Canada, 1988
99m
35mm film, colour, 4:3
mono, English
A Canadian horror television film directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman.
Plot Summary
Hoping to escape the rampant crime of the big city and the stress of their demanding jobs, a couple, their reluctant teenage daughter and indifferent younger son move to a lakeside house in a tranquil rural village. But body parts turn up in the lake then promptly vanishes and none of the locals believe that anything untoward has happened…
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Arthur Allan Seidelman
© MXMLXXXVIII [sic] [1988] by GPT Holdings, Inc
A Bill McCutchen production. Columbia Pictures Television [logo]
Production Executive: Steve Barnett
Executive Producer: Bill McCutchen
Produced by: Richard L. O’Connor
Co-producer: Dalene Young
Teleplay by: Dalene Young
Story by: Bill McCutchen, Dalene Young
Director of Photography: Richard Leiterman
Film Editor: Bert Glatstein
Music by: Dana Kaproff
Production Sound Mixer: Lars Ekstrom
Costume Designer: Trish Keating
Make-Up Artists [sic]: Linda A. Brown
Hairstylist: Janet Sala
Special Effects: Bill Orr
Production Designer: David Fischer
Executive in Charge of Casting: Tim Flack
Casting by: Fran Bascom, Sid Kozak
Cast
Valerie Harper [Rachel Yoman]
Gerald McRaney [Chuck Yoman]
Barry Corbin [Malcolm Bryce]
Tammy Lauren [Lisa Yoman]
Daryl Anderson [Henry Link]
Jerff Kizer [John Bryce]
Gary Bisig [Suane Mortimer]
Gregory Togel [Stevie Yoman]
Dorothy Lyman (Ruth)
Thomas Peacock [real name: Thomas Peacocke] (Sheriff Glenn Boignton)
Frank C. Turner (Eli)
Johanna Newmarch [real name: Johannah Newmarch] (Debbie)
Don Mac Kay [real name: Don MacKay] (real estate agent)
Matt Hill (Lisa’s boyfriend)
Judy Herridge (Martha)
Alternative Titles
Al di là del lago – Italy
Les disparus du lac – France
Les gens de l’autre côté du Lac – Canada
Das Grab am See – West Germany
O Outro Lado do Lago – Brazil
O Segredo do Lago – Portugal
Pánico en el lago – Spain
Живущие у озера – Russia
References
Periodicals
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.302 no.30 (27 May 1988) p.4 – note
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.304 no.16 (23 September 1988) p.7 – interview with Arthur Allan Seidelman
Books
- Horror and Science Fiction Films IV by Donald C. Willis p.380
