dementia13

I read somewhere that this movie had nothing to do with H.P. Lovecraft, but was given its title solely in the hopes of attracting viewers. Because there's nothing about the movie itself that would attract viewers. I'm not a fan of the "so bad it's good" idea, it's just a mask for people who can't admit to liking lowbrow or low-budget movies. But this movie isn't "lowbrow", it's just bad. It's got no acting and no thrills, and possibly may be the only movie I've seen about which I didn't like anything at all. One of the very worst I've seen, and far worse than any of the films I've seen that turn up on the IMDb "Bottom 100" list. This is not even one you'd watch for curiosity's sake.

I've seen movies I really hated, and this is not one of them. But I couldn't find anything to like in this movie. I watched it because Cheryl Smith was in it, but she wasn't very good. I read somewhere that she said there was barely even a script to work with, and blamed it for damaging her career. Terrible camera work and editing don't do anybody any favors, either. So, bad writing, bad acting, bad editing, bad camera work? What's left? I wouldn't call it the worst movie ever, or even the worst movie from producer Charles Band ("The Dead Hate the Living" stands out as a really bad effort), but I can't think of a single thing this movie does well. I guess Roddy McDowell does kind of an OK job, for the two minutes he's on screen. That's the closest to a positive I can point out. Maybe "lame" is a better description than "bad", because it's just completely lacking.

It angers me that this movie is out there in a lot of stores, where many people can make the same mistake I did and rent the damn thing. To its credit, it shows promise from the 20- to the 45-minute mark, but then just falls into an incoherent mess. I've read that this was written between takes, which would explain the ridiculous plot twists that appear out of thin air. The only thing that would explain this movie's existence at all is that some rich kid wanted to see himself in a movie, and hired all his friends to be in it. That would also explain why this utter lack of anything of quality has such good distribution. Don't even rent it to see how bad a movie can be: many of you can make better movies than this.