

Lake Placid
You'll never know what bit you.
When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $27M
- Box office
- $56.9M
- Language
- English
- sheriff
- lake
- diving
- crocodile
- animal attack
- deputy
- paleontologist
- maine
- decapitation
- severed head
- creature
- scientist
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR16 Jul 1999
- PhysicalRVHS / DVD11 Jan 2000
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1531 Mar 2000
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical28 Oct 1999
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical9 Sept 1999
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical181 Nov 2000
BrazilBR
- Theatrical (limited)29 Oct 1999
- Theatrical3 Mar 2000
EstoniaEE
- Theatrical20 Apr 2001
FinlandFI
- TV2 Dec 2002
FranceFR
- Theatrical5 Jul 2000
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1624 Feb 2000
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical21 Oct 1999
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1617 Feb 2000
Frequently asked questions
Lake Placid was released on 15 July 1999.
Audience reviews
8- J7.5/10
John Chard
6/20/2016
Big Crocodile - Big Log - Big Fun. There's a gigantic crocodile loose in the waters of Maine. A number of local hicks and big city eccentrics converge to try and stop the beast... Wonderful! A modern day homage to the creature feature movies of lore. It's not a spoof, it's a fun packed tongue in cheek thriller, hell it may even have some literary worth as regards ecological concerns, while the cultural clashes …
- G5/10
Gimly
1/25/2018
Not bad for a giant-gator Creature Feature, but Goddamn listening the dialogue in the first act is aggravating as sin. _Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole._
- K7/10
Kamurai
9/20/2020
Good watch, would watch again, and can recommend. I like a crocodile movie, they don't even have to be giant-sized, they make really good "monsters", and the reality of their danger sits in the back of your head. The cast was great in this, though Bridget Fonda screams a lot, and I can't say it's very endearing. They do sort of a "unlikely crew" trope with this, but most of the movie is dedicated to trying t…
- T7/10
Tejas Nair
11/7/2020
It's the humour garnished all over Lake Placid that makes it more than an entertaining watch about crocodile terror. You know it's a spoof but you know there's danger out there too that the characters are going to fall into. Add to that the on-the-point performances and dialogue delivery by Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt, and Brendan Gleeson and the overall atmosphere of the film, and you have a terrific film to enjoy w…
- W7/10
Wuchak
11/23/2021
_**Crocogator horror with humor**_ A monstrous croc is discovered to live in a remote lake in Maine and so a conflicting group of people join together to capture or kill it: the local Sheriff (Brendan Gleeson), a Fish and Game officer (Bill Pullman), a paleontologist (Bridget Fonda) and an expert croc hunter (Oliver Platt). Betty White is on hand as a comical lady who lives on the lake. “Lake Placid” (1999) is …
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