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Written by | David Reed |
Directed by | Don Michael Paul |
Starring |
Elisabeth Röhm Yancy Butler Paul Nicholls Robert Englund |
Music by | Frederik Wiedmann |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
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Producer(s) | Jeffery Beach Phillip Roth |
Cinematography | Martin Chichov |
Editor(s) | John Quinn |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Production company(s) | UFO International |
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Original network | Syfy |
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Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (also known as Lake Placid 4 or Lake Placid 4: The Final Chapter) is a 2012 made-for-television horror comedy film. It is a sequel to the 2010 film Lake Placid 3 and the fourth installment in the Lake Placid series. The film premiered on September 29, 2012 by Syfy. As the title suggests, it was intended to be the final installment in the series. However, it was later followed by Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015).
EPA Agent Reba, with Dennis and Sheriff Theresa Giove, venture to Black Lake and neutralize an infant crocodile with a tranquilizer. They meet Lieutenant Ryan Loffin on land and drive towards a ten-thousand volt fence built by the Army Corp. Chloe and Elaine join the Marshfield Swim Team in a tour bus, which mistakenly goes through the gate of the electric-fenced park towards the Black Lake instead of Clear Lake and the swim team spends the night there having various conversations. Dennis is searching the woods for the crocodile and is attacked by the crocodile. Gus the bus driver uses the lake as a bathroom, spying on two girls playing in the water without their bikini tops, and is killed by a crocodile after the girls leave the water. The next morning, with the police officials on alert, the swim team decides to ride the lake with jet skis and one of them, Joey, falls off the jet ski. He is attacked in the water by a float of infant crocodiles and eaten. A student on the beach is dragged by a crocodile into the water and another is torn apart while trying to enter the bus and his blood splatters all over the side of the bus. The other students and the coach make it safely inside the bus before further attacks. Chloe, who wandered off in the woods, meets Max after he fell off a resting platform on top of a tree.
The Sheriff’s team finds a skeletal part of a crocodile from a crocodile carcass. The swim team continues to run through the woods until they find an abandoned camp and a smaller crocodile. The group flees separately and Brittany steps into a trap on a rope and gets strung up on the tree. Her head is severed by the crocodile. Chloe falls into a hole, is trapped and forced to deal with a crocodile. Max distracts the crocodile with a rock and Chloe subdues it by hitting it with a gun. The Sheriff's team finds the injured Dennis while Chloe retrieves a cell phone from the crocodile’s mouth. Max dispatches a rope to pull Chloe out of the trap as the crocodile awakes.