Films with Mystical/Mythical/Spooky Lake/Pond scenes

[Shingster]

Got a friend who is hoping to put together a music video and he asked me for recommendations of scenes from films set around a pond with water nymphs or just moody/eerily fantastical lake sequences in general, and I kinda struggled. My mind always goes right to horror films so I just said "let's scare jessica to death, chinese ghost story, bloodthirsty trilogy, nobuo nakagawa films, etc) and I have most of those films in my collection so will be going through them in the coming days. Anyone got other suggestions I may have overlooked? I think the theme of the video will be a guy interacting with water nymphs (cleanly ) and they just want to peruse visually arresting lake/pond sequences. Must admit it's a tough call trying to think of films with nymphs in them specifically!

[mwynn]

Creep Show 2.

[CWCprime]

Fellowship of the Ring

[Zivouhr]

If on a movie streaming channel (pick any with lots of movies), a search for "Lake" will pull up a big search of Lake themed movies including horror films.

Lake Placid, that's about the giant Alligator I think.

I'm sure there are Loch Ness Lake movies too.

[DR Herbert West]

Zombie Lake

[Eidolon]

The Innocents

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by DR Herbert West

Zombie Lake

I will never forget Zombie Lake! One of my very early VHS rentals, it has it all! Paint dripping off the zombies, a swimming pool with decorative tiles tying to pass as a lake in several shots, a zombie with feelings, netball players skinny dipping in the most filthy looking water in history, and a dead young woman being carried to her home by villagers, and placed at her parent’s house front with her dress hitched up and her knickers on full display!

Classy!

[Steedeel]

Cape Fear.

[EvaDK]

Lake Mungo
What Lies Beneath
The Haunting of Bly Manor (same story also inspired The Innocents)
The Deep House

[Martoto]

The trailer for Leatherface : The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III

It Follows

Friday The 13th (most if not all of them)

[witheygull]

Excalibur has a few scenes with the lady of the lake. Here's one example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o4viqGUtrw

[Shingster]

It's hard isn't it? I think they just want kinda ethereal/interesting lake scenes, but I think your mind immediately goes straight to horror films because it's the one genre that has consistently used water as a setting. Some great suggestions so far though so I will go through them and see if there's anything they can use!

[starsteam]

Howl Beyond the Fog

[Star Lord]

Creature From the Black Lagoon

[Mr. Chaverria]

Originally Posted by witheygull

Excalibur has a few scenes with the lady of the lake. Here's one example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o4viqGUtrw

Man, I want this film on UHD now. It'd be sooo pretty even when it's dirty.

[Zivouhr]

There is a 2019 (?) movie. or around there, where the characters are camped around a lake, and evil things happen around the lake for some reason. I watched it a couple years ago but forget the name. It's a lower budget film. It was kind of interesting. It was a family and they were disappearing because of the lake or something evil in it.

[The hitcher]

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Eden-Lake-Blu-ray/2362/

[moreorless]

Stalker - The Mystical Water Pool Scene (Restored Version) by Andrei Tarkovsky - YouTube

[unclefred]

7 Women For Satan.
A Virgin Among the Living Dead.

[charlieray1]

GHOST STORY (1981) has its climax (and some flashbacks) at a lake. Very chilling scene.

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