The Lurking Fear (film)

Lurking Fear
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Directed by	C. Courtney Joyner
Produced by	Charles Band
Written by	C. Courtney Joyner
Starring	Blake Bailey Ashley Laurence Jon Finch Jeffrey Combs Vincent Schiavelli
Cinematography	Adolfo Bartoli
Distributed by	Paramount Home Video Full Moon Entertainment
Release dates	1994 (1994)
Running time	76 min.
Country	US
Language	English
Budget	$1,000,000 est.

Lurking Fear is a 1994 horror film, loosely based on the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Lurking Fear". It was produced by Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment and written and directed by C. Courtney Joyner.

Plot

Ex-con John Martense (Blake Adams) returns to his childhood home of Lefferts Corner after serving time for a crime he didn't commit. Martense visits family friend Knaggs (Vincent Schiavelli), a mortician who has been holding half of a map for him. The map leads to a graveyard where Martense's father hid the money from his last heist. Arriving at an abandoned church, Martense is confronted by Cathryn (Ashley Laurence), a young woman seeking revenge for the murder of her sister, and town doctor Dr. Haggis (Jeffrey Combs). This group is quickly joined by a trio of criminals who are looking to find the money John's father stole from them. What everyone is not aware of are the humanoid creatures lurking underneath the holy grounds.

Release

Lurking Fear was released on DVD by Wizard on Oct 23, 2012.^[1]

Critical reaction

The film received mostly negative reviews from critics. TV Guide awarded the film a negative 1 out of 4 stars, criticizing the film's execution, and the one-note performances by the film's actors.^[2] Film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film 1 1/2 out of 4 stars calling the film "seedy", and "more derived from Key Largo than H.P. Lovecraft's story".^[3] In their book Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft, Andrew Migliore and John Strysik write: "As with many Full Moon films, Lurking Fear's trailer is better than the feature it promotes. That's unfortunate because Joyner had a wonderful professional cast who, with a cleaned-up script and a hands-on producer, could have made the film a standout among [Lovecraft] adaptations."^[4]

References

↑ "Lurking Fear (1994) - C. Courtney Joyner". AllMovie.com. AllMovie. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
↑ "Lurking Fear Review". TV Guide.com. TV Guide. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
↑ Leonard Maltin (2001). Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 2002. Plume. p. 835. ISBN 978-0-452-28283-4.
↑ Andrew Migliore & John Strysik, Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft, Night Shade Books, February 1, 2006, ISBN 978-1892389350

External links

Lurking Fear at the Internet Movie Database
Lurking Fear at AllMovie
Lurking Fear at Rotten Tomatoes

Media based or influenced on H. P. Lovecraft works

Films	The Haunted Palace (1963) Die, Monster, Die! (1965) The Shuttered Room (1967) The Dunwich Horror (1970) Re-Animator (1985) From Beyond (1986) The Curse (1987) The Unnamable (1988) Dark Heritage (1989) Bride of Re-Animator (1990) Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) The Resurrected (1992) The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993) In the Mouth of Madness (1994) Necronomicon (1994) The Lurking Fear (1994) Witch Hunt (1994) Castle Freak (1995) Bleeders (1997) Out of Mind: The Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (1998) Cool Air (1999) Cthulhu (2000) Dagon (2001) Beyond Re-Animator (2003) The Call of Cthulhu (2005) H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House (2005) Cthulhu (2007) The Tomb (2007) Chill (2007) In Search of Lovecraft (2008) The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009) The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) Innsmouth (2011) Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)

Role-playing games	Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (1981) Cthulhu Live (1997) Delta Green (1997) Trail of Cthulhu (2008) CthulhuTech (2008)

Card games	Mythos (1996) Cthulhu 500 (2004) Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game (2004) Elder Sign (2011) Arkham Horror: The Card Game (2016)

Board games	Arkham Horror (1987, 2005) Mansions of Madness (2011) Eldritch Horror (2013)

Video games	Alone in the Dark (1992) Shadow of the Comet (1993) Necronomicon (1994) Alone in the Dark 3 (1995) Prisoner of Ice (1995) Innsmouth no Yakata (1995) Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness (2001) Eternal Darkness (2002) Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005) Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006) Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land (2012) Eldritch (2013) Bloodborne (2015) Darkest Dungeon (2016)

Other	Neil Gaiman's Only the End of the World Again (2000) Alan Moore's The Courtyard (2003) Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) (2003–present) Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths (2003) Move Under Ground (2004) Dark Adventure Radio Theatre (2006–2015) Demonbane (2006) Haiyore! Nyaruko-san (2009–2014) Neonomicon (2010) Re-Animator: The Musical (2011) Providence (2015-2016)

See also: Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture

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