**_Scout Taylor-Compton in a slasher akin to “Scream,” albeit low-budget_** During the production of a play at a high school in the Chicago area, theater students and members of the faculty are preyed upon by a mysterious lurker in a bird's beak plague mask. "The Lurker" (2019) was described by producers as “an ode to 80’s slashers,” which is true, but it has more in common with “Scream” frover mais...

The Lurker is a love letter to the slashers of yesteryear. Unfortunately, it's like the letters Viggo Mortensen writes to his wife in Green Book before Mahershala Ali starts tutoring him. The soundtrack consists of a stark synthesizer, and the name of the high school is Crystal Lake High; these two choices are a little too on the nose even for a 'homage', but it's the casting where the makers ver mais...

Scout Taylor-Compton and maybe like one of the other girls in this do a pretty good job, but **everyone** else is bad. I'd be lying if I said that I outright hated _The Lurker_, but it'd be an even bigger lie to say that it was any good. _Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid where possible._