Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

eye_on_the_wall I came to this film as a great admirer of Lovecraft's writing and knowing full well how perilous it is to adapt his work to film. With this in mind, I didn't have high expectations so I can't claim to be disappointed. Still it was laborious at times to watch, and probably not worth the time for most viewers.It has been noted in the other comments that this film is in fact a faithful, probably the most faithful, film adaptation of a Lovecraft story out there. While this is true, this amounts to being more of a weakness than a strength. I've heard somewhere the idea that a masterpiece is a work of art that is perfectly suited to it's medium. The short story fits this description; the film injects too many speculated details seemingly to bulk up the script to approach feature length. It's as though they used the rough notes for the story as the shooting script.What makes Lovecraft so great is his ability to use his medium to manipulate the imagination of the reader. The film is as far away from the story here as it is close to the story in terms of literal detail. The filmmakers' use of montage is cluttered and lacks the power and poetry of Lovecraft's prose. Their attempt to write Lovecraftian dialog gets lazy and anachronistic and sounds like clumsy fan-fiction. There is an attempt to attach a sense of kinky eroticism that doesn't sit well with the story and comes of as an ill-fitting attempt at sex appeal.Utimately this film is bound to severely disappoint a general audience. It's worth watching only as a curiosity for obsessive Lovecraft readers or die-hard horror fanatics.

grandfunkfan I have my own stereotypical ideas of how insane people might act. I also have my own ideas of how people who are possessed by demons or other beings might act. The acting by most of the main characters in Beyond The Wall Of Sleep does not fit in any category of acting except Bad Acting. Many of the lines are delivered as if being read for the first time with the actors following parenthetical guidelines and sideline instructions from their coach or stage mother. The actors portraying insane characters could pretty much get away with anything, but the so-called sane characters are not in the least believable. Sanderson is okay in his muttering portrayal of an inbred degenerate, but by far most of the other actors were simply horrible, over-emoting and stretching their facial expressions to comedic proportions. Horrible acting does not make a good horror show. Yount, as Edward Eischel, is perhaps the ultimate BAD actor. I noticed when I clicked on Yount's name that, at the time of this writing, there were no other filmography credits for Yount. Hopefully there never will be.I would not recommend this movie to anyone as an example of what H. P. Lovecraft's writing can conjure in a fertile mind. For me, one of the biggest failings in all the Lovecraft inspired movies I have seen is the portrayal of the creatures. Usually the creatures are poorly made-up, poorly animated, and just overall not living up to the feelings of terror inspired by Lovecraft's writing. Beyond The Wall Of Sleep has believable horrific creatures, but the portrayal of humans is not to be believed.

Randolf Carter Well, to be honest, it ended cool and very Lovecraftian, but dear god, what was the deal with that camera work?!?!?! If you ever eat some bad meat and need to "get rid of it" just watch this movie and use it for video ipecac. Some guy thought he was being really neat-o with the jiggly-wiggly tricks, but just managed making the movie so hard to follow that, if I wouldn't have been to hung over to get and and put in a good movie...well...I would have done just that.That was some of the worst acting I've ever seen, and the only thing (to quote the cover) "truly disturbing" was the wig the main actor wore.

SheinkoM Oh my god, I just watched this movie, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, and it must be a joke. It has to be. This movie was so shitty that my testicles blew up. The acting is worse than a high school play. The way it was shot makes you stand up and scream "what the f*ck" at the T.V. I read the damn short story and it was shitty too. Don't MAKE A SHITTY MOVIE OUT OF A SHITTY STORY. SCREW YOU WHO EVER WASTED MY TIME! OK, Now I'll actually explain why i feel this way. 1. The main characters wig keeps changing places. 2. No one on the box is actually in the movie. 3. Apparently anybody from the Catskills...is a retard? 4. No one says "im gonna crush your balls and throw you into the gutter.