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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid
Film
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Lake Placid
Directed by Steve Miner
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people! From TMDB
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Lake Placid is a 1999 horror comedy action film, directed by Steve Miner, starring Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda and Oliver Platt.
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60 of 240 · most liked firstAny fans of the 1999 film Lake Placid?
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Friday people, it’s that time of the week again 🍿📽️🎬 #LastFourWatched #Fiim #Movies #LetterboxedFriday Scary Movie (2026) The Rock (1996) Lake Placid (2000) Face/Off (1997)
neutral · AI labelView post →LAKE PLACID (1999) Dir. Steve Miner A lively update of vintage big beast cinema. The humor lands, the creature thrills deliver, and Betty White’s performance has become legendary for good reason. Bridget Fonda shines, and the film still feels brisk and entertaining. Silly-but fun. 🎞️📽️🎬
positive · AI labelView post →This was fun! It is surprisingly brief, perhaps a little too brief. Great effects by Stan Winston and a fun cast. Pretty wild audiences got two star-studded B-movies, Lake Placid and Deep Blue Sea just a couple weeks apart. And it’s nice that neither movie ever got any sequels.😂
positive · AI labelView post →What movie scene holds a permanent space in your brain? 🎥 For me… This from Betty White in Lake Placid 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →everybody in this movie is acting like a different kind of alien. this is the Lake Placid franchise marathon thread btw
neutral · AI labelView post →Generally, most monster movies COULD be told in such a way that they're horror movies, but that's not usually the case. Like, Mimic is definitely a monster movie that also works as a horror movie, but you can't get mad at Lake Placid or Slither or Tremors for not scaring you
neutral · AI labelView post →Lake Placid is on. One of the funniest and mildly scary movies of the late 90s with dream boat Bill Pullman and my favorite movie line from Betty White, "If I had a dick, this is where I'd tell you to suck it."
positive · AI labelView post →Revisited Lake Placid (1999) this evening. Hot damn, that is a very 90’s movie. The dialogue belongs in a 90’s museum. Bill Pullman gives absolutely nothing to his role. But the CGI holds up surprisingly well, the crocodile still looks great! And of course very large. 🐊
neutral · AI labelView post →Stopped by The Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid, NY, to sign copies of The October Film Haunt. Even more special was the surprise of an employee telling me they'd recently started the audiobook. 🥰
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Lake Placid. The dialogue in this film is amazing and horrible and I can't always tell which is which!
neutral · AI labelView post →Lake Placid (1999) Featuring some incredible actors in the cast and gorgeous special effects courtesy of Stan Winston, this 1999 B-movie is a great Halloween party pick.
positive · AI labelView post →~ assignment #mutantfam 🦈 Every June like clockwork I crave #shark movies. Jaws is absolutely my favorite & I've likely seen all the big ones. Still, would love your shark #film recommendations 😱 Anything with an aquatic threat - Lake Placid, Anaconda, Black Water et al Drop your recs here 😈
neutral · AI labelView post →Me, a film snob: acquires every Lake Placid and Anaconda movie
positive · AI labelView post →I gotta follow up Seven Samurai with a lighter, sillier movie, and I think I'm gonna go with a Lake Placid chaser. Sometimes, you have to indulge in an elegant gourmet meal of Japanese cinema. Other times, you gotta enjoy a greasy burger and fries in the form of Betty White yelling obscenities. 📽️
positive · AI labelView post →SPOOKYTOBER IV Day 3 - Lake Placid (1999) . A lot more tame for a movie about a giant alligator rampaging a lake, and honestly not as interesting as jaws. stakes weren't as high, characters weren't as interesting and the weirdest part... not a lot of death? But its not terrible overall. . 5/10
neutral · AI labelView post →I firmly believe it’s the best of the Indy films. Speaking of well lit, while I’m not a fan of horror, I do regularly rewatch Lake Placid in part because I can actually see what’s happening. See also Tremors, another ‘pulpy’ monster movie that is improved by being able to see the action.
positive · AI labelView post →Death is absurd. So I made a movie about it Today marks 2 years since my debut dark comedy short film, DEADCOATS, had its world premiere at the Lake Placid Film Festival If you haven't seen it yet (or even if you have) now's a great chance to check it out! #Scriptsky #Filmsky vimeo.com/834538794
neutral · AI labelView post →We watched Lake Placid and then Swan Song (poignant and bittersweet movie about a late in life elder queer doing ONE LAST JOB as a hairstylist, Udo Kier is amazing in it) and that choice may have been a BIT MUCH for my mom who is feeling a lot of things after a major surgery :(
neutral · AI labelView post →because I too am susceptible to algorithmic recommendations, I have just put on "Lake Placid," an R-rated 1999 movie about a conservation officer and a paleontologist battling a monster crocodile in Lake Placid, NY
neutral · AI labelView post →This f🐊king movie. Love the croc puppet and Betty White. But, what the hell was this? And yes, of course I watched it all the time as a kid, and of course Ive seen it's sequels, including Lake Placid v Anaconda. These movies are traps designed specifically for me.
positive · AI labelView post →As a fan of all three cheesy late 90s, "animal attack" movies: Lake Placid > Deep Blue Sea > Anaconda 🤔
positive · AI labelView post →Good Fearsome Friday evening, #HorrorSky and #FilmSky! I am now watching/rewatching Lake Placid (1999) on the Shout/Scream Factory Collectior's Edition Blu-ray, and this is my seventh movie for my Cultember challenge! 🐊🌊🌊🌊🐊 #Cultember: #7/30 #Horror365Challenge: #143/365
neutral · AI labelView post →Watched Lake Placid for the first time since it came out in 1999. The writing for the female characters is definitely worse than I remembered. Foul mouthed Betty White is still a delight though. #filmsky #moviesky #horror
neutral · AI labelView post →Rogue came out the same year as Primeval, but didn’t get as much of a release. Rogue’s the better film, and I’d put Primeval a notch below Lake Placid overall, but it’s not bad to have a choice between big crocs - and that’s not even getting into Dark Age, Killer Crocodile 1&2, Crocodile (1979)…
neutral · AI labelView post →Jurassic Park. (1,2 and 3) Tremors (1 and 2) Lake Placid (RIP Betty) And Then There Were None The Thing Robin Hood (Disney animated version) Star Wars (Original trilogy + Episode 1) Addams Family Values Django Unchained Inglorious Basterds Pulp Fiction (not a Tarantino stan, I swear) Who Framed Roger Rabbit Aliens Raiders of the Lost Ark Ironman (first one) Pacific Rim Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Big Short Probably more than that TBH. I rewatch a lot.
neutral · AI labelView post →sometimes, after watching one of the greatest films ever made, you feel like throwing on steve miner's 1999 killer croc movie LAKE PLACID, written by the guy who made ALLY MCBEAL featuring a generous helping of grest actors playing the most annoying characters imaginable.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MarchMovieChallenge Day 15 - movie set or filmed in Maine Lake Placid - set in fictional Black Lake, Maine #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Jennifer's Body made some money but was poorly critically received, but it is actually a pretty good horror movie that was marketed poorly Lake Placid is meant to be a goofy comedy horror movie that is a fun watch and made just enough to trigger endless terrible sequels like Hellraiser and Amityville, reviews treated it like it was trying to play seriously but some of the lines are so cheesy >Kelly Scott: The lake is so black and still. >Sheriff Hank Keough: Yeah, we wanted to call it Lake…
neutral · AI labelView post →#Hooptober13 1 Steve Miner Film Another '90s flick and another rewatch. Honestly, the only thing I remember from this is Betty White being great and that is all I need at the moment TBH. #Hooptober #NowWatching 🎥 Lake Placid (1999)
positive · AI labelView post →Bit of a theme this week. The Edge remains a top tier dad movie. Orca and Razorback are really ambitious, low budget gems. Lake Placid is filled with characters that you really hope get eaten but don't. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
negative · AI labelView post →My car died before I could leave Lake Placid (hopefully just a battery). This is 100% out of a Hallmark movie. If the widow who runs the bed and breakfast says she has an extra room tonight, I’m going to start questioning reality.
neutral · AI labelView post →#AugustMovieChallenge 8/9 Lake or pond in a film 1999 Lake Placid
neutral · AI labelView post →wait, the Maine RIVER crocodile???? and then cut to credits?? ok. wow. i've literally never been happier to know there's another Lake Placid movie
positive · AI labelView post →::: spoiler Lake Placid This meme is basically the plot to one of the best B-movies ever made, Lake Placid. Little old lady feeds an invasive species of crocodile until it is a monster man-eater. :::
neutral · AI labelView post →10 unoriginal horror movies that became cult hits. > It’s surprising just how many cult-favorite horror movies were significantly influenced by earlier films and, when it really comes down to it, were totally unoriginal. While this may seem like a point of criticism, paying homage to horror movies of the past or filmmakers wearing their influences on their sleeve was never a bad thing, and just because a movie was derivative does not mean it’s bad. In fact, many of the biggest cult hits took…
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve never seen any of the Lake Placid or Anaconda movies, and since it’s summertime and they have a crossover film, it’s time to start the wet and wild wildlife journey. So, this week’s Monday double feature is #LakePlacid and 1997’s #Anaconda! #HorrorSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally, they've made movies about century-long blood feuds and violent betrayals, but I firmly believe that no two movie characters have ever hated each other more than Oliver Platt and Brendan Gleeson in Lake Placid.
neutral · AI labelView post →Y'all remember Lake Placid. That was a damn good movie.
positive · AI labelView post →What's the best one liner in movie history? Betty White in Lake Placid
neutral · AI labelView post →Every October I tell myself I’m not going to pathologically watch at least 1 horror movie every day of the month but it’s only October 2nd and I’m starting The Faculty when I should be going to bed because I watched Lake Placid and Tremors last night and I don’t want to break my streak.
neutral · AI labelView post →Now watching: ‘Lake Placid’, dir. Steve Miner, 1999 – a film with a growing cult reputation. Brendan Gleeson does an actual American accent. 🎥🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →I love this movie. Lake Placid (1999)
positive · AI labelView post →>Michaels uttered perhaps the most famous six words in the history of sports broadcasting at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics after the U.S. hockey team triumphed over the Soviet Union in a stunning upset: "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" It's tragic that the humanity of these types of things that are understood by humans will be lost in AI.
neutral · AI labelView post →#nowwatching Lake Placid. Because there is never a bad time to watch Lake Placid.
positive · AI labelView post →Good morning. We are hurtling into another week. From my archive a panoramic view of the Lake Placid ski jump. Taken in the film era; sorry, I’m not sure when I shot this, but I’m guessing October, some unknown year. #photography #autumn #LakePlacid #skijump #sun #abitofsnow
neutral · AI labelView post →Had a lovely, movie packed day with friends Watched Ruin me with @majorgripex.bsky.social Then Jurassic world Rebirth, Lake placid, Anaconda and Lake Placid vs Anaconda with @harim.bsky.social @localswampgay.bsky.social @uplift17.bsky.social @bearlyjustaprince.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Lake Placid and this movie sucks so bad
negative · AI labelView post →Lake Placid is an absolute gem of a movie!
positive · AI labelView post →"Never believe nostalgia, it will always lie," opens this sub-1.0/10.0 review for terrible #film Lake Placid (by #ReelRank News staff writer @miss-machete.bsky.social). Bars 😤 reelrank.net/r/0002au I need to rewatch it, but this might be a candidate for my 1.0 Films Reel 🤢 #FilmSky 📽️ #MovieSky 🎞️
negative · AI labelView post →Many years ago my family was headed to the movie theatre to see Lake Placid, a movie notably about a "giant crocodile". My step mother overheard some chatter about this and blurted out "who is Johnny Crocodile?" And that's how family memes are born.
neutral · AI labelView post →"if I had a dick, this is where I would tell you to suck it." Betty White in Lake Placid, with a stacked cast, a brilliant self-aware B-movie that's like 87 minutes. youtu.be/MSEBcTxVmUQ?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Good morning Foxy and friends! 💙👋🌞 Happy Friday! 😁 Hmm...Movie night huh? Drop Dead Gorgeous and Lake Placid...keeping things lite and happy. 🍿🍿🍿 Have a great day! 😎
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 1: My First Horror Movie Film: Lake Placid (1999) Director: Steve Miner #31DayHorrorChallenge #NightmareonFilmStreet #filmsky #horrorsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Never been into rap, but Betty White in Lake Placid declaring "If I had a dick, this is where I'd tell you to suck it" is a solid gold moment in a fun movie.
positive · AI labelView post →Vampire Film: Bram Stoker's Dracula Zombie Film: Scooby Doo Zombie Island Haunting Film: The Changeling Creature Film: Lake Placid Found Footage: Saiko! The Large Family Slasher: Nightmare on Elm Street Cosmic Horror: The Thing Psych. Horror: Shutter Island Horror Comedy: Supernatural x Scooby Doo
neutral · AI labelView post →Lake Placid: Just about the platonic ideal of an early Saturday evening film. A great cast, sassy script and some surprisingly gnarly moments add up to a very good time. Being just over 80 minutes long doesn't hurt either. I miss Bridget Fonda in films.
positive · AI labelView post →You know, when you think about it, Lake Placid is basically a Hallmark Channel movie. Uptight big city gal goes to a small town in the middle of nowhere after getting dumped and unexpectedly falls in love with the handsome, down-to-earth local game warden. It's really a love story at its heart.
neutral · AI labelView post →Change a horror movie title to make it cozy. A Quiet Place...er, no. Lake Placid...no, uh....The Cabin in the Woods? Picnic at Hanging Rock? Wait, why do so many horror films already sounds cozy?! 🔪
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember like a decade ago I heard that David E. Kelley (the Ally McBeal guy, also wrote the alligator movie Lake Placid) writes all of his scripts on yellow legal pads and I made a noise like a pterodactyl. Basically saying "here, assistants! Decipher my chicken-scratch, I'm a genius!"
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