I love H.P. Lovecraft. I’ve read all his works and meticulously watched every Lovecraft-related movie, and a Cthulhu statue stands watch on my desk, guarding my pens from my implement-snatching Fango co-workers. I’m always excited to review a Lovecraft flick, Midnight Releasing’s recent DVD release In Search Of Lovecraft being no exception. The concept sounded very promising—a mockumentary on Lovecraft revealing that his mythos were in fact true—but the movie, written and directed by newbie David J. Hohl, proves that even a sound idea can be easily lost in the execution.
In Search Of Lovecraft begins as a news-style mockumentary, with TV reporter Rebecca Marsh (Renee Sweet) doing a Halloween story on the famed author. Though she’s at first bored by the assignment, Rebecca, along with her camera guy (Tytus Bergstrom) and intern (Denise Amrikhas), soon begins to realize that what Lovecraft wrote of was not fantasy,...
In Search Of Lovecraft begins as a news-style mockumentary, with TV reporter Rebecca Marsh (Renee Sweet) doing a Halloween story on the famed author. Though she’s at first bored by the assignment, Rebecca, along with her camera guy (Tytus Bergstrom) and intern (Denise Amrikhas), soon begins to realize that what Lovecraft wrote of was not fantasy,...
- 3/18/2009
- Fangoria
• Image Entertainment has set a March 24 street date for two Sci Fi Channel nature-amok movies on disc: Locusts: The 8th Plague and Snakehead Terror. The company will also release the Pang Brothers production Forest Of Death April 14.
Locusts, in which star Dan Cortese is backed by a genre-friendly ensemble including David (Firestarter) Keith, Julie (Dexter) Benz and Jeff (Planet Terror) Fahey, will come with an FX featurette, while the killer-fish flick Snakehead, starring Bruce Boxleitner and Carol Alt, will be extras-free. The movies will be presented in 16x9-enhanced 1.78:1 widescreen with Dolby Digital 2.0 audio; retail price for each is $14.98. Forest, in a 16x9-enhanced 1.78:1 transfer with Dolby Digital 5.1 Chinese audio and no announced supplements, is about a woodland in which both rape/murders and suicides have taken place, and is investigated by a homicide detective (The Eye 2’s Shu Qi), a tabloid TV reporter and a paranormal...
Locusts, in which star Dan Cortese is backed by a genre-friendly ensemble including David (Firestarter) Keith, Julie (Dexter) Benz and Jeff (Planet Terror) Fahey, will come with an FX featurette, while the killer-fish flick Snakehead, starring Bruce Boxleitner and Carol Alt, will be extras-free. The movies will be presented in 16x9-enhanced 1.78:1 widescreen with Dolby Digital 2.0 audio; retail price for each is $14.98. Forest, in a 16x9-enhanced 1.78:1 transfer with Dolby Digital 5.1 Chinese audio and no announced supplements, is about a woodland in which both rape/murders and suicides have taken place, and is investigated by a homicide detective (The Eye 2’s Shu Qi), a tabloid TV reporter and a paranormal...
- 1/2/2009
- Fangoria
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