merrywater Yes, if you like to see a superficially nicely shot, and rather decently acted, movie that actually concerns...nothing, this would be an adequate choice. This movie was made for video, and in a strictly technical comparison, it doesn't give you, say, the sense of 80s "cheesiness".It starts out with a man entering his wife's bedroom with an ax, just like in The Shining. Then the man explains to his son that there's a curse. So far so good.Thereafter we follow a group of high school kids who are going to a Camp Something, just like in Friday the 13th, and everybody persistently states that everything's "creepy". This statement is indicated, for there's nothing happening on the screen getting the viewer to tremble with fear.Basically, nothing in particular happens until the last 15 min, when most of the high school kids are haphazardly killed. Well, they had to be, otherwise this wouldn't be labeled a horror flick at all.

Paul Andrews Fever Lake tells the tale of six teenage high school friends, Albert (Corey Haim), Steve (Mario Lopez), Bobby (Randy Josselyn) along with Sarah (Lauren Parker), Danielle (Mary-Rachel Foot) & Christy (Mattie Samradek as Mathea Webb) who all decide to spend the weekend at a house by a lake, set up by Albert they all plan to party & have fun out in the sticks away from the big city. However once there they get a strange unnerving vibe from the local townspeople, they find out that the house & lake have several ancient legends surrounding them & that evil things happen there. The six friends aren't interested in such superstitious nonsense though & intend to have a good time. Unfortunately for them the legends are true as evil things happen once more in the house by the lake...Co-produced & directed by Ralph E. Portillo I hated Fever Lake, I guess it just about has everything I hate in a film. The script by Michael Edwards is as slow & boring as they come, after the obligatory opening (off screen) murder the next 50 odd minutes of Fever Lake introduces the six teenage character's & the fact that they are going to spend a weekend in a house by a lake which has Indian legends attached to it, seriously that's the entire first 50 minutes, nothing else of any significance happens at all. This thing is a complete total & utter snooze-fest, I've seen some pretty boring & uneventful films in my time but Fever Lake is right up there the absolute worst of them! If you can stay awake long enough to see the ending you shouldn't have bothered because personally I didn't think it made any sense, a conversation at the end suggests that only two females were found dead yet there should have been three, right I get that bit but so the hell what? What's the problem? Why the stupid close up on the woman's worried eyes? We never see where the third female went or why she wouldn't be dead & I just don't see what point the filmmakers are trying to make, I really don't. What about the guy in the back of the police car whose eyes start to glow bright green, isn't that meant to be the shock ending? Reading some of the comments on the IMDb I was surprised that many refer to the 'shock' or 'twist' ending, well I don't see any twist or shock ending at all, did I miss something? It was obvious who the kid with green eyes at the beginning was since it was 'his' house & he was an orphan. Anyway, I hate this film, it's slow, it takes itself way too seriously, the character's are awful & the story is both predictable & unoriginal. Interestingly Fever Lake was released the same year as Scream (1996) which revitalised the horror genre, comparing the two in terms of story & basic entertainment value Fever Lake feels like it belongs in the stone-age. Oh well, that's another 100 odd minutes of my life wasted I suppose...Director Portillo does nothing to liven things up, he directs at an absolute snails pace & Fever Lake really is one of the dullest films I've ever seen. It makes watching paint dry sound like fun. There's no scares, no atmosphere or tension & the horror elements are just lame. There's a distinct lack of bloodshed as well, as far as I saw there was an off screen axe murder at the start, a stupid bit when a woman is murdered but you just see her face with a few drops of blood on it & I have no idea how she died & a Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) rip-off where two lovers are impaled, this time with an axe which in the scene in question at first goes right through both of them & lodges in the floor beneath the bed but when the murderer goes back to reclaim the axe a few scenes later it's only stuck in the guys back an inch or two. Overall Fever Lake is very tame & won't satisfy anyone looking for the red stuff.It's with an element of surprise that I report to you that technically Fever Lake actually ain't too bad at all & to give it some credit where it's due it's quite well made with some decent photography, it certainly doesn't look as cheap as some straight-to-video low budget crap horror films that I've suffered through. It's still a really crap film though. The acting is predictably bad, Bo 'I'll appear in any crap for rent money' Hopkins slums it as the local Sheriff while it probably finished off both Haim's & Lopez's careers, if they ever had ones to start with.Fever Lake is a really awful teen horror that has no redeeming features or positive aspects at all, I pretty much hated it & I'm glad I caught it on TV rather than have to spend any of my hard earned money on it. Do yourself a favour & give this boring turkey a miss. Apparently also available in an edited version known as Demon Kid, I have no idea why.

Adrian Bruner (adrianmbruner) This rambling incoherent disaster of a movie has nothing good to be said about it. The pointless script makes it that much tougher to swallow as well as the actors wandering aimlessly without a hint of chemistry between them. Corey Haim is the supposed "name" in the film, followed by the unforgettable Mario Slater. And who could dismiss Michael Wise in his spellbinding performance as the Indian, not only do they try to convince us that he is an Indian, but our ears are forced to listen to his laughable accent. Overall, it's a cheap, poorly edited, and most of all unintentionally hilarious. But if your in the mood for laughing at a really, really, shitty movie then Fever Lake is your final destination.

Line Thy Why is this movie only #99 on the bottom 100 list?! This is by far the worst movie I have ever seen. There is absolutely no connection between incidents - and the ending sucks. And who have ever heard of a wolf that kills without being there, but it still feeds of its victim??? This is the only non-comedy I have laugh all the way through.