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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Let's be realistic.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This comes across as an extremely low budget Australian sci-fi/horror. I am a huge fan of Australian horror, it can be quite brutal. As you begin to watch this movie the acting style hits you in the face as being pretty terrible but as the film progresses you kind of begin to like it. The characters are likable and entertaining, the bickering between them is a little irritating.The plot is good, not your average chemical error or mutant disease but a fallen angel. Of course none of them other than the crazed scientist believe this. Lots of blood and gore, cool monsters and quite a good ending I thought.

The Dark Lurking is set in the future on a distant planet where the few remaining human survivors in Research Station 320 are fighting for their lives, a team of mercenaries lead by Michaels (co-producer Bret Kennedy) have already been sent in but they are unable to contain the situation. Scientific experiments have unleashed the ancient power of Satan, in an attempt to harness the power it has infected many of the crew & has turned them into flesh eating mutant creatures whose only aim is to kill. Michaels & his team find a few of the base crew hiding including research experiment Lena (Tonia Renee), they all decide to stand any chance of survival they must work together & work their way through the various levels to the surface & possible safety but with the flesh eating monsters around every corner & ammunition running out fast it won't be easy. As the group continue to make their way to the surface the true nature of the experiments & the true nature of Lena is revealed...This Australian production was edited, written, co-produced & directed by Greg Connors & is a blatant Aliens (1986) rip-off but is maybe one of the better ones out there, while it has it's problems I quite liked it overall. The Aliens similarities are plain to see, a small research colony on a distant planet, a team of armed soldiers sent in to rescue any survivors, the large amounts of monsters that make a straight forward escape impossible, the huge nuclear blast countdown at the end, the attempted repair of communication antenna, lots of crawling through tight air ducts, the siege by the monsters on the area where the survivors are hiding, the welding & barricading of doors, one of the group working against them & I was surprised not to see a little girl anywhere. While nowhere near as good as the classic Aliens this sci-fi monster film is a passable time waster, sure it's nothing original or particularly outstanding but it'll pass an hour & a half. The biggest problems with The Dark Lurking come from the script, the dialogue is very wooden & stiff with character's announcing what they are going to do & then just doing it, there's no character development here at all & none of them are given any background or any real personality. Then there's the constant wandering around in dark cramped locations, alright so that's what is expected in a film such as this but it gets tedious & with no great scheme or plan it's hard to get into the story as I wasn't sure what people were trying to do, where people were or even the scale of the colony. There's little perspective other than lots of dark corridors full of screeching creatures & little else going on besides until towards the end when the origin of the creatures is revealed & tensions between the survivors rise. Unfortunately again this tension is played very broadly, it's all out in the open too quickly & in the end doesn't amount to much.Surprisingly The Dark Lurking looks great, the special effects are great with some impressive spaceships & alien planet surface shots. The creatures are all practical make-up effects & there's no CGI effects which is great, there's plenty of proper slime & blood too. There's some good gore here from monsters eating intestines to a severed head with half is skin ripped off, heads are blown off, hands are ripped off, huge bites are taken out of people, there's plenty of shooting & fists are shoved through people's bodies & heads. There's more gore here than in the average recent low budget horror & it all looks very good. The claustrophobic sets looks good too, they have that futuristic yet gritty look with flashing lights, electronic doors & giant industrial & grating fans everywhere. In fact the production design reminds of Aliens a lot. The main problem with The Dark Lurking is that it's just too dark & the editing is a little quick fire at times, it becomes a bit of a dark mess where you struggle to make out any real detail. Shot in full 2:35:1 widescreen the photography is also nice & worth noting.With a supposed budget of about $1,000,000 this looks a lot bigger budget, don't forget that just about everything had to be made from the futuristic sets to the costumes to the weapons to the creatures to the colony to the spaceships to the computer & laboratory equipment. The acting really lets the film down, along with the wooden dialogue the poor acting really kills the character's & any scene involving anyone talking becomes very difficult to watch.The Dark Lurking is an unashamed rip-off of Aliens & doesn't really try to be anything else, it's extremely well made with good monsters, gore & special effects but the wooden script, bad acting & lack of plot beyond a few people trying to survive a horde of monsters prevents me from saying it's anything more than merely watchable. To anyone who likes sci-fi monster films then The Dark Lurking is great, to anyone else maybe there isn't quite enough here overall.

World, this is a warning.This so-called movie's current IMDb rating - 3.6 out of 10 - is an affront to cineastic taste and decency. It is absurdly too high, and will go down. This is one of those movies that have zero reason for existing, whose every aspect of production is A JOKE of derivative and artless incompetence and desperately and despicably amateurish commercialism of the most contemptible kind. There are nary a redeeming value to be found in this piece of offal masquerading as a movie. The main movies it rips off are Event Horizon and Alien, but of course it does so without having any technical competence of any kind, giving the impression that all aspects of the production were presided over by 12-year-olds.The characters are never introduced or established (there IS no characterization), and there is no discernible plot; no explanations for either the zombies or the aliens. Or if there is, it doesn't come across. This movie is physically and mentally painful to look at, and I feel that humanity as a whole must be warned against it. AVOID AT ALL COSTS.I would give this movie several minus points if I could. Still, I will say one good thing about it. The zombies (or whatever the bloody hell they were) were well-made. Quite capable gore effects there. But that's all the praise I can muster for one of the absolutely worst movies I have ever seen. Please do not waste time, and especially avoid wasting money, on this screaming stinker. It will have you writhing in agony, and possibly resorting to gnawing off a limb for solace. Please understand: This is not so bad that it's good. It's just plain awfully, unendurably, insultingly BAD.

Why the hell are there ratings higher than 1 for this utter rip off of Aliens meets Predator?! I watched this last night and found myself calling out the names of various films this film rips off. Aliens! Predator! Doom! It's not an homage to awesome films, its a blatant rip off.The story? Forget it it's non-exsistent. The sets? Really quite impressive, I just wish I could see them other than in close ups. The characters? Cardboard cut outs putting on the worst manly voices you'd ever hear. Seriously they all talk in deep booming voices the entire time with dialogue that makes me want to rip out my eyes and ram them into my ears so I don't have to watch and listen to this floating fecal matter.At one point a certain character meets his demise and the camera stays with the guy for far too long. This might work if I knew anything about the guy or cared; but its a pointless moment in a film trying so desperately to have any emotional depth at all.Actually I lie, there IS emotional depth in there - laughter. There were several times when I burst out laughing in this film. All unintentional I'm sure but all originating from the scripts' woeful dialogue. The ONLY actor worth mentioning in this floating pile was Roslyn van Doorn who played the... again horribly named - Yutani. (Oh if only Ridley Scott could watch this). Van Doorn was quite good and I actually believed her despite everything else going on here. Although I think she would be better suited to drama. The other cast? You really don't want to know what I think of them.I turned it off after about an hour fifteen simply because my time is more valuable than wasting it on this stinker.