Another entry in the horror subgenre of giant animals running amok, Lake Placid features a giant crocodile that has somehow found its way to an isolated lake in Maine. The absurdity of crocodiles in Maine sets the tone for the entire movie, which has no ambitions beyond mixing a little fright with a little humor. Bridget Fonda ( Point of No Return , Jackie Brown ) plays a paleontologist sent to investigate a large tooth; Bill Pullman ( Independence Day , Lost … mehrHighway ) is a fish and game warden just trying to keep the peace; Oliver Platt ( Funny Bones , Flatliners ) plays a loose-cannon mythology professor who swims with crocodiles for sport; and Brendan Gleeson (an excellent but little-known actor, most noted for The General ) is a local sheriff with a short temper and a big gun. Add a few gruesome dismemberments, Betty White as a cantankerous old broad who may have murdered her husband, and a cow hanging from a helicopter, and there you have it: Lake Placid . (Curiously, this concoction was put together by David E. Kelley, better known as the creator of TV's Ally McBeal and The Practice .) weniger
Steve Miner war verantwortlich für Soul Man oder Warlock und probierte über zehn Jahre später mit Halloween H20 einen weiteren Sprung ins das Grusel-Genre. Seinen besten, weil lustigsten und unterhaltsamsten Film legte er aber 1999 vor. Lake Placid. An den Kinokassen zwar recht bescheiden, entwickelte sich der Film um das riesige Krokodil als Video und DVD zum Renner, so das 2007 tatsächlich Lake ... weiterlesen