Lake Placid 3

Plot synopsis:
A year after the events of the second film at Black Lake, in Aroostook County, Maine, young couple April and Jason go skinny dipping and are attacked and eaten by a group of baby crocodiles. Meanwhile, at the house of the deceased Sadie Bickerman, her nephew Nathan, his wife Susan, and their son Connor, are cleaning out the house so they can sell it. However, Sheriff Tony Willinger soon arrives and convinces Nathan and Susan not to sell. Connor chases an escaped pet lizard down to the lake where he encounters the baby crocodiles, and begins to secretly feed them.
Two years later, Connor has continued to feed the now adult crocodiles stolen meat from the supermarket, but he is soon caught for shoplifting by Dimitri and sent home to his babysitter, Vica, by Susan. However, Connor goes to the lake to feed the crocodiles, followed by Vica who is attacked. Vica, whose arm has been badly injured, finds Susan at Sadie's house, where they tend to Vica's arm and Connor confesses to feeding the crocodiles. Meanwhile, Nathan is searching the lake due to a number of elk disappearances. He meets four teenagers; Ellie, Tara, Aaron, and Charlie who are camping on the lake. The teenagers show Nathan an elk head they previously found, leading Nathan to believe it was the act of hunter Reba, but he persuades Sheriff Tony to search the lake to make sure it is clear of crocodiles. While the teenagers camp, they decide to go swimming and the girls go into the woods and strip of their clothes naked and into their bikinis. Charlie spies on them and watches them stripping their clothes and by taking pictures, but then is devoured by a crocodile.
Reba is approached by teenager Brett, to help him find his girlfriend Ellie, who he fears will be taken advantage of by Aaron. Reba agrees and takes Brett out onto the lake in her boat with Jonas and Walt. Stopping to hunt elk, a crocodile attacks the boat and knocks the group into the water. Walt is devoured, but the others escape to shore and are stranded in the woods. After hours, Ellie and Aaron search for the missing Charlie, leaving Tara by the lake where she reveals her breasts, thinking it is Charlie and then is attacked by a crocodile that drags her into the lake. Ellie and Aaron return to find Tara missing, so they decide to try and get help. They discover Charlie's corpse, before finding what Ellie thinks is Brett's jacket. Ellie decides to search for Brett, upsetting Aaron who walks the other way, only to be attacked by a crocodile.
After searching the lake, Nathan and Sheriff Tony arrive at Sadie's house and reunite with Susan, Connor and Vica. They decide they should try and escape the house to go to a hospital, but in their attempt, Vica and Sheriff Tony are devoured and the car is submerged in the lake. Nathan, Susan, and Connor take shelter in the house. Meanwhile, Brett, Reba, and Jonas manage to shoot a crocodile dead, but another crocodile arrives and decapitates Jonas before attacking Reba, who manages to escape. Desperate, Reba and Brett travel on Reba's boat to Sadie's house and meet with Nathan, Susan and Connor. Determined to find Ellie, Brett escapes to Reba's boat and searches for her. He finds Ellie, but a crocodile kills him.
Reba kills a crocodile that breaks into the house, before she leaves with Nathan, Susan and Connor. Ellie joins them, and they make it to the town. The group break into the supermarket to call for help, setting off the alarm that attracts Dimitri, but he is swiftly devoured as a group of crocodiles enter the supermarket. The group is ambushed but manage to kill most of the crocodiles, but Reba is seemingly killed in the process. (However, it was retconned by the beginning of Lake Placid: The Final Chapter, which instead shows Reba survives and unconscious, then she leaves and throws the knife to the last surviving crocodile.) The only remaining crocodile chases Nathan, Susan, Ellie, and Connor to the gas station where the group manage to ignite gas with a lighter, causing an explosion that kills the crocodile. An ambulance then comes and helps Nathan, Susan, Ellie, and Connor.
Sometime later, Nathan, is taking a group of tourists around the lake, telling them of the crocodiles that are believed to be extinct. However, a baby crocodile is seen swimming in the lake, before an adult crocodile attacks the camera and the film ends.

Tags: violence

Review:
I think you have to be a really, REALLY hardcore fan of the first "Placid Lake" movie to actually fully enjoy this movie.Well, at least it was an attempt at making a movie with giant crocodiles, it just didn't work out all that well.
'LAKE PLACID 3': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five) Second sequel to the cult classic 1999 horror / comedy film 'LAKE PLACID'.
Having been a fan of the original film it is pretty disappointing to see it take the sequel rout that so many seem doomed to (like 'LOST BOYS', 'TREMORS' and 'STARSHIP TROOPERS' for example, the 'FROM DUSK TILL DAWN' direct to video sequels were actually pretty good compared to others).
These sequels (this one and it's 2007 predecessor) were actually released as original made for television Syfy network movies first and then as 'unrated' video releases quickly after.
They have a great deal of nudity as well as graphic gore and it appears as though the films were filmed with two versions planned, to capitalize on both markets (Syfy network television and 'unrated' DVD).This third film stars Colin Ferguson (from TV's 'EUREKA'), Yancy Butler (an old favorite of mine and she still looks hot, and is hilarious as well) and none other than Michael Ironside.
Ferguson plays Nathan Bickerman a game warden who relocates his family to Lake Placid and into the house of his late aunt Sadie (played by Cloris Leachman in the second film, who was the sister of Betty White's Delores Bickerman character from the original film).
She was killed by a crocodile in the end of the second film but Sheriff Tony Willinger (Ironside) assures the Bickermans that all the killer crocs are gone from the area.
Butler plays a tough and foul mouthed hunting guide hired by a college student (Mark Evans) to find his girlfriend (Kacey Barnfield) who went hiking in the area with another guy.The film is quite a bit better than the last chapter, especially the acting.
Some of the supporting actors are still pretty bad but Butler, Ironside and Ferguson all give better performances than the material has to offer them.
The CGI is so bad and painful to watch that it ruins the whole film.
I know they don't have a lot of money to spend but no effects would be better than the CGI were subjected to.Watch our movie review show 'MOVIE TALK' at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcXJ6wkPwN0.
So there's yet another generation of these hungry chomping monsters.Except for Michael Ironside as the quintessential skeptic hick sheriff, and the guy from Eureka poking fun at his Eureka character, the acting is laughably amateurish.
Some people apparently haven't figured out that Black Lake in Aroostook County, Maine (known to us as Lake Placid) is a place to avoid if you don't like alligators coming on shore and attacking you.
Their paths will cross, some will die, and hopefully nobody watches this film so they never, ever make a "Lake Placid 4".This film comes to us from director Griff Furst, who is better known, if he's even known at all, for having bit parts in movies (including the upcoming "Green Lantern" film), but not so much his directing.
(When aired on the SyFy network, ads for "Eureka" did come on repeatedly, so the cross-promotion is no secret.) For some reason, this film is ranked higher than "Lake Placid 2" on the Internet Movie Database.
if you're going to make your alligators look this fake, you're better off not making the movie at all.The DVD adds little more to the film than the TV version.
So the boy spends his time feeding crocodiles in the Black Lake with shoplifted meat for months.
When the reptiles are huge, they leave the lake and attack hikers and people that are camping nearby the lake to eat."Lake Placid 3" is so stupid and lame that can be defined in one word: awful.
well, by Colin Ferguson and Michael Ironside - but I didn't expect anything else, i ONLY watched the film for Colin Ferguson because I love Eureka.
If you're watching this film you're watching it either because you love Ferguson or Ironside or you want to see a film so bad it's good.
Stupidity and idiocy runs rampant from start to finish in this mess of something far worse than the original ever was...and that first movie was not among the finest either!
Whatever you think of horror movies to be, this will still possibly be the bottom of the barrel.Dialogue, characters, CGI - which stands for Computer Generated Information - the stuff that makes the crocs really scary......or in other words, the stuff that without - this movie would be even worse than it is...All of the above is ridiculously stupid and badly developed.
Okay, seriously, if you really think that they wouldn't have massive monitoring of this lake after the first two "Killer Croc" attacks in Maine, but somehow, everyone just ignored the problem and THIRD set of killer crocodiles appear in this lake, and start eating people.This is a fine production by SyFy, which means that you are going to get CGI monsters eating out of work actors...We get to see some T&A for the video version, not sure how SyFy handled this nor do I care, really.Okay, the plot is the Nephew of the Cloris Leachman character in the second sequel (who replaced that actually interesting Betty White character in the original) goes to clean out her cabin, and apparently this town that suffered two devastating attacks by Crocs is just find that a sheriff with a fish-finder has declared the lake Croc-Free.The kid of the Zoologist nephew then proceeds to feed the crocs, who then go on to feed on annoying, uninteresting characters you don't care about..
As Bad As They Get. Lake Placid 3 (2010)* (out of 4)The first two films in the series certainly weren't anything to write home about but at least they were cheap "B" movie fun.
In this third installment we return to the lake where a new game warden (Colin Ferguson) takes over the house where the old ladies were feeding the crocs earlier.
It turns out that his son starts feeding the baby crocodiles who grow into very big crocs and start eating people.
Like countless other "nature" flicks from this channel, we're given very bad CGI monsters that look about as real as those things seen in MEGA SHARK VS GIANT OCTOPUS.
The movie doesn't have a single scene that makes you feel any tension and that's not good for something like this.
The kid in the film is so stupid that you can't help but want to see him eaten early on and his mother isn't much better.
LAKE PLACID 3 was a hit so I'm sure another film will be on its way.
It's a shame so many people watched something so cheap when there are many better movies out there..
It has to be one of the worst films this year, certain films shouldn't have sequels, Jaws was passable at number two but no more and Lake Placid should have stayed at just the one.
When a series of strange disappearances has him concerned, a local wildlife officer finds that they are the cause of a group of monstrous crocodiles his son has found and kept for years, and must save the locals in the area from the savage animals.For the most part this one was quite an exciting and enjoyable effort.
One of the more impressive features here is the fact that this one goes for the most action in the whole series, which manages to get plenty of impressive scenes that come with the standard situations found in these films.
The ambush on the campers in the woods, from it stalking the girls before attacking and leading to the water ambush during their escape as it flips the boat and begins chomping on them for a great sequence, the sheriff having a tense encounter underwater with one and the first highlight battle in the escape attempt from the house which has the action from the race to get the car started while the crocs attack leading to all sorts of fun trying to get them out, a final house assault with the trapped residents holding off the creatures and finally using some ingenuity to escape all come off as extended, thrilling action scenes.
Colin Fergusson gives a superb performance in director G.E. Furst's exciting entry in the Lake Placid saga.
This is a film that will cause many second thoughts before anyone swims in a lake again.
Poor story, poor acting and very bad special effects.
The first sequel was quite bad and I would have expected the third attempt of this series to be much better with all the special effect arsenal at disposal.What a disappointment.
The story is terrible, the acting is under par and the special effects are the worse I have ever seen.
The two come together like peanut butter and sauerkraut.Lake Placid 3, could pass for watchable, unlike the last one, but the fact remains that it's still an amateurish product.
This is the kind of movie that the original Lake Placid enjoys making fun of..
Silly second sequel to Steve Miner's original from 1999, this time about over-sized CGI-crocodiles eating a bunch of topless women with Michael Ironside, Colin Ferguson and a hard-boiled Yancy Butler out to slay the beasts.
The opening-scene of 'Lake Placid 3' features full frontal female nudity and sex on a muddy beach that ends in a croc-munching death of the couple.
Giant crocodiles who eat yummy people.So what makes film like this worth seeing is what the writer and director do with it.In this case, we are given four sets of isolated characters, each on an odyssey towards each other.Interesting concept.
'Lake placid 3' surely delivers what it promises: horror.
Yet I have to do so, to fill up the space granted by IMDb. OK, there we go: when we leave the horror out for a second, 'Lake placid 3' offers a coherent story, acted out by less-than-mediocre actors & actresses.
Its shooting equals this qualification; for instance, one can clearly see that the computer did insert the attacking crocodiles into this film's picturing.'Lake placid 3's plot is supported by some nudity, too.
In this respect 'Lake placid 3' is a very good film..
This is without a doubt, without any doubt what so ever, the worst movie I have ever seen in my life.My head still hurts after watching this awful piece of garbage.
Finally, the special effects - they looked like the work of an amateur playing around with freeware - CGI at it's most primitive.
Finally, the special effects - they looked like the work of an amateur playing around with freeware - CGI at it's most primitive.
I've seen better special effects in a 60s Sinbad movie.
I've seen better special effects in a 60s Sinbad movie.
Good advice: Don't watch this movie unless you are bored out of your mind..
This way even a bad movie is actually...
The acting was lousy, something you can expect from horror movies.
This better then the original Lake Placid.
It is a great film most some a lot people probably don't like.
I may not seen very good to people who would not know a good monster movie if there life depended on it.
This is just another entry into the Lake Placid franchise that adds nothing new except more nudity and cheesy moments.
Nevertheless, this is rather a cheesy and dull flick that it becomes laughable even as it isn't intended to be.If you start watching it you will be surprised to see full frontal chick teasing her boyfriend in the woods, well, to be exactly Lake Placid.
Unfortunately, during the latter, they are eaten by "Lake Placid 3" crocodiles.
Unfortunately, and considering the resources, nothing lifts this shaky story above mediocrity.*** Lake Placid 3 (8/21/10) G.E. Furst ~ Colin Ferguson, Yancy Butler, Jordan Grehs, Michael Ironside.
Better than the second film, but nowhere near as good as the first.
It wasn't the best film I've seen, but it had a good atmosphere, had good acting and a witty script.
However, at least unlike the second, which was like a vastly inferior carbon copy, there is an attempt to be more original, and in terms of acting while not on the levels of Brendan Gleeson and the like from the original there is a good performance from Michael Ironside, whereas the two big names of the second film(Leachman and John Schneider) were literally wasted.
Colin Ferguson of "Eureka" plays a game warden who moves his family to Lake Placid.
The crocs are the usual SyFy Channel bad CGI.
Croc it does not look like one ...so bad.
Oh my god don't even try to watch this awful movie ...waste of time .....acting is poor ......
Not the original Lake Placid but watchable..
It is almost like there were two different groups working on the movie.
The first group, a fairly knowledgeable group, and the second group, not so knowledgably.The acting had parts that were very reminiscent of the first Lake Placid.
It is hard to describe but it seemed like for many of the main characters, they were in one move acting one way and then in a different movie acting another way.
The scenes jumped around to where you did not get a good feeling of flow or natural movement.The movie had a great start.
Some would not like it but it does grab your attention, and what you first think might be going to happen, doesn't and you get a whole new perspective to things.I feel the biggest problem the movie had was that many of the characters for the most part seem to develop in the story fairly well, but then are jerked out of the story.
Not sure where the movie was made but I have no complaints about that.If I gave details around a lot of items noted above, it would take away too much from one watching the film and it is worth watching once.
I have watched the original Lake Placid a number of times and will most likely watch it a number more as it is just that kind of movie.
Me, personally, I have always had a thing for Yancy Butler, something about those eyes, they are so captivating.A spoiler follows: It is left open at the end for a Lake Placid 4, so, hopefully someone will re-vamp it and throw more money to it to get it to rate a 7(or higher) in my book..
The writer may want to spend more time on the parts of the movie cut from the SciFi channel version in his next effort or at least let actors have some intelligent lines..
LAKE PLACID 3 is the third in the long-running series of disappointing creature features about B-movie actors getting munched on by crocodiles.
Don't think about the young boy who has fed these same crocs for TWO years without anyone noticing any crocodiles anywhere.
The monster size crocs look like they are made of rubber.The movie has a couple with a son move into a home when grandma dies.
Griff Furst directs this third visit to Lake Placid, Main; where the crocodiles are known for chomping.
Would not recommend watching this movie, is not a good idea because you will feel the same thing I'll be watching that silly..
The two stars; Colin Ferguson and Yancy Butler should have been the love interest, sadly they were not...together they could have made the movie much more enjoyable.
So beat me up...Lake Placid 3 was a lot of fun...and yes, I rooted for the crocks...maybe they'll make number 4 even better; hope they team up Colin and Yancy...and have the other wife eaten, and they become a couple..
Just like Lake Placid 2 only abit better!.
It had a more slower paced & for the first time, a different opening to the Lake Placid Franchise!
The young boy keeps feeding them meat from their house & also steals from the supermarket in order to feed them!The kills were abit cut out in the film & the bloody graphics were almost as good as Lake Placid 2!
The graphics, AKA, CGI was cheaply done just like the previous film!
Including the family, babysitter & the son who was feeding the Crocodiles!The ending on the other hand with the petrol station was pretty good!
I liked this film as much as the second, the second which I thought was just a tiny abit better for some reason!
I took it as the latter just to get through it.Perhaps it is supposed to be a comedy horror like "Scary Movie" but many of the characters are written so badly that it comes off as written by high school dropouts.
SyFy has done many fun movies (like Sharnado) but they have smart, funny writing...
Colin Ferguson and Michael Ironside do the best they can with the script and Yancy Butler gets in a few good lines but most seem like too stupid to be anything but croc snacks.Most of the time I am cheering on the crocs.Instead of just one giant croc, they have two large ones and several ones as they go after several groups (teens, croc hunter, family) where the plots intermingle.SyFy has lots of fun movies but this seems unintentionally funny (WTF type, not Simpsons or Scary Movie funny)..
Oh. This second sequel to the excellent monster movie Lake Placid seeks to replicate the formula - giant alligator eats people.
Personally I'd watch anything starring Colin Ferguson and Yancy Butler.
As for Lake Placid 3, what do you expect?
It's a second sequel to a silly film about crocodiles in a very northern lake.