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When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Hearing that the fabled Necronomicon is in a library, writer H.P. Lovecraft wants to use it to help his writing. After finding it hidden in a secret compartment under the library, he reads three stories from it.The Good Story(s): The Drowned-After a devastating loss, a man is shown the crumbling hotel he has just inherited after his relatives have all died under mysterious accidents. When he learns the truth about his relative's actual deaths, he uses supernatural means to prove their validity. When he finally learns the secret buried underneath his house, he begins to question what really happened to his family. On the whole, this was a great story with a lot to like. One of the better parts to this one is the undeniable and utterly creepy atmosphere here. After starting off in the Gothic territory with a huge mansion, darkly lit hallways and strange rooms, it soon shifts over into the typical Lovecraft story with mysterious creatures, unknown incantations and a general feeling of unease that erupts for no reason. It's a great example of Lovecraft done right, especially when mixed with the Gothic opening. It's action-packed finale is a great conclusion, and makes it end on a high-note that most really don't have.The Bad Story(s): The Cold-Told through flashback, a young woman arrives in Boston looking for a new start, and she moves in to a new apartment complex. Told she is not to interfere with a resident doctor who also lives there, she goes on until he is required to save her and they come in contact. When she discovers that he is secretly conducting strange experiments in his room, he tries to keep the true nature of his work secret. This one was pretty interesting, and it moved a lot faster than it should, but the main problem about this episode was that the whole thing was built around a twist ending that was quite easily spotted and doesn't come at all as a surprise it should be. It really should work, but because it has come along so often, there's just the feeling of a clichéd style to this, and that lowers it into this category. Otherwise, this would be in the top one, as it is a good one, just let down by a weak and predictable ending.Whispers-Chasing a suspect, a policewoman loses her partner/lover and she has to track them both down. While navigating through a deserted building, she is attacked and happens upon a giant pit littered in mangled bodies. After being tormented and tortured by various visions, she is finally able to put it all to rest. Easily the weakest if the three, and despite providing the real gore in the film, isn't at all scary and is instead just a bore. Frankly, with all the deformed bodies and gore thrown around here there's very little about this that should fail on that alone, but it just so bland and lifeless that there's little hope for the great bloodshed on display It is a great wonder to look at with the cave itself being utterly freaky looking and the central pit of bodies displays the kind of darkened aura normally associated with his work, but this is just not scary enough to be worthwhile.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Brief Nudity.

Good props, good music, good scenery, good lighting and competent actors with Jeffrey Combs at the helm of the wrap around make this movie worth watching. The main plot is kept delightfully simple - H.P. Lovecraft goes to a monastery library to catch a forbidden glimpse of the Necronomicon. He steals the key to a gated chamber where he finds a safe containing the Necronomicon; setting off a mysterious mechanism that apparently locks him inside. He then sits at the table; flip open his writing tablet and rather than copying pages, he proceeds to write three stories inspired by the fishy effervescence of alien magic contained therein.That's when things get weirder than they already are. Not for the character, but for the viewer. The average viewer is not nearly familiar enough with Lovecraft's writings to understand how he portrayed the traditional family unit, and therefore how to understand what the movie producers were trying to translate onto film. Family and procreation in Lovecraft stories were at best only relevant in terms of interbreeding with aliens (shadow over innsmouth); at worse a social mechanism that has the capacity to de-evolve humans into violent primates (lurking fear). Lovecraft made no bones about it - the family that stays together, gets strange together.Without a lens of literary context to see this movie through, it's no wonder that it ultimately translates into an anti-abortion message. You have one character that is a perpetually pregnant woman; and another character that is bargaining to continue her pregnancy to save her own life. Perhaps the producers of this movie should have considered how these elements would affect the female half of the audience rather than just hoping everyone would "get it."With that said, I have no reason to believe that there is an anti- abortion message in this movie; particularly since the first story burns a Bible early on. If that doesn't establish where this movie stands in terms of religious values, I'm not sure what will. Also, a horror movie is probably the worst place to try to send an anti-abortion message; and certainly not from aliens that drink human bone marrow like a milkshake.I wanted to give this a 10 out of 10, as they did a great job with what they had to work with. However, since literary context is necessary, I am taking it down a notch since I have to, once again, encourage people to read Lovecraft to understand what's going on. For me, the ideal Lovecraft movie would not only accurately express his literary vision; but in such a way that the mainstream audience can understand it too.

I have to admit that I have not read any of Lovecraft's works, hence I cannot include any comparisons between the stories to the film in my verdict.Although films based on books rarely meet expectations, there are those which are a great and sometimes they are even better than the books. I suppose fans of Lovecraft's works will be inclined to support the former case as I find it difficult to imagine any fan possibly enjoying this film. I was restless, constantly looking at the clock and tried my best to hang in there until the credits rolled just for the hell of it. This film is neither coherent nor interesting, but just loose tales cut and edited together with nothing that catches your attention or interest.I would like to keep myself short, but I advise anyone to stay away from this horrible film. It is not even good enough for time-killing! 3/10

H.P. Lovecraft's gloomy short stories about obsession and the supernatural monsters that lurk all around us unnoticed by society at large naturally lend themselves to a multi-storied omnibus fright film format. Well, this trio of truly terrifying tales does the master full justice, combining both supremely sepulchral midnight-in-the-graveyard moodiness and jump-out-at-you startling straightforward shocks with often genuinely frightening results.First yarn, "The Drowned" - Wealthy Bruce Payne inherits a crumbling old seaside hotel that unbeknown to Payne has a foul carnivorous demon residing in the murky basement. Directed with exceptional style and grace by Chistopher Gans, this particularly chilling humdinger is highlighted by Richard Lynch's touching turn as a bitter man who renounces his faith in God after losing his wife and child in a shipwreck and direct-to-video erotic thriller perennial Maria Ford's strikingly eerie, ethereal and even strangely sexy cameo as Payne's dead girlfriend who's resurrected as a ghostly, pallid, mossy-haired zombie.Second vignette, "The Cold" - Sweet young runaway Bess Myer rents a room at a shabby apartment with a lonely, reclusive scientist (movingly played by David Warner) residing on the weirdly freezing top floor. When Myer befriends the sad, fragile Warner she learns that he has discovered the secret of immortality, which not surprisingly comes at an especially terrible price: Warner can only remain alive by constant fresh injections of human spinal fluid! Director Shusuke Kaneko manages to milk considerable poignancy from this haunting parable about the horrible price one must pay for cheating fate, coaxing fine supporting performances from Millie Perkins as Warner's protective landlady, Gary Graham as Myers' abusive, incestuous brute stepbrother, and Dennis Christopher as a foolishly snoopy newspaper reporter.Third and most gruesome anecdote, "Whispers" - Gung-ho female cop Signy Coleman and her more sensible partner Obba Babatunde stumble across the dark, dank and forbidding underground lair of these ancient subterranean monsters with a voracious appetite for bone marrow. Director Brian Yunza eschews the spooky atmospherics of the previous segments for a graphically visceral approach that's crudely effective in a gory, mondo disgusto, gross you out hideous sort of way. "Return of the Living Dead" 's Don Calfa and Judith Drake are wonderfully quirky as the nutty old couple guardians of the savage flesh-eating flying beasts who need new victims to keep their race thriving for all eternity.All these stories in and of themselves certainly smoke, as does the thankfully solid wraparound narrative starring Lovecraft movie vet Jeffrey ("Re-Animator," "From Beyond") Combs, who's perfectly cast as the author himself who visits a secret library to check out the legendary tome of evil "Necronomicon" and almost gets killed in the process. Barely recognizable under heavy make-up which makes him resemble a gaunt Bruce Campbell, Combs simply shines in a role he was seemingly destined to portray. Moreover, the uniformly superb special effects by such dependable artists as Tom Savini, Todd Masters and Screaming Mad George are as ghastly and grotesque as they ought to be, the splatter is likewise properly revolting and plentiful, the tone suitably creepy throughout, and, most importantly, the individual stories ultimately cohere into a provocative and penetrating meditation on man's tenuous hold on reality, exposing a scary netherworld that if intruded upon by us stupidly inquisitive mortals can prove to be quite deadly and dangerous. A superior horror anthology.