas, urination, talking about some guy named Johnson and trying not to talk about each other's wife. They did manage to spoof other found footage films during this time which was better than the immature language.Guide: F-word. No sex. Nudity

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.