''Wicked Lake'' is a 2008 American slasher film directed by Michael Thomas Daniel, starring Carlee Baker, Eryn Joslyn,

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, Michael Esparza, J.D. Brown, Will Keenan and

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Plot

Four seemingly innocent women take a trip to a lake house for the weekend. They are followed by deranged men who kidnap and sexually torture them. At the stroke of midnight it is revealed that the women are in fact witches and they begin to get their revenge on the men.

Cast

* Carlee Baker as Mary * Eryn Joslyn as Helen *

as Jill *

as Ilene * Michael Esparza as Ray * J.D. Brown as Runt * Will Keenan as Palmer *

as Jack *

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as The Mother *

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as Caleb * Luke Y. Thompson as Half-Idiot * Justin Stone as Fred * Mike McKee as Cyrus * Phoenix Rae as The Daughter *

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as The Art Teacher * Frank Birney as Sir Jim

Reception

Johnny Butane of ''

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'' rated the film 3.5 stars out of 5 and called the film "pretty damn fun". Laura Kern of ''

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'' called the film an "inept, nasty and absolutely irredeemable entry in the stale torture-porn subgenre of horror that more often than not features bloodthirsty clans residing in the backwoods."

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of ''

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'' called the film a "laughably inept mix of softcore sexploitation and full-bore torture porn".

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of ''

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'' wrote, "So unimaginatively cheapjack that a rapist has to be told of his vivisection in close-up since there wasn't the budget to actually show it, Wicked Lake proves that even Troma can outclass some."

References

External links

* * {{rotten-tomatoes, wicked_lake, Wicked Lake 2000s slasher films American slasher films Films with screenplays by Chris Sivertson Films produced by Chris Sivertson Films set on lakes