The People Across the Lake (1988 TV Movie)
4/10
Not scary - don't let the genre label fool you.
30 October 2022
The TV movie is labeled as a horror and thriller as the genre, but don't let that fool you. This movie is anything but.

The premise sounds creepy enough - a family moving to a big old house in a peaceful lakeside town to escape the city life finds corpses in the lake and another body in the woods. But what results is some pretty boring tongue-in-cheek acting that tries hard to be a murder mystery thriller, but even with the supposedly scary scenes, which I admit there is qute a few, much of the horror elements are overtaken by the goofiness and eccentric acting.

It's not all horrible to watch this movie on a dreary day, but only if you have absolutely nothing else to do and nothing else to watch.

Grade D.
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