Phatsta On the front cover of this movie there's an alien. As in the classic Alien movies with Sigourney Weaver in the lead. They also play on the "Alien vs..." concept, but there IS NO ALIENS IN THIS MOVIE. You'd make a mistake putting this movie in the same category as for example Alien vs Predator. It's nothing of the sort.Also, the cam shots are too close, the acting is B class and the smoking, ironic, smart-ass broad was really just too much... I mean, she was the most annoying person, second-guessing everyone, being an idiot - that's her character, okay. But the acting was just waaaay too much. The concept of "less is more" this woman had never heard about. Then, from out of nowhere she's suddenly dead, no clarity - nothing, she's just dead on the floor. It was like "what happened?". I chose this scene because it describes the entire movie... no clarity, bad acting and bad directing. Sorry, but it's true.

BakuryuuTyranno I thought Australia had a tendency to produce pretty good horror films. But maybe thats just because only the higher quality ones are distributed much outside Australia.Anyways, immediately this movie reminded me of "The Shadow Walkers", a film even less watched than this, actually. It started off with masked troops shooting members of a presumably secret organisation. Fortunately the story was much more coherent than "The Shadow Walkers".Unfortunately, when they finally reveal why what's happening is happening, well, I was left wondering "okay, and what motivation could the perpetrator possibly have?"Early action scenes featured too many flashing lights and were pretty incoherent. The creatures weren't bad; well what I saw wasn't bad anyways. The characters are completely bland and leave the audience without reason to empathise with them, yet a character dies for "impact" very early on. I assume the scene was supposed to be sad. Unfortunately it didn't work primarily because that happened before the characters even became distinguishable!

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.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Alright, first of all the movie was also known as "Alien vs Zombies". What was up with that? That title couldn't have been further from the truth. Okay, given there were some weird aliens in the movie, but zombies? Hardly qualified as zombies. They were mutants.The movie cover, at least the one on the Danish DVD release, looks so much like an actual Alien movie cover, that it should be illegal. But of course, that is done to lure people in, to sucker people into buying it. Which I did, of course.Let's get on to the movie. The storyline was actually good enough, though there were some obvious lacks here and there, and you also sat there after the movie ended with a thought like "why? why was this movie necessary?". There is a lot going on in the movie, but a lot of it actually doesn't come full circle, and just is left hanging there, hoping the audience will forget about it.In this movie "The Dark Lurking" you will find a lot of cliché stereotypical macho he-men running around, all of which oddly enough, have really low voices. I guess having a rough, low voice makes you more manly? And you don't really get any real introduction to the people in the movie and why they are there in the first place. And also, what was up with the multitude of different accents being present in the movie? It just added to the confusion.The acting was actually good enough, though the movie suffered from series of halting dialogue. At some points you just wanted to yank out hair at the root at some of the stuff people said.What worked best for me in this movie was the dark and brooding environment. The scenery was fantastic and there was a good sense of claustrophobia in the movie. And also there was a lot of action throughout the movie. And the special effects worked quite nicely as well.What didn't work for me was the alien lifeforms. Wow, that was so hilarious and so unimaginative. And you just got to love those oh-so-obviously-fake-plastic spikes that were protruding from its arm. And the "zombies" (as they want us to accept them as being), well they were somewhat of a lukewarm thrill. They were mutants, plain and simple. Mutated humans, not zombies! They had lots of blood splattered on them; nice! But they looked like something from a cheesy sci-fi movie gone bad.Actually I was sitting and waiting for Bruce Campbell to just pop out of nowhere and start kicking butt!In overall, this movie had some good elements, but it failed to punch through, and it ended up being a confusing, lukewarm experience that you would rather not have gone through.