Cabin by the Lake / Return to Cabin by the Lake

Starring:Judd Nelson, Hedy Burress, Michael Weatherly, Susan Gibney, Bernie Coulson, Colleen Wheeler, Cam Cronin, Bob Dawson (II), G. Patrick Currie, John B. Destry, Guy Jellis, Rebecca Reichert, Marnie Alton, Jennifer Carmichael, Barbara Pollard, Mar Andersons, Daniella Evangelista, Katrina Matthews, Gerry McAteer, Russell Ferrier
Director: Po-Chih Leong
Studio: Polygram USA Video
Product Type: DVD

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Cabin by the Lake / Return to Cabin by the Lake
Starring: Judd Nelson , Hedy Burress , Michael Weatherly , Susan Gibney , and Bernie Coulson
Director: Po-Chih Leong
Manufacturer: Polygram USA Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00005RDAP
Release Date: 2001-12-18

Customer Reviews:

Horrendous.......2006-05-28

(this review is of COTL 1 only; i found it so bad that i couldn't even bring myself to watch its sequel.) where to begin? this truly lamentable TV-movie is a debacle all round. first off, it can't make up its mind what it wants to be: there are some truly chilling scenes (e.g. the "underwater garden") -- yet so many of the other cues in the film are screaming "comedy" (spectacularly unfunny forced humor about the film industry, stale caricatures without any idiosyncracies to distinguish them -- from fake bitchy agents (almost a straight lift from "Frasier"'s Bebe) to vapid blondes and effeminate film directors). the characters are paper-thin and you end up having no interest in whether anyone dies or the villain gets caught. its biggest failing, though, is really that it doesn't know what it wants to be. as a comedy it is an abject failure; and equally so as a horror movie, because the bad acting (with judd nelson's low-energy, utterly uncompelling villain as the main offender), atrocious music (penned by the gifted daniel licht, who has written some stunning gothic orchestral music in his time -- e.g. "soul survivors"), and comedic elements drain the film of any suspense. i was drawn to see this film because i was somewhat intrigued by the director's Jude Law film, "Immortality"; rest assured that this travesty has nothing in common with that film. avoid this one at all costs.

Entertaining Killer Movies .......2006-04-29

Judd Nelson does a good job in both of these movies playing a demented killer named Stanley. The original movie is fairly sinister as we first meet the troubled writer as he is on a killing spree. The sequel is rather funny and more ridiculous, as Stanley puts on cheesy disguises to gain entry to the filming of the movie of his earlier killing rampage(from the first movie).

I have both of these movies in my collection and find both of them entertaining. If you can get them at a decent price, I think they are movies you would want to watch a few times. The scenarios that occur in each of the movies are rather fun to watch as they play out.

Cabin by the Lake.......2005-12-29

This is the funniest movie in the history of tv movies. The fact that it takes itself seriously only compounds how ridiculous it is. Judd Nelson's wide-eyed attempt at being psychotic fails, yet is endlessly entertaining.
The scene in which he shares a touching moment through the two-way mirror with his captive is among the finest of comedic moments in the history of film making. I highly reccomend this movie to anyone who enjoys a good laugh at a failed attempt at drama.

Girl Garden rules!!

Judd Nelson Creeps.......2005-03-03

This pair of movies makes for a nice evening's entertainment. They both center around Judd Nelson who plays a scriptwriter who goes overboard when writing a dead teenager script.

Nelson is excellent as a low-key psycho who kidnaps women and drowns them, keeping their bodies underwater as a garden. At first he seems very clinical, analyzing victims' reactions to better his screenplay. But slowly we see true madness creep in.

In the second movie, Nelson infiltrates a movie set where his screenplay is finally going to be realized. His own vision and that of the rewriter come together but his own madness can not be kept in check.

Of the two movies, the original is still the best. Nelsons acting combined with the visuals makes for a very original horror film. The second movie, while good, suffers from production values. Film formats change ever few seconds flashing between theater-looking footage and stuff that looks like it was filmed on COPS. This was jarring at first and I feel it really detracted from the feel and atmosphere of the film; two aspects that contributed so much to the success of the first film.

Pretty Good Killer Movie.......2003-10-31

I havent seen the second one so i will reveiw the first:

I enjoyed Cabin by the LAke. It was refreshing to see a serial killer movie that didn't suck like those scream movies and clones. It is about a writer who is writing about a serial ckiller who drowwns young woman and keeps them at the bottom of a lake in his "garden." Then he "researches" it by actually *doing* it. It's kind of creapy and suspenfull at parts.

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