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Cabin by the Lake (2000)

Cabin by the Lake poster
Directed by
Po-Chih Leong
Genre
horror film, slasher film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 34 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A screenwriter named Stanley murders women to research a horror screenplay he is writing. The story follows his twisted methods and the investigation that ensues.

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What happens

Cabin by the Lake is a horror TV movie released on USA Network on February 1, 2000. It tells the story of Stanley, played by Judd Nelson, a script writer who begins killing girls for research for a movie he is writing, where the villain does the same thing. A 2001 sequel titled Return to Cabin by the Lake follows Stanley's attempts to make a film based on his previous murders by posing as the film's director. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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