Overview: A steamy secret tryst that was brutally cut short on Valentine’s Day an unlucky thirteen years ago comes back to haunt the teens who linger around the lovers lane where the double slaying took place.

The County Sheriff Tom Anderson (Matt Riedy) has just about come to terms with the fact that it was his wife who died in another man’s car on that fateful night. His daughter Mandy (Erin J. Dean), who as a four-year-old saw her mother’s corpse carried away from the scene, has a different take on things.

It doesn’t help that her classmate Michael (Riley Smith) lost his father to the same hook-handed homicidal maniac in that night’s incident. To cap it all off, as another Valentine’s Day comes round, reports come through that the man arrested as “The Hook” has just bust out of his asylum!

Blu-ray Verdict: Lovers Lane, from 1999 might well just be another so-called mindless slasher, created only to feed off the scraps of viewership left over from all the Halloween, Friday the 13th and Nightmare movies, but for pure rollicking entertainment value, it is pure gold, trust me!

OK, sure, it certainly doesn’t score any points for originality, but it magnificently also goes against the clichéd 90s horror self-parody b/s that quickly grew tiresome after Scream and such.

What we get here is the story of a man who killed a couple making out on lovers lane 13 years earlier who returns to wreak more havoc. The plot is more complicated than the typical slasher fare, the acting top notch for a B-movie, and action wise, well, trust me when I say the film is never dull!

Character development is also present here, allowing the viewers to care about the victims, the character arcs solid, the dialogue as perfect as you would expect from a movie of this ilk, and with Erin J. Dean (playing Mandy Anderson) as the heroine, it’s all good, my friends.

Oh, and the film has more than its share of eye candy, here in the shape of a young Anna Faris (as Jannelle Bay) and Riley Smith (as Michael Lamson), the latter as hunkier than ever! And whilst there is not all that much gory blood to be seen, the plot does keep you watching, the ending clever, sure, but could have been tweaked a wee bit, in my humble opinion.

Brand new 2K restoration from a 4K scan of the original 35mm camera negative
High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
Two versions of the film: the widescreen 1.85:1 version and the full-frame 1.33:1 version
Original lossless stereo audio on both versions
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
Brand new audio commentary with writer-producers Geof Miller and Rory Veal
Screaming Teens: The Legacy of Lovers Lane featurette with Geof Miller and Rory Veal and actors Matt Riedy and Carter Roy
Original trailers
Image gallery
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady

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