H.P. Lovecraft's Witch House

Not sure how this is titled "H. P. Lovecraft's". Because it most certainly is NOT. I'm very familiar with all HPL's writings and am a lifelong fan. This doesn't follow any of his stories...... Which in itself isn't a bad thing. I mean The Void is bits and pieces from a bunch of Locecraft's stories and it is AWESOME. And it's an indie movie.

So, it's definitely possible for an indie outfit without a huge budget to make an excellent Lovecraftian movie.

This one is not anywhere near excellent...or good.... or worth watching.

I'd hang this DVD on a string outside to scare birds away. It's definitely not worth watching.

Man, real poor writing left green actors stranded! Im not sure why alot of movies are getting made with bad sound as well. The sound in this movie is real bad. I was up & down on the volue button the entire time!

Lady goes & stays at a large house, oh like 3 folks live there and the only availanle room is the attic? Ok. So she is researching portholes and how geometry facors into it. From there the story line unfolds like LSD. Half assed plot, scenes are all over the place, at times unrelated, as though the movie is about randon visuals.

There is some very nice camera work, the location is nice. Unfortunately the bad outweighs the good here.

Directors & Producers might consider having an impartial outsider look at their dailys to offer input. Clearly this is another example of how ego blinds a person.

A movie lensed to cash in on the marquee value of H. P. Lovecraft's name, this Indiana curiosity has its strengths. Unfortunately, those don't include competent acting or a coherent script. Filmed in a historic 19th century house, the story concerns a grad student who has moved to said house to avoid an abusive ex. She's writing a thesis on geometry somehow providing the doorway to another dimension, or something. The film kicks into high gear when said student pierces this other realm. Fever dream sequences of Satanists and witches cavorting naked in occult rituals abound, which seem to be the director's strong suit. Murder and mayhem ensue. There's probably some half-baked message about female empowerment in here, but it's lost in the bad acting, wild occult rituals, and gore. Just enough here to hold your interest.

Usually I reserve one star reviews to things so bad as to be funny. I wanted to rate this 0 stars, though, as in bad as to not be worth being called a film.

Why do they use Lovecraft stories in idiotic student quality movies? Because they are out of copyright. And therefore morally, creatively and financially bankrupt people attach their filth to Lovecraft's name simply because they can.

You can see how Lovecraftian this story is when I tell you the protagonist is a bisexual physics student moving in the attic of a house because some guy was stalking her. She moves around in her underwear, she has sex with a girl in the house, the starts dreaming of dark rituals, there is even a kind of tentacle rape scene in it. The only thing remotely Lovecraft is the rats, which in his works would have inspired loathing and disgust, but in this movie they are just really cute.

The sound is atrocious, the acting really bad, the plot nonsensical, there is no horror (except the gory desecration of Lovecraft's name), the editing is stupid and there is no directing to speak of.

Bottom line: I think the guy just wanted to have sex with young actresses. Avoid this like the plague.

This film actually won awards? Wow, I am lost for words here. Ok, let's move on. This adaptation is an insult to Lovecraft's story. (9 awards? Really?) Of course, let us use some female sexuality in here: naked, sultry, sexy, it will surely interest some people. They could have worked on the acting instead but no, sex sells. (There must be a typo with the 9 awards won.) What is happening with films in this day and age? So much rubbish, no originality and films winning awards. It must have been a family and friends award night.