Red-Barracuda The lurkers of the title are malevolent ghosts who terrorise a woman by appearing regularly and sinisterly in her orbit. They seem to be in some way associated with a house she lived in as a child.This cheap horror film was directed by Roberta Findlay who also delivered the comparably low-budget Prime Evil (1988) the same year. Findlay will probably be best remembered for her association in one of the most notorious movies of all time, Snuff (1976). She and her husband made an ultra-low-budget killer hippies movie in Argentina that riffed off the then very recent Manson murders, namely The Slaughter (1971). This movie was considered so bad it barely was ever released and winded up being bought by an 'enterprising' distributer and having the infamous snuff footage added on to the end...and the rest, as they say, is history. I am actually in the minority and genuinely enjoyed The Slaughter material from Snuff and so do have to give some respect to Findlay for being involved in that. Lurkers, on the other hand, is less memorable and is basically a passable-at-best ghost movie set in New York City. Nothing in it is especially good but it does entertain up to a point at least. Most memorable scene? Probably the bit where a couple of nude models chat expertly about the stock market.

arfdawg-1 The Plot.Cathys mother killed her father and tried to kill her when she was ten. Her younger brother, a priest, holds her responsible. Fifteen years later Bob manipulates a clingy, drippy Cathy into falling in love with him. He lures her back to the apartment building of her youth for a so- called work party. There, he and his business partner Monica and a few of their oddly pathetic friends hold Cathy hostage for a few hours before forcing her off the side of the building roof. She becomes one of them, a 'lurker'. The building is supposed to be 'hell' and everyone born there is evil and is brought back there to die. Cathy becomes one of the lurkers who floats around town warning other people who the baddies try to get back to the building - Bobs new girlfriend and Cathy's priest brother including.This was supposedly filmed in Washington Heights, NY. A bunch of scenes are from Lincoln Center, however and many of the interior apartment shots don't resemble anything from Washington Heights.It's really poorly directed lending support to my theory that women cannot direct. The story is fragmented and boring. This is supposed to be a cult movie but it has none of the kewl quirky exposition that real cult movies contain.Given the director's past foray into porn, i suspect this movie had some mob money in it.There's really nothing redeeming about this film. The acting is abysmal and the plot is not remotely interesting. Plus it's hard to follow.

Aaron1375 IMDb says the film is from 1988, but the first thing you are going to notice about this one is that it looks much older than that. It starts off by setting up an interesting premise as a little girl is tormented by her mother, by the other children in the building she lives in and by strange specters that come out of the walls at night. However, once the film flashes forward to the young girl as a young woman about to be married the film moves at a very slow pace. Then as things begin to get revealed, you begin to realize that this is essentially a remake of the far superior "The Sentinel", only with no actors or actresses of note to be seen.The story, as I have stated, basically is a rehash of "The Sentinel". Sure, there are changes, but at its core it is that film. You have a young girl who is tormented which is different and you wonder what is up with the one strange girl, but then as the film progresses and you get to that party you realize that the film is closely following the better film right down to the strange lesbian encounter. The ending differs, but is also kind of the same. The only reason I continued watching this film is that I was hoping it would reveal who the strange girl is that seemed out to torment and kill young Cathy (the main character) and who the strange lady is that seemed as if she was helping. Neither reveal really worked as I still was not sure about the girl and once you knew who the woman was, you pretty much knew where the ending was going.So the film is not very original, the acting is not all that good, there isn't much in the way of gore and much of the nudity was of the extreme pointless variety and a couple of those times I could have passed on it. The interesting premise is wasted as they do basically nothing with it, instead copying an earlier and much better film. Still, it did keep me watching thanks to the opening, so in that way it at least help my interest for a little while anyway. Just not a film I am going to be watching again, anytime soon.

dbborroughs This is a muddled mess of a movie that has something to do with people who were born in a particular New York City apartment building being evil and how they become Lurkers undead creatures if they die at that building. I'm not really sure what happens because I don't think it was ever clear. In the films favor the muddledness of the movie does add some creepiness to the film because you never can get a handle on what is really happening, but at the same time the film falls apart because what you do understand doesn't make a heck of a lot of sense. An exploitation "semi-classic" by Roberts Findlay this is the sort of thing that would have played in the old Times Square grind-houses. Actually the one good thing about this film is the copious shots of New York in the late 1980's which record the city before urban renewal changed everything for the better. This film feels like its related to Findlay's Prime Evil which has many of the same actors and locations. For those seeking to see every horror film ever made or those wishing to track the final films of the grind-house theaters and early days of home video.