This is an earlier production from the same guy who did Dead@17, and yet it really reinforces what's wrong with the later film's production: bad acting and too much music. Here, things are played much straighter with decent acting and reserved moments of music for tension, and the effect is so much better.
It's a pretty cool story: a failing writer with marital troubles trades in his laptop for Lovecraft's pillow, which apparently is in fact Lovecraft's pillow as it induces insanity in his wife. This of course gives him plenty of material to write with, so he trades the pillow back for the laptop. It actually kind of fits Lovecraft's own modus operandi: a person attracted to some promise of exposure to an Other gets it, only it turns out to be completely horrific. Besides, sometimes Lovecraft comes off as if he really just couldn't sleep.
I really like this short. I'm not the biggest fan of Lovecraft or Stephen King (they have their influence and their perks), but it's a little more original than zombies and babes and at a couple of junctures is quite thrilling. Good work, Steensland, and keep doing it, this stuff is great.
--PolarisDiB
It's a pretty cool story: a failing writer with marital troubles trades in his laptop for Lovecraft's pillow, which apparently is in fact Lovecraft's pillow as it induces insanity in his wife. This of course gives him plenty of material to write with, so he trades the pillow back for the laptop. It actually kind of fits Lovecraft's own modus operandi: a person attracted to some promise of exposure to an Other gets it, only it turns out to be completely horrific. Besides, sometimes Lovecraft comes off as if he really just couldn't sleep.
I really like this short. I'm not the biggest fan of Lovecraft or Stephen King (they have their influence and their perks), but it's a little more original than zombies and babes and at a couple of junctures is quite thrilling. Good work, Steensland, and keep doing it, this stuff is great.
--PolarisDiB