Review of Stranger by the Lake (2013) by Maggie W — 03 Jan 2018

I have no idea how this received excellent reviews. I love foreign films, indie films and even films that end up to be one giant confusing metaphor. But this? This was horrible. If you removed all the hard core gay sex scenes, money shots, close ups of oral, close up perspective angles of anuses and cum splatter images, there's about 10 minutes of actual dialogue and movie, although still absent of a story line.

When the USA makes a movie that isn't rated X for adults and we incorporate sex scenes, we do include some nudity...what we don't include is a minute-by-minute play of hardcore porn including money shots.

We don't need to see some guy's bare dick penetrating someone else (unless we actually want to watch pornography.) This is a very basic story with NO SUBPLOTS and a lot of hardcore - yes, I said hardcore - pornography.

I have no clue how this arrived to Netflix. I suffered through the entire thing. My husband, who usually likes adult themes became bored (perhaps because he isn't gay, but I did not ask why he fell asleep.

) His only words to me were, "Since when do you like gay porn -with subtitles and no story line?" Anyway, the story is: Attractive man in his young 30's cruises a known gay lake and makes a friend with whom he chats daily.

Said attractive man develops a crush on another man who is a good swimmer. Said attractive man stays late one night following one of the thousands of gay trysts that the film focuses on more than it does on dialogue or plot, and witnesses his crush commit a murder but keeps said information to himself and engages in risky gay sex with the murderer anyway until said murderer kills two others in his presence.

Reviews said this is similar to Hitchcock. I'm a diehard Hitchcock fan and can attest to the fact that Hitchcock wrote STORIES WITH PLOTS that were MYSTERIES. This is the OPPOSITE. This film had no plot and no twist, let alone a reasonable story.

It was ALL close-up gay sex scenes. That's it. I've actually seen pornography with more plots than this and porn is famous for being plotless because no one watches them for the story. This movie was stupid, and incredibly gross.

I had watched it because I thought these great reviews might be true. I'm fairly certain they're fake.