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Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Memorable, crazy movie

Boring

Blistering performances.

From the very beginning, nothing made sense. I watched this for over 80 minutes and have no idea what the hell that movie was about. Please don't watch this. I promise, it will be the biggest mistake of your life.

'Lake Fear' or 'Cypress Lake' or 'A Haunting At Cypress Creek' as my DVD cover called it is the story of four girls wearing short shorts who go out to a remote cabin and things start to happen. By the end of the film one wonders, what did happen? What was that all about? Once inside the house there is a relentless barrage of choppy editing, useless acting, shots in focus, shots out of focus (this becomes terribly irritating) and some unconvincing gore towards the end to try and breathe life into a long expired movie. Acting-wise it was amateur, particularly when the girls were in their bloody make-up so you couldn't even tell them apart. The music score is hilariously bad and the director had obviously plundered his DVD collection for lots of the imagery. The sound effects weren't awful, mainly in the beginning, so compliments for that. Otherwise a tangled mess with no rhyme or reason.Sad Cypress indeed.

Stop me if you've heard this one before. Four pretty, young girls go off to an isolated campsite and some horrific things happen to them. Yeah, it sounds like a mid-80's horror flick but it's really a modern twist on that genre.Cypress Creek starts out like any other formulaic horror film. The four main characters are introduced to the audience as they get ready for their weekend trip to a secluded cabin. Once they arrive they have to hike into the woods to reach the cabin. They come across a lake that they need to cross. It's fairly deep so they have to strip down to cross. Of course they do.Once they get to the cabin all hell breaks loose. At this point Cypress Creek diverges for the genre in a big way. This is a low budget film to be sure but the director does an excellent job with the resources he has access to. There are crazy camera angles, very good use of light and shadow and some creepy special effects. To say it is surreal is an understatement. It is as if Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson and Quentin Tarantino got together to make a movie. Things get bloody and downright demented. While the acting is so-so, the movie itself really delivers. Any horror fan will like this film. I am a sucker for small budget films but I can only imagine what the filmmakers could have created with a big budget.

A rating of 5,5?! Really?!? I'm usually not someone to use big words and I like to look for the teeniest positive thing in every movie, however bad they may be, but here I stand with my back to a concrete wall: this is by far the worst attempt to a horror movie that I have seen so far!! Where to begin? The plot is non-existent, the direction (if any) is beyond amateurish, as is the photography. The sound is terrible, the voices sound sometimes loud and echoing, sometimes muffled or like someone speaks from under water. The editing is lame, many takes where nothing happens (someone walking through a room for instance) are prolonged too the extreme. There is no acting at all, it's like the maker (I won't give him the credit of calling him director) asked some friends to walk and talk before his camera just for the fun of it (well, definitely not OUR fun!). The camera by the way is never stable, every image trembles and tilts, as if they didn't have money for a decent trolley or even a tripod. And the special effects and scares? None whatsoever. They try to create a sort of The Ring atmosphere, with flashy images of supposed ghostlike persons, but you just watch it in bored disbelief in stead of fright. And what the hell was supposed to be going on there?! Never any explanation. It stays as mysteriously as why these girls went to the house anyway. In short: total waste of our time and of their budget of 8000 dollar, as IMDb pointed out. For a movie it's nothing, I know, but still 8000 dollars too much.