1999 · horror · comedy · action
Lake Placid
Directed by Steve Miner1h 22m1999
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
Our read: Lake Placid (1999) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive horror · comedy · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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