I've gotta be honest. We watched _Lake Alice_ for exactly two reasons.
1) It has a cool poster.
2) I live with a girl named Alice.
That's it. That's all I had to go on as far as expectations went. Yet somehow, it's so awful, I managed to disappointed all the same. No character is likeable, virtually no decision makes sense, the cool poster is a lie, and despite only half paying attention, we were all able to discern the killer's identity, through nothing more than process of elimination.
_Final rating:★ - Of no value. Avoid at all costs._
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_**A cabin-in-the-woods in northern Wisconsin during Christmas**_
A family consisting of mother, father, daughter and boyfriend take a retreat to a cabin at Lake Alice, Wisconsin, during the Holidays, but the joys of the season take a deadly turn when a mysterious slayer suddenly emerges.
"Lake Alice" (2018) is a modern slasher Indie in the mold of traditional slashers with the tropes thereof, e.g. the silent killer with a mask of some sort. The technical filmmaking is good except for a couple of issues. What works best is the authentic cold winter setting of northern Wisconsin. I like …
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