There's a nightmarish quality to this film that make it one of the best independent Lovecraft adaptations, behind 'Cool Air' and 'The Call of Cthulhu'. If you don't know the original story, it might seem a bit disjointed, but this adds to the surreal, dreamlike feel of the film.
It's a blue-eyed wonder that there haven't been more adaptations of Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", as it's just about the most easily filmable of his stories. A man travels to an isolated village, discovers a race of half-human, half-sea monster inhabitants, and learns he's one of them. This film and Stuart Gordon's big-budget 'Dagon' are about the only real adaptations of "Shadow Over Innsmouth" I've seen, and of them, this 26-minute indie beats the crap out of the full-length 'Dagon'.
It's a blue-eyed wonder that there haven't been more adaptations of Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", as it's just about the most easily filmable of his stories. A man travels to an isolated village, discovers a race of half-human, half-sea monster inhabitants, and learns he's one of them. This film and Stuart Gordon's big-budget 'Dagon' are about the only real adaptations of "Shadow Over Innsmouth" I've seen, and of them, this 26-minute indie beats the crap out of the full-length 'Dagon'.