• Source: Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell

Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell (also known as Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake) is a 1981 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.
In his book All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger, Troma president Lloyd Kaufman lists this film as one of the five worst Troma films ever made (along with The Capture of Bigfoot, also directed by Bill Rebane).




Plot



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.




Cast


Paul Callaway and Richard Lange as Rana
Glenn Scherer as Kelly Sr.
Brad Ellingson as Kelly Jr.
Karen McDiarmid as Elli
Alan Ross as John
Julie Wheaton as Susan
Jerry Gregoris as Charlie
Jim Iaquinta as Burley, Rana
Bruno Alexander as Cal
Michael Skewes as Mike
Doreen Moze as Chris
Angailica as Baby Rana (as Angel Rebane)




Release






= Home Media

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The film was released on VHS in 1991 by Burbank. 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.




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."




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






External links


Rana:The Legend of Shadow Lake at AllMovie
Rana: The Legend of Shadow Lake at IMDb
Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell at Rotten Tomatoes

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• Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell
• List of Troma Team Video titles
• The Capture of Bigfoot
• The Frogs
• Folktales from Japan
• Gore Verbinski
• Dee Bradley Baker filmography
• List of years in animation
• Frank Welker filmography
• List of films with post-credits scenes