Bezenby Due to the success of I Know What You Did Last Supper, my copy of Lover's Lane is actually called I Have Knowledge of a Certain Criminal Incident That You Were Implicated In At Some Point Last Year, and seems to be some sort of take on the old urban myth of the escaped lunatic with the hook creeping out people getting it on at some lane or other. It's also a post-Scream film, so expect lots of smart arse teenagers and a twist that comes out of nowhere if you haven't seen Scream or just about any Gialli from the seventies.After a brief prologue where two folks (one the sheriff's wife, the other a teacher's husband) are killed in Lover's Avenue, we fast forward to the present (1999) and get to meet a bunch of characters we have seen so often you'll know them all, but I'll describe them anyway. You've got the jock and his bitchy popular girlfriend, the geeky girl who studies, the new girl who's a cheerleader, the fat jokey one who can't get a date, and some others (I guess this film is too early to add a lesbian goth chick to the proceedings).From what I could gather the bitchy chick gets dumped and starts hitting on the jock's mate while trying to set up some prank at Lover's Lane where everyone ends up. Plus the guy who was imprisoned for the previous murders escapes and there's a few red herrings and then everyone starts getting wasted by a hook killer type.I'd guess you'd rate a slasher by how creepy it is (like the original Black Christmas), how gory it is (like Pieces) or how off the wall hilariously bad it is (also Pieces, and Don't Open Till Christmas, and Don't Go Into the Woods Alone) or how booby it is (Fatal Games, Slumber Party Massacre, Pieces). Lover's Lane for the most part seems to pull away when it gets to the killings, but I suppose it's fast paced enough not to become too boring, and there's a few twists to keep you awake a bit longer than usual.Do you think that filmmakers will notice that the youth of today no longer care for slasher films as they are too busy stalking each other on Facebook or watching TV box sets and are therefore probably not the target audience (or for that matter, the main victims in a slasher film)? It'd be interesting for a change that the victims be fat middle aged people moaning about new technology.

Paul Andrews Lovers Lane starts on 'Valentines Day Thirteen Years Ago' & opens in lovers lane as Harriet Anderson (Erin J. Dean) is cheating on her husband Tom (Matt Reidy) with Ward Lamson (Brian Allemand) who in turn is cheating on his wife Penny (Suzanne Bouchard), as they conduct intimate relations with each other they are attacked & murdered by Ray Hennessey (Ed Bailey) who uses a large hook on his hand to dispatch his victims with... Jump to the 'Present Day', Tom is now the local Sheriff & has brought his daughter Mandy (Erin J. Dean) up on his own while Penny who is now the local high school principal has had to bring her son Michael (Riley Smith) up on her own, both are now 16 years old. Hennessey escapes from 'Meston State Hospital' after killing a guard & is on the loose again. Michael wants to dump his girlfriend Chloe (Sarah Lancaster) so in revenge she takes his best friend Bradley (Ben Indra) up to lovers lane & tells a guy named Doug (Bill O'Sullivan) to make sure Michael knows about it. Along with a group of friends, including Mandy, Michael heads up to lovers lane for some fun but someone else has other plans for our teenage lovers, someone who has a large hook on his hand...Directed by Jon Steven Ward Lovers Lane is a pretty dull slasher that offers nothing particularly worthwhile in an already over saturated sub-genre. The script by producers Geof Miller & Rory Veal is poor even by teenage slasher standards. For a start the character's are annoying teenage stereotypes of the worst kind, the killer & they're eventual motives come as no real surprise & the films only clue to who it might be is far too obvious & gives the game away early on in the proceedings, the exploitation elements are seriously lacking as the murders are very tame & considering it's called Lovers Lane there is virtually no nudity or sex. It seems to pay homage to, or rip-off whichever you prefer, various other slasher films like My Bloody Valentine (1981) as the opening is set on Valentines day, the whole Friday the 13th (1980) & Scream (1996) feel about it & most blatantly copying I know What You Did Last Summer (1997) as the killer uses a large hook in both films... The film is also far too slow, has too low a body count & the mystery surrounding the killers identity never grips or engages, Lover Lane also features one of those awful sequel driven endings.Director Ward directs with surprising competence & as a whole the film looks decent enough. However the stalk 'n' slash scenes are poorly handled with zero tension, build up or atmosphere & have little in the way of a pay-off. The gore is absolutely minimal, there's a severed dogs head, some dead bodies covered in blood, someone is stabbed in the leg & right at the every end we finally see the hook sink into human flesh, but not for too long as that would actually be quite gory & we can't have that can we...The budget for Lovers Lane couldn't have been that great but as a whole the film looks OK & is reasonably well made. The babe factor is quite high with some nice looking birds.Lovers Lane isn't the best slasher ever filmed, far from it but on a positive note it isn't the worst I've seen. Unfortunately the slasher genre is an over worked & limited sub-genre & Lovers Lane just doesn't cut it at any level. I suppose it's watchable but not very enjoyable.

monicacharles I think this film rocks, People!!! What is wrong with you? I challenge any of you to produce, direct, or star in a movie, any movie that can even be made into a screenplay to be viewed by millions! Give the people credit where credit is due! It certainly deserves more than a 1 or 2 like too many of you are so easily rating it. Think about the work these actors/directors put into it! I give this film a 9 out of 10!

scente This is a dang good flick to be as unheard of as it is. It is AS good as Cherry Falls and that is a very well known flick around the horror circuit. It has a lot of slasher flick cliches, but being a slash lover, I love slasher flick cliches! Killer P.O.V , young lovers parked and getting it on, a killer with a hook. All of this is done very stylishly with an interesting young cast and one very funny cheese scene in a bathroom stall that is laugh out loud funny to grizzled slasher burnouts like myself. I predict this film will one day find a cult audience. Finding a slash diamond in the rough is dang near impossible these days, I know I have hunted every obscure horror flick I can find and most even the cult ones disappoint, with a few exceptions i.e. the burning, black christmas, my bloody valentine, house on sorority row-- those films are cool hunt them down if you can! Now lets all go down to the XXX Root Beer Stand!!! Four stars out of four.