[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Lovers Lane (1999)

An enjoyable direct to video regional slasher about the urban legend of a hook handed killer stalking victims making out in their cars on lovers lane.

Too late for the slasher cycle on the eighties which is unfortunate as Lovers Lane would have sat nicely in the mix especially seeing as it's actually more fun than many of them. It's low budget, no acting approach (aside from some newcomer called Anna Farris) made it feel like a throwback to years gone by rather than anything to do with Wes Craven's genre reinventing Scream (1996) and all the slick studio slashers that rode in on it's coat tails.

Plot twists and contrivances galore entertain rather than hinder things and despite the gore being economical i still rather liked this.