Devil's Pond

2003
5.3| 1h32m| en| More Info
Released: 16 December 2003 Released
Producted By: Splendid Pictures
Country: United States of America
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After a brief courtship, Julianne marries her handsome boyfriend, Mitch. To celebrate their honeymoon, the couple travel to a remote cabin on a small island. When they arrive, however, Mitch becomes aggressive and physically abusive, and Julianne soon realizes he's not the ideal husband she once thought he was. Knowing that Mitch doesn't plan on ever letting her leave the island, Julianne, who is afraid of water, must find a way to escape.

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cummyduck Wow, what a terrible film. Tara Reid yet again proves that she was not cut out to be an actress. Some of the worst acting I've ever seen, the male lead (I honestly can't be bothered to find his name) was equally flat at delivering lines. Whoever wrote the story/script should consider never writing ever again. The story was dumb, here is a quick synopsis.Two newly weds go on a honeymoon to the males cabin out in the woods on an island in a small lake, or large pond in this case. He instantly turns into a controlling bastard and is nasty to his wife for no reason what so ever. He then disposes of her birth control as he wants her to get pregnant. Tara wants to leave but he won't allow it and has her tapped on this wooded island as she can't swim. He sinks a boat after she nearly escapes. Tara knocks over a box and finds it contains a picture of her taken before they met, and realises that he has in fact stalked her for years and the wedding was just to trap her.His plan was to find some woman who could not swim and rather then kidnap her and make her a slave on the island he wooed her enough so she fell in love and married him! Now he could have lived happily ever after with a hot blonde and had kids and everything. But instead he wants to keep her on an island and impregnate her. It makes no sense as to why he would do this. They have one box of matches which as part of an escape plan Tara burns. The dude then travels from this remote island to town to get more matches.. He is away for maybe 20 minutes tops and that includes swimming both ways across the pond so I guess if she just screamed loud enough people in the town would have heard her. Anyway it turns out his Pa died out there and his dying wish was for his son to bring up a family at the scruffy little cabin. Apparently they were just gonna live off the land somehow, eating acorns and beetles and fish. Anyway she catches her husband in a bear trap and escapes. That's it. Oh, and then he shots himself.I can only think the whole idea for this move was thought up by someone trying to get into Tara's pants. I noticed there are a few reviews that give this worthless piece of crap 10/10?! I guess the film crew and cast maybe wrote them or possibly their parents so that their kids feelings would not be too hurt by all the negative reviews.
b-litten I don't know what some of these other reviewers were thinking.. Whatever they're smoking that makes them think this is the best movie ever, I want some. Psychological thriller? Please. I think not. How about calling it like it is-- a predictable, boring, lame movie with laughably-bad acting. Tara Reid and whoever this Kip guy is, should take whatever they made from this movie and either A) buy some acting lessons or B) donate it to someone who actually works for a living (and does whatever they do WELL)... It seems to me that they both got up the first morning of shooting, bought DSM manuals, read some descriptions of mental illnesses, and decided hey, I'll do that.. that sounds like an easy thing to portray.If I could give this zero stars I would.
oneofthetwelve A young couple gets married, and goes to honeymoon trip to the woods. Or a small cabin on a lake, whatever - in the middle of nowhere. The new husband turns out to have serious issues with social life, communication and his visions of life are just twisted. Julianne's honeymoon will turn into a true nightmare. She will find herself marooned and chained, the only way out is by swimming after wiping off the obstacles, Mitch being the biggest one. The plot carries on nicely, it's not boring at all, just full of 'goofs', but if that doesn't matter, it's okay entertainment for evening. The biggest goof being how could she not know his boyfriend is a boy fiend indeed? They dated over one year before getting married, and this honeymoon brings out the true husband? The scary thing is, there actually exist people like this, both female and male..Mitch's behavior is exactly like one from Criminal Minds. In my mind I created a small profile about him, heh.
Horror_Fan01 This is an amazing movie. It is very entertaining, never a dull moment. Tara Reid And Kip Paradue both give amazing performances, this movie really should have gone to theaters instead of direct to DVD, or at least limited theaters, it definitely deserved it. It has thrills every corner, and is very exciting, you are always wondering what is gonna happen next. Tara, the way the plays her character, you feel really bad for her, and you cheer for her as she tries to escape, and Kip, the way he plays his character, he makes you hate him, and you boo! him as he tortures innocent Julianne. Anyways definitely worth a rent, very enjoyable!