Lovecraft’s Witch House plays out like a fairly conventional haunted house film. And at the same time, the town is being terrorized by a rash of child abductions and murders. As if in response to this, the house lets her find some esoteric artifacts under a floorboard.

But while there’s very little of Dreams in the Witch House left in the script, there are enough Lovecraftian elements to make the use of the author’s name feel justified.Īlice is a student at Miskatonic University working on her graduate thesis connecting architecture, geometry, and alternate dimensions under the mentorship of Professor Sherfick (John Johnson, The Boogeyman, Belly Timber). She also meets Tommi (Julie Anne Prescott, Backwoods Bubba, Bloody Summer Camp) whom she soon finds herself in bed with.ĭirector Bobby Easley (All Sinner’s Night, The Devil Dogs of Kilo Company) and co-writer Ken Wallace (Belly Timber) have given us another very loose adaptation of one of Lovecraft’s short stories. and constantly shouts about Jesus and salvation. She soon meets Joe (Joe Padgett) who looks, and drinks, like Lon Chaney Jr. How’s that for meta?Īlice, on the run from an ex who beat her so badly she miscarried, rents the attic room at The Hannah House, the film’s actual and reputedly haunted, shooting location.

Lovecraft story that Alice (Portia Chellelynn aka Michelle Morris, Brimstone Creek Rd, Deimosimine) is reading. That scene is then revealed to be from an H.P. Less than a minute into the film a cultist rips his own eye out as part of a ritual.

Lovecraft’s Witch House to get down to business.

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