Surviving Crooked Lake Trailer & Exclusive Clips

Posted by taylor blue on July 23, 2009
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Surviving Crooked Lake is an indie movie that I think you should see. It comes out tomorrow (July 27th). I love movies where people have to look inside themselves to survive. I guess that’s how life is too.

Here’s the synopsis: In this sensual, intense, indie feature drama, a quartet of teenage girls embark on a canoe-and-camping trip with a slightly older male guide in the endless wilderness of the Canadian Shield. His younger sister Steph â€“ who is desperately afraid of the water â€“ is one of the campers. Once the group is underway, romantic tensions erupt and disaster strikes, forcing the girls to face a grueling and desperate trip back to civilization. Shot in tight close-ups with a fluid camera that sees the landscape first as an embodiment of desire and second as a distortion of reality, Surviving Crooked Lake crackles with suspense and intrigue. It will leave you wondering about the mysteries of the adolescent heart and mind, the bonds of family, and to the looming influence of nature and landscape. Surviving Crooked Lake makes for an elemental example of the cinematic survival story, in the tradition of Deliverance and Open Water.

In these two exclusive clips from the movie you can see how the campfire sets up the tension in the movie. But then in the next one where they are cliff jumping (which I have always wanted to do!) you can see how they are a group. The scenery is stunning in this movie.

See the clips after the jump…