Alice reaches a point where she cannot tell waking state from dreams, and we’re pulled along with her in this. LOVECRAFT’S WITCH HOUSE is the overall sense of chaos, that anything could happen at any moment. But there are rats, and nightmares about those other dimensions Alice is trying to access … She’s not thrown off by the brusqueness of homeowner Edda (Shonda Laverty), nor the fact that she’s given a very messy albeit huge attic room.Įdda’s niece Tommi (Julie Anne Prescott) is exceedingly friendly, and helps Alice tidy up in no time. Her professor (John Johnson) suggests that Alice room at a storied old house near campus.Īlice is delighted, exclaiming over the uniqueness of the house’s design. LOVECRAFT’S WITCH HOUSE, director Bobby Easley and his co-writer Ken Wallace update the narrative to the present and give the protagonist, now a woman, some life outside of her predicament.Īlice (listed in a Lovecraft-worthy paradox as Michelle Morris in the onscreen credits, but as Portia Chellelynn on IMDB and in the publicity materials) is a grad student in hiding from her physically battering ex-boyfriend.Īfter staying with her friend Kelly (Erin Trimble) for several months, Alice feels it’s time to get a place of her own. Additionally, there’s a video game version.įor H.P. Before that, without credit to Lovecraft or his work, it was the basis for the feature THE CRIMSON CULT, featuring Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee, directed by Vernon Sewell, written by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln, from a screen story by Jerry Sohl. It was previously made as the MASTERS OF HORROR episode “Dreams in the Witch-House,” directed by the late Stuart Gordon – cited in this film’s “thank you” section – and scripted by Dennis Paoli. LOVECRAFT’S WITCH HOUSE, the most recent adaptation of the story. That angle (pardon the pun) has been adopted in H.P. Lovecraft’s protagonist, Walter Gilman, is a mathematician trying to prove that certain shapes and planes, in relation to one another, can create gateways to other universes. Lovecraft’s 1932 short story “The Dreams in the Witch House” really is partly about geometry. Stars: Portia Chellelynn, Michelle Morris, Julie Anne Prescott, Erin Trimble, Shonda Laverty, Andie Noir, John Johnson, Joe Padgett, Solon Tsangarasĭistributor: Horror Wasteland Pictures Internationalįun fact: H.P. LOVECRAFT’S WITCH HOUSE movie poster | ©2022 Horror Wasteland Pictures International
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