As Good As It Gets

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Once again another poorly handled H.P Lovecraft story. How? This movie is better with the sound turned off and I play music over it making the Unnamable some kind of far-out music video, because as a music video this movie is very exciting and funny and clever. O.K. moving on, yes I admit that I'm being overly critical, I mean its just a simple B-movie it can never be more than that, hey and I know that even A-movies rarely attain glory or greatness, by and large most movies are not very good. Maybe its too slow or the acting is bad or its the plot. And I know that the Film industry is a money-making enterprise first and foremost, y'know so I'm aware that my complaining about the Movie Biz is ridiculous akin to complaining about the weather, but we have so much potential, we could do so much with cameras, film and actors, with sets and soundtracks we can make each other laugh and cry and be inspired. With movies we have given birth to dreams which in turn gave birth to new movies, movies are a form of language but evolving much faster than language. For the music video version of The Unnamable, I played some Pavement, Cat Power and Andrew Bird, it was awesome! Totally Beautiful and genius, and I'm in no way taking credit for anything all I did was press play.

The Unnamable (1988)** out of ****Directed by Jean-Paul OuelletteWith Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Charles Klausmeyer and Alexandra Durell Here is JaJa when four bourgeoisie's college kids goes to an abandoned old house without known an unnameable creature lives killing people. Performances, storytelling and effects are totally out in this funny film - it is supposed to be an horror one -, in spite of it, the scene in the library is good as Mark Kinsey Stephenson, who is the only one who have a respectable performance with an amazing character an give it to this movie a kind of "decent" rating. For the rest, beware. Based on a story of H.P Lovecraft.

I have heard some people say that H.P. Lovecraft's works are unfilmable. I guess that I would say that they did a worthy job with "The Unnamable", but aside from the fact that another movie with a grotesque monster's property getting invaded by horny teens seems a little silly, the people here can't really act (well duh; these movies don't star Katharine Hepburn). Particularly laughable is the line "You're very brave." And if you remember the rules laid out in "Scream", you can guess which people survive here.So, this is pretty much a way to pass time. For better efforts at filming Lovecraft stories, there's "Die Monster Die!" and "The Dunwich Horror".

I watched this movie on Monsters HD, which usually show the best part right before the movie starts. There wasn't a darn thing on, so I decided to watch. I really have to say this is a class 'A' clunker! The main actor wasn't that bad, but everybody, I mean EVERYBODY else in the entire cast was absolutely atrocious! Right about the time I had re-named it "unwatchable", there was a gratuitous topless sex scene. The girl was hot, so I watched a little bit more. Then came the murders, and they were pretty cool, but WAY too few to hold a feature-length flick. If only there was a bit more plot and A LOT more monster scenes, even the cheezoid acting would've been tolerable. I gave the movie a three because of the boobs, the kills and the monster.