- Director: George Bessudo
- Writer: Daniel P. Coughlin
- Stars: Tara Gerard, Vanessa Viola, Kelsey Wedeen
- Run Time: 1 Hour, 30 Minutes
- Link: https://amzn.to/3181PBT
Synopsis
An old couple at the Lake Motel are fighting. He says what they’ve been doing is an abomination, and he’s not going to do it anymore. The old man is confronted by the police, who shoot him in the head. Credits roll.
Brielle gets a call from her drunken father in the middle of the night; her grandfather is dead. She thought he’d been dead since she was a child, but it turns out her father lied to her. Brielle and her fiancé Ben go to see Samantha, her sister, who’s an alcoholic. The grandfather left the motel to the three sisters. They all decide to go there for the weekend to see what’s up. At the funeral, their father says it was better that they didn’t know about their grandfather. He warns them not to go to the motel, but in typical horror film style, he doesn’t elaborate, causing all the trouble that follows.
Samantha goes up to the motel early and alone. Someone breaks in, ties her up, then hobbles her legs. They row her out to the middle of the lake and throw her overboard. No more Samantha.
Kelly, the third sister, joins up with Brielle and Ben and their friends, Amy, Tonya, and Bill for their trip to the motel. They arrive and meet Gloria, who has run the motel for forty years. Gloria says, “You’ll never want to leave!” They all assume dead-sister Samantha decided not to come.
They move their camper over to the lake and go swimming, narrowly avoiding finding Samantha’s body. There’s a lot of drama and sexy-time between the various characters. Bill and Tonya run into the two men who killed Samantha. Tonya gets a pickaxe to the head, but she doesn’t die right away. Ben and Kelly go looking for them, and they find Bill hanging from a tree, dead. They run back to the camp and pile into the RV seconds before the killers arrive.
Amy runs down the road, and one of the killers goes after her. They drive off in the RV, but are soon pulled over by a cop, sheriff Chuck. The evil brothers quickly catch and torture Amy. Ben, Kelly, and Brielle go with the cop while the brothers finish off Amy.
In a flashback, we see Gloria explaining to her “Boys” that “The tradition isn’t dead. Your daddy knew about two others that he never told us about. Kill anyone that comes with them.” The brothers, Gloria, the policeman, and dead grandpa are all related, snd so are Kelly and Brielle. It’s one big unhappy family. Back in the present, the two girls and Ben are tied up in the motel, and sheriff Chuck is trying to get the giant brothers under control.
Meanwhile, the girls’ father, John, is trying to call them, but not getting through. He gets in the car and heads up there, but it’s a long way off. Ben kills brother Kane, and the three prisoners escape. Brielle twists her ankle as they try to run down the road. The sheriff and brother Abel track them down and chase them through the woods. Ben kills Abel, but the sheriff grabs the two girls and drives them to Gloria, who runs the show and admits that she’s their grandmother. She wants Sheriff Chuck to impregnate both girls to keep things in the family.
Ben arrives and shoots Gloria. John arrives and kills Chuck. He loads everyone into the car and takes Ben to the hospital. Time passes, and new guests come to the Lake Motel; we see that one of the brothers isn’t as dead as we thought.
Commentary
John could have explained himself at the funeral, but communication is never a thing in horror films. There’s lots of naked and half-naked girls in this one; if you’re into that sort thing, the scenery is nice, but the story is all extremely predictable and formulaic. A group of young people go out to a strange place in the country and someone tries to kill them all, picking them off one by one.
There’s nothing here that we haven’t seen before, but it’s never boring, it moves quickly. Still, it’s not original in any way. There is some creative gore, but the brothers aren’t that creepy and the rest of the family aren’t all that unusual either.