What makes it different from others?

Instant Favorite.

brilliant actors, brilliant editing

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Although you have to admit the premise is original, this is just like all of Zalman's other pics, he does us a great service to us birdwatching community. You gotta admit to see it's lead women, naked, is another one of the movie's pleasures, where nakedness runs high in Zalman's pics. Lonely bored housewife (Severance) is left alone for the weekend, as hubby and kid have gone off somewhere. She's developed a sexual fixation on one of her landscapers (Billy Zane). And as fate would have it, she's gets locked in her caravan, ending up at this tranquil deserted lake, and have a guess with who. It's a menois de trois, and sexual therapy for Severance, whose sexual hunger has been pent up for two long. It's up to Zane and his beautiful girlfriend to bring her much wanted sexual desires and fantasies to life. That's the business of the story, but like all of all of King's work, the movie chooses the weird way of telling the story which makes it more brief, than if going on the realistic path, if getting to the core of Severance's problems. But it does have a beautifully told story, and is beautifully shot. Aside from that, it's a borderline porn, not much substance kind of film, but films like these do have their perks.

I saw this movie on VHS shortly after its release as a confused and easily aroused young teenage boy, and I was immediately turned on by the mindless sense of free love and intimacy that this film has throughout its entirety. Sadly very few films like Lake Consequence get made any more, due to the overkill of censorship "experts" and the influence of both family value and religious fundamentalist groups in government policies. I look back on it from time to time as the very first time that I realized how erotic and arousing it is for a man (and indeed all straight men) to watch two women kissing and making love in such an innocent way. The scene in the Chinese Bath House is by far one of the most erotic 2 women/1 man threesomes that I have ever scene in a Hollywood film. When Billy leaves May and Joan together, they kiss passionately and then briefly you see their breasts/nipples pressed together as they are beautifully locked in a lesbian embrace. What would have made this movie perfect would have been another sex scene where Billy was not involved at all, as its been proved that more than 40% of all male sexual fantasies don't involve any men at all :-). I recommend this film to just about any man who is in need of some visual comfort whether he be in a relationship with a woman or not.

Interesting setup. Although the unrated version comes to us for only one reason... it does make a valid attempt to become more than a sexual experience. It does have flaws, but it has a plot, that many movies of the sort don't have. (ex. Fatal Pursuit)

This movie has the most incredible sex scene I've ever seen. It takes place in a steamy hot tub with two girls and...ohmygosh...Billy Zane! The passion, the steam, and the look in his eyes makes this sex scene so immaculate, I wanted to rewind it a thousand times. Unfortunately, it was on TV. If you don't watch the movie for the screenplay (which is great also), watch it for this sex scene. I've never been so turned on by a movie before. I think I've found a new love for Billy Zane.