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LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Lake Placid (1999) in Movies

Mar 9, 2022

Lake Placid (1999)

1999 | Action, Comedy, Horror

6.7

(18 Ratings)

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Lake Placid has a lot going for it. Great creature effects, snappy pacing, and Betty White being an absolute savage, more so than the giant fuck-off crocodile that is eating everyone.
The whole cast is great actually. Bridget Fonda and Bill Pullman are likable enough leads, even if they're generically molded to specifically fit this kind of film. Oliver Platt and Brendon Gleeson are incredibly entertaining supports and definitely make the movie more fun that it would be otherwise.
The legendary Stan Winston's effects work is top tier, and honestly, the flashes of CGI haven't aged too badly when all is said and done.

Lake Placid is certainly a product of its time, but it's a relic worth remembering. A unabashed, on-the-nose, 90s creature feature that did the double monster fake out before The Meg made it cool, and it's kind of glorious in its own special way.

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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Killer Shrews (1959) in Movies

May 3, 2019 (Updated May 3, 2019)

Well, it was inevitable, wasn't it? When you make a list of those wild creatures that inspire sheer terror in everyday folk, forget about sharks, snakes, spiders, wolves, and the rest - shrews! Shrews are the really scary little buggers. Or so the makers of this film appear to have decided. Unconvincing ship captain (Best) ends up on a hurricane-wracked island populated by mad scientists and the giant, savage shrews they have spawned; much utter nonsense ensues.

Bad acting is compounded by post-synched dialogue and the impressive range of accents on display from the cast, but the thing is that this isn't just a monster movie where the monsters are shrews, it's a shrew-based monster movie where the shrews are realised by a combination of dogs in costume and sabre-toothed glove puppets. Genuinely very funny to watch; objectively deserves a very low score but highly entertaining if you're in the mood.

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Roxanne (13 KP) rated Warm Bodies in Books

Nov 14, 2018

Warm Bodies

Isaac Marion | 2010 | Fiction & Poetry

8.1

(12 Ratings)

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If I could give this more than 5 stars I would since I enjoyed this book immensely. This is one of those books that I did not want to put down and very much hated it when life kept getting in the way. I wanted to read this one as I enjoyed the film and it's not often that I watch the film before reading the book, actually it's very very rare. I found that the book was so different from the film and so much better. I really connected and felt for the characters and the writing was so fluent and beautiful, it flowed and shimmered like silk, it was a pleasure to read. There are so many Zombie books out there that I imagine it's very hard to come up with something original and unique but this was both, I haven't read anything like this before. These aren't your brain-dead, savage man-eaters, these are something different, something fascinating, something wonderful. Read this book!