06-21-2024, 09:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-21-2024, 09:52 AM by Drunk Monk.)
After watching this - http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...4#pid72584 - and being unable to find Paddington 2 on any of my screeners without extra fees, I needed more Nick Cage father/daughter flick.
This has been in my queue since before the pandemic. It was released on my birthday. Nick Cage doing Lovecraft? Yes please.
Yikes. This was good. Spooky as hell. I got the genuine heebie jeebies, as any good Lovecraft interpretation should elicit. It's one of the best Lovecraft depictions I've seen in a long time, capturing that sense of the indescribable horror (but without all the racism).
I'm pretty sure I read this one back in my Lovecraft years (high school). A meteor brings madness to a rural family outside of Arkham (lots of good Lovecraft Easter eggs like the daughter reading the Necronomicon and the hydrologist wearing a Miskatonic U t-shirt). It has its The Thing moments - grisly unspeakable mutants - and yet not as gratuitous as most horror nowadays (and I've left the genre mostly because I've seen enough horror already but I'm remember Reanimator which was already headed there). Most of the effects are simple, yet effective. This is more about mood and atmosphere, abetted by a creepy soundtrack that works your nerves. Only one jump scare.
The capper mutant is over the top though, pushing this deep into that ludicrous madness that is pure Lovecraft. So grotesque but more so because what is not shown - what is implied. Nick's over-the-top performance is the perfect compliment. He sells the absurd with his usual panache.
Recommended for D00M Lovecraft fans.
Seen on Hoopla.
This has been in my queue since before the pandemic. It was released on my birthday. Nick Cage doing Lovecraft? Yes please.
Yikes. This was good. Spooky as hell. I got the genuine heebie jeebies, as any good Lovecraft interpretation should elicit. It's one of the best Lovecraft depictions I've seen in a long time, capturing that sense of the indescribable horror (but without all the racism).
I'm pretty sure I read this one back in my Lovecraft years (high school). A meteor brings madness to a rural family outside of Arkham (lots of good Lovecraft Easter eggs like the daughter reading the Necronomicon and the hydrologist wearing a Miskatonic U t-shirt). It has its The Thing moments - grisly unspeakable mutants - and yet not as gratuitous as most horror nowadays (and I've left the genre mostly because I've seen enough horror already but I'm remember Reanimator which was already headed there). Most of the effects are simple, yet effective. This is more about mood and atmosphere, abetted by a creepy soundtrack that works your nerves. Only one jump scare.
The capper mutant is over the top though, pushing this deep into that ludicrous madness that is pure Lovecraft. So grotesque but more so because what is not shown - what is implied. Nick's over-the-top performance is the perfect compliment. He sells the absurd with his usual panache.
Recommended for D00M Lovecraft fans.
Seen on Hoopla.
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