Scifi tools will probably rubbish this thing but gore hounds should enjoy. It took about 9 1/2 minutes and then it got me. The camera work in the first scene is meh and then there's some creds and some running around corridors and then BAM! 2 minutes of full on Chaos. Need i say plasma cannon (i guess that's what it is) in close corridors? Splat splat and splat. I was in from there and despite what drawbacks this movie has, i.e. lack of budget and sub par acting (bald bad guy was good, fat chick not so much) its definitely punching above its weight. The creatures are cool and there's lots of them and they mutate for some reason to do with demonology but this is all just a pretext to letting things explode with glee. In the middle there's the inevitable 2nd act dip where things get explained for about 5 minutes too long but the 3rd act is all gunpowder baby. (i saw some french guy cut together 2 minutes on you tube of monsters getting wasted and blown to shreds). The story is pretty standard but i don't think that was the point. I had my beer and my pizza and two others of us and it was cool. The only thing is, it could have been much much much funnier. They missed the boat by making it a bit too serious. It looks good for the most of the time, lots of dark corridors/tunnels and stuff but its more about monster fights rather than BOO scares(i.e. there aren't any). if you added another 0 to the budget and a couple of names i bed you'd be watching this in the cinema. Maybe.
Review of The Dark Lurking
The Dark Lurking
(2009)
Don't expect scares this in not a horror its an action movie.
11 October 2009
Warning: Spoilers