Blood Lake

Plot synopsis:
A septet of friends (Andy, Roger, Tricia, Max, Nell, Charlotte and Nicole) travel to a cluster of lakeside cabins, where they unearth a "blood book" that tells the story of Preacher Jacob, a priest who took over the nearby town's congregation in 1896. Jacob had his followers commit mass suicide under the belief that he could resurrect them as a new, perfect race enlightened by their deaths. Max and Nell go off to have sex, but before they do so Max skims the blood book and reads an incantation aloud, summoning the homicidal spirit of Preacher Jacob.
The first of the group to be killed is Roger, who Preacher Jacob axes in the back. The preacher then captures Nicole, ties her to a tree, and hacks her to death with the axe. Next, Sam is garroted with a rope, while Nell has her throat slit in the shower. Tricia realizes what is going on, and tries to get help from Andy and Charlotte, but the two are kept sealed in their cabin by a supernatural force, which relents after Tricia flees at the sight of Preacher Jacob. Andy and Charlotte decide to barricade themselves in the cabin until sunrise, and pass the time by having sex.
Later, Charlotte goes to wake Andy up, but finds Preacher Jacob in his bed. The undead holy man kills her, then goes after the wounded Andy (who has the blood book) and Tricia. Jacob chases Andy and Tricia to a dock, strangles Andy, and is seemingly destroyed when Tricia sets the blood book on fire. Tricia gets in one of the cars and drives away, but as she leaves the campgrounds, Preacher Jacob appears in the vehicle, and attacks her.

Tags: violence, murder

Review:
This has to be the most hilariously awful movie I have ever seen, and clearly the worst slasher film ever.
Features probably the worst acting of any film in recent memory.
Blood Lake (Quick Review) This particularly awful film revolves around a group of poor-acting kids in a cabin on the lake wherein somebody starts killing them.
Well, roughly 25 minutes of this film are spent watching the kids water skiing on the lake.
They didn't spend this much f*cking time on the lake in "Piranha." The kills don't even look good and there is really no gore at all.
You just might kill yourself.Recommended to: Absolutely no one should ever watch this film.
The plot of "Blood Lake" is very simple:a group of partying teenagers is stalked and murdered by crazed killer in cowboy boots during their summertime holidays close to a large lake.There is water-skiing galore and extremely poor acting.The script is so bad that it was probably written by monkey.Long and tedious scenes which lead absolutely nowhere fill "Blood Lake".There are few gory killings including particularly nasty throat slitting,but the lack of suspense can't be forgiven.The film drags pointlessly to the point of extreme boredom.The killer is more laughable than menacing.So if you like hysterically bad slasher flicks like "Savage Water" or "Don't Go in the Woods" you can't go wrong with this amateurish "Friday the 13th" rip-off.3 killer cowboys out of 10..
This is only the 2nd horror flick shot with video that I've seen, theother being Phantom Brother.
the worst thing about the movie is a quickshot of the tiniest spider, during a murder..
Since then, I've gotten my hands on a long, lost VHS tape of what is possibly the rarest shot-on-video Horror movie of the 80's.
If you haven't seen Blood Lake, you couldn't possibly comprehend the utter ineptness of this long, lost treasure of schlock.
After many years of obsessively collecting bad Horror, I've got a hold of everything from Criminally Insane, to Gore-met Zombie Chef From Hell, to Better Living Through Killing, but now...
It really comes off like a bunch of teenagers are spending the weekend at a lake, and one of them brought along his parent's cam-corder.
The acting is so terrible that it really seems like a bunch of awkward teens mumbling to each other, as opposed to actors, who normally speak up, when on camera.
Li'l Tony is gonna get with his chick, this weekend, just like the big boys, even if his little 12 year-old life depends on it.
Every time someone raises their voice, the background music gets louder, So, it doesn't matter how good your seeing and hearing is, you'll still only catch about 1/3 of this spectacular joke of a movie.At times, it's painfully obvious that some of these people just don't know what to say.
All the mumbling, not-so-well-thought-out wise-cracks, and scenes involving everyone talking at once, will no doubt entertain those who "get" this type of Horror.Wanna hear something funny?
I actually rented this movie, from Blockbuster (of all places) in the early 90's, when I was a kid.
Luckily, over the years, my liking for bad Horror would eventually grow into a full-blown passion.
Just because you like low-budget Horror, doesn't mean you're gonna approve of Blood Lake.
Ultimately, this legendary low in acting, the complete ineptness of the whole movie, and of course, li'l Tony make Blood Lake more entertaining than all the Friday The 13th movies combined, which isn't that big of a deal, but still.
I have seen the bottom 12 IMDb movies, and I can safely say, this is worst!
I know that the on the box the artwork at the video store may be a little misleading but we are watching a home-made movie.
There is a so bad it's good element to this movie but the better elements are the 80's slasher themes.
Surely he could see and sense the terrible acting taking place as he was directing; then I imagine him just ignoring it and focusing on just finishing the movie.Some people comment that the characters aren't acting, that it doesn't feel scripted, and that it seems more realistic this way: however, this is not the case.
Later on in the movie, we learn that his motive for going on a killing spree is because he never received payment for the house those teenagers are staying in from one of their  father's.
And don't even get me started on the ending sequence..During half of the movie, the characters are moving around in the dark.
The movie was shot on some sort of video format, but not a home camcorder, mind you, so you know that issues of lighting will crop up.
There are a few rock n' roll vocal tracks, but nothing special.This movie was so bad, in fact, it drove my friend to perform the terrible act of biting into an onion like it was an apple.
To make a long story not too short, this movie can be watched, but you have to come into it with a certain mindframe.
One of the most boring slasher films of all time!.
The plot is typical, involving a group of teens who head to a house by the lake for a few days, only to have a bland and uninspired killer arrive.
It's loaded with filler material involving the core group of people having good times, riding fast cars, water skiing, playing quarters, and exchanging dialogue so light- hearted, it would almost be offensive to teenagers to suggest they have such timid nature.
It's far too little, far too late, involving a character with the most miniscule motive, killing not enough people in settings too dark for anyone to truly appreciate the gore effects that don't even look that bad.
This has to definitly be the worst horror film.
Sometimes when i hear a bad review about a horror movie, I just blow it off because I like to experiene the movie myself, but this time I should have taken the advice.
Attack of the Killer Refrigerator is like 15 minutes long and still better than this one..
I have seen many, many, MANY, many horror movies.
It seriously makes Zombie Lake look like the cream of the crop.The plot goes.......far away before the camera starts rolling and you get a group of kids who had a dollar and their parents new cam corder whilst spending a weeks vacation at the summer home.Stay away.
I have seen this movie 5 times and I still cannot come up with an answer to a question a friend of mine had.
Who knows, maybe they will release a special edition DVD and we can find out in the, no doubt, enthralling audio commentary.Please do not rent this movie unless you really like bad horror movies.
I, to this day, herald this as the worst movie I have ever seen.4 out of 4 onions.
I rented this with a friend of mine and I must say that it is so so so sad that some stupid video distributor could possibly find this film decent enough to release.
It doesn't even serve as camp value or a "so bad it's good" movie.
Just an awful movie, the worst Ive ever seen!
Sure this has probably the worst acting, writing, directing, producing, filming, distributing, editing, sound and picture quality around but it still is NOT A BAD FILM!
It's their first film and most don't know how to act.
Most of the teens in this movie probably don't know the first thing about acting.
Now I've seen two films by the now apparently obsolete "United Entertainment." The first, Blood Lake, and the second, The Last Slumber Party.
The Last Slumber Party was truly awful (read my review) but Blood Lake is just excellent.
I can't explain my absolute liking and respect of this film.
**1/2out of****I guarantee that you won't like this film after you watch it for the first time.
Come on guys; If you're going to make a crappy horror movie on video at least have the common decency to provide us with a little bit of fun.
actually i am dumb enough because i paid 3 bucks to see this movie because i thought it looked halfway decent, like an actual good slasher film.
its amazing, if i were in 1987 maybe i could have gotten a video camera and shot a film as bad as this.
the acting is terrible, the script is worse, there are like no good death scenes, the music sucks, the ending sucks, this film just sucks sucks sucks!
for a decent flick rent the glenville films or slumber party massacre or something like that, not this junk.
Single worst slasher effort of the 80's, "Blood Lake" is thy name.
Another late 80's routine teen-slasher picture like there were at least fifteen per dozen around that time.
This dud found a spot in my list of absolute worst 80's slashers alongside: "Don't Go in the Woods", "Deadly Games", "Appointment with Fear", "Berserker", "Cardiac Arrest", "Hollow Gate", "The Stay Awake", "Blood Tracks" and "Hide and Go Shriek"..
Worst slasher flick I've ever seen..
It looks and sounds like someone filmed it with their home camcorder.
The true horror comes from the fact that you've given up over an hour of your life that you can't get back.Like I mentioned before, I had a relative that contributed a lot to this movie.
Time actually seemed to stand still as we watched and we actually started thinking "a rousing game of chess would be fun" it became blatantly clear that not only was this film a total waste of time, but it was pure crap as well.
A matching Mullet...I particularly liked watching people water ski (badly) for 25 minutes.
after the ambulance carts of the surviving teens, we are treated to a post-apocalyptic 15-minute music video of Blood Lake dried up, with Jed standing impressively like only a killer hick with no motive can do..
Yes, the time you spend watching this movie will prove that you are truly a media harlot.
I mean any attempt at trying to get an audience response with such short quick stupid teenage uncool blather leaves the viewer so unrewarded that you end up not liking anyone but the alleged killer.
Some fat guy with a knife goes around killing Friday the 13th-type movie teenagers, typical of a repulsive slasher movie.
Never have I seen a movie that is so dull, poorly acted, and incoherent.
Being a HUGE fan of the horror genre, I have come to expect and appreciate cheesey acted, plot-holes galore, bad scripts, horrible lighting and effects, and cliches after cliches.
But these things is what make me like horror movies so much.
The movie plays out like a bad, bad soap opera and transcends into a laughable mess.
The killer and his motives are like something out of a bad "Scary Movie" clone rather than something that is attempting to be a serious slasher film.
With that said, amazingly enough I WOULD recommend Blood Lake to any SERIOUS horror movie fan, if only to see the good old days of the horror genre, when a films like this could get made..
One of them is collecting and rating slasher movies, which as you can see by review list - is something that I'm very passionate about.
I know very well that there are many people globally like me who love these old hack and slashers and some of them are really hard to find.
I am not sure, but my apologies if the review is short(er).Now, I am all for a group of guys getting together with a camcorder and making a movie with their buddies.
The location is based alongside a large lake, so they make the most of their time by water-skiing and the like.
However what I wouldn't do, if I got that chance to make a feature film, was expect people to enjoy watching me use it for fifteen minutes.
However what I am not too interested in is sitting and watching a quarter of an hour of unappealing actors getting dragged around behind a boat during a horror film.
In fact, long, tedious and ultimately pointless scenes are the director's trademark and he seems to like nothing better than filling the screen with plot points that take the story absolutely nowhere.
Character development I understand, but watching a Trans Am full of teens drive down the road for what feels like an eternity can start to grate VERY quickly.
By this point the film had begun to feel more like this was an over-long Youtube video on how cool the Blood Lake posse are at weekends than a slasher flick.As I mentioned earlier, the chance to make a horror movie is an opportunity that not many of us get.
I won't spoil it for you, because it's the best thing that Blood Lake had to offer.
It showed a sense of humour from the film- makers though and shows that they probably knew how bad their movie was.
And why is the lake dried up at the end.THIS MOVIE SUCKS!.
Are adventure into terror starts out as what looks to be a Gardener is murder with a knife by a big fat guy in overalls and cowboy boots outside a lake house, we then fast forward to a unknown date were two country talking' couples Mike (Doug Barry), Becky (Angela Darter), Bryan (Mike Kaufman) and Kim (Andrea Adams) as well as Mike's kid brother Tony (Travis Krassner) (who I must say manages to ham it up and keep the first half of the film mildly watchable) and Susan (Christie Willoughby) arrive at the same lake house, however it isn't long before the killer returns and begins cutting the groups numbers down one-by-one, but why is he doing all this?
If there's one thing I've figured out its that movie distributors in the 1980s must have been really desperate for product, I mean when a guy takes his friends out and pretty much shots a home video of them on vacation and then gets that home video distributed which in turn lands in thousands of video stores across the country then the level of desperate is pretty high.
This movie was released by a group called "United Home Video", who also released other shot-on-video classics like Blood Cult (1985) and The Ripper (1985) staring Tom Savini, and from what I here it was in a lot of video stores and was a pretty common video in the late 80s and early 90s.
To start things out like almost all SOV flicks this one has a crap ton of padding.
The first half of this movie is pretty much like I described as a home video, the couples who talk very country and sport some hilarious mid west twang hick accents (which is no surprise since it was filmed in Cedar Lake, Oklahoma) pretty much do as follows.
Talk endlessly to each other, go out on a boat, smoke pot, talk about having sex (even tho it never happens there is no nudity here), some other neighborhood hick boys come over, go back out on the boat and water ski, smoke more weed, talk about having more sex, play quarters (in a scene which lasts nearly 8-10 minutes), at first I admit I found this all to be pretty amusing with the mullets and 80s cheesiness, but, that soon went away and it got pretty repetitive.
Somewhere about the 50-55 minute mark our killer (who is played like I said by some ugly fat guy in cowboy boots) decides to show up, then murders the two local boys, The couples then begin to fall one-by-one however its all shot in the dark so nothing is hardly seen, even tho we finally get some blood.
Its also hilarious how in these tips of movies characters seem to act absolutely non caring about people being killed around them.
The movie then ends as usual with a twist, as the lake has now dried up (which in reality it actually did!) and our killer now a ghost roaming the lake house.
Even tho "Blood Lake" is by no means a good film even by its SOV sub-horror genre, what keeps most of these DIY films from this time period entertaining is there reliance on Sleaze and H.G. Lewis style Gore, this really had neither, so what your left with is a rather dull homemade slasher flick, however, its still a charm to watch something like this, I recommend it if you can find a copy or your into this particular sub-genre, others should defiantly stay away!.
One of the worst slasher movies ever made!.
It seemed like a home made movie.
OK so I can agree with the other comment about the lake scene, yes it is like 15 min long.
I mean yeah we get the point that there is a trans am with kids going to a lake.
The killings in the movie are a big disappointment, all it is, is a guy walking around in cowboy boots.
The acting is horrible and the movie is a big waist of time.
They even filmed it with a home video, so the lighting was horrible and was very shaky.
I just hope that they don't ever make a movie like this again..
Truly, the worst movie I have ever seen..
Take a really bad movie, multiply its awfulness by 100, run it over with a tank, dice it up and then glue it back together you'll get Blood Lake.
One of the things I thought was humorous was like the 15 minute ending where they showed the killer walking around doing nothing.
And I think they ended up getting it on.You should see this movie, it'll give you a laugh..
"Blood Lake" is one of those movies that has to be seen to be believed.