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.
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.