Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell (also known as Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake) is a 1980 American monster movie directed by Bill Rebane. The plot of Croaked involves a group of loggers terrorized by a vicious half-man/half-frog creature. The film was distributed by Troma Entertainment and aired first on television before going to video.
When a fortune is discovered at the bottom of a lake, a diver is out to get it, even when he discovers that the loot is being guarded by an awful underwater beast.
The film was released on VHS and Betamax in 1986 by Active Home Video. The VHS was later reissued in 1991 by Burbank Video. It was released for the first time on DVD by BCI, in a 3-disk multi feature set on August 24, 2004. BCI would re-release the film as a part of a 10-disk multi feature collection on October 5, 2005.[2]
Reception
John Noonan from HorrorNews.net wrote, "By all accounts this should be a fun and frivolous massacred by Mother Nature genre of movie. Instead, even at an 86 minute running time, it feels like Croaked is charging through treacle towards a wholly unsurprising and unsatisfying ending."[3]
Trivia
Lead actress Karen McDiarmid went on to become the spokesperson for the ShopKo chain of discount department stores. She appeared in television ads for the retailer from 1976 to 1996, as is better known to the public as the "ShopKo Lady."
References
↑Kaufman, Lloyd (1998). All I really need to know about filmmaking I learned from the toxic avenger. Gunn, James, 1966- (Berkley Boulevard trade paperbacked.). New York: Berkley Boulevard Books. p.11. ISBN0425163571. OCLC39622842.
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