- The Lurking Fear (film)
Infobox Film
name = The Lurking Fear
image_size =
caption = US VHS cover
director =C. Courtney Joyner
producer =Charles Band
writer =C. Courtney Joyner
starring =Blake Bailey Ashley Laurence Jon Finch Jeffrey Combs Vincent Schiavelli
cinematography = Adolfo Bartoli
editing =
distributor = Paramount Home VideoFull Moon Entertainment
released = flagicon|US 1994
runtime = 76 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget = $1,000,000 est.
amg_id = 1:134573
imdb_id = 0110410"The Lurking Fear" is a 1994
horror film , loosely based on theH. P. Lovecraft short story "The Lurking Fear ". It was produced byCharles Band 'sFull Moon Entertainment and written and directed byC. Courtney Joyner .Plot
Ex-con John Martense (
Blake Bailey ) 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 isn't aware of are the humanoid creatures lurking underneath the holy grounds.Trivia
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Stuart Gordon was originally hoping to make this film for Band'sEmpire Pictures .
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