The Lake Bodom Murders are old hat to metal fans. Taking their name from the murder of two teenage girls and one boy on the shore of Finland’s Lake Bodom, we have Children of Bodom to thank for the inadvertent education in this chapter of European true-crime history. Although the band aren’t much to write about these days, the story continues to hold a particular sway over the imaginations of conspiracy theorists and horror writers--certainly, there’s enough to the story to appeal to Aleksi Hyvärinen and Taneli Mustonen, authors of the script for Lake Bodom.
Initially taking the shape of your average vacation slasher, it begins where we expect: with Nora, Atte, and Elias (Mimosa Willamo, Santeri Helinheimo Mäntylä, and Mikael Gabriel, respectively), the future “children of bodom,” on their journey to the lakeside where they will meet their end. The memory of a thousand other slashers will rise up to meet you, but stick with it and Lake Bodom will mutates into an unpredictable thriller (and a Lake Bodom conspiracy theorist’s dream, I’d imagine) with more twists than a bag of Twizzlers right before your eyes--an analogy you’re just going to have to forgive because there’s no better way to relate how much of a treat this movie is for slasher fans.
Like Dead Snow, The Final Girls, and Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon, Lake Bodom knows exactly what arena it’s entering and how to make an impression on an audience jaded by decades of movies purported to “rewrite the rules” of the slasher film, from Scream to Don’t Breathe and beyond. While it’s true that there’s nothing left to innovate about a person with a knife and a quota to fill in 90 minutes or less, and that Lake Bodom will sometimes have to fall back on that truth to get to where it’s going, movies like this remind us that some formulas will always have just enough juice in them to get back up no matter what.
-Brian L.
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- Recovery date
- 2026-07-22
- Stewardship polish
- 2026-07-22
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- restored
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- None recorded
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