So I saw the movie on Sunday evening at 6pm central time , I give it a 5/10 because they did change ALOT from the book but I give em credit for making it. Anyone interested in watching it they will probably reshow it sometime this month for Halloween. If I see a dte and time Ill post it

The love interest was unnecessary, but the rest of the film was pretty close.

I just watched it last night after DVRing it on Sunday. It wasn't bad. Not great, but it was good to see Jeffrey Combs in it, since he was in Re-Animator and From Beyond.

Masters of Horror did a Dreams in the Witch House which I thought was pretty good.

Was this the Dunwich Horror made in the 70's?

tazbro said:

Don't think so.. Jeffery Combs would be a wee lad in that. Looks like a SYFI *exclusive!*. WOooOOO!

Although, didn't mind the cheese from the 70s either.

SyFy channel original, synonymous with quality.

It was also made by The Asylum, infamous cheap knockoff studio that brought of "Transmorphers" and others.

Extremely bad. I guess if you REALLY want to hear a couple of names referenced.

Sarah Lieving (an Asylum regular!) is gorgeous though, a cross between Liv Tyler and Ashley Judd. Too bad the movie sucked.

A much better Lovecraftian movie would be John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. I don't think it follows any particular story, but it pretty much plays out exactly like a game of Arkham. If you can sit through Dunwich Horror, you'll LOVE Mouth of Madness.

Wish I were in America... or had american channels

I TiVo'd Dunwich and tried to watch it last night. I didn't make it past the intro. The narrator's Southern drawl just ruined it - shouldn't this be in New England? I fast forwarded a few minutes and it didn't seem like it got any better. Has a decent Cthulhu movie ever been made? I've played games of Arkham Horror that would make for great screenplays. The Arkham theme seems perfect for a horror movie - what gets lost in translation? I haven't seen John Carpenter's attempt - is it worth the price of a rental?

Marximus said:

In the mouth of madness is a great selection. Worth a view. The silent flick Call of Cthulhu is a must! Dagon... Meh.... Reanimator flick(s) good scholcky stuff! Not a lot of stuff for translation but that's what ya got.

Oh and Cthulhu (the movie) wasn't bad. A renter too.

Hem said:

Come stay with us. I've wanted to learn French. Plus I have Dunwich Horror and Call of Cthulhu on DVD.

Hell yes In the Mouth of Madness is worth $4. It's a Cthulhu movie in everything but name.

For a recent film contest, I did a Lovecraft inspired short. Here's the link. www.filmaka.com/films.php If it doesn't take you right to it, the film is on the second page in the 'films' category, called 'the portal'.

I have had this movie on VCR tape for about two weeks and finally got around to watching it. So excuse me for finally posting, and refreshing this thread again.

This film appeared to be a professional production, but also seemed to have some intentionally amateurish effects in it such as, with scary scenes, the screen goes black momentarily, then resumes video. At times there's a sort of crudeness to the cinematography, almost like the old Blaim Witch of years ago.

The character Wilbur Whately was well acted, and the guy rather scared me. A nice bit of casting.

There were some departures from the story, but I believe they were necessary. Lovecraft was always totally devoid of male-female chemistry of any sort a romantic spark or two probably added to the credibility of the whole. It was cool that Prof. Rice was a convinced skeptic, who slowly comes to believe that the Old Ones are real, and deadly.

I enjoyed Prof.. Armitage again, a well acted part. Armitage at times appears to be a boring, nondescript professor, at other times appears to be a powerful sorcerer, especially when white bire blasts from his hands.

The opening scene was uncomfortable for me Old Whately's daughter screaming and howling in pain as she attempts to birth a monster. I was rather glad when the old bird got fed to the Horror.

Whole sections of this production appeared to be created "out of whole cloth," as the expression goes. Such as going into a two-story house and discovering at least four stories, with an interior size of a small auditorium. The swamp episode where the key is traded for information cool. The mage in that scene is a clownish looking fat guy, but with a chilling element to his demeanor. Great touch of the unexpected.

Well, what more can you say? It was sort of fun. I would not totally pan it, but maybe give it a B-.

The b/w movie "Call of Cthulhu" movie was a real winner. And a better effort, on the whole. It won a number of film awards, as I recall.

I said this in off-topic, but I shamefully have to say I enjoyed it, because it was a bad movie - but lets face it, I think we all knew that going into it. Is was made for Syfy, and so we set our standards lower. Mind you, I have seen big budget movies that were worse than this Batman Forever is still on of the 3 worst movies I have ever seen.

The movie does play lke a game of Arkham, the character references were fun, and I took some delight in all that. I'm keeping it on DVR for some time, as I may watch it again. Jeffrey Combs was creepy but I loved him in Frighteners, and he pulls off wacky characters well. Though I was hoping that we would have died at the University isn't that what happened in the story, iirc.

As for In The Mouth of Madness, that movie is fantastic, totally creepy, and well worth buying, not just renting. It was made in the late 90s (one of the first movies my wife and I say when we started dating), and is very well done. More so than Lovecraft, I equate this movie with a different author Jonathan Carroll who melding of modern day with horror and fantastic events (his earlier work especially) are some of my favorite novels. If you can find The Land Of Laughs or A Child Across the Sky, these are my two favorites of his books.

Mouth of Madness spoilers

I thought it was a Cthulhu movie in everything but name and time period. You had The King in Yellow movie driving everyone insane, maniacs, a character going insane and getting chucked into an asylum, blights turning former allies into enemies, paintings giving people nightmares, riot spawn monsters, Sam O'Niel gets delayed trying to leave town, portals with monsters, etc etc.

No one watched the Adventures of Lil Cthulhu youtube clip I posted! Much better Lovecraft movie than SyFy's.

GrooveChamp said:

I thought the beginning was cute/funny (especially when it tried to make eating people child friendly), but alot of it felt forced and hastily done. Cute. But not quite Cthulhuish ;')