{"id":20820,"date":"2016-05-27T05:19:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T09:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=20820"},"modified":"2016-09-11T19:44:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T23:44:03","slug":"the-lurking-fear-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/27\/the-lurking-fear-1994\/","title":{"rendered":"Lurking Fear (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/lurkingfear-1994.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/lurkingfear-1994.jpg\" alt=\"lurkingfear-1994\" width=\"425\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/lurkingfear-1994.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/lurkingfear-1994-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a>Courtney Joyner\u2019s \u201cLurking Fear\u201d is classic Full Moon Entertainment from the nineties. It has a modicum of a budget, some great production value and a solid horror story. Thought it\u2019s a loose adaptation of the HP Lovecraft tale, it does take the elements and combine them to form a classic folklore horror tale about greed and criminals getting their comeuppance. John Martenses is an ex convict who has just been released from prison and is seeking a new start. As well as the fortune apparently left behind by his family.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After meeting with an old friend who has the map to the fortune, a local criminal and his two cronies seek out the map and do everything in their power to get to the fortune before John. Assembling at a haunted church, a group accidentally assembles for various motives. John is taken hostage and forced to help find the fortune, he\u2019s joined by a young woman anxious for revenge against the nocturnal monsters underneath the church after they killed her sister. There\u2019s also her friend, a local town doctor who wants to study the monsters, and a pregnant young girl who has an odd instinct to when the monsters are near.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s a drunken priest convinced they\u2019ve all met their doom. The personalities all mix and eventually begin wreaking havoc on one another, all the while the ghoulish beasts are hiding underneath the church waiting to pick off the victims one by one. The monsters themselves are very well designed, garnering bulging blank eyes, and large gaping teeth that make them look very similar to cenobites. What they are is left up for debate and kept in a healthy shade of ambiguity I appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think they\u2019re the product of centuries of inbreeding, thus allowing our hero John to live with the notion of being a product of incest, and potentially breeding his own monsters. That said \u201cLurking Fear\u201d has a great cast of horror regulars including Jeffrey Combs and Ashley Laurence, as well as some top notch direction by Joyner whose film garners almost the same tone as Carpenter\u2019s \u201cPrince of Darkness,\u201d quite often. It\u2019s a simplistic and creepy little Gothic horror thriller, and one I\u2019m glad it getting some fine treatment after over twenty years. It\u2019s indicative of a time where Full Moon were ambitious and despite some misfires, at least tried to deliver quality horror content.<\/p>\n<p><em>Available for the first time on Blu-ray June 15<sup>th<\/sup>, with exclusive special features; It\u2019ll also be available from Full Moon Direct and Amazon.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtney Joyner\u2019s \u201cLurking Fear\u201d is classic Full Moon Entertainment from the nineties. It has a modicum of a budget, some great production value and a solid horror story. Thought it\u2019s a loose adaptation of the HP Lovecraft tale, it does take the elements and combine them to form a classic folklore horror tale about greed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[64,240,420,477,484,590,678,703,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-20820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-moon-friday","category-movie-reviews","tag-adaptation","tag-crime","tag-gothic","tag-horror","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-l","tag-monsters","tag-mystery","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20825,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20820\/revisions\/20825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}