The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2009)

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The Black Waters of Echo’s Pond: Directed by Gabriel Bologna. With Robert Patrick, Danielle Harris, Sean Lawlor, James Duval. Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the surface and come to a boil.

“This recent movie is kind of in the vein of u0026quot;Evil Deadu0026quot; and is certainly no worse than the recent remake. Three couples (including Danielle Harris), a slutty female friend (Mirceau Monroe), and another male (James Duval), who is persona non grata with the most of rest of the gang, all show up on an island owned by the grizzled uncle (Robert Patrick)of one of the guys. In an effort to entertain themselves during a power outage, the group decides to play a strange board game they find in the attic (that no one outside of a horror movie would even recognize as a board game, let alone decide to play). The strange game quickly brings all the groups simmering resentments to the surface and eventually results in the usual full-blown demonic possession and gory murder. The end though has a nice twist.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie features no less than three horror/genre cult figures in Danielle Harris (of the u0026quot;Halloweenu0026quot; franchise), James Duval (u0026quot;Mayu0026quot;), and Robert Patrick (u0026quot;The Terminator 2u0026quot;). Robert Rodriquezu0026#39;s two identical twin nieces (the u0026quot;Babysitter Twinsu0026quot; in his u0026quot;Planet Terroru0026quot; part of u0026quot;Grindhouseu0026quot;) show up as a couple of, uh, bickering identical twins. There are also TWO black guys– Harrisu0026#39; proud-to-be-black boyfriend and his back-stabbing u0026quot;oreou0026quot; friend and co-worker, who has been promoted over him at work. Then thereu0026#39;s Mirceau Monroe and her impressive breasts (who really should have received their own credit as they constantly upstage their owner). This is definitely a strong cast, especially for an u0026quot;Evil Deadu0026quot; knock-off that has been sitting on the shelf for several years.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOf course, it is not a particularly SCARY movie. It also makes the mistake of promising a lot more sex than it ultimately delivers. Sure, you get Monroe (and her breasts) in a brief shower scene and the u0026quot;Babysitter Twinsu0026quot; (or, more likely,their body doubles) running around in thong underwear. But the movie also PROMISES an identical-twin sex scene that never materializes, and a lesbian scene between Harris and Monroe that tragically takes place entirely off-screen (oh, the humanity!). The movie is still fairly effective without such sex scenes, so why even promise them in the first place? Despite these flaws though, which are pretty typical of a lot of sex-obsessed yet strangely prudish modern-day horror flicks, this is still a moderately fun horror movie, which I guess Iu0026#39;d recommend–yeah, why not?”

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