Lake Michigan Monster

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Tom K You can’t tear your eyes away from it. The gags are relentless and just when you thought it could not get any stranger, It Does! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 06/01/25 Full Review Tim M Resourceful in its old-fashioned aesthetics to make a memorable low-budget parody, Lake Michigan Monster is exactly the type of nautical nonsense we need. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/12/25 Full Review Kevin P A hilarious sh*tpost of a movie that feels like someone took the $20 budget and ran with it, taking advantage of every single frame with as much bizarre gut-busting jokes and surreal camerawork as humanely possible. It’s remarkably impressive for its budget and amateur background and clearly takes great influence from Monty Python and all those bad B-movie serials from the 1960's and 50's. It was neat recognizing sites from Milwaukee and Muskegon that they shot on-location, such as the Lake Ferry Express or the downtown Milwaukee skyline. It moves at a very brisk pace and is so dense with clever gags and interesting filming techniques that makes this movie easily rewatchable and a new underrated Halloween cult-classic. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/25/25 Full Review Mike P Campy creature feature is good for a few laughs... This is just relentlessly satirizing Universal Monster movies from the 40s; a whole venerable subgenre; the kind we all used to watch on Son of Svengoolie back in the day... And the setting; Lake Michigan circa Milwaukee; is so unique for a movie setting, that's it's well nigh irresistible. This is the kind of people watch at a party and get drunk to...very trippy and silly. Recommended Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/20/24 Full Review Teddy B Ryland Brickson Cole Tews's direction and eye for stylistic pizazz go hand in hand with the anarchic sense of bombastic abandon to logic and the serious shackles of mainstream Hollywood. A visually delightful feast for the senses as well as an effective homage to 50's creature features. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 06/08/24 Full Review Kevin L There's goofy and there's silly; goofy is good, while silly is annoying. "Lake Michigan Monster" is overly silly w/ not nearly enough goofy. I saw it cuz the trailers for the director's next movie "Hundreds of Beavers" looked eggsalad. Now I'm thinking, that was just good editing of a trailer. Is the director's name also part of his sense of humor? Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, this was not for me. Yeah, there were a few good jokes in dialogue and visual gags. But Tews' running bit w/ his prefabricated voice is just 118 minutes of annoying-ness. Needed more use of Peters as 'Nedge Pepsi" (great moniker). She seems to have a good comedic sense. I'll give the movie's visual effects crew some recognition for their work on the appearance of the movie, and the effects used to make it look like old time film strip, including the burnt, run-out effects. Hoping "...Beavers" is better, if I see it. 2.3 stars Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/17/24 Full Review Read all reviews

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