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BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Aaron1375 This is a film brought to us by Full Moon Studios, a studio that was constantly creating low budget horror back in the day. They made some good films and some bad ones; however, during the time this film was made, they were mainly doing horror comedies all the time and this one tries to be that too. I am kind of baffled by the score here on IMDb as I thought this film was quite bad, even for one of their movies because it just had too many flaws. A promising opening scene and a rather good premise were completely undone by where they took it and so many unnecessary plot points. I read the H.P. Lovecraft short story this one is based on and they had the makings of actually doing something with it, but just clogged the film down with so many things that just did not fit in with the premise. The deaths were also pretty much unmemorable, the acting horrid with the exception of the only two actors one would tend to recognize (Combs and Schiavelli) and the film has a complete lack of tension due to the fact that through the majority of the film it looks like there is only one creature when they keep suggesting there are several...enough to take out a town apparently. The film is short though, so the pain of watching it did not take too long.The story has two sisters or something at the beginning arguing about stuff. Something tries to take the baby and the sister that seems to know how to fight is killed. This is also the best kill in the film. Not sure if this was the past or what. I could not tell as the editing was not all that good. All I know is a guy is getting out of prison and a guy working at a funeral home gives him part of a map that will show the location of a cemetery by a church where a lot of money is buried. He goes there and some bad guys follow and get mixed up in a mess as citizens of a town are taking a stand against creatures that have been terrorizing them for 20 years because apparently no one wants to exert the effort to leave town.The monsters when on screen look rather good; unfortunately, they are not in the movie all that much. As I said, you never really get a sense that there is really all that much danger as you only see more than two monsters on the screen like once. Too often in this one the focus of the film is on this guy wanting his money back which begins to get absurd. Things are going badly, the guy is clearly rich so I am rather sure he could have left without collecting what was probably 100,000 dollars tops. I was getting sick of the stupid girl he had with him and wanted her to die slowly, but I did not get that satisfaction. We have monsters in tunnels that are supposed to be overrunning things and the subplots overran them! So this Full Moon film was incredibly bad and I felt there were very few things of redeeming nature in it. It had decent looking monsters and a nice opening scene, but that was it! No good deaths beyond the opening scene, no nudity, no sense to be made with the plot! Seriously, why the heck did the townspeople not leave!?! Monsters are feasting on them and they just stay around, why? Because the property taxes are cheap, perhaps? This monsters were also incredibly slow killers, how anyone got snuffed by them is a testament to what poor survival skills these people must of had! I guess that should be surprising seeing as how the monster only strike when it rains and at night so the people in town only had like plenty of time to leave over the 20 year reign of terror! Just too much stuff wrong with it to say it was anything, but bad in my opinion; however, like most Full Moon Studio films, at least I can say it was really short.

Paul Andrews Lurking Fear starts as small time crook John Martense (Blake Adams) is released from prison after serving five years, he heads straight for a funeral parlour run by Knaggs (Vincent Schiavelli) whom is in possession of one half of a map that reveals the location of a buried body stuffed full of money & John has the other half. Together the two pieces reveal that John's father buried the body in a cemetery in his home town of Lefferts Corner, armed with the information he needs John heads off to find the town although the casino boss who John's father stole the money from in the first place is in hot pursuit. Once at Lefferts Corner things take an unexpected turn when a group of locals inside the Church are planning to rid the town of underground creatures who like eating the local population, John becomes involved as to get the money & save his own life he has to do battle with the creatures too...Written & directed by C. Courtney Joyner based on the short story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft it seems that Lurking Fear is one of three filmed adaptations including Dark Heritage (1989) & the Rutger Hauer flick Bleeders & while Lurking Fear retains Lovecraft's original title unlike the other two it's perhaps the least faithful of the three & has no real connection to the short story other than feature a guy called Martense & underground creatures. Lurking Fear is almost a great film, every aspect is almost great but not quite, the character's are good & while I appreciate that there are no teenagers here & the cast are proper adults some feel like they are making the numbers up, while the story is good it never quite reaches the heights you hope for with the crime aspect not going anywhere (no-one gets the money) & there's no reasoning behind the underground creatures like where they came from or why they stay underground & there are little subplots like the religious angle where the Priest's faith is tested but again nothing is done with it. The set-up is good with various character's trapped fighting off flesh eating creatures outside but again you just hope for a bit more, the attack scenes are few & far between, there's never more than or two creatures on screen at once & aspects of the plot don't make much sense like why hasn't anyone stood up to these creatures before or why didn't anyone call the army or police & didn't anyone ever notice all the people going missing from that town? At a little over 70 minutes Lurking Fear is short, it's brisk & moves along at a good pace but you just can't help but feel a little disappointed at the end since this could have been great, I still enjoyed it & thought it was good but it should have been better.Lurking Fear has a good atmosphere about it, the dark night, the thunder storm, the dark underground tunnels full of creatures & a traditional Church as a setting but there's not much gore & while the make-up on the creatures are good we never see more than a couple. The ending also features some impressive & pretty big explosions. This was executive produced by Charles Band who was going to make it under his Empire Pictures company with Stuart Gordon directing (who is a bit of a H.P. Lovecraft expert now having already directed Re-Animator (1985), From Beyond (1986), Castle Freak (1995) & Dagon (2001) which are based on stories by him) before it went belly up & Full Moon Entertainment produced it.Made on a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 this has good production values, good effects, a decent cast & it actually feels like a horror film. Although set in the US this was filmed in Romania. The acting is pretty good with Ashley Laurence & genre favourite Jeffrey Combs the most familiar faces here.Lurking Fear is a film that is almost great, as it is it's still good but you can't help but feel a little bit more time & money Lurking Fear could have been a classic. I liked it & would recommend it especially to horror fans & those who like dark Gothic stories.

Boba_Fett1138 ...Wait until you see this movie. At least the Rutger Hauer version of this movie called "Bleeders", from 1997, was still at parts entertaining and watchable.This is a really poorly made movie. You just know that everyone involved with this movie is never going to make it in the world of movies. This includes both main cast and crew. It features some extremely bad dubbing and sound effects. Especially listen in the beginning of the movie when the woman hits the 'monster' with a gun. It sounds like a cartoon! This unfortunately is not the only example. Also the editing is really off and the movie uses too often silly slow-motion sequences, that are just nothing more than laughable. This obviously was a cheap movie to make. The monsters are not too bad looking and it deserved to be in a better movie.The story is extremely bad and simple written, as if they put no real effort into it. It's very silly and just never seems to get of the ground. The movie also never becomes tense or scary to watch, although its fairly good with its gore.Also the actors didn't made the movie any better. It's not just their fault, since their characters are also extremely flat and boring in the story. Still it has Jefffrey Combs and Vincent Schiavelli in it, so there are some redeeming qualities.I see no point into why anyone should ever watch this movie.2/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

The_Void Full Moon seem to have a rather poor reputation arising from the fact that many of their films are low budget and not exactly masterpieces, but the company certainly does well when it comes to H.P. Lovecraft, and while this film isn't up to the standard that Stuart Gordon went on to set with Castle Freak, Lurking Fear is still a good example of low budget horror. I've not read the Lovecraft short story that the film is based on, so I can't say how faithful to the original material it is; but the film features a number of Lovecraft's trademarks, and the central theme of a town overrun by strange otherworldly creatures is pure Lovecraft. The plot centres on the town of Leffert's Corners, which as mentioned, has a problem with strange otherworldly creatures. A man named John Martense also has a problem also as his criminal father happened to bury a corpse in Leffert's Corners, which is filled with money; and he isn't the only one that wants it. We then follow John Martense and a group of three would-be robbers who arrive at the town just as the locals are preparing a spectacular fight back.The main problem with this film really is that not enough happens. We focus on a claustrophobic church where the locals have holed up, and while the atmosphere is good and every now and then someone gets killed, the characters aren't interesting enough to pull it through as well as possible, and the creatures never take centre stage. But even so, I enjoyed this film as its PURE horror; we don't get mixed up in any needless subplots, and director C. Courtney Joyner (who has directed a slew of trashy horror flicks) keeps the focus on the central theme well. The acting isn't up to much, but the cast just about pull it through. Jeffrey Combs is never far from H.P. Lovecraft, and I always enjoy seeing him in films. Hellraiser's Ashley Laurence makes a welcome appearance and is actually very sexy, while Allison Mackie does well as her opposite number. The film gets better as it goes along, and the director just about succeeds in building tension on the way to the ending, which wraps everything up nicely. Overall, this is not a great film and I wouldn't recommend going out of your way to see it; but its fun enough and definitely worth watching.