Lurking Fear

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Madoka A Great fun movie! Highly recommend you go see it! Especially if you like H.P! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/17/25 Full Review Laura S Good for what it is. Full moon lives on forever! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/17/25 Full Review Leo T Great Movie and Cast Especially Ashley Laurence of Hell Raiser and Jeffery Combs from Re animator fame Good special effects and fun Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/25 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Written and directed by C. Courtney Joyner, who directed Trancers III and wrote From a Whisper to a Scream, Doctor Mordrid, Class of 1999, Prison and Total Excess: How Carolco Changed Hollywoo, this film tells the story of Leffert's Corners, a place that has been plagued by unearthly beings for decades. It's basically abandoned except for a few hearty souls like a priest and now John Martense, who is in town to put his family's estate in order. And we all know what happens to people who come to claim inheritances in horror movies. Joyner was a first-time director, so there was a worry that hiring an actor like David Hemmings would lead to him not being treated well, as Hemmings was also a director. Instead, Jon Finch, who was also in Frenzy and Murder on the Nile, was hired. He did exactly what the production teamed feared and repeatedly clashed with the director and refused to even listen to him say cut. The rest of the cast is pretty strong with the dependable Jeffrey Combs as a town doctor, Vincent Schiavelli as a mortician and Ashley Laurence as a woman seeking revenge. Plus, it's also cool to see Paul Mantee in a movie. For a while, it seemed like H.P. Lovecraft was to Charles Band as Edgar Allan Poe was to Roger Corman. This is another of the many Full Moon films that use a Lovecraft story as an inspiration. This also was edited down to thirty minutes and used as part of Full Moon's remix movie Tomb of Terror, where it had the title "Infinite Evil." Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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