This film qualifies as cult for two reasons.
1- It's a H.P.Lovecraft adaptation- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (always a good idea)
and
2- It's got some awesome gruesome creature effects.
Other than that...it sucked the big one!
Plot: Charles Ward (Chris Sarandon- The Princess Bride) is a rich fella from Providence-Rhode Island and upon the discovery of an old family trunk, he finds out his great, great, great, great, great Grand dad, wasn't his great, great, great, great, great Grand dad. Shame. His actual great (x5) Grand dad was a wizard and he left in said trunk, the key info for resurrecting (get it-it's all in the title) the dead. His wife is a little fraught by his new, odd, obsessive behaviour and as he's buggered off and ain't answering her calls, she brings in a Private Dick to check things out.
The film trundles on at a snails pace for over an hour before we see any gruesomeness, but it's just about worth the wait. My advice? Fast forward and then revel in the underground catacombs and monsters there-in.
Budget: $5,000,000 (not entirely sure where most of this went?)
Gross: $ straight to video.
Fun Fact: Directed by fan favourite, Dan O'Bannon- RIP (The Return of the Living Dead).
1- It's a H.P.Lovecraft adaptation- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (always a good idea)
and
2- It's got some awesome gruesome creature effects.
Other than that...it sucked the big one!
Plot: Charles Ward (Chris Sarandon- The Princess Bride) is a rich fella from Providence-Rhode Island and upon the discovery of an old family trunk, he finds out his great, great, great, great, great Grand dad, wasn't his great, great, great, great, great Grand dad. Shame. His actual great (x5) Grand dad was a wizard and he left in said trunk, the key info for resurrecting (get it-it's all in the title) the dead. His wife is a little fraught by his new, odd, obsessive behaviour and as he's buggered off and ain't answering her calls, she brings in a Private Dick to check things out.
The film trundles on at a snails pace for over an hour before we see any gruesomeness, but it's just about worth the wait. My advice? Fast forward and then revel in the underground catacombs and monsters there-in.
Budget: $5,000,000 (not entirely sure where most of this went?)
Gross: $ straight to video.
Fun Fact: Directed by fan favourite, Dan O'Bannon- RIP (The Return of the Living Dead).
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