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Lurking Concern is a 1994 American supernatural horror movie, loosely based mostly on the H. P. Lovecraft brief story “The Lurking Concern”. It was produced by Charles Band’s Full Moon Leisure and written and directed by C. Courtney Joyner (Puppet Grasp vs Demonic Toys; Jail); From a Whisper to a Scream).
The film stars Blake Bailey (The Killer Eye), Ashley Laurence (Hellraiser and sequels), Jon Finch (Frenzy; The Vampire Lovers), Jeffrey Combs (Would You Moderately; Re-Animator), Allison Mackie, Paul Mantee (The Manitou; Day of the Animals), Vincent Schiavelli (Bone Chillers; Comedy of Horrors), Joseph Leavengood (Basket Case 2), Cristina Stoica, Luana Stoica, Adrian Pintea, Ilinca Goia, Michael Todd.
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Ex-con John Martense (Blake Adams) returns to his childhood residence of Lefferts Nook after serving time for a criminal offense he didn’t commit. Martense visits household good friend Knaggs (Vincent Schiavelli), a mortician who has been holding half of a map for him. The map results in a graveyard the place Martense’s father hid the cash from his final heist.
Arriving at an deserted church, Martense is confronted by Cathryn (Ashley Laurence), a younger lady in search of revenge for the homicide of her sister, and city physician Physician Haggis (Jeffrey Combs).
This group is shortly joined by a trio of criminals who need to discover the cash John’s father stole from them. What everybody just isn’t conscious of are the humanoid creatures lurking beneath the holy grounds…
Critiques:
“As with many Full Moon movies, Lurking Concern‘s trailer is best than the function it promotes. That’s unlucky as a result of Joyner had an exquisite skilled solid who, with a cleaned-up script and a hands-on producer, may have made the movie a standout amongst [Lovecraft] variations.” Andrew Migliore and John Strysik, Lurker within the Foyer: A Information to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft
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“… zippy little gem … The Morlock-looking creatures are properly designed by Wayne Toth [House of 1000 Corpses; Wishmaster] and are a suitably nasty bunch, dragging any poor sod they will down into their subterranean abattoir.” UK Horror Scene
“With such a gifted solid, a cool idea, and a contemporary younger director coming off a well-liked Trancers sequel, there’s no motive the ultimate product ought to have been this awful. I applaud Joyner’s effort to combine the horror, motion, and crime movie genres, however it simply didn’t work. The tip result’s a considerably boring creature function, that apparently ruined C. Courtney Joyner’s style for filmmaking.” The B-Film Movie Vault
“Lurking Concern is fairly spot on and cohesive. The motion choreography and stuntwork is high notch. The appearing is means higher than I anticipated and I’m neutral to robust feminine characters. The gore, my favourite facet of the film, was wonderful and carried out by means of using sensible results and that basically introduced me again to a greater time.” Horror Society
“It’s no masterpiece, however it’s a properly completed flick made by individuals who clearly strove to supply an excellent film. The appearing is uniformly good and properly naturalistic, the characters have a tendency to not do silly stuff simply to advance the plot, the settings are, once more, fairly fetching, the movie is pretty brutal by way of killing likable characters, and the script is definitely *gasp* pretty properly thought out…” Jabootu’s Dangerous Film Dimension
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“There’s an equally spectacular solid right here, with Combs at his hammy greatest because the sozzled quack, Finch genuinely menacing as a Cockney gangster and Laurence convincing as a Lara Croft sort Amazon. Sadly the script doesn’t give them something greater than generic dialogue, and that adjective sums up the movie as an entire.” The Film Waffler
“Lurking Concern is loaded with graphic violence, monsters and gore, so followers of this fare won’t be disillusioned. And the solid is nice…” John Stanley, Creature Options
“The gore is mostly weak, however I have to credit score the consequences workforce and director for making so many makes an attempt to please the Fangoria followers on the market. There are numerous useless physique, corpse and skeleton scenes through which these props are used for extra than simply background. They arrive with just a few laughs. The creature make-up is equally ho-hum. However they embrace it.” John Leavengood, Motion pictures, Movies and Flix
“The actors all appear recreation sufficient, however the characters are usually one-note … however because the story winds on, the folks appear to have little operate however to mark time when the creatures aren’t on display screen. The monsters themselves are pretty well-executed however unmemorable…” TV Information
Filming places:
Buftea Studios, Bucharest, Romania
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