Boring attempt at a horror movie that feels closer to 3 hours than the actual 80 minute run time.
A young couple played by two unassuming, not very good actors, are about to get married. But she just can't walk down the aisle without her Uncle, who was last heard from in a deserted town near Death Valley while ghost hunting. So they decide to go and find him.
Once they get there and meet up with dear old Uncle, he tells them a story about a woman who was killed by the townsfolk a long time ago and comes back from the mountains where she was buried to haunt the town on Holidays, and it just happens to be the 4th of July. I have no idea why the thing about Holidays is important. Why the town is abandoned, when the town was abandoned is never really touched upon, although the "Free Wi-Fi" sign hanging in the window of a restaurant would suggest it was pretty recent and just serves to make the story appear even less thought out.
So Uncle wants the kids to help him document the appearance of the ghost if she does, in fact, return to town. And he's so excited that they have cell phones with video. He may be the worst ghost hunter ever. Then we get a "twist" and the ensuing 45 minutes of the film drags on forever and ever and none of the characters are worth giving two shits about but we get a ton of running, hiding and what it seems the director thinks is action.
The female lead, outside of wearing short shorts and a tank top the whole film, just isn't very good. She always seems about two emotions behind, although to be fair, her motivations aren't made real clear by the script. The male lead, looking like he was just kicked out of Vampire Weekend, is sort of just there. The Uncle is good, but he's mainly just playing goofy so it's not like he can do much to elevate whatever tension or drama the script thinks it has.
The rest is just boring point A to point B filler. The film isn't gory, scary or tense, although it thinks it is. There are a lot of minor, but glaring issues with consistency such as the guy having no idea what Fantasy Island is, but being perfectly familiar with The Brady Bunch. Although when she says "you know, the plane, the plane", to describe Fantasy Island, I'm not sure she knows what it is either. He takes off his shirt to help tie off her wound, and then in the next scene he's wearing his shirt again. Shit happens for no apparent reason that seems to only exist in order to fill out the films run time. I'm writing an awful lot for such a boring movie.
So yeah, a movie with no reason to exist, with leads who have no reason to be acting. There's simply no reason to go out of your way to find Lost Lake, it'll just bore you to death.
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