Screenwriter Stanley Caldwell (Judd Nelson) is hard at work on the screenplay for a new horror film, but to finish it he needs research - the kind of research that involves kidnapping young women, killing them, and fixing them in a bizarre underwater display. When he kidnaps Mallory (Hedy Burress), the two begin a bitter game of cat and mouse, and the police begin to close in on Stanley's hidden secret. CABIN BY THE LAKE is a creepy thriller boasting superior acting and production values.