Writer/director C. Courtney Joyner brings to life H.P.
Lovecraft’s Lurching Fear (1994) with
Hellraiser (1987) and Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) star
Ashley Lawrence and character actor Jeffrey Combs (of The Re-Animator films).
The town of Leffert’s Corners has a deep and dark secret
that has plagued it for generations and now it has become nothing more than a
ghost town with a handful of residents holed up in the church surrounded by an
ageless cemetery. Cathryn Farrell
(Lawrence) is the leader of this group of survivors just trying to not get
killed by whatever haunts the town. She
has a plan to destroy the cemetery as she believes that the town is haunted by
creatures that live underneath the cemetery praying upon all the living. Unfortunately for her an ex-con John Martense
(Blake Adams) and a few others also show up at the cemetery looking for money
buried in one of the crypts. Now, all hell
is about to break loose as survival, money, and the constant threat of
creatures below the surface threaten them all and maybe none of them will
survive the night.
The film is a very bare bones affair and more concerned with
action and gore than actual story which is fine because it’s very entertaining
seeing Lawrence as the bad ass with guns and in full action-girl mode and her
rapport with drunken doctor (Combs) gives audiences some of the best moments in
the film. What the film lacks in story
it more than makes up for in action and atmosphere as the desolated and in
disarray church that most of the film takes place in makes for an excellent
location (similar to the one in John Carpenter’s The Fog). There is a lot of
great production value to be had in this film and Joyner’s direction makes the
film one of the better adaptations of a Lovecraft story.
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