Movie Review: H.P. LOVECRAFT’S WITCH HOUSE

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN / Employees Author

Posted: July twentieth, 2022 / 02:08 AM

Score: Not Rated
Stars: Portia Chellelynn, Michelle Morris, Julie Anne Prescott, Erin Trimble, Shonda Laverty, Andie Noir, John Johnson, Joe Padgett, Solon Tsangaras
Writers: Bobby Easley & Ken Wallace
Director: Bobby Easley
Distributor: Horror Wasteland Photos Worldwide
Launch Date: July 5, 2022 (digital/DVD)

Enjoyable truth: H.P. Lovecraft’s 1932 brief story “The Goals within the Witch Home” actually is partly about geometry. Lovecraft’s protagonist, Walter Gilman, is a mathematician attempting to show that sure shapes and planes, in relation to 1 one other, can create gateways to different universes.

That angle (pardon the pun) has been adopted in H.P. LOVECRAFT’S WITCH HOUSE, the newest adaptation of the story. It was beforehand made because the MASTERS OF HORROR episode “Goals within the Witch-Home,” directed by the late Stuart Gordon – cited on this movie’s “thanks” part – and scripted by Dennis Paoli. Earlier than that, with out credit score to Lovecraft or his work, it was the idea for the function THE CRIMSON CULT, that includes Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee, directed by Vernon Sewell, written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln, from a display story by Jerry Sohl. Moreover, there’s a online game model.

For H.P. LOVECRAFT’S WITCH HOUSE, director Bobby Easley and his co-writer Ken Wallace replace the narrative to the current and provides the protagonist, now a girl, some life exterior of her predicament.

Alice (listed in a Lovecraft-worthy paradox as Michelle Morris within the onscreen credit, however as Portia Chellelynn on IMDB and within the publicity supplies) is a grad scholar in hiding from her bodily battering ex-boyfriend.

After staying together with her buddy Kelly (Erin Trimble) for a number of months, Alice feels it’s time to get a spot of her personal. Her professor (John Johnson) means that Alice room at a storied previous home close to campus.

Alice is delighted, exclaiming over the individuality of the home’s design. She’s not thrown off by the brusqueness of home-owner Edda (Shonda Laverty), nor the truth that she’s given a really messy albeit big attic room.

Edda’s niece Tommi (Julie Anne Prescott) is exceedingly pleasant, and helps Alice tidy up very quickly. However there are rats, and nightmares about these different dimensions Alice is attempting to entry …

What works about H.P. LOVECRAFT’S WITCH HOUSE is the general sense of chaos, that something may occur at any second. Alice reaches a degree the place she can not inform waking state from desires, and we’re pulled alongside together with her on this.

A part of the motion additionally takes place at Lovecraft’s well-known (fictional) Miskatonic College, which works as pleasing homage. We’re made to grasp sufficient about “sacred geometry” to suppose it’s a stable foundation for this sort of storytelling.

The spirit and colours of the blacklight-esque cinematography by d.p. James Brenton additionally really feel in step with Lovecraft’s descriptions.

Sadly, this final additionally makes sections of the movie so darkish that it’s a bit tough to make out what’s taking place. This can be intentional, in step with the supply materials – Lovecraft typically described pictures which might be solely partially seen – however it’s irritating.

H.P. LOVECRAFT’S WITCH HOUSE in some methods seems to be and feels prefer it may need been made within the ‘70s. Particularly, the movie demonstrates that period’s disregard as to how disparate parts do or don’t match collectively.

Supernatural orgies and discussions of “horrors and pleasures” appear extra Clive Barker than H.P. Lovecraft, and the idea of the Antichrist is distinctly anti-Lovecraftian. Girls displaying as much as skilled conferences carrying camisoles, and there’s plain previous self-reference within the type of Alice truly studying a Lovecraft e-book. None of this appears meant to be amusing, however it’s not thought-provoking or scary, both.

The home seems to be like a stable nineteenth-century mansion, which has its prospects. Nevertheless, it doesn’t have any attention-grabbing architectural properties that we will see, regardless of Alice’s enthusiasm for its development. (It’s too unhealthy the filmmakers didn’t have entry to the first location for INCARNATION, which appears to have been constructed with “sacred geometry” in thoughts.)

H.P. LOVECRAFT’S WITCH HOUSE is an indie fever dream horror film. It’s very best quality could also be that it’s going to make older viewers nostalgic for the nice previous days of seize bag fare on the grindhouse.

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