 Hello and welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies and we're gonna keep our Canadian horror movie theme rolling throughout July. Very forgotten and almost kind of lost movie. Death Weekend, a.k.a. The House by the Lake. But before we get started, what are we drinking? We're drinking Darkness Falls. Darkness! Darkness! Fuck ya couch! Fuck ya couch! This movie is directed by William Frute who also directed Killer Party. Brenda Focaro is in this. So is Chuck's Shamada and Dawn Stroud. He was in the Amityville horror. Driving the car when the windshield goes up. Death Weekend starts off with Diane and Harry going down the highway in this shit-hot nice convertible car. You get the impression that they don't know each other all too well? He's telling her, I'm a dentist. Whoa, he's an oral surgeon. So you have something against dentists then? You anti-dentite bastard. He's bragging about how much money he makes as a dentist. There's a little bit of tension there, but you can kind of tell that he's trying to work it a little bit. Let me drive the car. He lets her drive the car. And she's driving it better than he is. She's just fucking taking the turns going super fast. And he's like, yeah! Other car comes behind them. This red car full of a bunch of drunken hooligans. Fuck you! Yeah, come on! They're all throwing bottles. And she's like, well, let's show them. And they have this big huge race. Poor Harry is like, oh my God! And she eventually runs them off the road. They go into this creek and the car is stalled in the water. These hooligans get out of the car and the leader laps all beating all these guys up. You know, like, Diane and Harry get to this gas station. You're bringing another one up this weekend, eh? You didn't forget about us, did you? Pulls all this moon shine out of his car. There's two big jugs of moonshine. That's a lot of moonshine! Harry takes Diane back to his place and it's a big fucking mansion out in the woods, right? Getting changed. And he's got this two-way mirror going, he's taking pictures. In the meantime, these hooligans got their car up and running. Push it up through the mud. Yeah, yeah. They're driving over all those posts and fans. Going around town asking, have you seen this black Corvette? They go to this nice campground. You can't come in without a permit. Well, here's my permit. They grab his hand and just floor it. He's all dreg. Eventually, these guys come up to that gas station. They sweet-talk them. They gave him a bit of money. Learned where Diane and Harry are staying for the weekend. They're all piss-drunken. Oh, they're fucking shit-faced. Over there, he goes in their gate and he let them in. Harry's trying to get with her on the couch and everything. And he's just being a jerk. I thought there were people coming over. Now you're telling me no one's coming? Well, there's your coat. There's your boots. There's the road over there. Get out and walk. He goes by the boat house to kind of let off some steam. Let off some steam in it. She's inside kind of getting her things together. When these guys show up, they bust right in. Harry comes in. They start hitting them up for money. So they start fucking smashing up his house. Drinking his liquor and then they roll that liquor cart right in the living room. Those decanters and everything. Drinking right in the decanters. These plates. What are these fucking shitty plates? How much is this worth? Hold on, hold on. All these hooligans, they end up taking Harry's boat out. They're all piss drunk too. And the two guys from the gas station who wanted to come and sort of warn Harry and Diane that these guys were coming. They're all piss drunk too. They're all rowing. They're fucking whizzing by him. They all fall into the water and drown. They come back all happy. They don't even dock the boat properly. They just drive it right in the grass. And then Harry's all pissed off because everything's costing him money. Money, yeah. He just sees the dollars. Start to smash the fucking place to smithereens. Throw those records around. What's all this shit? Yeah, what's all this shit? You call this music? This is all garbage. And Harry has a gun upstairs and he runs upstairs and he goes and grabs his gun. But as soon as he comes out with the gun, Lep, who's the leader of the group, just grabs it right away. Harry makes his way downstairs and outside and they follow him outside and you hear the screams and you hear a gunshot. Diane has been watching what's been going on, making notes. Lep comes back in and he throws her to the pack. Runt takes her upstairs. Make yourself pretty. Put some of this on. Put some of this on. Got a straight razor and he takes it to her back. And he's like, come over here. Come over here to the bed. She grabs a little shard of glass and that's where we're gonna end it. So if you want to see what happens with Death Weekend or House by the Lake, keep watching. But why should you watch Death Weekend? Oh boy, this movie is so gritty. That old film stock that looks not great. This movie benefits from it greatly. The grittiness of the look of the movie really enhances the subject matter. There's a great class divide in this movie. Harry is rich. He's richer than any man deserves to be, it seems. Diane is kind of middle class, not so accomplished model. And then they've got these hooligans, these bums. Lore class, people terrorizing Harry. Poor Diane stuck in the middle. She's the middle class stuck in the middle. Middle class is fucked. Always fucked, yeah. The Lore class, they have a commentary of their own on Harry. They're like, well, this is all shit. Yeah, you don't care about anything. Yeah, you don't care about anything. You don't care about what happens to her. But they're almost in the right. You think that like after he gives them the money, they'll just go. But no, they don't. That's not what they want. They don't want money. They just want to shame somebody. It actually takes a long time for it to really get going. But it's all about building tension, building unease. Even with Diane and Harry, they get to the house, taking those pictures. Everything is uneasy. Building towards this crescendo, or it's all like accumulating towards this. And you know what's going to happen. You're just waiting for that moment to happen. Well, it's warranted too, right? The whole escalation of it feels natural in the movie. The performances are so good where you don't disbelieve anything. If I was in that position, I would react that way. Diane's not like screaming, waiting for her moment where she can maybe get this. That's what people would do. And Harry is not fighting because how can you fight against four guys? Laying low a little bit and doing whatever they say. A little bit like deliverance. Okay, all right. The setting is very cool, too. Like an isolated old big house. What happens when you're in the middle of nowhere and a bunch of people show up? This is exactly what everybody fears. Whenever I was up at a cabin, I'd always fear that people would show up. This movie is that nightmare. The men in this movie are all morons. They're all idiots. Yeah, every one of them. From Harry to the two gas station attendants to all the four hooligans. They're all fucking assholes. Which is a kind of a neat commentary on men in this movie. Which I appreciate because like, yeah, you're either drunk or there are a bunch of hooligans. Or is it a pretentious rapist almost? Poor Diane is like stuck in a situation where nothing is in her favor. Kills in this movie are great. Once you get there, it takes a long time to get there. It's a slow burn. But once Diane starts picking off the hooligans, it's great. Slits his throat with the glass. Then she lures another guy into the boathouse. Fills it with gasoline and blows it up. And he runs out because it's a good flame scene. It's not the big fat Halloween 2 foreshadowing scene where Harry shows her the bog early on in the movie. I don't don't go there. You know something's coming from there, right? And then later on she lets one of the guys follow her into the bog and he fucking... And then she just... Tensionally killing. She can just let him die, but she pushes his head in. Brings us to the showdown. Final act. Throughout the whole movie, there's a yin and a yang between Diane and the left. There's a dance going on. There is a whole dance going on. It's an interesting dance, too. It comes to a culmination at the end. We're not going to ruin it for you, but it's very fucking good and it's very poignant. It is fantastic. Yep. So if you like movies like I Spit Under Grave, Last House on the Left, Revenge Gang Stories, this movie's really right up your alley. You can't even barely find it. Yeah, it's hard. I was getting worried. I tried to find it for this and it's like it's on Amazon Prime. Okay, it's on Prime, but you have to have Shutter, too. But I'm like, okay, well, I'll just go to Shutter, but it's not on Shutter. Yeah. So you have to have Prime and Shutter to watch it. It's like, what a fucking riff off of fuck off. Like, come on. I have to have to have two streaming services to watch one movie. Fuck you. Should be you go to the rental store and pick up the fucking VHS. Provided some asshole hasn't rented it before you go to click the box behind. It's gone. Ah, fuck. So if you want a good, gritty, backwood, revenge type movie. This Canadian. Watch House by the Lake or Death Weekend. If you can find a fucker. And until next time, keep drinking.