Lovers Lane
Tags: violence, murder

Plot synopsis:
Thirteen years ago, on Valentine's Day at the local lovers lane, Dee-Dee (Diedre Kilgore) and Jimmy (Carter Roy) are making out in their car when a maniac wielding a steel hook attacks them. The pair escape the car and find another couple, Harriet and Ward, slaughtered in the car next to theirs. Soon after, psychiatrist Jack Grefe (Richard Sanders) arrives, along with Sheriff Tom Anderson (Matt Riedy), who is distraught to find his wife, Harriet, is one of the lovers who has been murdered. The killer, Ray Hennessey (Ed Bailey) is caught, and revealed to be one of Jack's patients who had an obsession with Harriet. Ray is incarcerated in a nearby state institution for the criminally insane and gains the nickname 'The Hook'.
Present day, Jack's popular daughter Chloe (Sarah Lancaster) and Tom's socially awkward daughter Mandy (Erin J. Dean) attend the local high school together. During a class, Chloe hears her boyfriend Michael (Riley Smith) is planning to break up with her. In a fit of anger Chloe attempts to drown Michael in the pool. Jack is quickly called into the school about his daughters actions where he meets with Principal Penny Lamson (Suzanne Bouchard). Chloe is suspended from the school, while Michael is grounded by his mother, Principal Penny. Soon after, 'The Hook', retrieves his weapon and escapes the mental institution. Upon hearing this news, Sheriff Tom warns Penny, as her husband had been having the affair with Harriet and had been murdered along with her.
Later that night, Michael sneaks out of his room to meet his friends, including Chloe, Mandy, Bradley (Ben Indra), cheerleader Janelle (Anna Faris), joker Doug (Billy O'Sullivan) and couple Cathy (Megan Hunt) and Tim (Collin F. Peacock) at the bowling alley. Also there is Deputy David Schwick (Michael Shapiro), whom Sheriff Tom has put in charge of keeping Chloe and Mandy safe. After a while, Chloe, in an attempt to make Michael jealous, leaves with Bradley to go to lovers lane. As the pair travel in their car, Chloe enters a store, not realising the owner is swiftly murdered as she departs. Deputy David also enters the shop, only to be stabbed to death. Meanwhile, Penny discovers Michael is missing and alerts Sheriff Tom.
After some time, Mandy, Michael, Janelle, Doug, Cathy and Tim arrive at lovers lane. The group find Bradley's car, only to discover he and Chloe have been murdered, before the hook arrives and stabs Tim to death. As the others try to escape in their car, Doug crashes into a tree, knocking everyone unconscious. Some time later, Mandy and Michael wake up to find the others gone. They travel to a nearby farmhouse where they arm themselves with a gun and find Janelle and Doug, who has broken his leg. While Janelle tends to Doug's injury, Mandy and Michael go to the barn to retrieve the missing owners car. Back inside, Janelle begins to hear noises before the hook smashes through a window. Janelle runs upstairs and barricades herself in a room, but the hook gets in and stabs her to death. The hook also then kills Doug.
In the barn, Michael and Mandy manage to get the car started, however as Michael begins to drive he accidentally runs over Cathy, killing her. The pair re-enter the house and find Doug and Janelle dead before the hook attacks them. They lock themselves in the kitchen, and turn the gas on, before escaping out a window. As the hook opens the door, a match is sparked and the house blows up. Meanwhile, Sheriff Tom and Penny go to Jack's house where they find a shrine devoted to Mandy, before rushing to lovers lane. At the farmhouse, Michael and Mandy take the owners car and begin to travel into town. On the way, they find Chloe to still be alive, who urges them to return to lovers lane as Bradley has also survived. Upon arrival, Mandy leaves Michael and Chloe in the car, only to find Bradley is in fact dead, before she is dragged away into a bush. In the car, Chloe attacks Michael with a hook, revealing herself to be a killer. Michael escapes, but as Chloe exits she is slaughtered by an unseen figure.
Mandy is forced into a car by her attacker, revealed to be Jack who tells her he was the one that had killed Mandy's mother, Harriet, and had survived the explosion at the farmhouse. Michael saves Mandy, and as a fight breaks out, Tom and Penny arrive and shoot Jack before Mandy eventually kills him with a hook.
The next day at lovers lane, Mandy and Michael are medically checked, before they leave Tom and Penny and enter a police car, that is revealed to be driven by Ray, 'the hook'.

Review: The thing couldn't even offer decent T & A.The "scary" scenes have all been done better in other movies, the acting was typical "B" grade stuff, and the plot took more effort than was worth to understand.Not frightening, not funny, not worth renting..
never run up the stairs when the front door is just a few feet away).The story relies heavily the classic urban legend about the hook wielding mental patient stalking a couple on Lovers Lane, heck that basically the plot.
Also, all you "Scary Movie" fans should check out Anna Faris (who played the heroine in said movie) in her first slasher appearance.
(You might know her from Scary Movie 1 & 2 and let me just say she looks much better with brown/black hair.) Riley Smith is okay too.
(Cherry Falls, is a great movie, so that's not a bad thing.) Lovers Lane, (It's called, I'm Still Waiting For You, here in the UK) is definitely a good movie, especially one for a straight to DVD/Video - TV Movie and I give it a 7/10..
this movie contains Anna Ferris from Scary Movie fame and is dressed in a cheerleader outfit that she wears on dates and around town (even though if you watch closely, no one else in the school is wearing the uniform, she must be the schools only cheerleader.), and it feature Sarah Lancaster from the new Saved by the Bell as bitchy vamp who likes to wear short skirts (her nude scene is a body-double, it says so in the credits.).
I expected "Lovers Lane" to be pure crap,but I was pleasantly surprised.Of course the plot is pretty stupid and unoriginal and the characters are our usual annoying slasher fodder,but I found here some things to like.Some scenes are actually suspenseful and the film is never dull.Unlike politically correct Hollywood's slasher movies this one contains some nudity,foul-mouthed language and good gore.Worth checking out,if you like slasher movies!.
If that were the case, it could have been named "My Blood Valentine 2: Lover's Lane" and maybe – just maybe – the film would have enjoyed a modest little cult reputation by now.
Instead, "Lover's Lame" came out in 1999, at the end of a decade that is widely considered as a low point in horror, and then still it attempts to rip off the wrong films!
So in other words, "Lover's Lane" attempts to cash in on the two most popular contemporary horror films of that era – "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and "Scream" – but actually hasn't got anything to do with either of them.
I was prepared to watch something really dull and irritating, but "Lover's Lane" actually is quite entertaining and definitely a worthwhile little homage/throwback to that glorious decade of slasher-goodness.
The film begins with the discovery of two young people on Valentine's Day butchered in their car on Lover's Lane.
And naturally it's Valentine's Day again and of course he recovers his beloved hook-hand just in time to make it to the kids' sex party on Lover's Lane.
Hook-handed killer is out to slice a bunch of parking teens.Unimaginative and completely lack-luster teen slasher is even less than one would expect it to be!
After BETTER teen thrillers like Scream (1996), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Urban Ledgend (1998), and Cherry Falls (1999) one would think this movie would try a new angle but it only rehashes more of the same and with disappointingly less effect.
I usually like low-budget slashers, if they are fun, scary, and have good gore.
Well, this stupid video pic was very dry, slow, badly-acted, and the ending was sooo confusing and the script was sooo bad...I could go on for hours about how terrible this movie is.
Lovers Lane is a independent horror film that I never knew about until I found out about Anna Faris(Scary Movie,Smiley Face,Emoji Movie)and how she made her film debut in this tiny little slasher film so what did I do;after a while after noticing it,I bought it online and a few days later it came and I watched it.
The film is a complete slasher film that has all of the typical 90's stuff(kids having sex in there car at make out point and then a man brutally murders them).
Now,obviously the film cant avoid its cheesiness but over all it is a very good horror film was a good twist and story and oh as for Anna Faris being in her basically first film,she was very very good like always and I'm excited to see her in The Emoji Movie.
Lovers Lane was an entertaining horror movie.
The acting is surprisingly good for a straight to video slasher flick.
Another great thing is that Anna Faris, Cindy from SCARY MOVIE, makes a really hot blond.
Sure, the plot has been done to death and the hook thing might just remind you of another recent horror movie, but something about this film sticks with you.
It centers around a couple that was murdered on Valentine's Day 'several years before" at Lovers Lane by a killer bearing a hook for a hand.
Surprise endings have become a trademark for modern day slasher films, but this was ridiculous!
At least the filmmakers here are trying to revive that ere-it is certainly better that having no slasher movies at all..
Idiots could write it off as just a low budget slasher but there is so much going on in this movie under the surface that it takes someone with an IQ over 100 to "get it".
Killer escapes from a mental asylum after 13 years and heads out to a small town's local lovers lane with a hook in tow to murder the teenagers who are having sex or drinking.
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)?
my friend and i rented this movie about 2 years ago and when we were done watching it,we started it right over again.
it has a cliched plot, but it pulls off the "killer with a hook" thing better than "i know what you did last summer".
if you havent seen it, do yourself a favor, NEXT TIME YOUR IN THE VIDEO STORE AND WANT TO BE DEEPLY SCARED, RENT "LOVERS LANE".
It was almost an enjoyable though uninspiring slasher film, but the last few minutes make so little sense it's not funny.
Being so cheesy and taking inspired by many other slasher movies, Lovers Lane still managed as fine entertainer, at least to fill your bore times with a lot of laugh.
If truth to be told, Lovers Lane is the most underrated after many direct-to-video-posh-Scream slasher movie, but it still shine because of the cliché it has.
As a movie, despite Cherry Falls are better, they are in the same league, where's there is no explicit gores (most of the kills are off-screen), no intense fright, non atmospherically, the pace is slow, alas fails miserably as a great slasher package, but at least still fun to watch.One thing to bother is the taking more popular slasher as it blatant copy is so annoying, when it seem lack of originality.
Lovers Lane also featuring the pre-Scary Movie, Anna Faris with his blonde hair.
Her appearance unquestionably fun.Well, as little twist, Lovers Lane is still worth watching, but just don't expect it as a winner, because little is a literally concept for this movie.
As my final bashed, Lovers Lane may fail as a slasher, but succeed as laughable movie.2/10.
This movie was pretty good for a low buget film.
Anyway, if you're in the mood for a horror movie Lovers' Lane is worth watching..
He's coming!" "I'm getting the flashlight!" "Leave it!" "It's all we have!" But the acting is surprisingly not bad and there is a hint of a plot, so give this movie a chance if you've got the bucks to spare and you want to rent something that you haven't seen before.
Dean, Riley Smith, Matt Riedy, Suzanne Bouchard, Sarah Lancaster, Anna Faris, Ben Indra, Ed Bailey, Richard Sanders, Carter Roy. Mindless slasher entertainment certainly doesn't score any points for originality, but also goes against the clichéd 90s horror `self-parody' that quickly grew tiresome after SCREAM.
i took a walk to blockbuster and saw Lovers Lane on a rack for  2$ so i was like what the hell i know it's gonna suck but for   2$ i'll give it a chance, and what i got was better then i thought it would be.
Lovers Lane is very much and 80's kind of horror film but not as good as the great days of horror in the 70's and 80's, but close.
Lovers Lane is full of horror movie cliches but still fun to watch, the downfalls to the movie are the twist was so dumb, and the directing was ok at times it looked good others it was sloppy but i see potential, and most of the kills were off camera that was very annoying.
if you're a fan of 70's and 80's horror movies give Lovers Lane a chance, but if you're into the new era of horror films stay away.
Lover's Lane was your typical by-the-book 90's horror film....predictable from start to finish.
Simply facinating work by a deeply skilled actor.I'd just like to add that if any of you are searching for a freaky, over-the-top horror adventure, Lovers Lane is the movie to get!
When i first saw this i saw it with my friend on Austar and thought it was good for a low budget horror flick, with popular actress Anna Farris best known for her roles as Cindy Campbell in Scary Movie 1,2 and 3.
Based on that old urban legend, this low-budget loser features a hook-handed killer who stuck it to a man and woman on Valentine's Day getting it on at Lover's Lane.
13 years later, his escape from the state mental hospital coincides with the murders of a bunch of obnoxious high school kids played by a hand picked cast of no-talent nobodies who resemble your favorite teen dream stars of today!See the Mena Suvari knock-off who keeps her American BEAUTY-style cheerleading uniform on for the entire movie before taking a hook to the most private of personal areas.
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.
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.
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.
All we needed was James Dean mooing in the auditorium....I'd say overall I enjoyed this more than, say, a root-canal operation, but I admit I was a little confused at the end with all those killers with hooks popping up, including whoever was in the cop car at the end (which I would put down to the "requirement" that horror movies have some kind of shock ending or twist ending, which probably goes back to "Carrie" with the hand coming out of the grave at the end).
(But that's another horror movie staple---killers who are harder to kill than Rasputin.) But I liked that not all the adults in the movie were buffoons and not all the teenagers were jerks; when kids and parents said "I love you" to each other, I believed it.
LOVERS LANE is a low rent slasher movie filmed in Washington state and with much in common with the genre circa the 1980s.
The Script was a joke...The acting..well, Riley Smith (michael) is a very talented actor, and is unfortunately stuck in Direct to Video hell....I hope he gets out....Anna Faris (from Scary Movie) is very good in this very weird Jan Brady look alike way....The twist towards the end was dull and not needed....but the end was pretty good...the kids driving off with the killer....Anyway, rent it...I bought for 1.99 that is all it is worth...Check it out though.
The ultimate "B-movie double" film; still bad, though.
LOVERS LANE is truly the ultimate "B-movie double" film, though, as a horror film, it truly fails (blame production values).
Why did the killer brutally murder a young couple (apparently locked in an extramarital affair) on Lovers Lane thirteen years before?
There are only three really good, terrifying scenes, all of which involve the murder of one of the aforementioned teens: one of them, incapacitated on a kitchen table with a broken leg, is tortured by the killer with knives (and the hook, eventually); another one sits terrified on a bed, until the killer makes a surprise appearance from (where else?) underneath the bed; and, lastly, another teen meets a grisly end next to a car window.Bad acting: none really; it's expected of a B-movie anyway.
This is a horror film where the high school principal punches a drunken female student in a bowling alley, where the sheriff meets his daughter in town but doesn't seem truly concerned that a violent killer has escaped from the state institute and is headed their way, where a dimwitted deputy reholsters his weapon BEFORE examining what's behind a curtain, where it is said, in the opening scene, that the sheriff and Dr. Grefe are half-brothers, yet that fact, CRUCIAL to the storyline, is hardly ever developed!
An alternate ending that clears up the confusing one we have watched and adds a terrifying car chase would have made the film TEN TIMES BETTER!
(which doesn't say much)All in all, this film would only be good for those of us who adore SCARY MOVIE's Anna Faris (obviously I am one, since I bought the tape and have written a nearly 800-word review).