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‘The Devil’s spawn is about to open the gates of Hell’
The Dunwich Horror is a 2008 American horror film about a single mother who delivers a monstrous baby boy, somehow connected to a dark prophecy involving the Black Brotherhood, a book called the Necronomicon, and a demonic portal.
The movie was written and directed by Leigh Scott, who also co-stars, based on the 1928 novella by H.P. Lovecraft.
The movie stars Sarah Lieving, Griff Furst, Dean Stockwell, Jeffrey Combs and Natacha Itzel.
Reviews:
“Combs is the best actor in the film but sadly they cast him as a drooling redneck moron […] this is super low budget with terrible acting, an awful script and some laugh-out-loud effects. It also struggles to make any sense.” Eat Horror
” …a generic SyFy original movie about exorcists and shoves its mediocre CGI in your face over and over again, hoping that it’ll be enough to make this scary, somehow […] this is a really good example of what happens when you spend so much time thinking about effects that you completely lose an interesting story between the cracks.” Films in Boxes
“Just when the film seems in danger of settling into a passable competence, Leigh Scott kills it with ridiculous scenes like where guru Jeffrey Alan Pilars floats into a room a foot off the ground and delivers his portents as all the while women in a state of undress writhe in the background like somnambulistic belly dancers.” Moria
“It doesn’t really try to stay loyal to the original material and is instead more of a messy remix. The special effects are appalling, far worse than you’d imagine considering the caliber of the cast! The plot is hit and miss and the whole thing is spotty at best.” Platypuschow
” …there are some redeem qualities; imaginative sets and locations with rich textures and Gothic qualities. The actors aren’t bad; just misdirected. The photography is immersing if you can look past the cheap cameras. The good editing helps swallow the pill, but that, too, has its limits. The special effects are ambitious but range from bad to horrendous.” Tales of Terror
“While it does retain the general plot of Lovecraft’s story, nearly everything is left unfulfilled or poorly executed. Director Scott appears to be a Lovecraft fan, yet he contorts the story enough to make it frustrating […] He fills the movie with fade-outs for no reason in the middle of scenes, annoying glitches and hyper-edits every ten seconds.” Video Junkie
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Cast and characters:
Sarah Lieving … Professor Fay Morgan
Griff Furst … Professor Walter Rice
Dean Stockwell … Doctor Henry Armitage
Jeffrey Combs … Wilbur
Natacha Itzel … Caitlin
Leigh Scott … Doctor Ashley
Lauren Michele … Lavina
Lacey Minchew … Amanda
M. Steven Felty … Zecheria
Collin Galyean … Tom/Narrator
Jeffrey Alan Pilars … Olas Wormius
Richard D. Zeringue … Father Hoadley
Shirly Brener … Mrs Bowers
Britney M. Hurst … Zumi
Jesse Barksdale … Pap
Marcus Lyle Brown … Father Endalade
Joseph Diaz … Bryce
Tony R. Lewis … Mr Bowers
Ronnie Stutes … Doctor Houghton
Walter F. Brown … Charles Ward
Lauren Norfleet … Amelia
Kent Gable … Al Hazared
Filming locations:
Lafayette, Louisiana
Alternate titles:
Witches: The Darkest Evil
Film facts:
Dean Stockwell, who plays Doctor Armitage in this film, played the role of Wilbur Whateley in the 1970 version of The Dunwich Horror.
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