Product Description

Journey into the pit of hell with horror master H.P. Lovecraft (Jeffrey Combs) in this chilling thriller. An intoxicating thrill ride filled with gruesome special effects, Necronomicon combines the classic horror of Evil Dead with the gothic pleasures of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Year: 1993 Director: Brian Yuzna, Christophe Gans, Shsuke Kaneko Starring: Bruce Payne, Belinda Bauer, Bess Meyer

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #200 in VHS
• Released on: 1997-08-05
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 96 minutes

Customer Reviews

DO NOT BUY THIS!
It is not very good at all. I bought this in a discount movie bin and wasn't expecting a lot, but I found this movie disapointing. I've read most of Lovecraft's stories along with L. Sprague DeCamp's biography of HPL, and I think that if he were around now he would have nothing to do with this mostly terrible movie. The parts of the movie that show Lovecraft copying stuff from the Necronomicon was mildly amusing- but otherwise this film was abysmal. Check out the movie "Dagon" (which is actually an adaption of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth") for a better movie portrayal of the works of Lovecraft.

Entertaining
This has all the makings of a good Lovecraft adatpion, namely Jeffery Combs and the Necronomicon. 3 stories linked together by the mysterious black book called Necronomicon. Really gory, but doesn't take itself too seriously. Combs is the actor king of H.P. Lovecraft adaptions and Brian Yuzna is also a really good contributor to Lovecraft films, namely his skills as a producer and the more recent Beyond Re-Animator. Worth a look for anyone even casually interested in modern horror films.

Entertaining B Movie
I got this on the cheap, and if you're a fan of cheesy, B movie horror with lots of gooey special effects and can find it cheap, do so. Don't expect a legitimate Lovecraft tie-in: Lovecraft appears as a character in a "wraparound" uniting three unrelated stories, but it's not Lovecraft the historical character--there's a disclaimer at the end of the film admitting as much--nor do the stories themselves reflect Lovecraft's ethos. Lovecraft was about understatement and suggestion; this film takes the opposite track with dripping gore and monsters in full view. To me, that's no bad thing, but as you can tell from the reviews here, plenty of hard-core Lovecraft fans disagree. What the movie does offer is plenty of slime covered latex masks and monsters, and you get good views of them; one pretty good story, one mediocre story, and one gross-out fairly stupid story; lots of mediocre to bad acting, and a quick, totally gratuitous and titillating (so to speak) shot of one of the actresses naked in the shower. If that's what you want to pay your money for, go for it. I admit to my own amusement and entertainment.