Normally I love anthology films, so given that I've enjoyed all the films based on H.P. Lovecraft's works so far I figured this one would be a blast. But it wasn't, for a number of reasons. But mainly it just couldn't manage to hold my interest. The stories just felt to drawn out, which is strange since they're loosely based on some of Lovecraft's novellas and short stories. Well except for the wrap around story that end caps the film, Jeffery Combs as H.P. Lovecraft did a great job and I found myself a couple of time looking forward to the end of segments in favor of Combs sections. I feel the filmmakers should have either trimmed down the stories they went with and added a fourth or simply spent more time polishing the scripts for the three
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Edward De LaPoer (Bruce Payne) inherites a hotel from his now deceased Uncle Jethro De LaPoer (Richard Lynch). He also receives a letter which tells his uncles story, of how after the death of his wife and child he renounces god and states that no god that takes from him is welcome in his home. That night a strange fisherman arrives and gives him a copy of Necromonicon. Jethro wastes no time in using its secrets to bring back his dead wife and son. Who return as inhuman monsters with glowing green eyes and tentacles in their mouths. Jethro ends up taking his own life casting himself from a window. Edward using clues left in his uncle's letter finds the copy of Necromonicon and uses it to return his own wife, who had died years before in a car accident that Edward was responsible for. When she returns Edward is disgusted and pushes her away, which leads to Edward confronting both his returned wife and the monster that dwells …show more content…
The car crashes causing it to flip and Paul to be ejected from the vehicle. She witness him being dragged away before following, in an attempt to save him. She follows the blood trail to an old warehouse and witness Paul being brought down the service elevator. She falls though floor, but survives mostly unharmed. She then runs into a strange man in glasses Mr. Benedict (Don Calfa), who claims to own the building and that "The Butcher" is a tenant. Mr. Benedict along with his wife Mrs. Benedict (Judith Drake) to take her down to where he lives. Down beneath the warehouse to a buried temple, old and full of imagery of human
Edward De LaPoer (Bruce Payne) inherites a hotel from his now deceased Uncle Jethro De LaPoer (Richard Lynch). He also receives a letter which tells his uncles story, of how after the death of his wife and child he renounces god and states that no god that takes from him is welcome in his home. That night a strange fisherman arrives and gives him a copy of Necromonicon. Jethro wastes no time in using its secrets to bring back his dead wife and son. Who return as inhuman monsters with glowing green eyes and tentacles in their mouths. Jethro ends up taking his own life casting himself from a window. Edward using clues left in his uncle's letter finds the copy of Necromonicon and uses it to return his own wife, who had died years before in a car accident that Edward was responsible for. When she returns Edward is disgusted and pushes her away, which leads to Edward confronting both his returned wife and the monster that dwells …show more content…
The car crashes causing it to flip and Paul to be ejected from the vehicle. She witness him being dragged away before following, in an attempt to save him. She follows the blood trail to an old warehouse and witness Paul being brought down the service elevator. She falls though floor, but survives mostly unharmed. She then runs into a strange man in glasses Mr. Benedict (Don Calfa), who claims to own the building and that "The Butcher" is a tenant. Mr. Benedict along with his wife Mrs. Benedict (Judith Drake) to take her down to where he lives. Down beneath the warehouse to a buried temple, old and full of imagery of human