Movie

The Lake

1998 · 95 min

A slow-creeping small-town mystery where familiar faces turn strange, keeping you uneasy and guessing until the end.

Overview: Jackie Ivers is a Los Angeles nurse who returns home to the small town of San Vicente to find that her friends and family have taken on bizarrely different personalities. Jackie notices that everyone who goes into the town's lake come out different...
How it feels: Eerie, tense, dark and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Identity, isolation, family, deception
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
isolation
family
deception
survival
Places: small town
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: twist ending
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild