Director: Louisa Warren
Year: 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: Cannibal Lake
Genre: Cannibals
Plot:
Heading out to a remote lakeside cabin, a group of friends looking for a fun weekend together get lost on the way and are forced to get directions to the location, eventually realizing that the whole experience was a way to bring them into the confines of a psychotic cannibal family.
Review:
This was a disappointing and barely worthwhile genre effort. The majority of the film’s positives are based more on the series of encounters that take place in the second half, once the group finally starts encountering the family of cannibals. There's enough fun to be had with the different interactions at the campground and the surrounding family home of the group as they chase the distracted members of the group around and find themselves getting picked off one by one as they realize the series of stories about the family of psychos in the area is true. This leads to some genuinely fun encounters where the group is chased into the woods or kidnapped by the psychotic family that manages to set up the kind of final encounter with the rest of the town as the different revelations about what’s going on are handled well enough to be somewhat likable, and with the slew of quite fun villains here in the way they’re presented and the kind of derange actions they dole out, they provide the fun positive factors here.
There are plenty of issues to be had here that make for a disappointing time. The main issue here is that there’s just nothing going on here for the longest stretch of the running time, that it hard to get involved in anything going on here. Focused more on the exploits of the group wandering around the countryside in their van trying to find the location where they're supposed to be camping out arguing about their lives or how the trip is going which isn’t all that interesting, and when they manage to stop for directions from the locals it’s so clearly a trap that there’s little about it that means anything. This all causes the first half of the film to be so dreary and dull that it’s next to impossible to care about what’s going on or their trip through the countryside when they do get there since the group isn’t all that interesting, there's little action to change things up, and highlights how the finale is so cliche and predictable when everything is highlighted from the start. With the low-budget nature of everything here being quite obvious, these all manage to bring the film down.
Overview: **.5/5
An enjoyable enough feature when it matters, there are some likable factors with this one that get wiped out far more than expected, with some big issues that keep it down. Those with an appreciation of the style or who are fans of the creative crew will have a lot to like here, while most others out there might want to heed caution.
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