b_kite Are adventure into terror starts out as what looks to be a Gardener is murder with a knife by a big fat guy in overalls and cowboy boots outside a lake house, we then fast forward to a unknown date were two country talking' couples Mike (Doug Barry), Becky (Angela Darter), Bryan (Mike Kaufman) and Kim (Andrea Adams) as well as Mike's kid brother Tony (Travis Krassner) (who I must say manages to ham it up and keep the first half of the film mildly watchable) and Susan (Christie Willoughby) arrive at the same lake house, however it isn't long before the killer returns and begins cutting the groups numbers down one-by-one, but why is he doing all this? If there's one thing I've figured out its that movie distributors in the 1980s must have been really desperate for product, I mean when a guy takes his friends out and pretty much shots a home video of them on vacation and then gets that home video distributed which in turn lands in thousands of video stores across the country then the level of desperate is pretty high. This movie was released by a group called "United Home Video", who also released other shot-on-video classics like Blood Cult (1985) and The Ripper (1985) staring Tom Savini, and from what I here it was in a lot of video stores and was a pretty common video in the late 80s and early 90s. To start things out like almost all SOV flicks this one has a crap ton of padding. The first half of this movie is pretty much like I described as a home video, the couples who talk very country and sport some hilarious mid west twang hick accents (which is no surprise since it was filmed in Cedar Lake, Oklahoma) pretty much do as follows. Talk endlessly to each other, go out on a boat, smoke pot, talk about having sex (even tho it never happens there is no nudity here), some other neighborhood hick boys come over, go back out on the boat and water ski, smoke more weed, talk about having more sex, play quarters (in a scene which lasts nearly 8-10 minutes), at first I admit I found this all to be pretty amusing with the mullets and 80s cheesiness, but, that soon went away and it got pretty repetitive. Somewhere about the 50-55 minute mark our killer (who is played like I said by some ugly fat guy in cowboy boots) decides to show up, then murders the two local boys, The couples then begin to fall one-by-one however its all shot in the dark so nothing is hardly seen, even tho we finally get some blood. Its also hilarious how in these tips of movies characters seem to act absolutely non caring about people being killed around them. We then learn that the reason the killer was killing people was because, of unpaid real estate debt. Yes. A killer on the loose because of bills! The movie then ends as usual with a twist, as the lake has now dried up (which in reality it actually did!) and our killer now a ghost roaming the lake house. The end credits display "Dry Lake Special Visual Effects by An Act of God". As the credits role we soon learn that this film actually had a 80s hair band called "Voyager" which did the soundtrack. The Director Tim Boggs would go on to become a Sound Supervisor his latest credit is the 2017 FX series "Legion" were he is the Lead Sound Supervisor. Even tho "Blood Lake" is by no means a good film even by its SOV sub-horror genre, what keeps most of these DIY films from this time period entertaining is there reliance on Sleaze and H.G. Lewis style Gore, this really had neither, so what your left with is a rather dull homemade slasher flick, however, its still a charm to watch something like this, I recommend it if you can find a copy or your into this particular sub-genre, others should defiantly stay away!

dullfinboy I really hated this movie. It seemed like a home made movie. The acting sucked, the effects were awful, and the story sucked. The movie was extremely boring. I was waiting for something to happen for most of the movie. The plot was not interesting enough. It was mostly talking and stupid things they did. The killer was dumb and uninteresting. It was painful to watch. The kills were mild. They wee bloody but the bad effects took and enjoyment out of it. The music sucked and the characters were idiots. I hated them. It was not suspenseful. It was just terrible. They seemed like jerks and they were annoying. The women were not very attractive and the boys were ugly. One of the worst.

creepersdelight90210 This was, with all honesty, absolutely terrible. Take a really bad movie, multiply its awfulness by 100, run it over with a tank, dice it up and then glue it back together you'll get Blood Lake. Which isn't really a bad thing, because it's so SO SO bad it's almost kind of interesting. One of the things I thought was humorous was like the 15 minute ending where they showed the killer walking around doing nothing. Also, it was freaky how that scrawny hillbilly kid kept on saying he was going to bang the black chick. And I think they ended up getting it on.You should see this movie, it'll give you a laugh.

raimi3 A bunch of rednecks take a trip to a lake with their daddy's Firebird & boat to have an outrageous weekend of partying, sex, & fun. Actually, there is no sex, but we do get to see them play quarters for about 15 minutes (maybe someone left the camera on). So to be fair, there is some partying as promised on the box cover.Anyway, some guy with one pant-leg tucked into his boot starts killing them with his yellow survival knife. I did get a laugh out of the knife though. When some of the kids make fun of him, why I don't know, he thrusts his knife in frustration into the boat dock and the compass on the top wiggles wildly. Ohhhh, scary. I also got a laugh out of the amazing camera technique the "filmmakers" used to let us know that the killer was on the prowl. Really, synthesizer noise over a red camera filter is scary no matter who you are.Anyway, he kills almost everyone. The heroine escapes with the help of a water spouting wall fixture. The killer dies. That's it. I have seen this movie 5 times and I still cannot come up with an answer to a question a friend of mine had. In fact, I have the same question myself. Why was this made? Who knows, maybe they will release a special edition DVD and we can find out in the, no doubt, enthralling audio commentary.Please do not rent this movie unless you really like bad horror movies. I, to this day, herald this as the worst movie I have ever seen.4 out of 4 onions