CrawlerChunky
In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Kaydan Christian
A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
SnoopyStyle
Irene (Joan Severance) is a stay-at-home housewife with a young son. Billy (Billy Zane) is part of the city crew trimming the trees in front of her house. Irene becomes fascinated with the hunky worker. While her husband and son are out of town, she sneaks into Billy's trailer. She is stuck as Billy's girlfriend Grace drives away to remote Lake Consequence. The repressed Irene begins an affair with Billy and Grace.Back in the early 90s, producer Zalman King made a living with these erotica late night TV movies and shows. Joan Severance is a statuette woman and a capable actress. Billy Zane is also a workable actor but neither of them are particularly great. The story is a bad romance novel. There are naked beautiful bodies in this softcore porn. It's extremely cheesy and impossible to sit all the way through. It's almost mind numbing. However the intention is not necessarily to be great cinema.
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Although you have to admit the premise is original, this is just like all of Zalman's other pics, he does us a great service to us birdwatching community. You gotta admit to see it's lead women, naked, is another one of the movie's pleasures, where nakedness runs high in Zalman's pics. Lonely bored housewife (Severance) is left alone for the weekend, as hubby and kid have gone off somewhere. She's developed a sexual fixation on one of her landscapers (Billy Zane). And as fate would have it, she's gets locked in her caravan, ending up at this tranquil deserted lake, and have a guess with who. It's a menois de trois, and sexual therapy for Severance, whose sexual hunger has been pent up for two long. It's up to Zane and his beautiful girlfriend to bring her much wanted sexual desires and fantasies to life. That's the business of the story, but like all of all of King's work, the movie chooses the weird way of telling the story which makes it more brief, than if going on the realistic path, if getting to the core of Severance's problems. But it does have a beautifully told story, and is beautifully shot. Aside from that, it's a borderline porn, not much substance kind of film, but films like these do have their perks.
Thomas Jolliffe (supertom-3)
Erotic thriller starring Joan Severance anyone? What would you imagine the film would be like? Cheesy? Jazz music with smooth sax playing over the numerous pointless sex scenes? Well that's what I assumed but that is by no means what means what the film is like. It has a strange atmosphere to it and the build up to Severances infidelity is intriguing.
The film is well shot and there's a sense of actual artistry and this never resorts to the cheesy clichés we have come to know from Joan and her soft core peers Shannon Tweed and Shannon Whirry. What I also really liked was the score from George Clinton. It helps that he has a bit of class unlike many musicians working in low budget movies. Clinton has done many scores for big screen movies and has a good pedigree for a movie this size, and his score is interesting and atmospheric.Overall this was surprisingly watchable. It has some intrigue without being overly entertaining. It is certainly the best thing I have seen from the gorgeous Severance. ***
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After writing "9 and a half weeks" Zalman King begin to make well-lit soft sex movies. He and his partner Rafael Eisenman their best TV-movie's "Lake Consequence". An erotic drama with real screenplay (!) and talented, beauty stars like Joan Severance and Billy Zane. Some word that you'll might never forget: "You got many fish, darling?"
