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Jason wins a hand written deed in a poker game and goes with five guys to the lake cabin property located on sacred Native American ground. They are warned about a lake creature, the Gitaskog (original title) which only makes them more eager. They brought along plenty of beer and cameras...this is a found footage film.

On the plus side, the guys who made the film didn't star in it. There was less jerky footage than usual without the excessive night cam and ground cam...although there is some. We do get to see the creature, for what it was worth and the girl on the cover minus the bikini...worth a little more than the rubber blob with tentacles creature.

My biggest criticism was the overly lame filler material of drinking, passing gas, urination, talking about some guy named Johnson and trying not to talk about each other's wife. They did manage to spoof other found footage films during this time which was better than the immature language.

Guide: F-word. No sex. Nudity

"Creature Lake" centers around five friends who gather together for the weekend on a property that one of the friends recently came into possession of. The five friends consist of the usual variety of characters. We have the property owner, who is basically an okay guy. We have the cocky, arrogant idiot who openly antagonizes people, thinks it's funny, and doesn't care whom he offends. We have the cocksure jock who slept with one of the other friend's wife, before they were married. We have the tech geek/whiz, and finally, we have the sensible, level-headed one in the group.

Our friends set off for this weekend, all traveling in Mr. Property Owner's car. Along the way, they crack on one another as guys sometimes do. They stop at a restaurant that is frequented mostly by the Native American locals. Of course, Mr. Obnoxious starts with the off-color, offensive jokes, not caring who hears, or whom he offends. The locals start to take umbrage at the boorish remarks, and a well-meaning employee at the restaurant, of Native American descent, brings our friends their check, and advises them to beat feet, in a friendly way. Realizing that they're about ten seconds from a major ass-whipping, thanks to Mr. Obnoxious, our stalwart band takes the employee's well intentioned advice, and they leave. While they're outside, the employee comes out to speak with them.

The employee tells Mr. Property Owner that he overheard them talking about where they're going, and he advises them to reconsider. The area that they are planning to party at holds a scared value to his people. Moreover, he informs them of a mythical creature who inhabits the lake. This creature takes the form of a woman, and lures the unwary to a watery doom.

Of course, our merry band does not held this warning. They want to par-tay, dammit!

Upon arriving at the property, they set up camp, and Mr. Tech-Geek sets up a series of cameras on and around the property so that as much of this epic bash as possible will be captured for posterity. After camp has been set, and the cameras are all in place, the fellows all go for a swim. While they're swimming, one of the boys says that he felt something brush against his feet. Of course, his pals blow him off. It happens again, and they still dismiss his claim.

That night, the boys gather around the campfire and pound beers. They rank on each other incessantly, and Mr. Cocksure makes a thinly-veiled remark about banging one of the other guys wife. This leads to two of the boys to almost come to blows, but Mr. Property Owner and Mr. Sensible break the fight up. Everyone is a little drunk, and tempers are still hot, and yet another one of the fellas decides that this is a good moment to tell, and show, the other fellas that he has a shotgun. This leads to the usual "why did you bring a gun to the wilderness?!" protests, but tempers eventually cool, and everyone turns in for the night. Mr. Obnoxious and one of the other boys decides that this is a great opportunity to blast some Godzilla-type roars over a loudspeaker system. Oddly, to Mr. Obnoxious and his partner in crime, no one finds this to be funny. They almost get shot for their efforts.

Everyone finally falls asleep, and a female figure, a young girl, enters the camp. She's moving a bit oddly, as she picks her way around the sleeping men, but doesn't do anything. She eventually notices one of the cameras and goes over to peer into the lens. As she does, her features distort. Oh no! It's the lake creature of Native lore and legend!!!

On the second night, the group hears more bellowing and roaring, and it seems to be quite close to their camp. It isn't Mr. Obnoxious and his cohort this time. Mr. Obnoxious actually wants to pull up stakes and leave then and there, but Mr. Property Owner shoots that idea down. He had a hard enough time finding the place in the daylight; he doesn't want to get them all lost driving around at night. The group reluctantly agrees that they will all leave first thing in the morning.

The next morning, Mr. Cocksure is the first one up, and he decides to visit the beach while the others are still asleep. Love and behold, while he's there, a stark naked woman Wade's ashore. Mr. Cocksure doesn't see anything strange in this. He gets equally naked and goes to her. They start kissing, and she leads him into the water. They kiss for a few more minutes, and then the naked woman disappears. Confounded by this turn of events, Mr. Cocksure stands there... and then he is pulled underwater, never to be seen again.

The rest of the fellas finally wake up, and notice that Mr. Cocksure isn't among them. They figure that he went for a stroll, and they start to pack up to leave, as agreed. They get everything packed, but Mr. Cocksure still hasn't shown up. Mr. Property Owner tells two of the fellas to load up the car while he and Mr. Sensible look for Mr. Cocksure. Oh no! The car is gone!!! How can this be?!

The fellas are now convinced that something is amiss. They split up to look for Mr. Cocksure, and the car, and of course, they are picked off, one by one. The local natives are in on it with the lake creature, and they intend to sacrifice the party boys to the creature.

Mr. Property Owner ends up fleeing, and is on his own. He is trying to dodge hunting parties of the locals, while attempting to find his friends. He finds a road, and sees his car, and then it starts driving towards him. Oh no! It's the locals! They stole his car!

Mr. Property Owner manages to duck back into the woods and eludes his pursuers. He ends up in the forest by the beach, where he sees Mr. Sensible and Mr. Tech Geek tied to stakes at the water's edge. Mr. Sensible sees Mr. Property Owner, and cries out for him to come rescue them. This alerts the locals who are on the beach with the captives. They look towards the forest, and spot Mr. Property Owner. At that point, the lake creature emerges in it's true form, looking like a mutated, monstrous octopus. The lake creature devours the captives, and Mr. Property Owner turns to flee. Say! It's the helpful, friendly employee from the restaurant. Mr. Property Owner pleads with him for help, but Mr. Employee brains him with a hatchet.

Poor Mr. Property Owner and his pals. If only they had paid heed when Mr. Employee had warned them.

There is some claptrap at the end of the movie about an investigation into the disappearances of Mr. Property Owner and his friends that goes nowhere. Then, the video footage recorded by Mr. Tech Geek is found. Despite having faces to look for, all of the potential suspects that were caught on camera have mysteriously disappeared, and the case of Mr. Property Owner and his pals remains unsolved.

The movie itself is okay, if you're bored and none too picky. The guys take it a bit far with the bickering and insults while partying. I've been on guys' weekends, and we'd razzed each other a bit, but nowhere near as viciously as the friends in this movie did. You end up wondering how they ever became, and remained friends to begin with.

This is number 8 bazillion in the list of low budget, lazy found footage films. Like many low budget films the box art is a lie. The monster you see doesn't exist. There are actually 2 monsters. The one you see for most of the film is a nude woman who does...something. There is also a tentacled monster you see for maybe 30 seconds - which is good because the CGI is awful. There are really no good death sequences or scares.

This film is notable for having horribly unlikable characters. I mean these dudes are a notch below your standard slasher movie fare where they are not just stupid but also grossly offensive.

I loved the movie, its was totally abysmal even the naked part didnt had thrill. As the movies goes on I got a feeling of Blair Witch project but it came to trash when the Red indian at the end kills our last surviving character and stole the csmeras as those cameras were not hidden but specially placed in front of him to collect like some sort of trophies.

CREATURE LAKE is a VERY low budget found footage horror film from Canada. The main surprise about it is that it's actually quite good for what it is, the type of film that gradually involves you and gets better and better as it progresses. The main problem with the film is that the five cast members are all unlikeable twentysomething blokes who spend the whole of the running time swearing and screwing around, which doesn't really endear them to the viewer.

Otherwise this is solid stuff with a workable plot. The guys stay in a holiday home on a lakeside and become aware of something spooky in the woods. Not much happens for a great deal of the running time, but the climax suddenly builds to a very raw kind of horror that reminded me of KILL LIST. There's some gratuitous nudity and a creature straight out of one of Lovecraft's nightmares, as well as cult members and bloodshed. If the earlier part of the film had this kind of content it might even have been decent; as it stands, it's a mixture of typically bad and unusually good.

So I found this movie on Hulu during my search for a perfect Lovecraftian movie. The acting is bad, the special effects are bad, the story progression is bad, and most of the characters aren't very likable. But it is at least semi entertaining and has some Lovecraftian elements.

D-Day's Lovecraft Score: 2 out of 5. Reason: While the monster looked a great deal like an elder god or outer god and it even had a cult following, its offspring was killed which defeats the purpose of "Cosmic Horror". And we never understand what the creature is. Is it an alien like Cthulhu that's older than our species existence? Or maybe an ancient dinosaur like Loch Ness? Also had the main character not been killed but rather gone insane or maybe even killed himself I'd have made it a 3 out of 5. Instead though the main character is just killed off by humans.

I think this film was decent at best. Todd was the only red eeming quality about this film.

Very SCary, said oi vey more than once!