That monster movie had a sinister kid discover a pit in the woods home to hungry troglodytes he would lure unsuspecting people he didn’t like to the hole and knock them in to feed his pets. This could have been a perfect opportunity to take things into a darkly comic direction a la an old Eighties creature feature you may or may not have heard of called The Pit. No vulgar grannies this time, just a dumb kid secretly feeding the crocs packets of supermarket meat for two straight years. The first two both had malevolent old ladies that loved their crocodiles more than the people they ate. He has just moved his family into her lakeside home, and sure enough, there are still voracious crocodiles lurking in the lake. A quick trip to IMDB confirmed my suspicion.Ĭolin Ferguson of Syfy’s “Eureka” stars as a biologist related to the crocodile-feeding old biddy from Lake Placid 2 who served as a stand-in for foul-mouthed Betty White from Lake Placid. I have seen that lake, those woods, that scenic setting in so many Syfy original movies I can spot it right off the bat now. The very instant I first saw the lake setting, I knew immediately they had filmed it all in Bulgaria. The first thing that occurred to me from the opening scene was that I have watched entirely too many Syfy original movies.
