The Black Waters of Echo's Pond: Critic Reviews

These waters are gory and sexually suggestive, and they overfloweth with unoriginality.

Bloody and gory, but in a friendly way, this is a movie for old-school horror fans who understand that, sometimes, bad is good.

Pacing remains flat, exacerbated by bad dialogue, some subpar f/x and variable perfs.

There's relief in this type of poorly acted claptrap's adherence to movie mathematics, since each slain character is a sign that the movie is that much closer to a credit roll.

Derivative and about as exciting as a checkers tournament (albeit one where the inevitable chainsaw makes a blood spattering appearance), this pallid horror movie is bloody but not even remotely scary.

Give the movie a little credit for coming up with the idea of an ancient monster. And the design of the game is terrific. But this is just Jumanji with gore effects and topless scenes.

the ongoing slaughter is just so much screen time that passes so dully as to qualify as audience torture worse than anything these characters suffer, and their suffering involves a chainsaw at one point

Feckless young people play a cursed board game that unleashes repressed desires, rips the scabs off festering wounds and brings seething resentments to a boil: Predictable slasher mayhem ensues.

Like Jumanji on bad acid, it's pretty much game for anything.

A Warning to the Curious: Don't let the would-be evocative title fool you into thinking that [this] is anything other than a routine (nay, outdated) splatter film.

A mindlessly entertaining, gory and campy homage to the grindhouse films of the 1970's.

A weird, talky, fairly sloppy mess of a low-budget genre flick ... but at least it gets good towards the end.

Ho-hum. No amount of runaway chainsaws or bear traps can save this vacant excuse for Z-grade horror, which consistently ignores its potential to play out like every other fright fest.

Barely rises to the level of a made-for-Syfy time-waster.

A high attrition, haunted house throwback certain to send chills up your spine!

Watching people play a board game ain't ever going to be scary, and that's essentially what we have here -- after a laughably amateurish intro set in the 1920s, when the dice and cards are unearthed (in Turkey).

That The Black Waters of Echo's Pond is receiving a theatrical release without being a remake or studio-financed is an achievement in itself. It's just too bad the finished product couldn't be of higher quality.