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At least there weren't fake lasers, the group of bratty ill-prepared teenagers on a trip, excessive profanity. It did have some stereotypical "cool tough guy" acting by some of the actors (eg Catherine played by Ashley Laurence kept racking the slide of her pistol almost every time she drew it). Still she was hot.

Hunky Blake Adams plays John Martense, a young man just released from prison. He has no prospects, but good fortune could come his way. He seeks out an old associate of his father, an undertaker named Knaggs (Vincent Schiavelli), who lets him know that in the remote community of Leffert's Corner, there is a cemetery containing a corpse stuffed with money. Martense arrives in this village to find a select few individuals preparing to do battle with the monsters that have been feeding on the citizens for the past 20 years. He is soon joined by Bennett (Jon Finch), his late fathers' ruthless former partner who, quite naturally, also wants the money.

This one has to rate as a misfire. C. Courtney Joyner directs from his own screenplay of the H.P. Lovecraft short story, and it's highly uninspired. It's simply too hard to care about any of the characters here, or the tale being told. One wonders what might have been had Stuart Gordon, creator of some of the best Lovecraft adaptations out there, done this film as was originally planned. A shame, really, because "Lurking Fear" has some amusing and striking Old World type atmosphere (this was shot on location in Romania). But Joyner fails to create any suspense or much in the way of horror. The creatures are rather unimaginative looking. Some gore lovers might be mildly appreciative, though.

Ever reliable Jeffrey Combs is entertainingly eccentric as a local doctor, and it's fun to see "Hellraiser" female lead Ashley Laurence play a badass sort of character. The full name of the man played by the distinctively featured Schiavelli is Skelton Knaggs, a nod to another character actor from genre films of the 40s. (Look, also, for the name "Michael Terence Ripper" in a ledger.) Finch is okay, no more, as the human antagonist. Allison Mackie, Joyners' cousin, gets to have some fun as one of the baddies. Paul Mantee is very good as the local priest. The less said about Adams, the better.

Decent music by Jim Manzie and a short running time (just over 77 minutes) help to keep this from being particularly painful, but if one wants a Lovecraft fix, they can do so much better.

Four out of 10.

This movie has buried treasure, gangsters, monsters under a town, is based off of an H.P. Lovecraft story, and stars Jeffery Combs (Re-Animator). Sounds fun right? Wrong. This movie has everything going for it but it fails miserably. The lack of execution is pretty blatant, from the editing, directing and acting, it all falls flat. Even the great Jeffery Combs could not rescue this pile of not so pleasant things. Our main character is probably the worst actor in the film but hey whatever. His character is just released from prison and is in search for his Dad's long lost buried treasure that just so happens to be buried in a town with a bunch of monsters hiding beneath the local cemetery. Eventually are Hero, a bunch of gangsters and some locals barricaded them selves in a church trying to survive from the monsters. This movie should of been Night of the living dead mix with evil dead, but instead we get a boring snooze fest. The reason why it fails is because its trying to be an action horror comedy, but fails at all three. At first glance the film seems interesting but it gets bogged down by its convoluted plot in the second act and you don't even care how this movie ends by the time you get to the third act. The only entertainment in this movie is Jeffery Combs. He is plain awesome. This movie is for Jeffery Combs completist only.

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In LURKING FEAR, a group of greedy crooks, and a ghoul-fighting duo (Ashley Laurence and Jeffrey Combs!) all wind up in the same cemetery for different reasons. When the ghouls begin to rise, the blood hits the fan.

Loosely based on the story by H. P. Lovecraft, this FULL MOON production is a crime drama / horror movie hybrid. The criminals are -mostly- reprehensible, and the monsters are well-realized and fairly unnerving.

Mr. Combs gets to play the drunken doctor, while Ms. Laurence plays her character as a sort of Sarah Connor in the graveyard. The action builds slowly up until the truly explosive denouement.

Another decent creeper from FULL MOON's heyday...

This witless exercise isn't an HP Lovecraft adaptation so much as a shameless grave robbery. Even the presence of horror cult favorite Jeffrey Combs (wasted in a minor role) can't save the halting story or painful dialogue. Producer Charles Band can do a fun Lovecraft movie (see Re-Animator and From Beyond, both made a decade earlier). But his Full Moon studio is better known for sleazy camp, and that touch is grubbily all over this film: "I'll bet you're a lousy lay -- no energy!" sneers one woman character fighting another in a tacked-on mud wrestling scene. There was apparently a bit of a budget, a few mildly interesting sets were assembled, and the opening sequence hints at what might have been a passable B-movie; the rest holds no interest at all.

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.

...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.

2/10

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I spent quite some time looking for this film, only because it stars Jeffrey Combs. Ever since the brilliant "Re-Animator", I suffer from an unhealthy obsession to track down all the flicks Combs ever starred in… This is a rather amusing production, loosely based on yet another H.P. Lovecraft tale. The plot involves small time crooks treasure-hunting for big loot that is supposedly hidden in a corpse buried in the Leffert Corners cemetery. Coincidentally, the inhabitants of this little town are fighting a bloody battle with carnivore demons on that same cemetery. The budget is obviously low and so most of the make-up effects look more cheesy than scary. There's practically no tension or humor, only a bit of entertaining demon action and fairly good acting performances by a decent B-movie cast. Besides Jeffrey Combs, who stars as the physically weak but sarcastic town's doctor, "Lurking Fear" also has Hellraiser's Ashley Lauren as a demon-butt-kicking babe. There also is a small role for Vincent Schiavelli! The name might not mean much to you but you'll surely recognize his face when you're familiar with B-movies.

This movie was typical of a Full Moon Productions movie with average acting at best and a script that could have been better written. However the special effects were good especially the monsters and the cinematography was good as well.

You have to look away and even then there's no guarantee the monster won't get you. Yes, this movie i is almost impossible to watch. It's not "so bad it's good". No, instead we have "so bad I wish I could wipe it from my memory." There's nothing good about this movie.

I am big fan of horror films, I saw tons of them, some of them were good some were bad. One of my friends advised me to see this one pointing that it is H.P.Lovecraft based horror film.

1. I know quite all the stories of the Master himself, but this had nothing to do with none of them. Maybe the plot reminded me of shadow over Innsmouth, where the boy finds out, that he is a part of this strange community and one day he is going to be like them. So please do not take it as HPL. If U want to see some HPL just take Dagon, that is real HPL influenced film.

2.The acting was not for Oscar nomination, but what do You want for a low budget flick. Jeffrey Combs is excellent, but anyway also the others did a good job. I saw that this film was made in Romania, I recognized this Pintea guy from Vlad Nemoritorul (Dracula - The Impaler) film, playing the undertaker with the scratched face.

3. The explosions - not every company has the money to do a great explosion. According to this, they did quite good job.

4. The ghouls - Very well made. I have to say they looked very good and realistic. Nice work.

5. The Gore - Not every film has to be as Lucio Fulci, but anyway here it was quite optimal. The only gore scene was that one with the heart. Or maybe I had a shorter version of the film so the gore scenes were cut out. Mine has 1:29.

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, but 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.

...I went into this movie with an open mind, as I do with most Full Moon movies. I had recently purchased this movie from an online used-vidoe provider. It was in very good condition...I started watching it when I got it (maybe 3 months ago), and couldn't get into it. I was too busy trying to get my daughter to sleep...I feel asleep!

Anyway...Like most early Full Moon pictures, this did seem to have a budget behind it...nothing over the top, but a budget nonetheless. A good ensemble of actors: Jeffrey Combs of Re-Animator and Dr. Mordrid fame, Ashley Laurence of Hellraiser Fame and several others that has been either in a Full Moon picture, or various others. Blake Bailey (Creepy Bill from The Killer Eye) makes his screen debut with this picture. He is a very good, rugged looking actor...I couldn't believe he was in Killer Eye, only because I thought he was the best actor in that total mess of a movie.

As previously mentioned, I have not read the short Story by H.P. Lovecraft (though now I want to after seeing the movie), I thought this story was fresh and unique. This movie started off almost like it was already underway and the audience just walks in all a the same time...It builds with a very gory murder of a very bad actress, who is onan unknown mission to destroy something or someone...1 year later...Her sister, who witnessed her murder, and saved her baby is back to the little cemetary..Questions? what happened to the baby? So, she (Laurence) is back, after "training" for a year to destroy the creature that killed her sister. She kinda looks alot like Linda Hamiltons character in Terminator 2...Over the top Rambo Bitch!

I hate to give away plot like I have noticed most reviewers do... I want people to watch the movie...So I will throw out Key elements to the movie...and Let people decide from there....

1. Acted better than the last 20 Full Moon films one has seen 2. Jeffrey Combs in a comical (not in a bad way) role as a drunk doctor 3. Ashley Laurence's cleavage 4. (for the ladies): blake Bailey without his shirt on...He works out! 5. Criminals Killing people 6. Subhumanoid type monsters...killing people 7. decent plot with twists 8. explosions 9. blood 10. an opening for a sequel that has yet to come to pass

There is more but this is long enough 8 out of 10

4.

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.

This is just awful.

It's almost as if the writer had heard particulars of several Lovecraft stories, but didn't read them and didn't understand the basic concepts of his particular type of horror.

While this one isn't a meandering mess of plot holes, such as Dagon is, the Lovecraftian elements feel like they've been welded onto a preexisting plot that has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Full Moon has a number of Lovecraft adaptations that are fun, if not exactly true to either the story or atmosphere of the originals. This, unfortunately, isn't one of them. Skip this one and watch Reanimator again. Or even Castle Freak. Both of which have at least something of a Lovecraftian feel to them.

I was extremely dissapointed to see how this movie butchered H.P. Lovecraft's original story. The history of the Martense family is only vaguely touched upon, wherein the original story it was the central theme. The FX wasnt half bad, and the acting was okay. If you can totally separate this movie from the original story, you'll find it's an average movie.

I wish I could say more positive things about this movie. I did like Ashley Laurence in it and Jeffrey Combs does have a role but it's abysmal compared to Stuart Gordon's outstanding films. I also recently saw Bleeders aka Hemogoblin so I'm wondering if this particular H. P. Lovecraft story is even any good to begin with but what I read of it didn't sound as bad as these movies. It just seems particularly difficult to adapt. Maybe if Stuart Gordon had tried, he could've cracked it but sadly this movie is pretty bad. Even just the sound effects are your typical cliche sound-FX-library ones that really stand out. The film lacks tension and somehow comes off as boring, which is a feat considering you have a monster and plenty of things happening but it fails to engage.

'As above so below...in misbegotten Leffert's Corners there's nowhere left to hide, as there are ceaselessly hungering ghouls lurking hatefully in the brackish earth below, and a glacial, soul-crippling fear paralyses the nightmarish, increasingly desolated world above!' - Weirdlingwolf.

In 1994 Full Moon Entertainment unleashed another spectacularly grisly, H. P Lovecraft-inspired, gruesomely Gothic fear-fest, 'Lurking Fear'. A smartly written, ably directed low budget gut-puncher by, C. Courtney Joyner. In the ill-fated Leffert's Corners, this cursed, dilapidated ghost town is ignominiously dragged ever further into despond by the foul, subterranean machinations of grotesque, evil-seeded, corpse flesh coveting fiends below! Of the four misfits arriving in ill-fated Leffert's Corners, jailbird, John Mortense (Blake Adams)returns to stake his claim on the malign Mortense family's buried fortune. Arriving with the same mercenary goal, duplicitous, gun-happy goons, led by erudite B-Movie hoodlum, Bennet (John Finch) aim to retrieve the Mortense filthy lucre by means nefarious!

The escalating brutality of the repellent gargoyles gruesome attacks, and the hair-triggered villain's increasingly asinine behaviour galvanize locals, Cathryn Farrell (Ashley Laurence) and slovenly booze hound, Dr. Haggis (Jeffrey Combs) to stand their devil-polluted ground against these earthly, and monstrously unearthly travails! And it is in this desperate melee, claustrophobically cloistered within the town's mildewed church wherein the fulminating fear, far from lurking, surges bodily out of the stinking ferment to lace its icily gnarled fingers tightly around the viewers unsuspecting throat!

'Lurking Fear', for all its brevity is generously replete with sinisterly spine-skewering set pieces, a marvellously moody score by composer, Jim Manzie, and triumphantly ghoulish, luridly eye-popping practical FX by Alchemyfx (Wayne Toth et al.) The oppressively mouldering ambience of Milo's credibly age-dilapidated sets engenders a suitably moribund backdrop to these eldritch, flesh-feasting shenanigans! All of their creativity lending this grimly Gothic B-shocker a doomily nihilistic, morbidly misanthropic atmosphere that I'm sure author, H. P Lovecraft would strongly approve of!