daggersineyes Ignore the whiny reviews. This is a nicely done thriller with some reasonably good acting and excellent direction. No clichés, no gratuitous twists, just a straightforward passable psychological thriller. There are some nicely built moments of suspense (more would have been better) and I found the reactions of the characters to be often nicely unexpected. I liked the sound-track, it was used to good effect, as were the times when there was no sound at all, just the sounds of nature etc. Some well-thought camera shots and wonderful scenery add to the whole effect. I wish Tara Reid would learn to close her mouth tho, her acting was probably the least quality aspect of the whole she-bang as she seemed to think vacant eyes and an open mouth convey a multitude of emotions. But still, I've seen worse acting than hers in thrillers and at times she was really good. It's not Oscar material but it's certainly not a stinker either. My advice is if you're looking for a light but decent thriller to while away a couple of hours you could do a lot worse than this one!

sol1218 **SPOILERS** Having met her dreamboat Mitch, Kip Pardue, at a bus station pretty and well heeled, in the money department, Julianne or Julie, Tera Reid, didn't realize what an unstable character he really was until it was too late; after she married him. It turned out that Mitch has his eye out for Julie for some time and that chance meeting wasn't a coincident at all. It turned out that he had it planned all along!Going on their two week honeymoon at this deserted island in the middle of a lake wasn't exactly what Julie had in mind but with Mitch insisting upon it she just meekly went along with him. Mitch it turned out is a closet control freak who feels that the only way he can keep Julie is to have her a prisoner in his leaking and dilapidated cabin. At first putting up with her creepy husband Julie finally revolts against his crazy lifestyle and attempts to escape to the mainland. There's only one thing that's holding Julie back she can't swim!The movie "Devil's Pond" has Julie slowly go into some kind of "Stockholm Syndrome" meekly putting up with all the psychical and mental abuse that crazy Mitch hurls on her. Knowing that she's a captive of an unstable and possibly homicidal, in turns out that Mitch may have murdered his dad in a faked hunting accident, lunatic Julie plays along with him just in order to stay alive.Mitch for his part gets so crazy by the hour that even by giving into all his whacked out fantasies, in him being a both survivalist and nature boy, that in an act of desperation Juie overcomes her fear of water and decides to swim to shore and safety. It turns out that Mitch had the engine of his pick-up truck fixed so that it won't work making Julie's effort to escape a losing one. It also makes Mitch now look for a reason to finally get Julie out of his hair by murdering her to keep her from exposing his dark past; Mitch's possible murder of his dad to get control of that dinky cabin on the lake!Very good acting by both Kip Pardue and Tara Reid keep the movie afloat despite it's very unbelievably storyline. The ending was a bit ridicules in how Julie finally got away from Mitch's clutches. Still it was kind enough, in saving the audience from putting up any more with that nut, to have Mitch's final exit in the film happening off screen so that we, as well as Julie, would be speared the agony of witnessing it.

whpratt1 This film starts off with a young couple getting married, Mitch, (Kip Pardue) and Julianne, (Tara Reid) who recently graduated from high school and comes from a well to do family. During the wedding party there are toasts being made by Mitch and if you listen closely you will find something very strange about Mitch's toast about his father being absent from his wedding. Mitch brings his new bride Julianne to a far away place in the mountains of Montana and a house which is on a very small island. There is a row boat that is the only transportation to their house which is really a very rustic cabin with no comforts of home and no running water. In other words, this couple are going to have a honeymoon with no nice soft beds and matches are needed to start the cooking. As this film moves along you begin to find it very strange and then you start to feel very sorry this couple ever got married. Enjoy.

Suzie Lewis First of all a warning, this movie is awful! It contains bad acting, many plot holes and things that just don't make any sense!Tera Reid plays the little rich girl we already know who winds up married to a psychotic stalker. Somehow she thought he was completely normal until they spend a couple of weeks at their honeymoon spot on a tiny island.Also, Tera is scared of water which foreshadows the fact that she will be trapped on this island unless she can conquer her fear. Since this movie is a 'woman=good man=bad' type movie you can already predict the sequence of events and the ending.Reid does a better job at acting than her male companion but that isn't to say she's good. She goes from looking like she's going to have a breakdown to just looking out of it...maybe she was just drunk on set. Who knows?As for the rest of the movie, it's filled with magical cigarettes that don't get soaked when swimming, a diet of only pond water and meat (which I must say, there must be a water filter around that island because with Tera's shaved legs and fluffy hair, there's got to be chemicals in there), and a man that can take a frying pan to the face and a bear trap on his ankle but gets woozy when hit with a piece of wood.So, that is Devil's Pond in a nutshell. If you are wondering why I gave it a 3 instead of a 1; it's because I got a laugh out of it. Will it also humor any of you to tell you I watched this film on Lifetime?