Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

With "Lurking Fear", I hope to god I have arrived at the bottom floor of Full Moon Picture's out-put. This is one of those horror movies where it feels like nothing happens in the movie. It's an unnecessarily complicated set-up, then nothing, then a long overdue pay-off. You know you're in trouble in a monster movie when Vincent Schiavelli is the most interesting thing on screen. The creatures, when they FINALLY appear, can't hold a candle to that great man.Which brings me to another point: "Lurking Fear" has a surprisingly strong cast. Aside from Schiavelli, there's Mr Shakespeare, Jon Finch, and Mr Lovecraft, Jeffrey Combs. They don't do anything, or add anything to the movie at all.The plot: An improbably handsome man is released from prison for a crime he didn't commit. He has a map to find buried treasure in a cemetery, butt there's a bunch of other people who are also after the treasure, including some criminals. They have a stand-off in a church where apparently creatures live under the ground.About 90% of the movie is all the above named characters hanging around the church pointing guns at each other. None of the characters make any impression and it is hard to tell them apart. Presumably some are good guys and some are bad guys but the movie doesn't make this point strongly enough... or at all.The creatures are not unimpressive, but the movie never gives you a good look at them, and there are some scant moments of gore that could have been impressive.I think what we have here are all the ingredients to make a passable or even better than passable movie, and a writer-director with no clue how to use any of them. It's a waste of time for everyone concerned.

In my opinion this film is really good filming of HP Lovecraft I really like most of the film. It includes a lot of effects and the underground creatures look really great here. SO, people who enjoyed Rreanimator will see cool Jeffrey Combs here. He plays a doctor and plays great.This Full Moon film is rather cool. The story includes some bandits seeking for money , a group of people fighting against terrific monsters who live under the ground of a church with priest who tries to help them.They want to destroy the world of immortal monsters who eat humans and live under one cemetery. They brought dynamite and are preparing to explode the church and cemetery when money-seeking bastards come and the mess starts.Great , although it is still far beyond Lovecraft's original style.www.myspace.com/neizvestnostlab

Ex-convict Blake Bailey goes to the small burg of Laffert's Corner, Massachusetts to unearth a corpse in the local cemetery that's stuffed with several million dollars. A heinous trio of nasty cooks led by smooth British baddie Jon Finch (Jerry Cornelius in the fabulously flip sci-fi black comedy blast "The Final Programme") also materialize at the sleepy armpit podunk, eager to get their greedy, grubby, grasping paws on the hot loot. The only glitch: the hamlet's currently being besieged by a ghoulish gaggle of nocturnal subterranean cannibalistic zombies with wan complexions, egg-white eyes, longish pale hair, long black claws, gaunt skeletal faces, a mouthful of yellow fangs, and a decidedly inhospitable disposition. It's up to the hoodlums and a handful of fear-stricken beleaguered townspeople to make a stand against the lethal creatures or else they will all get devoured by the evil albino undead.Writer/director C. Courtney ("Trancers III: Death Lives") Joyner, loosely adapting an H.P. Lovecraft story, does a real deft, fluent and commendable job with crafting a handy dandy blend of horror and crime thriller elements: the swift pacing, a reasonably enthralling and intricate story, the pretty high suspense factor, and a few punchy and genuinely stirring action sequences all add up to make for one really fun little fright flick. Moreover, the bang-up cast contribute uniformly up-to-snuff performances, with especially stand-out turns by the ever-fine Finch (who makes for an exquisitely hateful heavy), Lovecraft movie perennial Jeffrey ("From Beyond," "Necronomicon") Combs as a boozy, bearded, chain-smoking physician, lovely, buxom "Hellraiser" series heroine Ashley Laurence as a resourceful, two-fisted take-charge survivalist, Mike Todd as the head fiend, Paul ("Day of the Animals," "The Manitou") Mantee as a virtuous, selfless priest, and, in a splendidly slimy small role, the always sublimely creepy Vincent Schiavelli as a wormy, untrustworthy mortician. Although by no means a classic, "Lurking Fear" nonetheless rates well as a solid, thrilling and worthwhile horror item.

~Spoiler~ When I first watched Lurking Fear, I agreed with the other Lovecraft purists and thought it was terrible. The second time around, I'm not looking at it as a H. P. Lovecraft story and just as a horror flick. It's still not that good. It had potential to be a fairly involving, claustrophobic flick. That's all ruined in the way too cheesy explosion and mud-wrestling near the end. I was able to take it seriously until that took place. Up until then, it's a good B movie with a few creative moments and some nice creature effects. Imagine an entire clan of Castle Freaks running around under the cemetery and that's what you've got here. The acting is a higher caliber than I'm used to seeing in Full Moon movies as well. There are a number of familiar horror faces in Lurking Fear. Hellraiser's Ashley Laurence, From Beyond's Jeffrey Combs, and even Vincent Schiavelli are all featured in this flick and add a lot to it. Now, if only the production values would have been a little higher and a few scenes had been cut, this could have been a worthwhile genre effort.