Lake Placid

Right.

But in terms of just watching something just on surface alone, um, um like i'll watch like whatever once i'll give it a full shake and i just never see any of the films and i'm like yeah and i just it's what it was it's kind of like you know it was this thing i've heard like the sequels are pretty fun i'm like haven't gotten to them and for a reason lake placid's is one of those movies it's like i just never got to it like and like i i know that i think that it's tired now everyone's like you haven't seen that That's like, you haven't seen every movie ever? Like, no, I haven't.

I know we have friends in common that probably have seen every movie ever, but I haven't.

And so, you know, there's that, what do you call it, the list of shame, right?

And

I mean, I don't know if Lake Placid's a list of shame, but you think that considering the circles I travel in and my love of animal attack films, you think I would have seen this by now, and I hadn't.

So...

Yeah, it was a good reason to say, right?

Not on my list.

From 1998, directed by Steve Miner, who we actually mentioned in our shark episode because you talked about the movie Lake Placid.

Yep.

Which is not a shark movie.

[laughs]

No, and also I watched Lake Placid, okay? I know things-

True

... can get in there sometimes.

... incredible in that.

[laughs] I, uh...

Like I was obsessed with the SyFy Channel when I was younger, and so Lake Placid, that would always be on repeat.

I know there were sequels.

I don't think that narrows anything down.

Well, it crosses off Lake Placid, so we got that.

Expired by Jaws.

The antagonist is not an animal.

Psychological warfare.

You know what, then? I'm going to go back to the well.

I'm going to say as a serious answer, Lake Placid.

It is Lake Placid.

lot of shark movies, huh?

You know, I didn't pick any shark movies, but I did pick Lake Placid.

So that's one that we'll be talking about.

I

I did.

But I don't believe you had the original in there.

I believe you had Lake Placid 3.

No, I'm talking about the original.

Okay.

I, I, I may be wrong, but, uh, how about Lake Placid and Nancy?

All right, Jeremy.

Yeah, Lake Placid and Nancy.

Berto.

Lake Placid and Nancy.

Turner.

Lake Placid and Nancy.

"And it's coming out this summer." And I know it was the summer of The Phantom Menace, but I gotta say, man, it was like two movies coming out that summer.

It was Lake Placid-

Mm-hmm

... and Deep Blue Sea-

[laughs] Yeah, so I wa- I was hyped, and, uh, I guess, um, um, I...

Yeah, I liked both movies.

Yeah, 'cause again, like Lake Placid was another...

There hadn't been, like, a theatrical shark movie, I mean, alligator movie, I think since Alligator.

Exactly, body horror of its own, definitely.

Well, excitingly, we have, you'll be discussing Lake Placid today.

Yay! Which was another one of your pick for this mini season.

I'm so glad because I actually, well, I'd never seen it before.

Exactly.

We would have loved to do Deep Blue Sea.

And actually, definitely, I feel like it's a spiritual cousin of Lake Placid, a spiritual cousin to Deep Blue Sea for sure.

I just think as well, like, this is really when I think we started to see the death of horror for the fun of it a little bit.