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Necronomicon
1993·96 min·★ 5.9
Horror
H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".
Status
Released
Budget
$4,000,000
Cast
Jeffrey Combs
H.P. Lovecraft
Tony Azito
Librarian
Juan Fernández
Attendant
Brian Yuzna
Cabbie
Bruce Payne
Edward De Lapoer
Belinda Bauer
Nancy Gallmore
Discussion
Dr Nostromo★ 6/10
61/100 The Book of the Dead is used to present an anthology of H.P. Lovecraft stories. It's low budget, there's nothing particularly complex or profound about the stories and, if it weren't for the gore, it'd be easy to mistake this film as a made-for-TV movie. However, I thought it came off rather well. The overacting gave it a surreal quality (including overacting master, Jeffrey Combs), the gore was sufficiently squishy and the creatures were definitely Lovecraftian in nature ...especially Cthulhu. Very entertaining. -- DrNostromo.com
