So I coulda swore’d I already reviewed this. I’m fixing that right now. I love me some Lovecraft adaptations, and that a prominent portion of this revolves around an insane asylum. As it should. Modern day, of course. For, you know, the 1980s. They went a bit out of vogue shortly thereafter, apparently. Shame. Seems like there’s a few of them crazies out there on the streets now, ya know? All lookin for some good pineal gland opportunities. For the love of Cthulhu, protect your pineal gland! It’s like… uh… pineadrenoleal gland to these people!
Edward Crawford is getting some pretty legit-lookin high-tech equipment ready for an experiment. Seeing that he’s from the ole Miskatonic University, you know this shit is set up right! And initial tests of the Resonator prove it. The strangely stimulated wavelengths opens a new door to our dimension, and maybe a little bit more. Unfortunately for us, those floaty bastards be a bit hangry. Crawford’s boss Pretorius insists going from one to 11, and the results are...a bit twisted. A Neighbor find the results, police show up, and given his testimony of the events, off to the loony bin Crawford goes. But there’s one psychologist who doesn’t question his sanity. Too bad there’s a succumbing to a different power, and things go unwell, despite Ken Dawn of the Dead Foree’s utmost attention and scrutiny.
Is it the 6th sense? Is it the 3rd eye? Is it...something different? Something...worse? Well, yeah, it goes the worse route here. When you have a hefty hankerin and it ain't for a bucket of wings or beers, but brains? Too far, man. Too far. While there’s a kinda weird S&M slant thrown into the mix, it does kinda make, uh, sense. What is the next sense, one we haven’t discovered quite yet? A bit of a Hellraiser kinda vibe (though this did release a year prior), it’s like someone ripped off someone else and, well, you can figure out who did what when, given calendars ans all. This is some solid fkn horror, from start to finish. And looks damn fine too, from the camera work to the phantasmagorical effects. Great job here, Gordon. And Jeffrey Combs is fantastic in his role also, following the other Gordon Lovecraftian masterpiece on film known as Re-Animator. The eye-socket suckin skills cannot be be beat here! But there’s more. So much more. It really proves that humans are such easy prey. Well, almost. We’ll see in the not-likely but inevitable sequel. Which there will never be. Because this story is totally insane. But there’s like 10 sequels to Sharknado, so anything is possible.
