Story Line
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!
“You'll never know what bit you.”
Top Cast
Bill Pullman
Jack Wells
Bridget Fonda
Kelly Scott
Oliver Platt
Hector Cyr
Brendan Gleeson
Sheriff Hank Keough
Betty White
Mrs. Delores Bickerman
David James Lewis
Walt Lawson
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Rating
5.9/ 10
Release Date
1999-07-15
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
HorrorComedyActionScience FictionThriller
Part of the Series
Lake Placid Collection
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User Reviews (8)
John Chard
7.5/10
•6/20/2016Big Crocodile - Big Log - Big Fun.
There's a gigantic crocodile loose in the waters of Maine. A number of local hicks and big city eccentrics converge to try and stop the beast...
Wonderful! A modern day homage to the creature feature movies of...
Gimly
5/10
•1/25/2018Not bad for a giant-gator Creature Feature, but Goddamn listening the dialogue in the first act is aggravating as sin.
_Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._
Kamurai
7/10
•9/20/2020Good watch, would watch again, and can recommend.
I like a crocodile movie, they don't even have to be giant-sized, they make really good "monsters", and the reality of their danger sits in the back of your head.
The cast was great in this, tho...
Tejas Nair
7/10
•11/7/2020It's the humour garnished all over Lake Placid that makes it more than an entertaining watch about crocodile terror. You know it's a spoof but you know there's danger out there too that the characters are going to fall into. Add to that the on-the-po...