Well, the lake is indeed missing since the film has not one drop, let alone a large body of water in its frame. Additionally, Lost Lake is a ghost town in California off the highway to Death Valley. “Lost Lake” is a ghost story set in the titular locale. From a storytelling perspective, “Lost Lake” works on some level for an indie film, but lacks depth and scope in the production, which severely hinders the overall experience of the film beyond being ‘just fine’.
The young cutie Tricia invites her husband-to-be Jeff into the mix for help to locate her ghost-busting uncle, Vern who was last seen somewhere in Lost Lake. The married couple tracks down the wacky family member, but they all soon find themselves wrapped up in a creepy tale of a vengeful witch that used to haunt that town.
The poster suggests that “Lost Lake” is a slasher film but only one person is killed in this movie and that only happens in the last minutes of the film. This is mostly the tale of three principals as they rush about a ghost town. Aside from an important supporting character who is a silent mouthless old woman, every other brief scene that contains other characters or some dialogue can be chopped up and tossed aside.
Katie Keene and John Shartzer fit their parts fine. And Ezra Buzzington hits the right notes as the weirdo uncle. They almost single-handedly can handle the movie, but “Lost Lake” chokes whenever its compact story hits a lull. And that is something that happens all too often.
“In Lost Lake” there is not a great deal of muscle to stretch across the thin skeleton. You can also see extraneous fat in the form of several cars that are broken down and refuse to start. Other such moments seem to be made only to take up room for the eighty minutes.
‘The movie is like an exercise in monotony, and the stages tend to become as dry as the desert it is set in. The jump scares are few and far between, and the mythology behind the haunting is yet another opportunity squandered. The film opens with some hope of horror with a murder, which is only one more attempt to hide the square peg of the story into the round hole it does not fit into. The theory of imposing scenes and characteristics does not stray far from the story either. The details that the viewers get concerning the plot twists raise far too many questions, and the perpetual fleeing from the mascot of danger soon grows tiresome.
In the Mojave Desert, producer David Clair discovered the worn-out settlement of Trona. Nearby, he was filming for a different project and uncovered the town. Clair, along with his partner, thought the deserted landscape and broken-down buildings served as perfect settings for a movie so they wrote one. The movie “Lost Lake” severely struggled with developing a coherent plot and instead gave off the impression of a poorly thought-out idea turned into a feature film. Low-budget filmmaking is rooted in utilizing readily available resources which is the crux of their problem.
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