Lurkers

Year: 1987

Director: Roberta Findlay

Written by: Ed Kelleher, Harriette Vidal

Threat: Devil Worshippers

Weapon of Choice: Hairspray

Based upon: Original

IMDb page: IMDb link

      Lurkers

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The tyranist's thoughts
What to say? I ran into this one about half way through my pile of Horror Movies Nobody Wanted and had my faith in the good taste of man reaffirmed. I can see why no one would want this one. It just wasn't good.
I'll try to lay out the plot for you but it was pretty incoherent in the first place. Let's just say that they tried to combine a ghost story with a devil worshipper story and pretty much failed. So there's this little girl who sees things that aren't quite there and gets abused by her mother. Well she grows up and gets engaged to a photographer. He's a devil worshipper based out of the building she grew up in, but she doesn't know that. In the end they just want to take her back to her childhood home to kill her. And they do.
The acting is pretty bad and the dialogue is terrible. The music was annoying and the plot literally seemed to come out of nowhere sometimes. They started with a bad idea and then didn't bother to work on it after that. It is actually very true to form for a devil worshipper movie so you could probably rent either Wicker Man or Spellbinder and be much, much happier.
Don't waste your time with this one folks. It will only bring you sorrow.

Total Skulls: 22

Sequel
Sequel setup
Rips off earlier film
Horror film showing on TV/in theater in movie
Future celebrity appears
Former celebrity appears
Bad title
Bad premise skull
Bad acting skullskull
Bad dialogue skull
Bad execution skull
MTV Editing
OTS skullskull
Girl unnecessarily gets naked skull
Wanton sex skullskull
Death associated with sex
Unfulfilled promise of nudity
Characters forget about threat
Secluded location
Power is cut
Phone lines are cut skull
Someone investigates a strange noise
Someone runs up stairs instead of going out front door skull
Camera is the killer
Victims cower in front of a window/door
Victim locks self in with killer
Victim running from killer inexplicably falls skullskull
Toilet stall scene skull
Shower/bath scene skull
Car stalls or won't start
Cat jumps out
Fake scare skull
Laughable scare
Stupid discovery of corpse
Dream sequence
No one believes only witness skull
Crazy, drunk, old man knows the truth
Music detracts from scene skullskull
Death in first five minutes
x years before/later skull
Dark and stormy night
Killer doesn't stay dead
Killer wears a mask
Killer is in closet
Killer is in car with victim
Villain is more sympathetic than heroes
Unscary villain/monster
Beheading
Blood fountain
Blood hits camera
Poor death effect
Excessive gore
No one dies at all
Virgin survives
Geek/Nerd survives
Little kid lamely survives
Dog/Pet miraculously survives
Unresolved subplots
"It was all a dream" ending
Unbelievably happy ending
Unbelievably crappy ending
What the hell? skull