Lake Placid (DVD)

What’s it about? --------------------- After a grisly death at Lake Placid, a Fish and Game Authority official is called in to help the local sheriff investigate. They are joined by a museum expert interested in the origins of a tooth found in the lake. Who’s in it? --------------- The two big names are Bill Pullman as Fish and Games’ Jack Wells and Bridget Fonda as prissy museum expert Kelly Scott. In reality, these two are probably the dullest members of the cast. Pullman brings his usual laid back attitude to the role and always appears a little distant and somewhat emotionless. Fonda on the other hand is given little to do other than ...

Whilst carrying out routine animal tagging in a Maine lake, a man is horrifically killed by an animal in the lake and only the upper half of his body is pulled from the water. Initially, the head game warden suspects that the man was killed by a large bear, but when the body is inspected further, a tooth fragment is found which appears to be reptilian in origin. A New York palaeontologist is sent to the scene to investigate further, and she joins the local sheriff and the game warden in their attempts to uncover what is lurking in the lake. Things take an unexpected twist when Hector Cyr, an eccentric millionaire, arrives on the scene, claiming that the ...

LAKE PLACID ... doom laden, atmospheric chilling masterpiece of a title ... exciting, scary, gripping epic of a trailer ... disappointing, lightweight, unsure flop of a movie.... I recently went to Stafford to stay the evening with Mrs D and the dave27-ettes at her cousins, the De Bovaries, and I knew they would be off on Reminiscence City and that there would be a riot of noise and colour as the dave27-ettes tangled with the Junior De Bovaries, so I wasn't looking forward too much to the evening as I normally get VERY BORED at these family gatherings. Then Lewis persuaded Wesley De Bovary to let him watch their video of the said 'scary ...