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Lake Placid1999

Name: Lake Placid
Genre: Monster & Creature, Comedy Horror, Survival
Released: 1999-07-15
Rating: 5.5

“You'll never know what bit you.”

Directed by Steve Miner

5.5

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.8Rotten Tomatoes 47%Metacritic 34TMDB 5.9

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Year

1999

Runtime

82 min

Box Office

Budget

$27,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$56,870,414

Domestic

$31,770,414

The premise

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!

Horror Vault's take

A gruesome death in a remote Maine lake draws an unlikely crew to its shores: a no-nonsense game warden, a fish-out-of-water paleontologist, and a wildly eccentric crocodile enthusiast whose motives are anyone's guess. Something massive and ancient is lurking beneath the surface, and it's already acquired a taste for anything that gets too close to the water. Lake Placid balances genuine creature-feature thrills with sharp, self-aware comedy, leaning into its B-movie DNA with infectious charm. Betty White's scene-stealing supporting turn alone makes this a cult classic worth revisiting.

Content: Animal Attack Violence, Decapitation, Severed Body Parts, Gore