From Savini's stilted cameo, to the amatuer special make-up effects, to the bad early 80's style video effects, this "film" is a complete waste of time.

While I fully understand all beginning film-makers need to start somewhere, and that most of their first attempts are painfully bad, this one really takes the cake!

To say this was LOOSELY based on a HP Lovecraft, is an understatement. Sadly, there are extremely few films that stay true to Lovecraft's writings. And, this one is a prime example. It starts out with a few incoherant murmurs of the original story, then quickly devolves into a mess of self-agrandizing scene-chewing.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS!!! It has next to nothing to do with Lovecraft, except the title. Even if you are a complete masochist and JUST HAVE TO SEE IT, sucker the local village idiot to rent it for you. DO NOT BUY IT.

Horrible acting and an attempt to shock us with bad camera work leaves us wondering if there was a budget to this. Even Ed Wood would have passed this one up. H. P. Lovecraft's work would be hard to capture on film, but this doesn't qualify.

I will start by noting I love bad horror movies. I have seen Killer Tomatoes a dozen times. I once bought a horror DVD solely because it starred Alice Cooper. That said, this is possibly the worst acting I have ever seen, and I include in this assessment every kindergarten school pageant and poorly-conceived Nativity Scene with live animals I have ever attended. To fully heighten the experience, the audio track appears to have been recorded in a men's room of a major international airport, wherein no one is in the same stall with the mike. I can only guess the creators saw "The Elephant Man" at some point, and thought removing all budget, talent, and production value would improve the work. Everyone in the picture seems to be wearing a wig, but they're of the $2 Halloween variety, and none sit correctly on the respective skulls of the wearers. The final thrill is that in the various "medical" scenes, the property man clearly just bought a number of doctor's items without understanding what they are for, and laid them out to look impressive. I made it ten or fifteen minutes into this before giving up and turning it off, which apparently means I have seen five minutes more than the average Netflix viewer. This is NOT a movie to be watched, this is a movie to be laid down and avoided.

I would encourage you to rent this movie, but watch it with the commentary. The commentary by the film makers is hilarious! The movie commentary transformed what could have been a waste of time for the evening into a fun and quite enjoyable affair. The film makers definitely have a sense of humor about their work (and more than one vodka while creating the commentary, I suspect) so you get uninhibited flowing humorous commentary throughout the whole thing. Plus, it did increase my empathy for low budget film makers and the problems they face.
1 star movie -- 5 star commentary -- I'll give it a 3 star for average. Definitely fun and enjoyable to watch with commentary.

First and foremost, if you have epilepsy, skip the first five minutes. No need to check your DVD player - it's not skipping. That's just how it's filmed.

The back and forth staccato filming techniques, while accompanied by a monologue of sorts, are nevertheless incoherent, and reminiscent of a film school dropout's failing project. It's completely random and pointless, and appears to be in the film merely to entice the viewer into waiting for an answer to the "huh?" beginning, which is inevitably insufficient and ignorant.

What follows is quite possibly the most painfully long credit montage in movie history, as if anyone cares who is associated with this bargain bin production.

Unfortunately, the mindless dialogue and 3rd grade script doesn't end with the intro to the movie. Seconds after the credit montage, more pointless camera shots and film is wasted as no sort of actual story is in site. Not until the arrival of the sheriff, played by that guy with the crotch pistol in "From Dusk Til Dawn", does any real acting take place. When a movie has to fall back on the acting chops of someone whose big role was playing a groin-pistol-toting vampire killer, there is some serious trouble.

The rest of this idiotic movie is a collection of bad actors attempting to out-bad one another in a sea of stupidity, unrelated scenes, laughable special effects and makeup, and a script that deteriorates into something that makes Police Academy V look like Citizen Kane.

This is easily one of the worst movies ever made.