Lake Artifact (2019)

Lake Artifact: Directed by Bruce Wemple. With Sheila Ball, Thomas Brazzle, Adrián Burke, Chris Cimperman. Five friends go on a weekend getaway to a cabin in Upstate New York, where time and space begins to function without reason, only to slowly turn them against each other one by one.

“Hammer studios are probably best known for their u0026#39;Draculau0026#39; series, but if you ask me; the Frankenstein franchise beats it hands down every time. This instalment of the series features what is perhaps the most ridiculous plot line ever to be found in a Hammer film, but as usual with Hammer; the film ignores itu0026#39;s silly plot and carries on regardless, and the result is a camp kitsch masterpiece spectacular! The plot this time round sees Frankenstein playing with souls, and after creating a machine to make things impenetrable, he sets about capturing a fresh soul to implant into a dead body so he can finally complete his life ambition – to bring the dead back to life. However, all is not so rosy as heu0026#39;d hoped, as through circumstance, Frankenstein ends up implanting the soul of a dead man into the body of a dead woman with disastrous results as the creature goes on a killing spree to end the lives of those that wronged him/her before the whole incident occurred.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ePeter Cushing is a great actor. Heu0026#39;s also a well-known actor and most people, horror fans especially, will know his face and demeanour. It is this that makes his performances in the Frankenstein films so amazingly brilliant. Despite the fact that we know him as Peter Cushing, he becomes the character of Frankenstein so well that we donu0026#39;t doubt that who we are watching is Baron Frankenstein, not Peter Cushing. Cushing obviously loves playing the character too, and this is more than evident throughout the film as we watch Cushing revel in his characteru0026#39;s less than savoury personality quirks. Hammeru0026#39;s favourite director, Terence Fisher, competently directs the film. Although he never goes overboard with great direction, Fisher always gets the job done and his films justify him status among the top of horroru0026#39;s directors. The film is well plotted throughout, and although the title gives away what the film is about; we are still kept guessing as to how it will happen and why, and this makes it a lot of fun to watch. In fact, I would even go as far as to say that this is the most fun Iu0026#39;ve had watching a film in a while. So kudos to Hammer for that!”