The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu

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The Cult of Cthulhu are searching for part of a relic which is the key that will raise their master from his watery tomb and free him to rule the Earth. The Council of Cthulhu possess the other half of the relic and to stop the cult they send Professor Lake (Edmund Lupinski) of Miskatonic University to take the relic to the last descendant of H. P. Lovecraft and prevent the Cult from raising Cthulhu. This descendant is Jeff Philips (Kyle Davis) who works in a boring job in a cubicle in an office with his comic-book geek friend Charlie (Devin McGinn) and wishes there was more to life. When Jeff and Charlie get home to their apartment they find Professor Lake standing there. He tries to tell them about the Cult of Cthulhu but Jeff doesn't believe any of it. Charlie on the other hand knows far too much about it and goes into a comic-illustrated history of Cthulhu and his war with the Elder Ones. Jeff does not think this makes the story any more credible, but Lake agrees that Charlie's story is true but incomplete. He reveals that Lovecraft was disguising truth as fiction and that he seemed to have a natural immunity to the madness inducing powers of Cthulhu and his General Starspawn (Ethan Wilde). The Council of Cthulhu think that this immunity has been passed down to Jeff making him the only person who can tackle Starspawn and stop the end of human civilisation. Lake's story is interrupted when the cult get to the apartment on the trail of the relic and Lake tells Jeff and Charlie to go and he gives the relic to Jeff. Lake then pulls out a large hammer on a chain with a harpoon at the other end from his bag and starts fighting off cult creatures to give Jeff and Charlie time to escape until Starspawn comes in and kills him. Jeff and Charlie have to fight off a creature with a lamprey-like sucker mouth that fixes itself to their car window. They manage to do this with just a tire iron and then they drive off. Charlie suggests that they go see a guy they went to school with who knows all about Lovecraft. Paul (Barak Hardley) is another geek who lives with his foul-mouthed grandmother. He doesn't believe their story at first but is convinced when he sees the eyes of the relic glowing and he wants in on the adventure. He has a map from a comic-book to a Captain Olaf (Gregg Lawrence) who has told stories of his encounters with spawn of Cthulhu, the Deep Ones who live in the ocean. Starspawn has called up these Deep Ones to help him to get the relic. They come ashore next to a beach party and we see and hear them slaughtering everyone from inside a tent where a woman lies cowering in fear. Jeff, Paul and Charlie have to get to Captain Olaf who lives in the middle of the desert to see if he has any idea how to defeat Starspawn and the Cult of Cthulhu A comedy based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft has potential but this was disappointing. It has a very low-budget so it really has very little in the way of effects though some of it was pretty good for the money spent. I wasn't too put off by the large amount of dysfunctional geek comedy the film has. I think I was mainly let-down by how lame the bad guys really turned out to be. Maybe they should have spread a little more madness around because apart from the Deep Ones they didn't seem any more dangerous than any bunch of mooks. And the Deep Ones had a great build-up but after their initial killing spree they were a bit crap. Lovecraft wrote about cosmic horror but there really wasn't much sign of that here. It does show some promise and if they had decent budget they may have delivered something a bit better. Rating 6/10

As anyone exposed to even ONE of Lovecraft's weird horror tales will recall, the great bulk of these stories are set and play off all the coarse, deformed distant off-shoots of the white people who descended upon Massachusetts a ship or two after the Mayflower. These people, whose ancestors were indentured servants (or white slaves) to the Mayflower folks, were forced to inbreed to produce subsequent generations of tools for rich folks, as the Puritans were too snooty and uppity to intermarry with poor peons. Eventually, according to Lovecraft, they went back down the evolutionary ladder enough rungs to attract the amorous attentions of the debauched progeny of various pre-human intelligent life forms long relegated to existence deep underground or in the ocean depths. For anyone who has seen the genetic decay evident even today in the boondocks of Massachusetts (and certain sections of Greater Boston, as well), Lovecraft's tales still ring true. However, uprooted from gloomy New England to sunny southern California, they're totally laughable (a result which LAST LOVECRAFT writer\producer Devin McGinn and "star"\cast-and-crew-caterer Kyle Davis may have been shooting for). Unfortunately, every minute of this movie elevates the duct-tape anchored skits in BE KIND, REWIND to the level of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION by way of contrast. A few homophobic jokes, crude cartoons, clumsy costumes, cheesy "special" effects, grandparents reading lines (badly), and stolen literary allusions do not an entertaining movie make. Chalk this effort up as A LOVECRAFT TOO FAR: REJECT OF CTHULHU!

Okay, I gave this a 10, because despite it's obviously low budget, this is one of the best horror comedies I've ever seen! The acting, direction, production, script, and everything else I can't think of now are just inspired goofiness! It's geeks vs. freaks, with great animated segues, wonderfully cheesy effects befitting a B-movie spoof, and very tongue-firmly-in-cheek dialogue. I love Lovecraft, but this was just a wonderfully silly send up of horror/monster films in general. I see some Young Frankenstein, Eight Legged Freaks, and Shaun of the Dead especially. All of these guys are up and coming, if anyone in Hollywood has half a brain left these days!! I demand a sequel!!!!

When the Cult of the Cthulu uncover the first of 2 pieces of a relic needed to unlock the Cthulu's prison, it's up to the last remaining bloodline of H.P. Lovecraft to protect the remaining piece from the Cult of Cthulu's possession or the Cthulu will be unleashed on the planet. For a movie about Cthulu, there's a COMPLETE absence of Cthulu. The whole film is a giant mis-step. Our main characters are extremely unlikable, the direction seems confused and the editing does nothing but squander what's left of this ultra low budget waste of time. There's nothing wrong with low budget films. I love them. This is a prime example of the kind of movies that give low budget films a bad rep. It's too cool for school attitude gets old in the first 10 minutes. "Fu@k" is said on an average of one time per sentence and feels so forced that it's uncomfortable. I shouldn't be consciously aware of how often the characters are swearing. It unnatural and completely out of place. The character of Paul is the only highlight of the whole group although since The Hangover, it seems like every fat hairy character in a comedy has to be the same person. There are a few moments of entertainment but 45 minutes in I was already calling "bullsh@t" and there was no help on the horizon. The editing takes away every comedic beat, or moment of action and pulverizes it into a helpless mess of mediocrity. This is being compared to Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer and Shaun of the Dead. That's like comparing Shark Attack 2 to Jaws and Alien. The only good thing I can say about it, is that 90 percent of the effects were done practically. That's a rare thing in movies like this these days and it's nice to see people still making an effort to do that, even if they don't look that good. I could recommend any number of other things to watch, but you're best bet is to just grab something randomly and watch it instead of this. There were two people responsible for this. One of them directed. One of them wrote it. They both produced it and edited it. There's the problem. They should've given the job to someone else and saved a lot of people an hour and a half. There aren't enough films with this subject matter. They didn't have to ruin it for everyone else.

Because honestly, when the father of Horror fiction is reduced to cheap gags, he just ceases to be scary. I give the creator kudos for knowing his Lovecraft Lore. He gets all the characters and names right, for what it is worth. But the problem is, they just aren't very scary. Two Customer Service Slackers discover that they are the keeper of a relic that will release C'Thulhu from his tomb. They go on a Nerd-Rage fest of travels across the desert to keep ahead of Deep Ones and Star Spawn in bad costumes. I guess it's a horror comedy that fails to be either scary or funny. I just dropped my rating another point on the notion.

In the vein of Shaun of the Dead, this horror comedy follows three buddies, one the last descendant of H.P. Lovecraft, trying to keep an ancient relic out of the hands of mutant fish people who want to use it to resurrect Cthulu. It's not a bad idea at all, but this film is miscalculated in just about every way possible. First off, the two main heroes, played by Kyle Davis and Devin McGinn (who wrote the screenplay), are douchebags. Davis, who plays the Lovecraft descendant, has almost no character to speak of. Virtually the only thing we know about him is he hates nerdishness and even used to beat them up in high school (note to filmmakers: who the Hell do you think is watching your H.P. Lovecraft-inspired horror movie?). McGinn has at least some nerdy tendencies (mostly a love for comic books), but he's an annoying little prick with the douchiest haircut this side of Fall Out Boy. These two soon join up with uber-nerd Barak Hardley, a bearded Lovecraft dork who has no friends and lives in his grandmother's basement, and then they constantly tease and bully him. Besides the crappy characters, it has a very lame plot that goes nowhere and ends, presumably, at the point they ran out of money. The fishy people aren't totally awful for such a low-budget film, and there is a decent animated recount of Lovecraft mythology near the beginning. Otherwise, awful. Avoid.

The fanboy dorkiness just pervaded this film like the worst stench from the bowels of Hell. I got so sick of the homie-speak and the unnecessary foul language, I just wanted every character dead within the first 15 minutes. The lamest and laziest trick in the book if you can't be bothered to write intelligent dialogue or develop your characters. I love low-budget films, and labour of love this film may have been, but the heart was definitely the only organ involved in the writing. If you want to see an homage to Lovecraft, check out the beautifully and imaginatively done "The Call of Cthulhu".

This indie film was one of the best I've seen and had me laughing out loud many times. For a fan of Lovecraft, I felt they did a wonderful job and were true to the mythos. Lovecraft sorely deserves more screen time and I would love to see a sequel. The effects were done very well and I was impressed with how scary they actually made the monsters. Enough gore to make it a horror film but not so much as to be overboard or sickening. I loved the unicorn t-shirt! The acting was perfect and believable, I am really glad their was no stupid girl to ruin the vibe of the movie with the characters mentioning sex every 5 seconds. Overall it has everything that you look for in an indie movie and more, I highly recommend!!!!!