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Lake Dead
"Lake Dead" Film Poster
Directed by	George Bessudo
Produced by	Mike Karkeh Todd Chamberlain Hector Echavarria Jason Hice
Written by	Daniel P. Coughlin
Starring	Kelsey Crane Tara Gerard Dan Woods
Music by	Mark Petrie
Cinematography	Curtis Petersen
Editing by	Eamon Glennon
Studio	Alliance Group Entertainment
Distributed by	Alliance Group Entertainment
Release date(s)	November 9, 2007
Running time	90 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English

Lake Dead is a horror film who was part of the festival 8 Films to Die For.

Synopsis

The film follows a group of teenagers who inherit a motel on a lake, only to uncover a series of dark and frightening family secrets.

Plot

Three sisters, Brielle, Kelli and Sam are on college break. They discover that their grandfather has just died and he has left them a motel in his will. Their father, John tries to persuade them not to go, but the sisters ignore him and head off, accompanied by friends: Tanya , Ben, Bill and Bill's girlfriend, Amy.

Sam is the first to arrive, and while drinking wine in Room 6, two inbreds forcefully enter and attack Sam, where with a collection of duct tape, and iron bar, and an axe, they bind Sam's legs with the tape, place the iron bar beside her ankles, and use the axe head to force the bar through both her ankles.

Afterwards, the three are in a boat, where the inbreds tie a badly beaten Sam's legs to a concrete block, and dump her into the water, where she is still alive as the concrete block pulls her beneath the water, where she drowns.

The rest drive to the motel and meet the caretaker, an old lady who appears kind. After finding a lake on their property, the group of friends take a swim, not noticing that Sam's dead body is floating in the lake beneath them.

After the swim, the friends return back to their trailer, where they set up a small campsite. Bill and Tanya go out to the woods to get some firewood, and end up having sex (much to the chagrin of Amy).

After encounters with large, strange-looking, unkempt men, the friends are terrified. Bill, Tanya, and Amy are butchered, while the remaining friends escape but are picked up by a mysterious cop. It is later revealed that the cop and caretaker are all a part of the evil scheme to make Brielle and Kelli a part of their devious plans. The cop and caretaker are in fact son and mother, respectively, and their family has been perpetuated by incest for generations (hence the inbred characteristics of the two aforementioned unkempt men). It becomes apparent that the girls' father had rejected the family "tradition" and escaped; however, their grandmother found out about this and concocted the scheme to lure them to the motel so that her son could forcibly impregnate them and continue the family line.

The sisters manage to overcome joining their family's footsteps. Ben seemingly manages to kill both of the inbred men and attempts to rescue the girls from the barn where the cop has taken Brielle to rape her (in the process the grandmother is shot in the head by Ben). When they arrive at the barn Ben is shot unexpectedly by the cop, but the girls' worried father shows up at the last minute and kills his brother, ending the gruesome tradition.

In the end, four teenagers are shown going into the motel to check to see if it's abandoned. One of the teenagers has strange feelings about going into the motel. It turns out that one of the inbreds has survived, and he stares at the girls from behind a tree then screams.

Cast

• Kelsey Crane as Brielle
• Kelsey Wedeen as Kelli
• Tara Gerard as Sam
• Jim Devoti as Ben
• Alex A. Quinn as Bill
• Malea Richardson as Tanya
• Pat McNeely as Gloria
• James C. Burns as Sheriff
• Vanessa Viola as Amy
• Dan Woods as John

Production

It was filmed in 2006 in Santa Clarita, California and Simi Valley, California.^[1] It was produced by Alliance Group Entertainment and is director George Bessudo's first film. Lake Dead was written by Daniel P. Coughlin.^[2]

Release

The film was released as part of the After Dark Horrorfest in November 2007^[3] and cames out on DVD at March 18, 2008^[4].

References

External links

• Lake Dead at the Internet Movie Database
• Official MySpace