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Freshwater
Freshwater
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Brandeis Berry
Screenplay by	Brandeis Berry
Story by	Brandeis Berry
Produced by	Faisal Al-Saja; Thomas Beach; Omar Abunayyan; Christopher Biewer;
Starring	Zoë Bell; Joe Lando; Alison Haislip; Amy Paffrath;
Cinematography	Travis Hoffman
Edited by	Karen Broderick
Music by	Deanna Lasker
Production; company	Granfalloon Productions
Distributed by	MultiVisionnaire
Release date	February 26, 2016;
Running time	83 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Freshwater is a 2016 American thriller film written and directed by Brandeis Berry, starring Zoë Bell, Joe Lando, Amy Paffrath, and Alison Haislip. Dread Central likened the film's premise to the 2011 horror film Shark Night.^[2]

Plot

Set in Louisiana,^[2] the film centers around a group of young adults that are faced with a scary reality as they realize they are being hunted around their lake house by a giant alligator while a local reptile consultant teams up with the local law enforcement to find out what might be happening.^[3]

Cast

Zoë Bell as Brenda Gray
Joe Lando as Sheriff Jones
Amy Paffrath as Kim Whitley
Alison Haislip as Claudia Mosley
Tom O'Connell as Agent Sam Colton
John Bobek as Matt Hanton
Christopher Biewer as Deputy Clyde
Derrick Redford as Jason Hightower
Donnabella Mortel as Jamie Castell
Michael St. Michaels as Bob
Faisal Al-Saja as Travis Beecher
Marti Hale as Mary
John V. Ward as John Castleberry
Kevin Wayne as Trooper Ford
Brian Waters as Agent Ray

Release

The film was released on DVD in the US on February 14, 2017. It was released in the UK on DVD on June 6, 2016.^[4]

Novelization

A novelization of the film was released in July 2021 by novelist Julian Michael Carver.^[5] In 2022, the novelization was nominated for the Scribe Award by the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers for "Best Adapted Novel", alongside the novelizations of Alien 3 and Halloween Kills.^[6]

References

^ "FRESHWATER". IMDb. Retrieved August 22, 2016. ^{[better source needed]}
^ ^a ^b unclecreepy (September 10, 2014). "Zoe Bell Becomes Gator Bait in Freshwater". Dread Central. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
^ "Movie Review: Freshwater – The Poor Man's Lake Placid". Literary Homicide with TropicalMary. August 4, 2016. Retrieved February 16, 2021.
^ "FRESHWATER (2016) Reviews and overview". MOVIES and MANIA. November 19, 2016.
^ Carver, Julian Michael (July 20, 2021). "Freshwater: The Adapted Movie Novelization". Severed Press – via Amazon.
^ "2022 Scribe Award Nominees". Locus Magazine. June 20, 2022. Retrieved September 12, 2022.