An 8-year-old girl’s disappearance starts linking to past deaths and missing people, revealing things no one could imagine.
Mind-bending, jaw-dropping, and hair-raising. Caddo Lake will knock you out of the park! What starts as a mysterious disappearance that ostensibly leads to kidnapping ends up as a beyond-understanding reality that no one could have ever possibly known. Logan George and Celine Held wrote and directed this brilliant film that lingers way after the end credits stop scrolling down. The film’s pace and rhythm are perfect, and the way the events connect shows how much effort they put in the cutting room to stitch them all up (especially George) and present this coherent result. And making it look and sound coherent with such a script is a Herculean task. Probably one of the very few occasions where the director is also the editor, and the result is astonishing.
This is a spoiler-free review, so I can’t make comparisons with the series that knocked our socks out a few years ago. But you’ll get it when you watch it and see how George and Held succeeded in doing the same in a less-than-two-hour film. What you want to happen, what will happen, and when you want it to happen and when it will happen will skyrocket the suspense to the extreme. Of course, the story’s believability would not be possible if the actors didn’t do their part. Dylan O’Brien, Eliza Scanlen, Lauren Ambrose, Sam Hennings, Dianna Hopper, and Eric Lange believe in their vision and react to specific stimuli in a way that probably you and I would, something that increases the realism behind the paranoia.
George and Held directed episodes of the also M. Night Shyamalan-produced Servant (2019 – 2023), an extremely well-made series – and Ambrose was the lead. They have also directed episodes of Dark Matter (2024). What I want to say is that they are both accustomed to the mysterious element, the fringe, and the dark, and their work keeps getting better and better. I, for one, can’t wait for their next film.
P.S. Speaking of duos who do great, let’s hope filmmaking duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead do something extraordinary soon.
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