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The Lake

Watch For Free • Horror, Short Films, UR

A chilling short ghost story in which a young couple go for a picnic beside a lake in the grounds of an empty house. Three years before, the owner had murdered all his family, killed his animals and disappeared. Director Lindsey C. Vickers independently funded the short as a showreel to garner investment for his feature film The Appointment (1981). In the UK it originally played as a supporting short for the Elliot Gould film The Silent Partner.

Cast
Julie Peasgood Barbara
Gene Foad Tony
Crew
Lindsey C. Vickers director

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