The Tomb

First I will say that this movie is so bad, I had to stop watching after 15 minutes. The movie is basically a copycat of Saw, except that the two main characters don't seem to want to escape. They keep walking around in circles in what appears to be a warehouse. Both have been tortured and they keep finding other tortured survivors who die a few minutes later. The sound is horrible as you can barely hear what they are saying over the the loud music. Just an atrocious piece of garbage. I gave it a 1, but if we could use negative numbers, I would give it a -10. Stay away from any movies directed, written or related in any way to Ulli Lommel.

This has nothing to do with H. P. Lovecraft's' The Tomb! In fact, this is a terrible film. A waste of my time and money. I only rented this because I am a fan of Lovecraft's' work. Very disappointed indeed. Describing it as a 'Saw rip off' is giving it too much credit, but at least then a potential viewer would have a better idea of what he/she was going to see. They must have slapped Lovecraft's name on this in order to fool people into watching this peace of junk. OK, once I get past the disappointment associated with this not being a Lovecraft story it was creepy at times, but overall this is a low budget, low quality, film. The sound and lighting are of very low quality. The script is weak, the set is unimaginative, and for the most part, the acting is atrocious. Whether or not you like this kind of film or not is your business, but don't think it's Lovecraft, or you'll be disappointed too.

This movie has nothing to do with Lovecraft's story, at all. It's just a cheesy heap trying to ride on the success of the Saw films, using Lovecraft's name to give itself some semblance of credibility.

This one has it all- Lack of real plot, recurring scenes that have absolutely nothing to do with the story, horrible acting, and even worse music...

The ending was the most disappointing thing of all.

If this isn't on the Worst Films of All Time list, it very well should be.

If you ever see this in a video store, you'd do best to run as far away as possible.

I rented this DVD because it sounded better then it was.Lionsgate put it out and I am questioning their horrible taste lately.At first I was thinking yet another movie that has copied saw(but saw copied cube).I have seen a few other movies similar to saw(are you scared and unknown)which no doubt copied it's idea,but they were all watchable and had their own twist.The tomb was just boring and I wasted money on this rental and wish I could get my money back.It started out lame.When we first see the first 2 people they are injured but don't even speak to each other for the longest time.And then as the movie continues I was just bored and could not get into it.I can easily see how this bad movie went straight to video(DVD). It would be nice if these movie makers would stop making these Saw type of movies.It has been done enough.Unfortunately it won't end anytime soon and there are 2 more coming out soon that also copy this idea.

I am a huge fan of Lovecraft and recently decided to re-read his works in chronological order.

"The Tomb" was the first piece of short fiction H.P. Lovecraft wrote as an adult. I would not say that the Lovecraft story is especially scary. The written work is mostly psychological horror, a ghost story with no violence to speak of. but I was furious to learn that this low-budget shlockfest was allowed to bill this film as Lovecraft's work, when it has nothing to do with the story. I mean NOTHING.

On top of that, "The Tomb" is hardly well-known to begin with, so why choose it? For me, it dishonors the memory of Lovecraft for these awful filmmakers to get away with it.

Was this because Lovecraft's works are now in the public domain, because they are? Why not just call the film "Phantom of the Opera" or "Frankenstein?" It would make just as much sense.