ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Hayden Kane There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

augustian Zalman King is almost the byword (bywords?) for erotic films and he certainly tries with this one. We have Billy Zane giving us his brooding, rebellious Billy, Joan Severance as Irene, the everyday wife and mother with a traumatic secret, and May Karasun as the sexually adventurous Grace, who find themselves together on the shores of Lake Consequence. Billy and Grace begin to unlock Irene's secret by some steamy scenes which of course are almost obligatory in a Zalman King film. May Karasun naked on the pontoon is a sight not easily forgotten and Joan Severance oozes sexuality with her sultry looks.Technically, the film suffers, though, from a constant stream of quick flashbacks accompanied by banging drums. These quick flashes may have been intended to heighten the mystery of Irene's past but to me they were simply annoying. To make matters worse, Irene's dialogue at the crucial time was so soft, it was almost impossible to hear. Irene's actions, running through the woods when Billy refused to take her with him were laughable. How to sum-up? A good film for fans of Zalman King but it could have been put together better.

videorama-759-859391 Although you have to admit the premise is original, this is just like all of Zalman's other pics, he does us a great service to us birdwatching community. You gotta admit to see it's lead women, naked, is another one of the movie's pleasures, where nakedness runs high in Zalman's pics. Lonely bored housewife (Severance) is left alone for the weekend, as hubby and kid have gone off somewhere. She's developed a sexual fixation on one of her landscapers (Billy Zane). And as fate would have it, she's gets locked in her caravan, ending up at this tranquil deserted lake, and have a guess with who. It's a menois de trois, and sexual therapy for Severance, whose sexual hunger has been pent up for two long. It's up to Zane and his beautiful girlfriend to bring her much wanted sexual desires and fantasies to life. That's the business of the story, but like all of all of King's work, the movie chooses the weird way of telling the story which makes it more brief, than if going on the realistic path, if getting to the core of Severance's problems. But it does have a beautifully told story, and is beautifully shot. Aside from that, it's a borderline porn, not much substance kind of film, but films like these do have their perks.

Thomas Jolliffe (supertom-3) Erotic thriller starring Joan Severance anyone? What would you imagine the film would be like? Cheesy? Jazz music with smooth sax playing over the numerous pointless sex scenes? Well that's what I assumed but that is by no means what means what the film is like. It has a strange atmosphere to it and the build up to Severances infidelity is intriguing. The film is well shot and there's a sense of actual artistry and this never resorts to the cheesy clichés we have come to know from Joan and her soft core peers Shannon Tweed and Shannon Whirry. What I also really liked was the score from George Clinton. It helps that he has a bit of class unlike many musicians working in low budget movies. Clinton has done many scores for big screen movies and has a good pedigree for a movie this size, and his score is interesting and atmospheric.Overall this was surprisingly watchable. It has some intrigue without being overly entertaining. It is certainly the best thing I have seen from the gorgeous Severance. ***

Theo Robertson The info button described this as " An erotic drama " so I was expecting a low concept plot with soft core sex with muzak in the background . Guess what ? That`s exactly how the film plays out . However there`s no drama and very little in the way of erotic scenes .The female protagonist is called Irene who`s married with a young son and lusts after Billy who`s a tree surgeon and in a plot twist finds herself in the company of Billy and his bisexual girlfriend . I wasn`t too taken with the morality of this movie and if I were to be honest I can`t help thinking that the script to LAKE CONSEQUENCE started out as being a hard core porn screenplay . It`s full of these illogical plot twists and non exsistant character motivations you`d find in a John Holmes or Traci Lords skin flick. Since it was made for TV it goes without saying there`s nothing hard core about the sex scenes , and LAKE CONSEQUENCE is only notable in that it stars Billy Zane who would find fame in TITANIC