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Summary: Am I the only one that hated this film?
Comment: As a longtime fan of the author, I suppose I'm harshly critical of film adaptations of his works. That being said, this movie still stands out in my mind as one of the worst, most generic horror movies ever made, regardless of how badly they butcher the original story. My review is broken down into two parts: the views of a Lovecraft fan, and a more general view.
The original story for "The Unnamable" is only 20 pages long or so, involves two characters, and only takes place in one scene. Hardly the stuff movies are made of. The original story deals with the notion of a creature so hideous and evil, that it cannot even be named...yet the maker of this film dared to physically portray him. Can't name him, but you can put a guy in a hairy rubber suit and call him "unnamable"! Lovecraft was a respected horror writer because he left things to the readers' imaginations, and attempts to make his works into movies are almost always the quests of fools.
As far as generic horror movies go, this one is exceptionally generic. A bunch of college students at "Arkham University" and bearing the names of characters from OTHER Lovecraft stories investigate a haunted house. The creature preying on them in the house is laughable, not scary. The students suffer a number of horror movie cliches, and most viewers can not only easily predict which students survive the ordeal, but also the order in which the others will be killed.
I consider this one to be one of the worst movies of recent decades, if not the worst. The monster is not scary, the characters aren't interesting, and the plot (nothing like the story it's "based on") is utterly unoriginal.
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Summary: let's spend the night in a haunted house
Comment: An old abandoned house has an urban legend attached to it. Legend says there is a creature in the house so horrifying there is no name to describe it. Local college kids hear the legend, decide to spend the night in the spooky old house. They are killed one by one by a hideous demon in the dark house.
How can you go wrong with kids spending the night in a haunted house? These types of films are great for rainy nights. They did a great make-up job on the demon. Although based on a Lovecraft story, this one does manage to set a creepy mood. Some people will say the sequel is better, in my opinion that is not true. The sequel is a cheesy, tongue in cheek, almost comedy like.
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Summary: "I am a old man and trees grow very slow."
Comment: Run time of 87 minutes divided by a body count of 5 equals 17 minutes of talking between deaths. Not too impressive.
Six college students end up in a old creepy house in the middle of the night. Little do they know that upstairs lives a ill tempered albino half-cat, half-woman, half-bat, half-goat creature that likes to rip out throats. Actually little does the viewer know either cause we don't see her until the very end of the movie.
Entertaining enough to keep you awake but that's about it. NIGHT OF THE DEMONS or HELL NIGHT would be a better pick. For flesh hounds like me this film is somewhat notable cause Laura Albert (STONE COLD, LIVE BY THE FIST) has a brief semi-nude scene in a dark room from a bad angle.
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Summary: Another film based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft.
Comment: I have just bought the unnamable on dvd from Anchorbay.co.uk, the case has both the unnamable and unnamable 2 dvds and it was realy cheap so I thought what the heck I'll just buy it. Now I know the film was not a classic but it was pretty good and I enjoyed watching it. The story begins 300 years ago in the past when some old guy has kept his daughter locked up in his house, we soon find out that his daughter is some hideous creature or demon she breaks out and then kills her father by ripping his heart out (make sure that you get the unrated edition). The story soon takes place in the present when Randolph Carter who is a college student telling the story to his friends who don't believe him so one of his friends decides to spend the night all alone in the old house where the creature lives, yeah really smart guy. So others start to join the day after he disapears including two couples from the college, the creature itself wasn't scary but some of the death scenes were great like one of the guys having his skull bashed on the floor and his brain spilling out so the gore was great.
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Summary: Solid Monster Lovecraft Adaption
Comment: This is one of my favorite Lovecraft adaptions of all time and I have all of them. A sorcerer turns his daughter into a hideous monster 300 years ago. In the present (er...80s) a group of college kids investigate the legend by going into the house of The Unnamable. Can the kids survive? Boobs, hot chicks, gore galore, a hideous monster and the Necronomicon make this a flick you will never forget. Though obviously not at the level of Reanimator or From Beyond, this is a worthwhile purchase for Lovecraft devotees.
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