| The Lurking Fear | |
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| Directed by | C. Courtney Joyner |
| Produced by | Charles Band |
| Written by | C. Courtney Joyner |
| Starring | Blake Bailey Ashley Laurence Jon Finch Jeffrey Combs Vincent Schiavelli |
| Cinematography | Adolfo Bartoli |
| Distributed by | Paramount Home Video Full Moon Entertainment |
| Release date(s) | 1994 |
| Running time | 76 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,000,000 est. |
The Lurking Fear is a 1994 horror film, loosely based on the H. P. Lovecraft short story The Lurking Fear. It was produced by Charles Band's Full Moon Entertainment and written and directed by C. Courtney Joyner.
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 is not aware of are the humanoid creatures lurking underneath the holy grounds.