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Title: flat, disappointing
Review: I'm not sure where this one went wrong ... O'Bannon has a decent track record for genre pictures, and everyone else here seems to think this a faithful rendition. Sure, the original story is relatively intact, but what about atmosphere? There is no trace of those obsessional qualities that make Lovecraft's fiction so engaging. The music is lousy, the dialogue dubbing as bad as any chop-socky bomber, and the acting basically faxed in. Instead of Lovecraft's dread & nihilist drive and we get is a lame whodunnit & revenge number. Not sure what a brightly-lit glass brick office has to do with "eldritch" either. No fun.
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