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Title: Dark Heritage (2003) |
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Review of Dark Heritage
- An uncredited adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Lurking Fear." After a violent thunderstorm, mutilated bodies are found at a Louisiana campground. Investigative reporter Clint Harrison uncover a dark local legend about the reclusive Dansen clan, who may be connected with the murders. Determined to dig up the truth, Clint and his buddies decide to spend a stormy night at the seemingly abandoned Dansen mansion...
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- Posted on 2008-01-10
NO GOOD
THIS WASN'T A GOOD MOVIE AT ALL!IT WAS MORE OF A MYSTERY THAN A HORROR MOVIE.THE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES DIDN'T ACT WELL AT ALL.EVERY PROBLEM THEY HAD DRAGGED ON AND ON TO LEAD TO NOTHING.IT DIDN'T REALLY MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME.THERE WASN'T ANYTHING TO MAKE IT INTERESTING-JUST BORING.I THOUGHT IT WAS STUPID.IT'S A DIFFERENT KNID OF MOVIE-BUT SENSELESS.
Score: 1
- Posted on 2007-04-03
worst movie ever made...and I've seen some terds
I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly, but nothing is more ferociously ugly than this folks. I think a grade school play would be better than this sludge. I bought this from a seller on Amazon new for 58 cents (a red flag should have been slapping me in the face right then). I bought it because I am into H.P. Lovecraft and it said this was an adaptation of his story " The Lurking Fear". Well folks, the only Lurking Fear is waiting for you when you hit play. This is THE award winner for worst acting. The lines are read like they are reading them straight from the cue cards and as if they never rehearsed them. There is no emotion whatsoever to be found throughout the movie. I rarely foward through a movie, but made an exception with this snoozer. Nothing scary. Nothing surprising. Just a big waste of time. If you want to see some of the better H.P. Lovecraft adaptations, buy just about anything from director Stuart Gordon. But in closing, I'll just end by saying I spent 58 cents on this terd and it was 58 cents too much. I could have bought a can of Coke! What a waste of time and money.
Score: 1 - Posted on 2006-12-29
Gag
Ugh. Well, here's one for the crap-pile. A perfect example of "what not to do to an H.P. Lovecraft take" (in other words, ruin it). I read a review on a different site and it boasted the "awesome sound track". good lord, it was worse than the movie!!!! I could picture the guy in torn, acid washed jeans, up for days on tweak, shaking his sweet curly mullet and forking the devil sign while moshing around his living room, thinking this movie (and yes, the sound track, too) was the best thing since bathtub crank.
Sorry folks, bypass this one, unless you are a die-hard Lovecraft fan and on a mission to see all available (like me). Your time would be better spent, watching one of the other screenplay versions of The Lurking Fear (Lurking Fear and Bleeders a.k.a. Hemoglobin).
And yet, I gave it two stars....which I did because there's worse HPL films out there...lurking...sucking
Score: 2
- Posted on 2006-04-15
Good story, but.......
I enjoyed the film except the acting was a bit off. The points where the actors should of been scared, they were making dumb odd ball coments, which made me laugh rather than take the story seriously.
The ending I did not get. I have read lovecraft's ending and I enjoyed it. This film would of gotten 4 stars if it had stayed more adjacent with the original lovecraftian story.
Other than that, forget about the actors and focus on just the story and you will love it. A fine film for hangin out with friends or a girl on a friday or saturday night when there is nothing to do.
Score: 3
- Posted on 2005-10-10
Creepy...
Although not an accurate adaption of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Lurking Fear," this film dose indeed deliver the mood that one would expect from an H.P Lovecraft story set in more modern times.
A couple residing within a camper in the woods is massacred and their deaths become the talk of a small Louisiana Town. An investigative reporter, Clint Harrison, is summoned personally by the owner of a newspaper company to investigate the case. His job is to spend the night in the abandoned Dansen house which stands in the middle of the woods five miles away from the recent murder scene. The task makes no sense to Clint and his selected crew members, but they were being paid overtime, so why not?
This is where the sum of all of Harrison's nightmares begin. Returning from the house with a story which no one will believe, his boss insists that he should take a vacation. Haunted by his experience, Clint tries to find answers at a local Library and reads about the seemingly normal history of the Dansen family. Despite its normalcy in print, Clint learns through two parapsychology students that that house is legendary for producing unsolved murders. So hence the investigation continues, leading his new crew on a track of unspeakable discovery.
There the story is, but be warned, this film is plagued by awkward acting and the quality of the picture is not DVD quality. To me, the old grainy look seemed to fit this rather eerie movie, but...that's just me. And some things in the film do not coincide with reality, either. For instance, just because you bury a body in the woods, dose not mean it will not be found by police dogs. Just small things like that...
Otherwise, the film is great. I know Lovecraft did not include redneck characters in his books, but the film dose a great job at creeping you out. The dark, isolated settings and the threat of death that surrounds them when lightening strikes is perfect.
Score: 4