The Unnamable II

Starring:Mark Kin Stephenson
Studio: Lions Gate
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

"Another H.P. Lovecraft adaptation"
Great sequel
Awesome Sequal...
A Decent Sequel
Actually zero stars

The Unnamable II
Starring: Brad Blaisdell , Peter Breck , John Rhys-Davies , Richard Domeier , and Alexandra Durrell
Director: Jean-Paul Ouellette
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00021A1W4
Release Date: 2004-08-17

Customer Reviews:

"Another H.P. Lovecraft adaptation".......2007-02-06

Very chilling and atmospheric horror sequel to the "Unamable". Good story with good acting guaranteed to provide scares. If you like gothic horror you won't be disappointed.

Don't watch this alone!

John

Great sequel.......2006-12-29

Well, it was much better than the original, but literally had nothing to do with "The Last Statement of Randolf Carter', which it claimed to be.

Nonetheless, it was a Lovecraft based film, so therefore I HAD TO watch it Nor was I disapointed. It had the excellent acting of John Rys-Davies (you know, the axe-slinging dwarf in the Lord of the Rings Movies), and the gorgeous Maria Ford (naked scene), and even Julie Strain! So, we have nudity, the Necronomicon, pretty good acting (for the most part), and demons?!?!? COOL!

Add it to your collections, HPL fans!

Go on.

Do it!

Two cloven hooves up!

Awesome Sequal..........2006-04-24

This sequal was OUTSTANDING!!!!It follows thru from the 1st movie & even explains how the creature became the creature...Most sequal's are dumb & boring, however, this one is one of the great follow-ups...The ending is kind of sad, however, the entire movie will keep you on your toes through out...A MUST have for any horror fan...

A Decent Sequel.......2005-02-18

The first Unnamable movie is pretty generic, but so are a lot of H.P. Lovecraft's fiction. These generic horror stories became the cornerstone of modern horror. The horror film genre as a whole is cheesey, with direct to video guilty pleasures doing it for me. Mainstream horror released in American theaters are watered down for mass audiences. The remakes of both Dawn of the Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre were horrible, boring blasphemes that made both Lucio Fulci and the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre sequels seem good. Where were these newer fans when I was watching R rated horror in my teensage years? That being said, this is a movie best appreciated by the real fans, not critics or millenium generation wannabes. I prefer the first Unnamable movie, but I also like it's sequel.

Actually zero stars.......2005-02-11

John Rys Davies fans be advised: Mr. Davies puts in his initial appearance at Minute 16 (of 104) and departs the scene permanently at Minute 47, his brief 31-minute interlude hardly representing his most scintillating performance, being embedded in a swamp of idiot dialog, idiot acting, and idiot special effects. This flick is a sequel to another of the same name not seen by this reviewer. Its events start right where the previous flick chopped off. Missing that original is of no consequence.

That any film such as this one could claim to be a specific representation of Lovecraft's work is preposterous: Aside from the absurdity of the "plot," to make such claim, such a film would have to be structured like a travelogue WITH NO DIALOG. All "science" would have to be at least 100 years out-of-date. A narrator would be constantly voicing-over every scene in a script typically dealing with the so-called "Cthulhu Mythos," a Lovecraft construct featuring various inimical "elder god" supernatural entities, really nasty beings from ancient times predating modern civilization (and even geologic time), totally inimical and always plotting all manner of nasty and icky stuff for us humans from nothing more than sheer cussedness, and (of course) always on the brink of a comeback to world domination.

This reviewer tried (again) to read Lovecraft's 40,000-word novella "At the Mountains of Madness" (hereafter ATMOM) as a refresher for this review, and had to abandon it halfway through, confirming yet again that Lovecraft is fundamentally unreadable today, or (this reviewer contends) at any time in the past. Imagine page after interminable page of ponderously and turgidly boring, dialog-less narrative (the guy seemed incapable of writing even the crudest dialog), describing in copious detail and with all seriousness matters which would be so scientifically implausible today that it would be laughable to propose such be taken seriously: like ascribing credibility to modern air travel with airplanes that fly by flapping their wings; or with Venus being a jungle planet filled with earth-like swamps and nasty critters; or with the moon harboring a major civilization; or with atoms being miniature solar systems whose orbiting electrons are worlds visit-able by "shrink-science"; or a counter-earth planet unknown to science because it is always exactly on the opposite side of the sun. Could you seriously enjoy such a narrative today WHEREIN EVERYTHING HINGES ON THE VIABILITY OF SUCH A CLAIM? In ATMOM, Lovecraft's "geology," presented in all seriousness (though with deliberate fake additives), is about 100 or more years out of date, even for a work of speculative fiction. There is no way a mountain range of the type he surmises could be even speculated to exist. (Perhaps a hundred or more years ago before the advent of orbital photography such, while improbable, could have been speculatively imagined (rather like Doyle's "Lost World.")

For anyone to claim that Lovecraft had a major and meaningful influence on the work of other writers in this genre could only mean that his writings demonstrated every possible writing flaw known to man. Skip this turkey and avoid anything that claims to be based on Lovecraft.

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