Absolutely Fantastic

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Why, oh why, did I watch this again after so many years, since the only thing I remembered from this movie was that it was bad. I guess I needed the laugh. This might be the worst H.P. Lovecraft adaptation I've ever seen on screen (so far, as I plan to see more). The acting's bad and so are the special effects. Not one suspenseful thing happens. It's not creepy or scary (though I must say the movie at least tries to be and somehow tries to capture Lovecraft's spirit... alas, it fails...) and the climax is pathetic. Some lowlife gangsters steal some coke and flee to a big mansion, taking a magician and his daughter hostage. Nothing happens for ages, and when some people do die, it's more of a laugh than a terrifying event really. Some rubbery claws come out of a fridge, some plants make a girl disappear and the bag of coke magically crawls into the fire by itself (!). What was that all about? I guess Cthulhu doesn't like coke. Good for him, because drugs are bad. And so is this movie. I hope film-makers have learned it by now: If you don't have the money to back up the story with decent actors and good special FX's, then don't make a Lovecraft-movie. The man must be break-dancing in his grave for quite some years now, with all those bad movies based on his stories...

This is the one and only film I've ever shut off without completely watching it. Poor, poor Lovecraft, having his work used so. My memory of the viewing experience: sitting on the couch in utter shock.

i rented this movie because i wasn't feeling well and was looking for bad yet amusing or inspiring (either/or, bad doesn't always mean awful) horror to pass the time. this movie has nothing to do with lovecraft in any way, and the only thing i found amusing was one character's over-acting of the horror movie staple line "what have you done to my brother (mother, sister, aunt, hand, etc....)." hilarious, that. for evil supernatural forces, you would do better to look at the evil dead series, for lovecraftian horror look to the reanimator, which is modernized but still excellent and retains some of ol' h.p.'s touches. leave this dog alone.

Juan Piquer Simon made it again.This Spanish director demonstrates once more that he is able to make an American type horror movie in spite of the fact of being Spanish.After "Pieces" and "Slugs" this movie is the third Simon`s horror film and it`s as amusing as the other two.Several young punks kidnap a magician and his two assistants after their show in a fair and make them go to the magician`s house.First they seem to feel safe in the magician`s old mansion... But the mansion has a secret and our young delinquents couldn´t have chosen a worse place to hide...Why?...Well you must see the movie to find out.If you like good horror movies, you`ll enjoy this one...