Sadly Over-hyped

Powerful

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

I caught this movie flipping through channels one night, and I keep coming back to it. I'm not sure what it is- I'm not a particular fan of either of the main actors, but it's one of those simple, yet realistic films that sort of draws you in. Its scary but at the same time you could see something like that actually happening, and you responding in exactly that way. If anything ladies, it will encourage you to become a strong swimmer if you aren't already. It's a great B-movie flick to watch alone at night with a bucket of popcorn. Kind of scary, kind of suspenseful, but not what I'd designate necessarily as 'horror.' Its like a Lifetime channel horror flick, but an actually good one for a change. Enjoy it!

**SPOILERS** Having met her dreamboat Mitch, Kip Pardue, at a bus station pretty and well heeled, in the money department, Julianne or Julie, Tera Reid, didn't realize what an unstable character he really was until it was too late; after she married him. It turned out that Mitch has his eye out for Julie for some time and that chance meeting wasn't a coincident at all. It turned out that he had it planned all along!Going on their two week honeymoon at this deserted island in the middle of a lake wasn't exactly what Julie had in mind but with Mitch insisting upon it she just meekly went along with him. Mitch it turned out is a closet control freak who feels that the only way he can keep Julie is to have her a prisoner in his leaking and dilapidated cabin. At first putting up with her creepy husband Julie finally revolts against his crazy lifestyle and attempts to escape to the mainland. There's only one thing that's holding Julie back she can't swim!The movie "Devil's Pond" has Julie slowly go into some kind of "Stockholm Syndrome" meekly putting up with all the psychical and mental abuse that crazy Mitch hurls on her. Knowing that she's a captive of an unstable and possibly homicidal, in turns out that Mitch may have murdered his dad in a faked hunting accident, lunatic Julie plays along with him just in order to stay alive.Mitch for his part gets so crazy by the hour that even by giving into all his whacked out fantasies, in him being a both survivalist and nature boy, that in an act of desperation Juie overcomes her fear of water and decides to swim to shore and safety. It turns out that Mitch had the engine of his pick-up truck fixed so that it won't work making Julie's effort to escape a losing one. It also makes Mitch now look for a reason to finally get Julie out of his hair by murdering her to keep her from exposing his dark past; Mitch's possible murder of his dad to get control of that dinky cabin on the lake!Very good acting by both Kip Pardue and Tara Reid keep the movie afloat despite it's very unbelievably storyline. The ending was a bit ridicules in how Julie finally got away from Mitch's clutches. Still it was kind enough, in saving the audience from putting up any more with that nut, to have Mitch's final exit in the film happening off screen so that we, as well as Julie, would be speared the agony of witnessing it.

It's a nice thriller about a couple that goes on honeymoon to a desert little island in the middle of a lake, in the woods, far from everything. In the beginning everything seems to be fine, the couple is in love, as it is supposed to be on a honeymoon, until the day that she wants go back home and he doesn't… then, step by step, she will find out why he did chose that place to spend their honeymoon… The film is reasonably suspenseful, in spite of not having any major twist, and the plot is quite good too. The acting is also fine. Though, this kind of plot isn't really a novelty, so I think I won't score it more than 6/10.

First of all a warning, this movie is awful! It contains bad acting, many plot holes and things that just don't make any sense!Tera Reid plays the little rich girl we already know who winds up married to a psychotic stalker. Somehow she thought he was completely normal until they spend a couple of weeks at their honeymoon spot on a tiny island.Also, Tera is scared of water which foreshadows the fact that she will be trapped on this island unless she can conquer her fear. Since this movie is a 'woman=good man=bad' type movie you can already predict the sequence of events and the ending.Reid does a better job at acting than her male companion but that isn't to say she's good. She goes from looking like she's going to have a breakdown to just looking out of it...maybe she was just drunk on set. Who knows?As for the rest of the movie, it's filled with magical cigarettes that don't get soaked when swimming, a diet of only pond water and meat (which I must say, there must be a water filter around that island because with Tera's shaved legs and fluffy hair, there's got to be chemicals in there), and a man that can take a frying pan to the face and a bear trap on his ankle but gets woozy when hit with a piece of wood.So, that is Devil's Pond in a nutshell. If you are wondering why I gave it a 3 instead of a 1; it's because I got a laugh out of it. Will it also humor any of you to tell you I watched this film on Lifetime?