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A group of generic college kids take vacation advice from Linnea Quigley....cabin in the swamps....FF nudity...slasher....male rape....shower scene not in that order, but close.

Too many college kids in group, unable to build any character. Reason for killings was odd. Outtakes not any better.

LAKE FEAR 2: THE SWAMP is an indie horror flick and sequel to a film I never heard of. It's the usual nonsense about a bunch of spring breakers who head off to a remote lake for some debauched fun, only to find themselves menaced by a psychotic killer. The only real horror content in this film is right at the climax and until that point it mainly focuses on titillation to keep the viewer's attention. There are extended shower and sex scenes, a Linnea Quigley cameo, and an entirely gratuitous twerking content followed by a wet t-shirt contest. Raunchy this might be, but it's also very tedious with non-existent thrills and terrible acting.

The Everglades Killings sees a group of thrill-seeking spring breakers take an air boat trip through the Florida swamps. When the boat's captain dies during the excursion, the kids make their way to a deserted cabin where they are killed one-by-one by machete wielding maniacs. Believe it or not, it took four people to come up with this story.

Writer/director Ben Wilder kicks off his film with the young party-goers on the beach, the girls in skimpy bikinis, some of them topless. The guys and girls then go to a bar where there is a hot ass/wet tee-shirt competition; some of the girls get their tits out. The woman behind the bar (played by Linnea Quigley, who doesn't get her tits out: those days are long gone) suggests that the friends take a trip to the everglades, which they all agree is a good idea; on the way there, some of the girls get their tits out.

During the air-boat ride, the girls manage to keep their tits covered, but once the group are in the abandoned building, drinking moonshine and smoking drugs, the breasts are back, one girl stripping off completely for a shower and another having sex with her boyfriend. No-one notices the killers, who take it in turns to bump off the spring breakers, a cut throat here, a smashed head there. One guy escapes the killers: he's dragged into the swamp by a python!

The final girl, who is pregnant, is tied buck naked to an inverted cross by her captors (now wearing hooded cloaks) before having her belly sliced open, her fetus removed and cast into the flames of a fire. The End. I honestly can't believe that it took four people to come up with this story.

5/10. The Everglades Killings is far from great film-making, the messy dialogue making me believe that there wasn't much of a script to work from, but with all of that nudity and that grisly finale, I can't say I was bored.

A rowdy group of spring breakers run afoul of vicious redneck psychos in the Florida everglades. Okay, the skimpy plot ain't much, but fortunately director Ben Wilder certainly delivers the satisfying lowdown trashy goods: We've got oodles of in-your-face graphic gore, equally explicit and abundant gratuitous female nudity, a grim tone, sexy babes in skimpy bikinis, twerking hotties, a wet t-shirt contest, brutal murders, one poor guy gets savagely sodomized by an evil hick, and a right-on nasty'n'nihilistic ending. 80's scream Linnea Quigley has a cool cameo as a bartender while foxy porn starlet Kelsi Monroe can be seen as one of the participants in the wet t-shirt contest. Yes, it's crass junk, but at least this movie is well aware that it's crass junk and happily wallows in its own trashiness, so fans of sleazy grindhouse-style horror fare ought to enjoy it.