Lake Placid

Lake Placid
5.9

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Directed by: Steve Miner

Overview

When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!

Lake Placid
Lake Placid

Reviews (8)

  • John Chard (Rated: 7.5)

    Big Crocodile - Big Log - Big Fun.

    There's a gigantic crocodile loose in the waters of Maine. A number of local hicks and big city eccentrics converge to try and stop the beast...

    Wonderful! A modern day homage to the creature feature movies of lore. It's not a spoof, it's a fun packed tongue ...

  • Gimly (Rated: 5)

    Not bad for a giant-gator Creature Feature, but Goddamn listening the dialogue in the first act is aggravating as sin.

    Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.

  • Kamurai (Rated: 7)

    Good watch, would watch again, and can recommend.

    I like a crocodile movie, they don't even have to be giant-sized, they make really good "monsters", and the reality of their danger sits in the back of your head.

    The cast was great in this, though Bridget Fonda screams a lot, and I can't say i...

  • Tejas Nair (Rated: 7)

    It's the humour garnished all over Lake Placid that makes it more than an entertaining watch about crocodile terror. You know it's a spoof but you know there's danger out there too that the characters are going to fall into. Add to that the on-the-point performances and dialogue delivery by Bridget ...

  • Wuchak (Rated: 7)

    Crocogator horror with humor

    A monstrous croc is discovered to live in a remote lake in Maine and so a conflicting group of people join together to capture or kill it: the local Sheriff (Brendan Gleeson), a Fish and Game officer (Bill Pullman), a paleontologist (Bridget Fonda) and an expert...

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