The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009)

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

This may be a coincidence but if not, it perfectly describes The Last Lovecraft. The theoretical star of this flick, and I'll get into what I mean by theoretical later, is named Kyle Davis. The closing credits also list a "Kyle Davis" as being one of the caterers of the production. Now, it's not unusual for people to do multiple jobs on lower budget films. Director Henry Saine is credited several other times as well. But how often is the supposed star of a movie also the guy who gets the food for everybody else? And how many times have you ever looked at the star of a film and said "Boy, that guy really looks more like a caterer?" Well, Kyle Davis not only looks like a caterer, he emotes like one as well. He's probably the least talented and least physically attractive member of the whole cast…and he's the lead. T o me, that sums up this motion picture. It was made by people who did a nice job with a lot of the little things, but royally screwed up a lot of the big stuff.Jeff (Kyle Davis) is a miserable cubicle wretch who can't even catch a girl when she throws herself right at him. Charlie (Devin McGinn) is Jeff's fellow gift basket company employee/roommate and a snarky comic book geek. One day, a guy who looks like a fat Derek Jacobi (Edmund Lupinski) shows up and tells Jeff he's the last descendant of H.P. Lovecraft and must protect an ancient relic that could release the monstrous Cthulu to destroy the world. Jeff doesn't buy it until Cthulu's fishy minions show up and he and Charlie have to run to an even nerdier guy named Paul (Barak Hardley) for her expertise in Cthulu mythos. Paul sends them searching for a guy named Captain Olaf (Gregg Lawrence) who has experience in fighting Cthulu's monsters and they hold up in an RV in the desert and have to fight off the squid-man Starspawn (Ethan Wilde) to save the Earth.Now, there's some okay comedy mined out of a loser, a geek and a nerd playing the roles of Mankind's saviors and there are some comic booky animation sequences here that are fairly well done. Barak Hardley is by far the most amusing and entertaining presence on screen, followed by Gregg Lawrence and then…well, there was this guy who played a catatonic mer-man who probably takes the third spot, which should tell you how bad pretty much everybody else was. Kyle Davis has this weird thing going on with his right eye, like it's lazy or glass or something, and Fat Derek Jacobi stands around with his mouth open whenever he's not reading his lines like it's the first time he's ever seen them. Devin McGinn is like a kid's toy with two settings: Annoying and Super-Annoying.McGinn truly has to take most of the criticism for The Last Lovecraft being less of a "B" movie and more of a "C". He's both writer and producer of this thing, which means he probably had the last word on all the stuff that sucked. Like, for example, casting Kyle Davis as the main character. I don't mean to beat up on the guy 'cause it's not really his fault but practically anyone in the cast, even Fat Derek Jacobi or one of the extras, would have been a better choice for the part of Jeff. McGinn makes it even worse by giving Charlie far better lines and better scenes than the guy who's theoretically the star. If you didn't show people the credits and asked them which member of the cast they thought wrote The Last Lovecraft, everybody would name McGinn as the culprit. So, he casts an unappealing shlub as the main character and then totally undermines him by writing an over-sized 2nd banana part and then giving it to himself. Why McGinn didn't just make himself the star, I'll never know.The costumes and special effects aren't bad and the action scenes, for filmmakers who don't have a lot of money or expertise to pull them off, are perfectly acceptable. The movie would definitely have benefited from cramming at least 20% more humor into it. For example, when Starspawn first appears he's wearing a goofy unicorn t-shirt. I'll skip over the reasons for that. It's not a great visual gag but it works. He then wears the shirt for most of the film before, without reason or explanation, slipping into a black robe. Why not have him wear the t-shirt for the whole thing as a running joke and let the other characters, especially our heroes, crack wise about it? Why not at least have a second joke after the initial laugh that spurs him to tear off the shirt and don the robe? There are some funny bits but there's also room to wedge in more.If anybody tells you The Last Lovecraft is an exceptionally putrid mess, that person is far too full of themselves. I have seen stuff that is exponentially more atrocious than this movie. It is too flawed for me to recommend it but somebody else might enjoy it a lot more than I did.

Okay, I gave this a 10, because despite it's obviously low budget, this is one of the best horror comedies I've ever seen! The acting, direction, production, script, and everything else I can't think of now are just inspired goofiness! It's geeks vs. freaks, with great animated segues, wonderfully cheesy effects befitting a B-movie spoof, and very tongue-firmly-in-cheek dialogue. I love Lovecraft, but this was just a wonderfully silly send up of horror/monster films in general. I see some Young Frankenstein, Eight Legged Freaks, and Shaun of the Dead especially. All of these guys are up and coming, if anyone in Hollywood has half a brain left these days!! I demand a sequel!!!!

The fanboy dorkiness just pervaded this film like the worst stench from the bowels of Hell. I got so sick of the homie-speak and the unnecessary foul language, I just wanted every character dead within the first 15 minutes. The lamest and laziest trick in the book if you can't be bothered to write intelligent dialogue or develop your characters.I love low-budget films, and labour of love this film may have been, but the heart was definitely the only organ involved in the writing.If you want to see an homage to Lovecraft, check out the beautifully and imaginatively done "The Call of Cthulhu".

This indie film was one of the best I've seen and had me laughing out loud many times. For a fan of Lovecraft, I felt they did a wonderful job and were true to the mythos. Lovecraft sorely deserves more screen time and I would love to see a sequel.The effects were done very well and I was impressed with how scary they actually made the monsters. Enough gore to make it a horror film but not so much as to be overboard or sickening. I loved the unicorn t-shirt! The acting was perfect and believable, I am really glad their was no stupid girl to ruin the vibe of the movie with the characters mentioning sex every 5 seconds. Overall it has everything that you look for in an indie movie and more, I highly recommend!!!!!