Lake Placid

Year: 1999

Director: Steve Miner

Plot: When a mysterious creature violently kills a man in a Maine lake, Jack Wells, the local game warden, looks into the bizarre case, along with Sheriff Hank Keough and visiting paleontologist Kelly Scott. Looking for clues in a tooth that the beast left behind, Kelly and the others eventually locate the monster, a massive and vicious reptile eager to devour anything in its path. Can the crocodile-like creature be stopped?

Rotten Tomatoes: 47%

Marcela Notes: Iconic. Stellar cast. Crazy kills- its got it all. Very fun, very silly, with sprinkles of pretty decent gore. Probably one of the most violent movies I'd seen as a 9 year old, absolutely traumatized by one specific death. I still aspire to be Betty White in this movie when I grow up. Never look over the railing of your canoes, friends.