This is marketing trickery at it’s best. The cover looks like it’s a zombie film, they pushed it as a zombie film, and the director in the DVD extras calls it a zombie film. But, it’s no zombie film at all.

What it really is though, is a horrible, horrible film that tries to be scary and original, but fails at every aspect. It’s chock full of bad horror clichés, like the lights going out, the flashlight dying, shadows in window, the rocking chair that rocks on it’s own (!!!), and so on.

The story involves a girl, Becky, who’s parents die while she’s out partying at a local bar. She’s so guilt ridden about it that she keeps “seeing” them in her house, where they all lived together, so she takes off and heads to their cabin on a lake. Obviously, she picks up a creepy hitchhiker, during a torrential downpour, on the way to the cabin. He just happens to live a few cabins down and they get all “buddy buddy” during their car ride together. At the cabin by the lake, weird stuff starts happening!

You meet a stereotypical little horror film girl, you meet the Ed Wood-esque cops, you see weird lights and hear weird noises and this goes on for the whole film. The “zombies”, I use this word very loosely here, show up, but never really do anything but walk around and look non-threatening. In a moment of “what the fuck just happened?”, there’s an animated blood-splat that hits the screen (!?!). Why? Who knows. And then you get to the part of the film where Becky starts spouting off about all of the religious aspects of the “weird happenings” around the lake, sounding more like a religious philosopher, than a party girl she’s been portrayed as the whole film.

Ghost Lake makes no sense at all, the “zombies” are generic and crappy, and the acting is really, really bad. I would never recommend this film to anybody. Ever. Stay clear.

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