Review: Lake Bodom 2016

HorrorMovieMama
Jul 28, 2017 · 2 min read

I watched this one last night (on Shudder) and it literally ‘blew me away’! It was phenomenal and quite close to perfection. “Lake Bodom” comes to us from Finland and is inspired by a real homicide that took place there, in 1960. This film is truly fantastic, it blends various horror genres and changes course suddenly but with such ease and confidence… it’s remarkable. You don’t want to know too much before you watch this one (the synopsis on Rottentomatoes gives too much away!) so I won’t say a lot about it. This film begins like a somewhat typical slasher, but it’s the small differences that subtly hint at just how much this movie is going surprise the viewer.
Atte finds himself more intrigued than most by the unsolved case of the campsite massacre that took place at Bodom Lake, so he convinces his friend, Elias, and two girls from school, Nora and Ida, to camp out with him, hoping to reconstruct the night the murder took place…now, to be honest, I feel like this is the film’s biggest flaw, not enough effort is made to explain why Atte would want to recreate it… he seems to think reconstructing the night could somehow help solve the case, but I don’t know, I wish they’d put a little more thought into it… Luckily, the rest of the movie is terrific enough that it more than makes up for its rather rocky foundation. Unfortunately, the reconstruction appears to work far too well, but there is so much more to this film than first meets the eye, and even when you think you’ve figured out where the story is headed, think again…

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