Lurking Fear

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Stephen G @patient1 Jan 4 Fool Moon and Charles Band, don't disappoint with the intro to the film, and we're setting up for a battle of some sort. I knew Jeffrey Combs was in the film but had no idea that Ashley Laurence was going to be in this 90s film of madness.   Our battle might just be against an unholy force, and it's getting exciting in a scifi channel way. What's even more enjoyable is that we've run off the mill baddies to deal with a well.   Has a Takes from the Crypt: Demon Night vibe, long winded for some, with spurts of maddness throught to keep you viewing and entertained. Ashley Laurence is a beautiful beast, and Jeffrey Combs's banter just keeps me watching anything he is involved in. Lovecraft inspired... See more Madoka A @RT95510435 Sep 17 Great fun movie! Highly recommend you go see it! Especially if you like H.P! See more Laura S @Lauraqueen Sep 17 Good for what it is. Full moon lives on forever! See more Leo T @RT29561023 01/25/2025 Great Movie and Cast Especially Ashley Laurence of Hell Raiser and Jeffery Combs from Re animator fame Good special effects and fun See more 12/19/2021 Taking place in a church, the film follows two groups of people, one which is there to battle the ghouls rising from the adjacent graveyard, the other bandits, looking to excavate a hidden treasure, located somewhere in the same burial ground. In ways the plot reminds me of both "Demon Knight" and "From Dusk 'Til Dawn". It stars Vincent Schiavelli ("Batman Returns", "Lord of Illusions") and Jeffery Combs ("Re-Animator", "The Frighteners", "From Beyond", "Necronomicon"), in yet another Lovecraft adaptation. A Full Moon production, unfortunately this film was not handled as well as it could have been, despite the presence of a strong cast. See more 11/12/2021 VERY loose adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name is nowhere as good as Stuart Gordon's "Re-Animator" or "From Beyond". Although those adaptations also played fast and loose with their source materials (for my money, the only film to really feel like a Lovecraft story is the 2005 faux silent film "The Call of Cthulhu"), but this adaptation fails at even being entertaining. The story involves rival groups of criminals looking to dig up a corpse in a graveyard that's hiding a big stash of stolen money. However, this same night a group of townspeople are planning to dispose of an ancient evil living beneath this very same graveyard. The film boasts a stronger than usual cast for a Full Moon Features production, with Jon Finch ("Macbeth" "Frenzy"), Jeffrey Combs ("Re-Animator" "The Frighteners", Paul Mantee ("Robinson Crusoe on Mars" "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"), Vincent Schiavelli ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Ghost"), and "Hellraiser" star Ashley Laurence, but they are wasted with poorly developed characters, though Schiavelli is a lot of fun in his one-scene appearance at the start of the film. When I rewatched the restored blu ray print of the film, I was struck by the better than expected photography by regular Full Moon cinematographer Adolfo Bartoli ("Trancers" 3-5, "Oblivion" 1-2, "Puppet Master" 3-5, etc.). However, writer/director C. Courtney Joyner ("Doctor Mordrid" "Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge") fails to create much atmosphere and it's unclear if the film wanted to be a serious horror film or wanted to be tongue-in-cheek. It ends up being neither and fails as a whole. FUN FACT! It "The Lurking Fear" was originally to be made by producer Charles Band's earlier company Empire Pictures and directed by Stuart Gordon, which I'm sure would have been a MUCH better film. See more Read all reviews

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