Has the director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre really been reduced to ripping off mediocre monster movies? Sadly, Tobe Hooper is at the helm of this stalk 'n' scoff farrago, in which a stereotypical gaggle of college kids are preyed upon by a fiend who has more in common with a junior art-class project than a cutting-edge special effect. Comparisons with the superior Lake Placid are inevitable. Guaranteed to make you shriek with laughter, rather than terror, this is an appalling fate for a once-promising talent.

Eight college students board a houseboat for spring break that promises to be the best of their young lives...how many will survive?