A summertime canoe trip turns into a nightmare for four 14-year-old girls.A summertime canoe trip turns into a nightmare for four 14-year-old girls.A summertime canoe trip turns into a nightmare for four 14-year-old girls.
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Lemme tell you something about Surviving Crooked Lake
If Surviving Crooked Lake feels a little amateurish to you, perhaps it is because (and I know this for a fact) it was made by a group of University students at the York University in Toronto. Now it sounds a bit more impressive huh? This is a feature length film! and whats more...it works, not brilliantly, but sufficiently.
If you were to put Deliverance, The Blair Witch Project, and Cast Away into a blender, you would get the recipe for Surviving Crooked Lake. Despite being highly derivative, and using a few too many contrivances to carry the story along, it is a pretty wild adventure with some heart and also some horror.
In the first twenty minutes, I was actually a little dubious about Surviving Crooked Lake. The intro plays out a bit too much like a chick flick, with silly lines. Four out of the five girls in this film turn into characters as we progress, but the fifth does nothing, except look like Sarah Polley. (Personally I would've liked to see her get eaten).
This aside, I have no other major complains about the execution of the story. The climax is very strong actually, exceptionally well directed, and scary, even psychological. By the end, Surviving Crooked Lake becomes a story not so much about survival or friendship, but about letting go of inner demons.
Aside from being occasionally annoyed, I enjoyed Surviving Crooked Lake, and I do recommend it.
If you were to put Deliverance, The Blair Witch Project, and Cast Away into a blender, you would get the recipe for Surviving Crooked Lake. Despite being highly derivative, and using a few too many contrivances to carry the story along, it is a pretty wild adventure with some heart and also some horror.
In the first twenty minutes, I was actually a little dubious about Surviving Crooked Lake. The intro plays out a bit too much like a chick flick, with silly lines. Four out of the five girls in this film turn into characters as we progress, but the fifth does nothing, except look like Sarah Polley. (Personally I would've liked to see her get eaten).
This aside, I have no other major complains about the execution of the story. The climax is very strong actually, exceptionally well directed, and scary, even psychological. By the end, Surviving Crooked Lake becomes a story not so much about survival or friendship, but about letting go of inner demons.
Aside from being occasionally annoyed, I enjoyed Surviving Crooked Lake, and I do recommend it.
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- Samiam3
- May 1, 2010
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