Lake Placid
(1999)
Overview
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
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Collection
Lake Placid Collection
Reviews
John Chard
⭐ 7.5/10June 20, 2016
Big Crocodile - Big Log - Big Fun.
There's a gigantic crocodile loose in the waters of Maine. A number of local hicks and big city eccentrics converge to try and stop the beast...
Wonderful! A modern day homage to the creature feature movies of lore. It's not a spoof, it's a fun packed tongue in cheek thriller, hell it may even have some literary worth as regards ecological concerns, while the cultural clashes that thrive are written with k…
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Gimly
⭐ 5/10January 25, 2018
Not bad for a giant-gator Creature Feature, but Goddamn listening the dialogue in the first act is aggravating as sin.
_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._
Kamurai
⭐ 7/10September 20, 2020
Good watch, would watch again, and can recommend.
I like a crocodile movie, they don't even have to be giant-sized, they make really good "monsters", and the reality of their danger sits in the back of your head.
The cast was great in this, though Bridget Fonda screams a lot, and I can't say it's very endearing.
They do sort of a "unlikely crew" trope with this, but most of the movie is dedicated to trying to find the thing in one capaci…
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Tejas Nair
⭐ 7/10November 7, 2020
It's the humour garnished all over Lake Placid that makes it more than an entertaining watch about crocodile terror. You know it's a spoof but you know there's danger out there too that the characters are going to fall into. Add to that the on-the-point performances and dialogue delivery by Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, and Brendan Gleeson and the overall atmosphere of the film, and you have a terrific film to enjoy with friends and family. This i… read the rest.
Wuchak
⭐ 7/10November 23, 2021
_**Crocogator horror with humor**_
A monstrous croc is discovered to live in a remote lake in Maine and so a conflicting group of people join together to capture or kill it: the local Sheriff (Brendan Gleeson), a Fish and Game officer (Bill Pullman), a paleontologist (Bridget Fonda) and an expert croc hunter (Oliver Platt). Betty White is on hand as a comical lady who lives on the lake.
“Lake Placid” (1999) is the best of the series due to …
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Alex
⭐ 5/10March 20, 2022
Lake Placid, a 1999 monster horror movie about killer crocs, no Batman. And yuhhhh Lone Starr is here from Spaceballs! First off is why they make Kelly out to be some "yankee girl" or whatever, seems so forced. And second did Hector just say the female office had a nice pair of boobs?? I feel like that's dangerous game he's playing she has handcuffs and a gun!
Hell yeah! Crocodile vs. Bear! And Betty White is great in this, I love her RIP. Th…
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The Movie Mob
⭐ 7/10August 27, 2022
**Lake Placid swam so Sharknado could fly!**
Billing Lake Placid as a horror movie could not be more misleading. This movie is a goofy creature feature with hardly a scary moment. Instead, all the tension and fear are played up for hilarity and entertainment. I remember watching this as a young kid and laughing the entire time. Lake Placid is a delightful action comedy with a solid cast for being such a low-budget film. Lake Placid is an excel…
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Andre Gonzales
⭐ 8/10July 8, 2023
Love this movie. This is the only movie I ever seen with some gigantic alligators. How fast they can kill someone in this movie is insane.
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$27,000,000
Revenue
$56,870,414