i be really confuse by other user comment . after read them i order a copy from the state a fast a my finger could click to amazon . i be a huge fan of lovecraft and to be tell that this be the best film adaption of his work and that i would never even heard of it make me think i be about to get my slime cover tentacle on a forgotten gem . then it arrive and i must ask the other user and be you all completely bonkers . this be a terrible and terrible film . it badly light and shot and edit and act and script . when the femme non fetale first arrive at the pi office it this dreadful side shot which just sit there for about five minute while the two of them fail to act in each others general direction from the opposite side of the screen . the rest of the film seem to consist of either see it all before pov or more of these overly lit side shot and i think dan obannon could shoot film . thank god the flashback break up the boredom . in a voice over ward wife say something like he just leave the party and say he have to do some work that couldn not wait and at which point ward in the flashback say i have to leave the party to do some work that can not wait . brilliant . it go on like that for an hour and forty tedious minute with a couple of goofy and gooey effect do not liven up the proceeding one bit and until it end with chris sarandon ham it up for all he worth while i consider hang myself from the tedium of it all . come on guy and u lovecraft fan have to be forgive occasionally by the general low quality and or or budget of his related movie and but we shouldn not let this film off the hook just because it stick fairly close to the original story . i mean and dagon be rubbish but at least it fun rubbish and this be just plain dull .