Vashirdfel Simply A Masterpiece

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Frances Chung Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

cokezero99 This is a light-hearted "nerd-based" film about two friends, one of whom is a descendant of the actual H.P. Lovecraft who get wrapped up in a conspiracy about cultists wanting to wake Cthulhu using a magical amulet. The go on an adventure together, later meeting amusing characters and Lovecraftian monsters all done in B-grade level effects.The characters are somewhat bland and simply fill out their allotted roles. The comedy is rather in the light-hearted area rather than seriously funny. The effects are a mixed bag - not convincing but full on B grade like you'd expect from a low budget film. It has some amusing points but yeah, nothing amazing.5/10 because it's average.

rock_bustin Honestly,I split a gut several times laughing at this B-Movie style piece. Forget the Lovecraft Afficionados who would condemn this to the ash-heap of film history. It has several very funny scenes and lots of gag that spoof the very people who are writing those bad reviews.Two geeky slackers who don't even know when a pretty girl(Sanjuta Day) is propositioning them are stuck in an endless number of work-days performing meaningless tasks in their cubicle-bounded world. All of a sudden one of them - a Last Lovecraft Descendant - gets called upon to somehow keep the nefarious Cult of Cthulu from reuniting the two halves of a lost relic that will allow Great Cthulu to rise again from his sunken city and take over the world.The rest of the movie details their floundering attempts to do same whilst surviving all kinds of one-liners, spoofed characters, silly situations - and a fair amount of gore. Special FX are minimal and the movie pretty much goes downhill slowly in plot and sensibility as the movie proceeds.Nonetheless, I repeatedly found myself laughing out loud at the silly gags and very funny characters they run in to. It has little to do with Lovecraft other than hijacking his name and some of his monsters but it is still worth a watch fer sure. There is some gore and there's a lot of language such as f-bombs too. There's also a lot of sly satire at the expense of the various characters - For example, a pitiful half-man/half-fish is kept alive by one of the Good Guys by sprinkling tropical fish food into his drooling mouth. You get the idea. Six stars for the laughs only but worth a watch.-Rock_Bustin

peteranderson975 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 CthulhuA 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

Theadeaus The previous reviewer must have been picking at popcorn on the floor to have missed that not only is Cthulhu in this film but indeed rips a T-rex in half and uses a triceratops head as a weapon.This movie was written so that anyone could get the gist of some of the works of H.P.L into their heads. yes there are some glaring errors and physics is left entirely out of the equation at key moments but this movie is a laugh riot if you are a Call of Cthulhu or RPG fan.We rented this not expecting much but ended up laughing so hard during it that I personally had to leave the room to catch my breath. it has loads of wonderful quotes (which i am surprised not to see here) If you are looking for a horror movie, look elsewhere. if you are looking for a damn good time with some tentacles and some blood and real guts (pig guts!) then this is the film for you. I know i shall be purchasing it myself