Lake Placid

Giant crocodiles, bargain-bin CGI, and a franchise that refuses to die. The Lake Placid retrospective starts with a fun creature feature and quickly mutates into a swamp of sequels packed with bad actors, worse effects, and increasingly ridiculous body counts. Along the way, the series crosses over with Anaconda for the kind of “who asked for this?” monster mash where a croc and a snake throw down.

Is there still some dumb fun lurking beneath the murky water, or should this franchise have been fed to the gators years ago? Arnie, Stuart, and Brock wade in to find out.