Review of Lake Placid (1999) by Adrian E — 20 Aug 2008

Eyev'e said it before and eye'll say it again eye just love films that involve a giant crocodile killing people. But it infuriates me that there are technically only two excellent ones Alligator, and Rogue.

The third best being Primeval and this this movie landing down in fourth place. This movie delivered a good deal of scares mostly due to it's JAWS style of tension during the early minutes of the movie.

But once the movie kicks in to it's CG crocodile things start to boil down to standard horror flick catagory. The only good scene with the CG crocodile is when it lunges out of the water and snatches a grizzly bear in it's jaws pure genius! The rest of the attacks fall into above average considering all the other similar movies with very cheap deaths.

The actors in this movie are pretty good and they deliver a good number of laughs as well. If you love killer croc flicks this should be right up you'r alley. Just don't give the sequel a look it's painful.

Check out my list of the worst movies of all time for the full scoop on the latter.