Reviews

This is really one of the most poorly made and written movies I have seen. The characterisations are weak and uninteresting, exposition is ham-fistedly thrown at you, conclusions bluntly presented and inconsistencies rife.

The director failed to make even the simple decision in how to pronounce 'Cthulhu' which has the effect of making the uninitiated think a new character is introduced.

The acting is weak, with the lead character switching between camp rage and comical bewilderment every other minute.

The 'horrors of a gay man in small town' allegory is completely misfired - unless gay men are often asked to seek out missing children and be raped by randy housewives.

HP Lovecraft seems to suffer from the eternal legacy of amateur fools attempting to make his works as Z-movies, of which 'Cthulhu' definitely falls into, and that is a shame as the original source material is so strong.

In summary, this is a terrible movie that has nothing in common with the original source material except for the lifting of certain names and places.

Don't go and see this film. You've seen it already, and you've seen it better. Imagine swallowing all the most treaded, tired bits of the horror/slasher genre and vomiting them up into a frying pan and mixing about for 30mins, add a really annoying garnish and you have Creep.

The beginning is a really OLD and TIRED version of "Let's have two guys in a dark tunnel system and one of them disappears...BOO!".

The main character is one-dimensional, annoying and rude. You quite quickly WANT her to die. The scary guy is just some scrawny white dude with a bad hairdo and strip light tan, brilliantly revealed to you half way through the film. Some young girls screamed, the majority of the audience laughed.

Scenes that were just too comical to be in a horror film ensue that have you are sitting there saying "DEAR GOD". If I hadn't been there with friends I would have stood up and left. And I've only ever done that in A.I.

If this is what the British film industry is producing, then do them a favour. Don't encourage them to make more of this by going to see it.