This film is a horrendous representation of a brilliant short story by the same name, written by H.P. Lovecraft. I read the story right before I saw the movie and was greatly anticipating seeing this story play out on film. What happened to the story? This is such a loosely-based movie that a viewer should be warned. If you read the story, just stare at your TV and imagine it playing out in front of you, I guarantee that will be much more entertaining than watching "Beyond the Wall of Sleep". The over-acting is horrible, simply put - I've seen better acting in porn. It will not attain cult classic status because of this reason. Plan 9 from Outer Space you can at least laugh at, this movie just made me want to sleep and hopefully that would allow me to miss the ending, but I stuck through it and was well disappointed. How this could win at a film festival whose mission statement is to promote the proper use of Lovecraft in cinema is beyond me. Save your money.
Review of Beyond the Wall of Sleep
