Movie Reviews : ‘Lurkers’ Loaded With Satanic Cliches

“Lurkers” (citywide), an eerie Satanic fable, is a film that reveals the paucity of its artistic talent from its first frame. The combination of harsh lighting, strident performances and truly cheesy music combines to inform us of the horrors to come in plot and the depths to which its creators will sink for a schlock effect.

The story begins in the past with young Cathy victimized by a wicked witch of a mother and childhood friends with a penchant for ghoulish games. Even in her sleep there’s no respite, for that’s when the title characters come out to terrorize the cute little tot.

The adult Cathy (Christine Moore) is a cellist engaged to marry Bob (Gary Warner), a photographer. What she doesn’t know is that he’s a philanderer. What he doesn’t appear to know is that Cathy is being visited by an older woman and an angelic child, prominent in her childhood dreams. What the audience doesn’t know is whether the film will remain tedious or be partially redeemed by a bravura ending. Answer: Expect the worst.