LAKE NOWHERE REVIEW

Theres been a fad somewhat recently of movies claiming to be throwbacks to genre films of the past

LLLAKE NOWHERE falls into that oft-misguided lot

However, LAKE NOWHERE  convincingly succeeds where many fail

Like several of its slasher prdecessors,  the film begins with a group of friends who head out to the woods for shenanigans  typical of the genre:

>Beer drinking and pot smoking

>Practical jokes and random howling at trees (?)

And, of course, Skinny dipping; If there’s a  body of water in your slasher movie, there will be skinny-dipping-it is ape Law!

Sure enough, faster thank you can say Freddy Voorhees- a masked maniac inexplicably shows up and starts knocking people off in no particular order

The killAs a matter of fact, the movie delivers everything you’d expect from a god slasher:

Lots of murder-blood and gore-for those who are into mass murder

Lots of gratuitous nudity-for those who are into that sorta thing.

LAKNOHERE is a fantastic throwback to those obscureVHS titles you might accidentally stumble upon back in your local ma and pa shop back in the day

Even the grain of the film lookslike a vhs copy of a copy- complete with the inexplicable static lines intermittently scrolling intermittently down the screen, as well as ntrailers for other obscure genre films you might want to search for- I counted two giallo films AND ONE”NATURE GONE AMOK” ENTRY

THERE ARE EVEN RANDOM CUTS TO CLIPS, YOU CAN’T FIGURE OUT, LIKE APROGRAM THAT WAS ORIGINALLY ON THE TAPE BEFORE YOU TAPED THE HORROR MOVIE OVER IT;

YOU KNOW- LIke sextapeyour parentsFILMED AT THE localmotel 6 over Easter break; or maybe your precious episodes of Simon and simon

But none of these novelties are notdistracting- In fact, they add more ambience to the film experience as a whole.

Most importantly, nothing in this movie is ever used in a wink-wink-nudge-nudge joke fashion

Instead of mocking their classic predecessors, LAKENOWFERE, instead, embraces these slasher conventions and integrates them seamlessly into the film-thus making it a solid slasher in its own right

Instead of mocking them  or writing them offoffas mere kitsch mere kitschLAKENOWHEREcan proudly on the video shelf-shoulder to shoulder with such classics as FridAYTHE13th

THEBURNING

REDEEMER!THE  SON OFSATAN 

and maybeeven BLOODFREAK(dare to dream big, Isay!)

Of course not everything can be peaches and cream.

Keeping in mind, that I’m a moon, here are a handful of problems I had with film:

>who and why is the masked maniac? I mean, is there an origin?

Then again, maybe it’s better off as a mystery

>are those thozombies? And if so…

>what’s the deal with the zombies?

> what is that damn inscription? Which leads me to my next issue:

The sound is verymuddy at times(it should be noted that I watched the streaming version on amazon

>Finally can somebody please explain the ending?  and Please do so with small words

Moody, atmospheric, and beautifully shot, LAKNOWHERE is a solid homage to  slasher films of yesteryear-perhaps most importantly,LAKE NWHERE is simply a fun film in its own right