Hey, here's something to get you through your day: You don't have to be smart to have a nice life! Hollywood knows this. They've told me and I'm telling you. Don't worry! I've seen Terror At Tenkiller.
There's a whole bunch of people in this movie. Some are rich, some poor, some attractive, some not, some nice, some not. But, they all lead pretty happy lives. Even the killer doesn't do so bad for himself. Our leading lady, for example, is a perfect illustration.
She's sweet, she's blond. She is, at some points in the film, thin and, at others, chunky. Her performance is a notch above bubble-headed. She has an abusive boyfriend that she likes to stay with and, overall, she's as mediocre a character as I've ever seen. But, disregarding the man troubles and the killer, she's having a fine time. No grief. She goes to the gym, she parties with her friend, she has a nice time! The guys like her. She's pretty and sweet but in every other way wholly unremarkable.
I think Hollywood is saying this: Don't knock Pretty & Dumb. They go a long way. Certainly further than ugly and smart ever got you. Keep that in mind. It sure helped me.
That's that.
Here's the movie...
Tenkiller is a lake. The terror at it occurs when this guy starts killing people there.
Suzy (the blond (although that may not be her name)) has had a big argument with her snobby, possessive boyfriend who may (or may not) be named Chevy. Her best friend, Lanky Madge, says Suzy should forget him and go to the lake with her for the summer. Suzy takes some convincing but, eventually, it's off to Tenkiller! For the summer!
The girls start working at a local diner, which is lucky for them since it looks like all the other jobs here involve being a crusty old guy working on the lake. Suzy meets a very nice man named Dave. They go out and it's really sweet. But, Dave gets angry sometimes and kills people!
Mixed into this, her ex- is trying to find her. Plus, there is talk of a female Indian spirit that lives in the lake and drags evil men to their doom. Her legend shrouds the lake in an all-pervading cloud of mystery and despair. Her spirit is hungry and waiting...patiently. But, enough about that.
After a while, Dave kills Suzy's friend. Soon after that, everything converges when Dave goes after Suzy and Chevy reappears. But, Chevy gets killed fairly quickly and Suzy and Dave tussle on the water in the middle of the lake. Dave is dragged under the water and Suzy makes it to shore, battered, bruised but safe and dumb. After she stumbles away, however, Dave leaps out of the water and freezes in mid-air. How? Maybe he was the Indian Spirit all along... But, that seems unlikely.
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