A bunch of youngsters set up camp at a cabin in the woods to ... well,
not sure what they were planning to do,but it always adds up to sex.
However, they also find a "blood book", read from it ... and
some evil dead preacher from God-knows-when is revived and starts killing
them one by one until our heroes are down to a couple who decide if they
sit out the night locked into the cabin, they might be alright ... so they
have sex. When they venture out the next day the undead preacher is still
alive though and does his best to hunt them down and kill them like he has
done with all their friends until the absolute final girl (C.J. Summers)
has the good idea to burn the blood book - and with it, the preacher
vanishes ... Basically, this is hardcore porn and slasher movie
rolled into one - and at least on paper that seems a good idea as slasher
movies often use sexual allusions anyways, so why not just make the sex
explicit? Unfortunately, Blood Lake doesn't quite function that
way, as the sex scenes don't seem to be properly integrated into the plot,
are pretty much just self-serving, too run-of-the-mill and invariably
break up the narrative tension rather than contribute to it (that said,
the girls are hot at least). Plus, on a narrative level, the film is full
of non-sequiturs, and one fails to actually feel for the characters as
they all lack depth or at least distinction. Now personally I'm all for
narrative porn, but with this one one just wishes someone had tried to
piece together an actual story than just throw genre mainstays at bland
characters.
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