Such promising moments as a movie begins, so much potential. Glimpses of good acting, decent effects, cool story. Then, reality sets in. I appreciate the ambitiousness of the project. I’ll even overlook some of the cheap sets purposely underlit to make them almost look ok. I will even accept the fact that, yes, even with minimal budget, the London relocation of Miskatonic University is inexcusable. That makes this like the Manchester Trailer Park Abyss. Sad.
Pickman Corporation has a new exploratory success off the coast of Antarctica, deep down on the ocean floor. They assemble the most talented crew of people who might be available that weekend to take 2 months off to “train” and then take a newly untested submersible down into the unknown depths to check out Satan’s Sphincter. Say what you will about the Cthulhu Mythos and its imagery, these stupid koonts take a sub into the Devil’s Derrier. That’s all I will say about that.
Man-In-Suit Vermicelli-Mouth be damned, this is a Cthulhu like none other! Well, actually it’s like a lot of others. Done on the cheap and with suspect script issues. The actors are almost passable at first but then when they have to actually “act” it goes downhill pretty quick. More accurately, downocean. Yeah. Cthulhu humor. Fuck you, I had to do it since they didn’t here. So serious. Not even one fart joke. I’ve already lingered too long upon it. But, it DID end with somebody going insane, so it earns an extra beer for that. The rules aren’t that hard for a Lovecraft story to end properly.
