Death Weekend
Death Weekend released in the USA under the title The House by the Lake is a 1976 Canadian horrorthriller film. It stars Brenda Vaccaro and Don Stroud and was one of the first films from Canadian director William Fruet. The lowbudget production was shot in rural Canada and at a studio in Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada.
Set over a period ofhours on a cold November day in rural Ontario, Diane Brenda Vaccaro is a former fashion model who meets a wealthy gentleman named Harry Chuck Shamata. After a whirlwind romance, she decides to accompany Harry for a weekend getaway at his remote country house by a lake. It soon becomes obvious to them both that they are not made for each other and they start arguing.On their way in Harrys sports car, Diane asks Harry to let her drive the rest of the way. They soon encounter a carload of four drunken thugs, led by Lep Don Stroud and get into a fit of road rage where Diane forces the punks off the road, wrecking their car. Little do Diane and Harry know that the angry gang follows them, looking for some vicious revenge against the arguing, unhappy and unarmed couple. After the gang rampages through a camping park looking for the car that ran them off the road, they find the sports car at a rural gas station where Harry had left it to be looked after while taking a less flashy station wagon to the country house. After intimidating the drunk station owners to give them the location to where Harry lives, Lep and his friends drive off to their destination. ........
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