I came into this picture blind; I actually had hoped (just from the movie poster/streaming service bumper) that this was some kind of re-visiting of Heather Graham's Grindhouse character, though that notion was quickly dispelled. But I stuck around when the Miskatonic references arrived.
Exorcising/exercising her inner Nicolas Cage, she genuinely seems to be having fun during parts of this film, but that's really not enough to save it from itself. With several plot-holes and what IMDB labels 'goofs' (from emergency services procedure to simple continuity errors), I couldn't really commit to deciding whether the movie was 'so bad it's good', or just 'so very bad'.
Again, there are some truly fun things happening here that I hadn't seen before (if you stick around for the back-up camera scene, you'll see what I mean), but when combined with tropes that are so old they're new again, it's just unbalanced in places, unhinged in others.
This was no Mandy, but it wasn't Color Out of Space either. And even now, seeing that statement in black and white, I'm not certain which I'm condemning.
If you like Lovecraft and don't mind feeling a little ashamed of admitting to having seen this movie, tuck in. If nothing else, it was a pleasure, still, watching Heather Graham in anything.
Exorcising/exercising her inner Nicolas Cage, she genuinely seems to be having fun during parts of this film, but that's really not enough to save it from itself. With several plot-holes and what IMDB labels 'goofs' (from emergency services procedure to simple continuity errors), I couldn't really commit to deciding whether the movie was 'so bad it's good', or just 'so very bad'.
Again, there are some truly fun things happening here that I hadn't seen before (if you stick around for the back-up camera scene, you'll see what I mean), but when combined with tropes that are so old they're new again, it's just unbalanced in places, unhinged in others.
This was no Mandy, but it wasn't Color Out of Space either. And even now, seeing that statement in black and white, I'm not certain which I'm condemning.
If you like Lovecraft and don't mind feeling a little ashamed of admitting to having seen this movie, tuck in. If nothing else, it was a pleasure, still, watching Heather Graham in anything.