Brutal and solid slasher film, even without the 80s VHS effects. The effects lend less of a nostalgic wink or stylistic crutch and more of an intentional obliqueness. Sort of like how the cheap camerawork in Last House on the Left made it feel more vicious, the crunchy VCR images make Lake Nowhere’s genre trappings feel more dark and strange. Even more so when it strays from them and leans more into the mysterious.
Brutal and solid slasher film, even without the 80s VHS effects. The effects lend less of a nostalgic wink or stylistic crutch and more of an intentional obliqueness. Sort of like how the cheap camerawork in Last House on the Left made it feel more vicious, the crunchy VCR images make Lake Nowhere’s genre trappings feel more dark and strange. Even more so when it strays from them and leans more into the mysterious.
