IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

The Summer of Lovecraft continues with a classic film from John Carpenter. This little diddy isn't BASED on one of Lovecraft's stories, but is instead inspired by the whole of them.

This review also has a segment filmed at ConBravo 2012, and features a number of participants and guests. A huge thanks to the folks there; they were incredibly accommodating.
Anyway, this week's review is called:

IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS

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WITCH HUNT (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

The Summer of Lovecraft continues with more shenanigans as we take a look at the infamous SEQUEL to last episode's "Cast a Deadly Spell". Replacing Fred Ward with Dennis Hopper, and using Julian Sands and Eric Bogosian as the villains, one must wonder: Does this film rise to the challenge of its predecessor...or should it be tossed on the concrete like a private eye's well smoked cigarette?

(Hint: The answer is that it sucks) Hold onto your hats, kids, this is...

WITCH HUNT

 

CAST A DEADLY SPELL (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

Welcome back, friends, to the Summer of Lovecraft. For the next three months I'll be reviewing movies and books based on the work of HP Lovecraft, and providing a humorous running commentary.

This week I have a movie I've promised to review for a while now. I finally got to it. It has a surprisingly all star cast (Fred Ward, David Warner, Clancy Brown, Julianne Moore, etc.), and is actually a pretty decent film. PLUS the review has a quick cameo from the Nostalgia Critic shot at ConBravo 2012, so everything is pretty awesome there. What movie is this, you ask? Why its...

CAST A DEADLY SPELL

THE DUNWICH HORROR (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

Welcome back, friends, to the Summer of Lovecraft. For the next three months I'll be reviewing movies and books based on the work of HP Lovecraft, and providing a humorous running commentary.

This week, its a direct to TV film for SyFy. And it was directed by everyone's favourite Transmorphers director/writer, Leigh Scott. Oh dear. Deary, deary me. Oh, but Jeffrey Combs is in it. So that's something! Get ready, kids, this is...

THE DUNWICH HORROR

MONSTER BRAWL (Better Off Read)

This is a short review, and it is out of order with the rest of the week...but its about a film that I saw and just *HAD* to talk about. Do you like monster movies? Cheesy B- and Z-grade flicks? Do you like wrestling? Ever wanted to see what would happen if a vampire and a mummy got into a smackdown? Well look no further, my friends, because I have just the movie for you! This is...

MONSTER BRAWL

HP Lovecraft's "NECRONOMICON"

Welcome back, friends, to the Summer of Lovecraft. For the next three months I'll be reviewing movies and books based on the work of HP Lovecraft, and providing a humorous running commentary.

We have entered into the "quality" phase off Lovecraft films: The movies that were never made for the big screen. Direct to VHS, direct to TV...oh yeah. So which one did I pick this time? Why, a movie that turns HP Lovecraft into a pulp hero. A film called...

HP LOVECRAFT'S: "NECRONOMICON"

From Beyond (Warning! Readers Advisory!)

Welcome back, friends, to the Summer of Lovecraft. For the next three months I'll be reviewing movies and books based on the work of HP Lovecraft, and providing a humorous running commentary.

We missed a week as I got my schedule synched up with that of stage actor Leeman Kessler, who will be joining the Chasing the Muse team for the next 10 weeks in the role of none other than Howard Phillips Lovecraft himself! But oh, friends...what a movie we have for you today.

It is none other than another acclaimed Lovecraftian adaptation by director Stuart Gordon, starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. That's right, my friends, this week we're looking at...

FROM BEYOND