By The Silver Water of Lake Champlain (A Creepshow short on SHUDDER)

Genre: Horror
Rating: TV-MA (M)
​Warnings: Abusive Relationships

Another not-so-much horror, this is a fantasy about a Loch Ness Monster like legend called Champy, the Lake Champlain Monster. An overall quite sweet story, the obsession that killed the father is taking over the daughter, much to the mother's upset.

There's an abusive, gold-digger step-father and a triumphant ending where Champy is revealed to be real, the family is saved and the dead dad is proven right. A great close to the series, it sums up Creepshow as a whole; not that scary, but fairly entertaining and well-made.

The repeated themes of depicting abusive relationships is annoying. Each story is fine and valid, but as a collection it's an uncomfortable trend. Likewise, the Creepshow tagline "12 terrifying tales of terror" is as inaccurate as it is cheesy. The scares are few and far between, and this short is almost devoid of frights.

Lake Champlain is a real lake, situated on the border of USian states Vermont and New York (and peeking up into Canadian province Quebec) and the monster, Champy, is a real legend. Familiarity with the area and the legend may improve or ruin the story, but looking it up afterwards makes for a nice bonus to the story.