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.

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Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell
DVD cover for 'Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell'
Directed by	Bill Rebane
Written by	Lyoma Denetz Jerry Gregoris Mike Landers
Produced by	Jerry Gregoris Bill Rebane
Starring	Karen McDiarmid Alan Ross Brad Ellingson Jerry Gregoris Glenn Scherer
Cinematography	Bela St. Jon
Edited by	Bill Rebane
Music by	Bruce Malm
Distributed by	Troma Entertainment
Release date	1981
Running time	93 minutes (Original Burbank VHS runtime)
Language	English

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 best Troma films ever made (along with The Capture of Bigfoot, also directed by Bill Rebane).[1]

Plot

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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

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Home Media

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.[2]

Release names

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1. Rana: The Legend Of Shadow Lake (1981). 2. Croaked: Frog Monster From Hell (1991) as VHS.

Reception

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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."[3]

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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