Review of Cypress Creek

Cypress Creek (2014)
"Lake Fear" is about... ehm... stuff.
6 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
What a strange low-tier-budgetier this is. Starts off as a stereotypical teen flick, but then suddenly and inexplicably gets artsy. That would be like a song starting like Justin Bieber then going full dissonant harsh black metal. Sure, we've heard such nonsense combinations in the metal scene, but it almost never works. This doesn't either.

Not only is the film a stylistic jumble, it also has a completely, and I mean COMPLETELY, incomprehensible plot. As soon as the supernatural stuff starts, the movie loses whatever little story it had. If I had to do a synopsis, it would go something like this:

"Four cute teenage girls go to a remote cabin in the woods. Once there, stuff happens... You know... Stuff. They are being threatened and then possessed by... whatever."

That's the best I can do.

To illustrate how bizarrely muddled the events are, a male character shows up half-way through the movie, and there isn't an iota of an explanation where he'd come from or who he is. Nothing at all. He just shows up - in the house itself - and tries to protect himself and the blonde... from whoever/whatever. I have no clue who or what is the evil force here. It could be literally anything: witches, aliens, ghosts, hillbillies with supernatural powers, demons, you name it.

The one good thing about the movie are several effectively eerie scenes, and the cute female cast. But a movie completely devoid of a story simply isn't a completed movie. It's just a failed or perhaps even aborted attempt.

Nor do we even understand what these girls would want in a remote cabin. They have no TV there, no internet, no guys, nothing. Why are they there?

The acting is mostly horrible. The girls' reactions to the eerie going-on are way too subdued. They either have nerves of steel or they are all catatonic.
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