Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

SanteeFats Sam and Jesse are two twisted siblings from a really nutso daddy. This daddy has turned into a legend in the local area having escaped from a care facility, murdered his parents and his sister, then has not been heard from for a long time. He has blended in in a small area town, found a wife, who dies having the twins Sam and Jesse. He teaches the kids how to chase down human prey in the woods, which they do when Sam, the sister who lives in the city from time to time, brings her city friends up for the fun and games. The first half of the movie is not as bad as some reviewers state. It sets up the second half where the chase starts and it wasn't that bad a story telling. Bro and sis thought they had killed daddy when they bopped him on the head and interred him in I guess what is suppose to be the family crypt. Guess what? HHHEEEEE"s back and hunting his own offspring. Meanwhile the two sibs have been hunting the five people Sam brought with her. There is one black guy and a nice surprise is he is the second to die not the first!! The only one still alive of the five is Sandrine Holt (Kate) because Jesse wants her. Cornered she is saved when daddy grabs Jesse before he can kill her. The kids decide to go hunt their dad and leave Kate alone for now. Unfortunately they find daddy. Jesse gets killed by daddy and daddy by Sam. Chasing Kate to the dock Sam gets belted on the head and knocked into the lake bleeding pretty good. Is she dead? Who knows. Kate gets the keys, and as she drives away there is a cut to the cabin where a shadowy something momentarily shows in an impossible to tell who or what. Now the only thing not really covered was the folk living in the area. They apparently know what's happening but I guess as long as they keep shut about it and don't interfere they are left alone. The only local who says anything like a warning is killed by one of the family.

lathe-of-heaven There wasn't anything profound here, but the refreshing thing, especially compared to the mountains and mountains of pure drivel out there which are considered 'HORROR' films these days, is that for it's very simple and straight forward story, it is done very well. I mean, REALLY... How many times do we see films where groups of young people go off somewhere and not ONE of them could act their way out of their own @ss crack...? Plenty. I really liked the calm and understated job they all did in their performances; that alone was quite refreshing. And it was directed in a very competent manner with nothing overdone or over-stylized. Just straight forward Suspense / Horror with a nice little 'Creep' factor towards the end.Like I say, there is nothing that is gonna make you hafta change your pants or anything, and if you are one of these 'HORROR' fans who loves tons of torture and gore, you most likely will be quite bored; a feeling apparently shared by some of the 1-star reviews here. But, if you can appreciate a low key story that is well done, than you should enjoy this one. There's not anything that really stands out as far as the mood, style, or cinematography that sets it way above other Horror films, BUT... compared to the HUGE volume of Horror crap that we have to wade through these days, I feel that the film was put together rather well and deserves a higher rating than what it has.I guess you might say that I am grading this one on a slight curve...

TheRiddler16 This is the most insane horror movie that I have seen, but I liked it. The murderers are a serial killer brother and sister that are the son and daughter of a serial killer. When they were kids, their dad had them invite their friends over to the woods near their cabin and the three of them would hunt them down and kill them because their motto is that the dark sleep brings them closer to each other. They end up doing the same thing as adults while avoiding their dad who wants to kill them. This did have a lot of violence, but not very much gore compared to other R rated horror flicks which is fine with me because I care more about the plot than the amount of violence.

Coventry I realize Sam's Lake isn't anything quite like Crystal Lake, but still I was secretly hoping that Jason Voorhees would pop out of the water during one of the numerous boring moments and increase the bloodshed and body count a little. No such luck, unfortunately, as "Sam's Lake" is a fairly pretentious and wannabe clever thriller instead of just an amusing and undemanding slasher. The opening sequences of this film are exactly the same as the opening sequences of approximately 7.500 other horror films, with a group of friends heading out to a remote middle-of-nowhere forest area for a weekend of fun and laughter. The only slight difference here maybe is that the main characters aren't sex-addicted teenagers but losers in their early thirties with dysfunctional backgrounds. There's very little going on during the first 45 minutes, except the atmospheric narration of a local urban legend campfire tale about a mentally unbalanced young boy who escaped from the asylum and returned to the area to slaughter his family members. The events further in the film are obviously related to this local legend, but not exactly like you would expect. The group stupidly decides to explore the murder's ramshackle cabin and find a journal that sheds a disturbing new light on the urban myth. If you manage to struggle through this incredibly dull film (though there are a couple of nice shots of leaves floating on the lake's surface), there's an essential plot twist after about an hour of playtime. Admittedly this particular twist is quite original and unpredictable, but it's probably also the single most implausible thing I've ever seen. Also, the twist may give a powerful short energy boost to the film, but the finale is a tedious and confusing mess again. I think I must have stopped paying attention to the story lines, because all of a sudden a Rob Zombie look-alike showed up. What the hell? The murder sequences are tame and most of them occur off-screen, which is the one thing that every horror fanatic hates. "Sam's Lake" is boring and largely derivative with only a small handful of notable moments. Hardly a movie to recommend.