Lake Placid: Legacy

Lake Placid: Legacy is a 2018 American-South African made-for-television horror film directed by Darrell Roodt and stars Katherine Barrell, Tim Rozon, Sai Bennett and Joe Pantoliano. It premiered on Syfy on May 28, 2018[2][3] and is the sixth and final installment in the Lake Placid film series, which is also considered a reboot. The film is its own story that tells along with the origin story of how the crocodiles got to be in Lake Placid.

Lake Placid: Legacy
DVD cover
Screenplay byJohnathon Lloyd Walker
Story by
  • Johnathon Lloyd Walker
  • Matt Venables
  • Jeremy Smith
Directed byDarrell Roodt
Starring
Music by
  • James Matthes
  • Andries Smit
Country of originSouth Africa
United States[1]
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducerLance Samuels
CinematographyTrevor Calverley
EditorChristopher Minns
Running time93 minutes
Production companies
DistributorSony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release
Original networkSyfy
Original releaseMay 28, 2018 (2018-05-28)
Chronology
Preceded byLake Placid vs. Anaconda

Plot

A group of activists consisting of Jade, her younger sister Alice, Jade's boyfriend Sam, hacker Billy, and their friend Spencer, are challenged by Sam's ex-friend Dane over a video to travel to an island in the middle of a lake that harbors an old research facility. The group travels to the island on boat with rangers Pennie, and Travis, and begin exploring. They soon find the dead body of Dane's friend Gomez in a tree, as well as Dane's camera, which depicts him being attacked by something. In the video, he talks of a man named Henderson who supposedly abandoned him. The group attempts to leave, although something causes the boat to drift onto the lake with Travis on it, and Pennie is dragged into the water by a rope. When Travis attempts to save her, he's eaten by the creature, leaving Sam to save her, and the group is left stranded on the island.

The remaining survivors find, and enter the facility, and are forced to climb down into another section of the facility using a rope. When the creature, revealed to be a 50-foot crocodile, arrives, Jade, Sam, and Alice become separated from Billy, Spencer, and Pennie in the facility. As Jade, Sam, and Alice explore the facility, Billy goes down to a dock to reach an electrical outlet in order to make a phone call to the police. However, he quickly loses the signal, and Spencer is pulled into the water, and killed by the crocodile. Pennie forces Billy to reach the others while she stays behind to fight the crocodile. The crocodile follows Pennie into a tunnel where it quickly kills her.

Jade, Sam, and Alice soon find Dane alive in the facility, and he shows them to Henderson, who is a man who used to work at the facility. He was part of an experiment to weaponize crocodiles. He introduced Dane, and Gomez to the facility, and used them as a way to get back into the facility to continue the experiments. Meanwhile, Billy reaches another building, and manages to contact the other survivors, although he's soon killed when the crocodile breaks in. Henderson escapes in the chaos, and Jade, Sam, Alice, and Dane make an attempt to escape. Henderson attempts to trap the group in the facility by flooding it, although they manage to swim through the flood, and escape into another section of the facility.

The crocodile soon catches up to the group, and eats Dane, before killing Henderson, who was making an attempt to capture it. Jade, Sam, and Alice find a room with several gas cans, and Sam creates a plan to kill the crocodile by blowing up the gas cans. He begins releasing the gas, and has Jade, and Alice escape while he stays behind to kill it. The crocodile enters, and he attempts to ignite the gas with a flare, although the flare shorts out, allowing the crocodile to eat him. The crocodile chases Jade and Alice in the woods, and eventually corners Alice, although Jade traps it with an excavator, before the crocodile can devour Alice, before igniting the excavator’s fuel with a lighter, killing it. Jade and Alice begin swimming back to the mainland, only for a second crocodile to be revealed in the water unbeknownst to them.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in South Africa in December 2017.

Home media

Lake Placid: Legacy was released on DVD and digital on September 4, 2018.[4]

See also
  • List of killer crocodile films

References
  1. "Lake Placid: Legacy". The Numbers (website). Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  2. Comtois, James (April 13, 2018). "Wynonna Earp Alums Star In First Trailer For SyFy Horror Film Lake Placid: Legacy". Syfy Wire. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
  3. "Killer Crocodiles to Feast Again in Lake Placid: Legacy". Dread Central. Retrieved May 6, 2018.
  4. "Lake Placid: Legacy' Art Floats Into the Jaws of Death [Exclusive]". Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
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