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I expect nothing in this movie beside the fact that it starring Jeffrey Comb and based on a short story from Lovecraft but somehow I'm still disappointed when it turn out way worse than I thought.The movie got the potential to be a fun creature feature and about 10 or 20 minutes when I finally know the characters and the first appearance of the creature which is quite scary to be honest then the whole movie go downhill when suddenly after witnessing all the stupid decisions KaBOOM !!! I realize the reason why this movie fail to live up to what it's intended to be is not only the characters but the creature also make no sense when both sides can easy end each other if only they used their brain a little bit

This is a film brought to us by Full Moon Studios, a studio that was constantly creating low budget horror back in the day. They made some good films and some bad ones; however, during the time this film was made, they were mainly doing horror comedies all the time and this one tries to be that too. I am kind of baffled by the score here on IMDb as I thought this film was quite bad, even for one of their movies because it just had too many flaws. A promising opening scene and a rather good premise were completely undone by where they took it and so many unnecessary plot points. I read the H.P. Lovecraft short story this one is based on and they had the makings of actually doing something with it, but just clogged the film down with so many things that just did not fit in with the premise. The deaths were also pretty much unmemorable, the acting horrid with the exception of the only two actors one would tend to recognize (Combs and Schiavelli) and the film has a complete lack of tension due to the fact that through the majority of the film it looks like there is only one creature when they keep suggesting there are several...enough to take out a town apparently. The film is short though, so the pain of watching it did not take too long.The story has two sisters or something at the beginning arguing about stuff. Something tries to take the baby and the sister that seems to know how to fight is killed. This is also the best kill in the film. Not sure if this was the past or what. I could not tell as the editing was not all that good. All I know is a guy is getting out of prison and a guy working at a funeral home gives him part of a map that will show the location of a cemetery by a church where a lot of money is buried. He goes there and some bad guys follow and get mixed up in a mess as citizens of a town are taking a stand against creatures that have been terrorizing them for 20 years because apparently no one wants to exert the effort to leave town.The monsters when on screen look rather good; unfortunately, they are not in the movie all that much. As I said, you never really get a sense that there is really all that much danger as you only see more than two monsters on the screen like once. Too often in this one the focus of the film is on this guy wanting his money back which begins to get absurd. Things are going badly, the guy is clearly rich so I am rather sure he could have left without collecting what was probably 100,000 dollars tops. I was getting sick of the stupid girl he had with him and wanted her to die slowly, but I did not get that satisfaction. We have monsters in tunnels that are supposed to be overrunning things and the subplots overran them! So this Full Moon film was incredibly bad and I felt there were very few things of redeeming nature in it. It had decent looking monsters and a nice opening scene, but that was it! No good deaths beyond the opening scene, no nudity, no sense to be made with the plot! Seriously, why the heck did the townspeople not leave!?! Monsters are feasting on them and they just stay around, why? Because the property taxes are cheap, perhaps? This monsters were also incredibly slow killers, how anyone got snuffed by them is a testament to what poor survival skills these people must of had! I guess that should be surprising seeing as how the monster only strike when it rains and at night so the people in town only had like plenty of time to leave over the 20 year reign of terror! Just too much stuff wrong with it to say it was anything, but bad in my opinion; however, like most Full Moon Studio films, at least I can say it was really short.

I am big fan of horror films, I saw tons of them, some of them were good some were bad. One of my friends advised me to see this one pointing that it is H.P.Lovecraft based horror film.1. I know quite all the stories of the Master himself, but this had nothing to do with none of them. Maybe the plot reminded me of shadow over Innsmouth, where the boy finds out, that he is a part of this strange community and one day he is going to be like them. So please do not take it as HPL. If U want to see some HPL just take Dagon, that is real HPL influenced film.2.The acting was not for Oscar nomination, but what do You want for a low budget flick. Jeffrey Combs is excellent, but anyway also the others did a good job. I saw that this film was made in Romania, I recognized this Pintea guy from Vlad Nemoritorul (Dracula - The Impaler) film, playing the undertaker with the scratched face.3. The explosions - not every company has the money to do a great explosion. According to this, they did quite good job.4. The ghouls - Very well made. I have to say they looked very good and realistic. Nice work.5. The Gore - Not every film has to be as Lucio Fulci, but anyway here it was quite optimal. The only gore scene was that one with the heart. Or maybe I had a shorter version of the film so the gore scenes were cut out. Mine has 1:29.

This is just awful. It's almost as if the writer had heard particulars of several Lovecraft stories, but didn't read them and didn't understand the basic concepts of his particular type of horror.While this one isn't a meandering mess of plot holes, such as Dagon is, the Lovecraftian elements feel like they've been welded onto a preexisting plot that has absolutely nothing to do with it.Full Moon has a number of Lovecraft adaptations that are fun, if not exactly true to either the story or atmosphere of the originals. This, unfortunately, isn't one of them. Skip this one and watch Reanimator again. Or even Castle Freak. Both of which have at least something of a Lovecraftian feel to them.