Ever wonder what a slasher flick by Merchant/Ivory would be like? Me either to tell you the truth, but now that I’ve mentioned it, you’re curious aren’t ya? Well SAM’S LAKE, a genre project that gets its bow at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival seems intent on exploring that odd landscape.
To avoid any confusion, let me make clear that this is not actually a Merchant/Ivory production. But check out this trailer and tell me it doesn’t feel like one.
As to the specifics of what’s going on, here ya go:
Near a lake in an isolated area, an escaped psychiatric patient makes his way through the surrounding wilderness, back to his childhood home, slaughtering his family in their sleep, then runs into the woods never to be found. Many years later the horrifying massacre has turned legend as disapearances haunt the surrounding towns.
Sam(Fay Masterson), a young woman who, every summer, returns home to the secluded lakeside cottage where she grew up, reconnects with her traditions, old friends and memories of the past.
This year, a group of hip, young urbanites, Kate(Sandrine Holt), Franklin(Stephen Bishop), Melanie(Megan Fahlenbock) and Dominik(Salvatore Antonio) join Sam on her annual trip. But when Sam and her friend Jesse(William Gregory Lee), a local to the area, take the group on an adventure to revisit the site of the murder they all come face to face with the terrifying legend of ‘Sam’s Lake’.
Whether or not this kinder/gentler approach to genre is ultimately successful, who knows. But at the very least it presents an opportunity to enjoy the sultry charms of Sandrine Holt.
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