Lurking Fear

Burial and Flesh-Eating, the life of a Tunnel Dweller
Lurking Fear isn't really that accurate of an H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, but, as far as movies go, what cinematic try ever has been? While this is a sad and movies have been dismissed (with good reason) because of this, I think it would be a bit rash with this movie. I say this because the movie is still entertaining, has a little bit of gore and a few tensely horrific moments, sports a good cast including the immortal Jeffrey Combs, and has a nice looking "monster" design.
The story is about a now isolated town that, over the years, has been steadily deprived of its occupants by creatures dwelling in tunnels beneath the local cemetery. Through haphazard means, our main characters Cathryn Farrells, looking for a little vengeance, and John Martens, looking for a fortune buried somewhere in the cemetery, find themselves teamed up with a disposable cast (poor Mr. Combs) as they try to live through the night.
Besides, subhuman creatures feeding on flesh-flavored...

"Merry Christmas!"
Lovecraft in name only, meaning a dead author has very little recourse whenever some yahoo `borrows' one of his ideas and mistreats it shamefully.
That aside, there really isn't much they could have done to spiff up this Christmas dinner. The plot is basic: strand a group of people in one location and pick them off one by one. There's nothing new or original there. The action is scattered at best, they don't even take full advantage of the below-dwellers. The `suspense' couldn't kill anyone, being almost nonexistent. It's amazing how they took so long to say so little. None of the performers excelled, even stalwart actor of the overdone, Jeffrey Combs, seemed a little anemic here, not that he was given much to do. And that's the best way to describe this film; it didn't really try to accomplish anything of merit. Horror by rote. I wasn't impressed.

70 laughable minutes of the least Lovecraftian Lovecraft adaptation on the market. But it's a bad, fun romp.
70 minutes of terrible...but I couldn't stop giggling while rolling my eyes. And yes, without the credits this really is only 70 minutes.

Really cheap sets and highly questionable acting raise a brow of doubt in the first 90 seconds of this movie. But don't worry, the writing is bad, too. So you'll get plenty of "oh, geez" laughs out of it. A lot of the scenes feel like they came out of some horror-themed soap opera--which doesn't speak well of the director of this laughable catastrophe.

The first scene sets an interesting tone. Two women and an infant are staying in some old church with monsters living between the under the floors. They know these monsters want to eat them, but they spend the night anyway and somehow are able to sleep...alone...with no one keeping watch. Low and behold, the consequence of this thoughtful plan was that someone got killed by some rubber-gloved monster-clawed arms reaching out from a vent in the wall.

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