The Summer of Lovecraft

August 20th 2015 marks the 125th birthday of H.P. Lovecraft, melancholy author of weird and cosmic fiction. To mark this, the Bad Movie Marathon presents a series of reviews of adaptations of Lovecraft’s work, some very bad, others merely quite bad. Let us explain:

For the record, I was that kid at school sports days, but I grew up into that other kid; possibly because not enough people cheered me on.

Films in the Summer of Lovecraft

In descending order of quality.

1. The Call of Cthulhu – 13%
2. The Whisperer in Darkness – 28%
3. Re-Animator – 32%
4. Cast a Deadly Spell – 42%
5. Colour from the Dark – 42%
6. Cthulhu – 43%
7. Curse of the Crimson Altar – 50%
8. Cool Air – 53%
9. Witch Hunt – 54%
10. The Haunted Palace – 55%
11. The Resurrected – 57%
12. The Unnamable II: The Unnamable Returns – 63%
13. The Dunwich Horror (1970) – 64%
14. Die, Monster, Die! – 64%
15. Dagon – 65%
16. Rough Magik – 65%
17. From Beyond – 65%
18. The Dunwich Horror (2009) – 66%
19. Beyond Re-Animator – 67%
20. The Last Lovecraft – 68%
21. The Unnamable – 70%
22. HP Lovecraft’s Necronomicon: The Book of the Dead – 78%
23. City of the Living Dead – 86%