VividSimon Simply Perfect

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Stian Omdalsmoen First when I saw it in the movie store I was like "Wow, a new Alien vs. (something random) movie, just have to see it". Then when I started it up and saw the really f***ed up filming I almost went to get my binoculars just so I could turn them around and be a bit further away from the screen. It's like the director wanted to catch every single drop of sweat that the actors left behind. To give you guys a slight idea on how close it was, it's the type of close you only let your girl get too.That combined with awful acting, not one can say they did good on this movie, not really easy though when the camera is pushed right up in your face. Still no excuse.I couldn't stand to watch more than 15 minutes, so if you don't want to waste as much time as I did, just don't watch it. If you do want to watch more than I did, embrace yourself, your eyes will start begging for mercy pretty quick.

Paul Andrews The Dark Lurking is set in the future on a distant planet where the few remaining human survivors in Research Station 320 are fighting for their lives, a team of mercenaries lead by Michaels (co-producer Bret Kennedy) have already been sent in but they are unable to contain the situation. Scientific experiments have unleashed the ancient power of Satan, in an attempt to harness the power it has infected many of the crew & has turned them into flesh eating mutant creatures whose only aim is to kill. Michaels & his team find a few of the base crew hiding including research experiment Lena (Tonia Renee), they all decide to stand any chance of survival they must work together & work their way through the various levels to the surface & possible safety but with the flesh eating monsters around every corner & ammunition running out fast it won't be easy. As the group continue to make their way to the surface the true nature of the experiments & the true nature of Lena is revealed...This Australian production was edited, written, co-produced & directed by Greg Connors & is a blatant Aliens (1986) rip-off but is maybe one of the better ones out there, while it has it's problems I quite liked it overall. The Aliens similarities are plain to see, a small research colony on a distant planet, a team of armed soldiers sent in to rescue any survivors, the large amounts of monsters that make a straight forward escape impossible, the huge nuclear blast countdown at the end, the attempted repair of communication antenna, lots of crawling through tight air ducts, the siege by the monsters on the area where the survivors are hiding, the welding & barricading of doors, one of the group working against them & I was surprised not to see a little girl anywhere. While nowhere near as good as the classic Aliens this sci-fi monster film is a passable time waster, sure it's nothing original or particularly outstanding but it'll pass an hour & a half. The biggest problems with The Dark Lurking come from the script, the dialogue is very wooden & stiff with character's announcing what they are going to do & then just doing it, there's no character development here at all & none of them are given any background or any real personality. Then there's the constant wandering around in dark cramped locations, alright so that's what is expected in a film such as this but it gets tedious & with no great scheme or plan it's hard to get into the story as I wasn't sure what people were trying to do, where people were or even the scale of the colony. There's little perspective other than lots of dark corridors full of screeching creatures & little else going on besides until towards the end when the origin of the creatures is revealed & tensions between the survivors rise. Unfortunately again this tension is played very broadly, it's all out in the open too quickly & in the end doesn't amount to much.Surprisingly The Dark Lurking looks great, the special effects are great with some impressive spaceships & alien planet surface shots. The creatures are all practical make-up effects & there's no CGI effects which is great, there's plenty of proper slime & blood too. There's some good gore here from monsters eating intestines to a severed head with half is skin ripped off, heads are blown off, hands are ripped off, huge bites are taken out of people, there's plenty of shooting & fists are shoved through people's bodies & heads. There's more gore here than in the average recent low budget horror & it all looks very good. The claustrophobic sets looks good too, they have that futuristic yet gritty look with flashing lights, electronic doors & giant industrial & grating fans everywhere. In fact the production design reminds of Aliens a lot. The main problem with The Dark Lurking is that it's just too dark & the editing is a little quick fire at times, it becomes a bit of a dark mess where you struggle to make out any real detail. Shot in full 2:35:1 widescreen the photography is also nice & worth noting.With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 this looks a lot bigger budget, don't forget that just about everything had to be made from the futuristic sets to the costumes to the weapons to the creatures to the colony to the spaceships to the computer & laboratory equipment. The acting really lets the film down, along with the wooden dialogue the poor acting really kills the character's & any scene involving anyone talking becomes very difficult to watch.The Dark Lurking is an unashamed rip-off of Aliens & doesn't really try to be anything else, it's extremely well made with good monsters, gore & special effects but the wooden script, bad acting & lack of plot beyond a few people trying to survive a horde of monsters prevents me from saying it's anything more than merely watchable. To anyone who likes sci-fi monster films then The Dark Lurking is great, to anyone else maybe there isn't quite enough here overall.

JoeB131 What happens when you expand 5 minutes of plot into two hours of film...The plot is that a bunch of mad scientists are trying to clone Lucifer, and she turns out to be a hot chick who doesn't know she's evil. Or something. It's actually just the bare minimum to hang a bunch of gore scenes on as a demo for FX guys trying to get real jobs.The acting is just awful, with the stilted dialog and people who just couldn't wait to get paid, apparently. There's just nothing here that is worth watching.What made the alien movies interesting was the people. The many people who do ripoffs just don't understand this.

Boloxxxi This is another movie about experiments that go terribly wrong (Yep. Those craaazy scientists again!).As a rule, Boloxxxi does not spoil (not knowingly, anyway). It is my every intention to continue this noble tradition. So I have to ask you this question: Would it spoil it for you to know what sort of experiments these afore mentioned crazo scientists were up to? ---If the answer is yes, then STOP RIGHT THERE!! Proceed to the next reviewer and God bless. However, if your answer is no, then forge on ahead good soldier and may God have mercy on your soul.In an underground facility in outer space somewhere scientists, using human test subjects, perform UNGODLY experiments in order to bring back the "Fallen Angel", or less poetically, "The Devil". Some aspect of him anyway, using some ancient DNA from where he landed on his ass after God gave him the boot (I'm not making this up folks, it's in the movie!). Why the HELL would they want to do this, you ask? Beats the HELL out of me. I guess curiosity sometimes trumps good sense. Anyway, as might be expected, the human test subjects turn into horrible, toothsome monsters who see potato chips where they should see humans.I actually liked this movie even though it was unoriginal, except for how the monsters are explained (the product of a fearless imagination, no doubt). As well, the acting, writing, and the general presentation was a bit amateurish. --But who cares? I thought it was suspenseful enough and the monsters ugly enough to hold my attention. I found myself rooting for the little horror film that could because I liked the people and the effort. Finally, if this movie were a meal, it would be fast-food. It's health benefits may be questionable, but it tastes good. So, again, who cares? Love, Boloxxxi.