H.P. Lovecraft's Witch House

2021
1h 22m

IMDb RATING

2.6/10

367

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Graduate student Alice Gilman is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror.

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Graduate student Alice Gilman is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alt... Read allGraduate student Alice Gilman is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Facing a seri... Read allGraduate student Alice Gilman is running from an abusive past. She seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past. Determined to prove the possibility of alternate dimensions, she unknowingly unlocks a gateway to unimaginable horror. Facing a series of bizarre and violent events, Alice is plagued by nightmarish dreams of these evil ent... Read all

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IMDb RATING

2.6/10

367

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See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 9 wins & 3 nominations total

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2davidconant-46608

Wow, this is getting more common

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.

4thomandybish-15114

Passable Occult Tale

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.

1panther_husky

Really!

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.

1rstgnqncm

Beyond horrible

The only award this movie should have received, is The Worst Movie of All Time Award. I am so sorry I wasted 1.5 hours watching this. Rented it on Amazon Prime and it is available for another 47 hours....yay!

2davedukart

Hmmmmf. That's all...."Hmmmf"

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.

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Alice's mathematical research into other dimensions includes the "Witch of Agnesi" (Versiera di Agnesi), a graphical curve, whose name arises (fortuitously for the film's subject matter) from a mistranslation of 'versiera' (witch, she-devil), which has the same spelling as the word for a rope used to move a sail.

Crazy credits
Pre-credits title card: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of a black sea of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." - H.P. Lovecraft