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and fabled horror icon HP Lovecraft is a notoriously difficult author to
translate to screen, mostly because his stories involve world eating
tentacle monsters, and that shit is expensive. And usually sorta goofy.
Instinctively, filmmaking team Biff (The Voice Inside) Juggernaut knows
this, so they just went balls out here, lovingly crafting (ahem) a mélange
of goofball comedy skits, stark horror shorts, and pop culture junk,
effectively creating a twisted world of HP-infected madness. The 'funny'
bits involve a reporter (Elias, Voice Inside) walking around bothering
people about HP Lovecraft, guerilla theater style. Said reporter's hijinks
suture the other, somewhat disparate bits together. Is he actually funny?
No, he's sort of a jackass, but an over-amped actor wandering the city
streets asking random strangers about an obscure, long-dead writer is too
absurd not to smile, at least a little. Elias's mugging is wrapped around
a bunch of shorts, some horrific (the gooey "Bugboy", stop-motion
creepfest "Remain") and some tongue-in-cheek ( a pretty funny jab at
Lovecraft's bleak "The Outsider". Also included is a visit to Troma
studios (which quickly degenerates into a Lloyd Kaufman snake-oil show, as
he endlessly plugs his bullshit movies), and some R-rated clips from
Lovecraft porn freakshow Re-Penetrator. Taken as a culture-jamming whole,
it's an entertaining, low-budget romp through the comic-horror gutter,
well worth a look if you've got any interest in the ironically humorless
Lovecraft.
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-Sleazegrinder
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