Review – Lurking Fear

Loosely (and I do mean loosely) based on “The Lurking Fear” by H.P. Lovecraft, this movie is a muddled mess of underdeveloped characters, wooden acting, needlessly complicated plot, and cheap effects. Ashley Lauren (whom Hellraiser fans will remember as Ashley Laurence) stars as a Linda-Hamilton-style commando doing battle with a family of zombie-like mole people who look more than a little like emaciated versions of the Morlocks from The Time Machine. Though I don’t like what Full Moon Productions have done with Lovecraft’s work, at least this one is a little lighter on the tit shots that seemed to be such a raison d’etre for previous productions such as The Re-Animator and From Beyond. See if desperate