Just by the law of averages you would expect that sooner or later someone would make a movie based on a H.P. Lovecraft story, which has something to do with the original story. Or that it captures something of the original atmosphere.
Forget it. This is yet another entry in the seemingly endless pantheon of bad European 80's style schlock flicks which has about as much to do with H.P. Lovecraft as a nanny goat does with Yuri Gagarin.
The film seems more based on 'The Shadow over Innsmouth' than anything else, but that connection is fairly tenuous. There is some reasonably atmospheric cinematography (this is easily one of the dampest movies ever made), but none of this saves it from the idiotic script and laughable major characters, who seem more like Brad and Janet from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' than something Lovecraft would have approved of.
When is somebody going to get the hang of a Lovecraft story? Is it impossible? Is there some occult force preventing it from happening? I'm beginning to think so. 3 out of 10. - and that's because the director slipped me a few bills.
Forget it. This is yet another entry in the seemingly endless pantheon of bad European 80's style schlock flicks which has about as much to do with H.P. Lovecraft as a nanny goat does with Yuri Gagarin.
The film seems more based on 'The Shadow over Innsmouth' than anything else, but that connection is fairly tenuous. There is some reasonably atmospheric cinematography (this is easily one of the dampest movies ever made), but none of this saves it from the idiotic script and laughable major characters, who seem more like Brad and Janet from 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' than something Lovecraft would have approved of.
When is somebody going to get the hang of a Lovecraft story? Is it impossible? Is there some occult force preventing it from happening? I'm beginning to think so. 3 out of 10. - and that's because the director slipped me a few bills.