CROOKED LAKE reads: In this sensual, intense, indie feature drama, a quartet of teenage girls embark on a canoe-and-camping trip with a slightly older male guide in the endless wilderness of the Canadian Shield. His younger sister Steph – who is desperately afraid of the water – is one of the campers. Once the group is underway, romantic tensions erupt and disaster strikes, forcing the girls to face a grueling and desperate trip back to civilization. We didn’t have much to go on aside from that synopsis and the poster above… so we really had no idea what to expect. Now we do. Below you’ll find the trailer for SURVIVING CROOKED LAKE as well as five new clips for the film. If we had no clue what to expect with this one before we sure know now!
So do these videos sway your interest in the project? I’m intrigued…. but not sold. The movie looks like it could borderline on boring and I’m guessing a lot of the movie is going to rely on the acting ability of these four young females. Let me pass along a piece of the press release to give you guys an even better idea of what writer/directors Sascha Drews, Ezra Krybus and Matthew Miller are aiming for: Shot in tight close-ups with a fluid camera that sees the landscape first as an embodiment of desire and second as a distortion of reality, Surviving Crooked Lake crackles with suspense and intrigue. It will leave you wondering about the mysteries of the adolescent heart and mind, the bonds of family, and to the looming influence of nature and landscape. Surviving Crooked Lake makes for an elemental example of the cinematic survival story, in the tradition of Deliverance and Open Water.
That’s some heavy stuff… think SURVIVING CROOKED LAKE will deliver? Well we can find out now because the film is now playing in select theaters! No word on a DVD release but we’ll pass along word once we hear more.
SURVIVING CROOKED LAKE CLIPS