It's
the time of the season for a "Muskie
Madness" fishing competition and as
you guessed the lake is packed with
hopeful fishermen.
However, a group of oyung people decide
to go to the competiton as one of them
named Peter Van Cleese (Mark Jacobs) was
once there as a child and experienced
something deadly that happened to his
grandfather. The event seems to be
happening again as a killer fisherman is
catching people with his fishing rod and
reeling them in.
Peter and his girlfriend Ann (Lisa Todd)
find out that their friends are missing
and experience a bunch of strange
residents at the lake as each one of them
are suspects.
Will Peter be able to find out who this
maniac is before him and Ann become the
next victim?
Low budget and
trashy but it was a fun average Troma
Team flick as I am not a fan of their
films.
The film was both goofy and scary and a
nice look at the great outdoors.
However, the film may be a bit of a bore,
made on quite a low budget but not
Z-grade and made by the same makers of
the hit cult TV series Mystery
Science Theatre 3000.
The acting is bad
but what do you expect from a Troma Team
film? Most of these actors remained
virtual unknowns doing nothing else.
Lisa Todd (I don't think it's the
same actress from Hee Haw)
seemed to do not too bad for her part in
the film.
Former daytime soap actor Mark Jacobs
tried his best with his part as her
boyfriend and the one trying to find out
the death of his grandfather but he does
lack a bit in his part and overly does
it.
Bill Lowrie with his eccentric
character is way too melodramatic and
does not know how to portray a part for
this.
Don Winters looked not too bad to
play someone who was disturbed by noise
that would make him kill with his mean
eyed and rough faced looks but not you
would see in demented type characters in
such films as Texas Chainsaw
Massacre or Hills Have
Eyes.
There is some
brief nudity as women is topless making
out with someone but mainly her back is
revealed.
Lots of blood and
there are buckets of body pieces in a
fridge.
Also, the killer fisherman cuts open a
young mans neck as well as corpses are
tied underneath his pier.
A hand is cut off and grinded into meat.
The directing by Jim
Mallon is nothing special as he was
better off in his work with the TV series
Mystery Science Theater 3000.
He can make the film look creepy though
but the dialogue is extremely cheesy.
I liked his direction with the wild young
college kid who is attacked by the fish
hook while listening to his music in his
boat.
There's also a good shot on Lisa Todd
listening to some music near a pier to
the lake and Don Winters
approaching in his row boat about to reel
her in.
There's
a nice and gruesome camera shot on some
corpses being towed in from underneath a
dock.
Todd also does well at acting scared
towards Winters' character when
he is tying her up in his shack trying to
reason with him.
We have an interesting cheesy battle
between Winters and Marc
Jacobs with their fishing rods
attacking one another.
The music was composed by Thomas
A. Naunas and Mystery
Science Theater Kevin Murphy.
Both did a great job having a creepy edge
to it with the cheesy sounds and thumping
echoey noises too.
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