Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Michael Ledo Six students who graduate from high school go up to a Black Lake property where quiet Johnny (Daniel Zovatto) has access and knowledge of the thing that lives in the lake. The six kids get stranded in a row boat in the lake attacked by a rubber headed flesh eating fish. In order to survive they end up voting someone off.The film does its horror style character build up in the vehicle on their way to the lake. From then on all the action takes place in the boat in this low budget production. If you like films like "Altitude" or "Frozen" where the action is limited and takes place in one location, this one is of that genre, but a little worse.No sex or nudity in this horror film. The fish monster is MST laughable, but the rest of the film lacks cheese character. The film would have been infinitely better had they made it to the island, had a party, got picked off one by one, then attempted to cross back vs. rubber head.My recommendation: Watch "Two-Headed Shark Attack" instead.

Carycomic I watched this on Syfy Channel On Demand. And, if ever there was a reason for _not_ disabling fast-forward, this movie provides it! This movie was nothing more than a boring hybrid of JAWS and LIFEBOAT, filmed on location in the Naugatuck Valley town of Oxford, Connecticut. With the monster in question being a "mutant catfish" that is all too-obviously a poorly constructed animatron. And with the only "big" name actor in the entire cast being Mark Margolis (last seen as Elias' father on PERSON OF INTEREST)! In short? I might have given this flick five out of ten stars if it had a less predictable ending. Like, say, the two girls being the only survivors _alongside_ Jonny the part-Native American.

Scott LeBrun A gaggle of teenagers who've just graduated high school go on a rural excursion together before they all head their separate ways. They end up on a boat, on a lake, and at least one of their number, Johnny (Daniel Zovatto), seems to know the score. He's heard "legends" regarding the place. As it turns out, this dumb bunch ends up stranded on the boat - which develops leaks - and franticly trying to make it to shore when a goofy monster fish shows up and, every so often, gobbles up one of them.It's a shame, really. You expect more from writer / director / editor Larry Fessenden ("Habit", "Wendigo") than this kind of cheese ball entertainment. It seems as if he's trying to rise it above most of the efforts in this genre by ruminating on the idea of the depths to which people will sink when it comes to saving their own worthless lives. How much does friendship and family count for in such a situation?Negating whatever honest intentions Fessenden may have had is the fact that this is one truly despicable bunch of jerks. This is the kind of movie where you root for the monster, by default, to eat everybody because there's not one human character on hand that's tolerable. Zeke (Griffin Newman) is one of the worst because he's a walking cliché: the kind of film geek / aspiring filmmaker who stubbornly insists on filming everything, the kind of guy who drives this viewer right up the wall.The acting is pretty bad from most everybody concerned, which doesn't help matters. The young cast is amateurish, with just one old pro present: veteran character actor Mark Margolis ("Pi", 'Breaking Bad'), who has just two scenes.The design for the monster fish is, as was said, rather goofy, but the visual effects are better than one might expect; the fish actually feels like a physical presence in the movie. And there is a smattering of amusing gore throughout.This isn't one that this viewer would really recommend, unless you have a high tolerance for bad writing and bad acting.Four out of 10.

karlsenior369 Dreadful teen horror story set up - teens, love triangle, lake, boat, beer, party, monster, death blah blah blahIt seemed like everyone -silent one, jock, jock's bro, t'other lass, everyone except the geek that is, had shagged the slut, even the other lass.I liked the way the sides of the fish looked as it moved through the water, it did indeed look fish-like.I hated all the characters, which in my book means they played their parts well because they were all indeed pretty despicable. And I didn't understand how they never seemed to get any closer to the shore when they were in a lake.!All in all it was pretty dire.