SoftInloveRox Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Deimos3 I knew from the title that this was going to be a rather low-budget production, so I knew from the start I was not going to see big name stars, extravagant sets, awesome special effects or spectacular creatures. What I really didn't expect was that it would be so much fun. It was uneven, could have been paced better and the ending indicated that there would be a sequel, which hasn't happened to my knowledge and may never happen, since the movie came out some 4 years ago. The movie had what people now call "heart." This is a passion for the project that shows in the actors, many of whom shared other jobs in the production. The Last Lovecraft was a movie which took the elements of many of HP Lovecraft's stories and combined them into an entertaining and light concoction. Purists will scoff; those who expect mega-studio production values will scoff and those critics who insist a motion picture must be art and have deep meaning and subtle subcontexts will be scathing, I am sure. But for people like me who enjoy a little levity mixed with my horror and who can really appreciate the work and sweat and tears that go into low budget independent film making, this one is a winner. No spoilers here. If you know the Lovecraft canon, then you know what to expect. If you don't this film might encourage you to pick up some of his tales and be introduced to a fantastic new world.

zetes In the vein of Shaun of the Dead, this horror comedy follows three buddies, one the last descendant of H.P. Lovecraft, trying to keep an ancient relic out of the hands of mutant fish people who want to use it to resurrect Cthulu. It's not a bad idea at all, but this film is miscalculated in just about every way possible. First off, the two main heroes, played by Kyle Davis and Devin McGinn (who wrote the screenplay), are douchebags. Davis, who plays the Lovecraft descendant, has almost no character to speak of. Virtually the only thing we know about him is he hates nerdishness and even used to beat them up in high school (note to filmmakers: who the Hell do you think is watching your H.P. Lovecraft-inspired horror movie?). McGinn has at least some nerdy tendencies (mostly a love for comic books), but he's an annoying little prick with the douchiest haircut this side of Fall Out Boy. These two soon join up with uber-nerd Barak Hardley, a bearded Lovecraft dork who has no friends and lives in his grandmother's basement, and then they constantly tease and bully him. Besides the crappy characters, it has a very lame plot that goes nowhere and ends, presumably, at the point they ran out of money. The fishy people aren't totally awful for such a low-budget film, and there is a decent animated recount of Lovecraft mythology near the beginning. Otherwise, awful. Avoid.

MBunge This may be a coincidence but if not, it perfectly describes The Last Lovecraft. The theoretical star of this flick, and I'll get into what I mean by theoretical later, is named Kyle Davis. The closing credits also list a "Kyle Davis" as being one of the caterers of the production. Now, it's not unusual for people to do multiple jobs on lower budget films. Director Henry Saine is credited several other times as well. But how often is the supposed star of a movie also the guy who gets the food for everybody else? And how many times have you ever looked at the star of a film and said "Boy, that guy really looks more like a caterer?" Well, Kyle Davis not only looks like a caterer, he emotes like one as well. He's probably the least talented and least physically attractive member of the whole cast…and he's the lead. T o me, that sums up this motion picture. It was made by people who did a nice job with a lot of the little things, but royally screwed up a lot of the big stuff.Jeff (Kyle Davis) is a miserable cubicle wretch who can't even catch a girl when she throws herself right at him. Charlie (Devin McGinn) is Jeff's fellow gift basket company employee/roommate and a snarky comic book geek. One day, a guy who looks like a fat Derek Jacobi (Edmund Lupinski) shows up and tells Jeff he's the last descendant of H.P. Lovecraft and must protect an ancient relic that could release the monstrous Cthulu to destroy the world. Jeff doesn't buy it until Cthulu's fishy minions show up and he and Charlie have to run to an even nerdier guy named Paul (Barak Hardley) for her expertise in Cthulu mythos. Paul sends them searching for a guy named Captain Olaf (Gregg Lawrence) who has experience in fighting Cthulu's monsters and they hold up in an RV in the desert and have to fight off the squid-man Starspawn (Ethan Wilde) to save the Earth.Now, there's some okay comedy mined out of a loser, a geek and a nerd playing the roles of Mankind's saviors and there are some comic booky animation sequences here that are fairly well done. Barak Hardley is by far the most amusing and entertaining presence on screen, followed by Gregg Lawrence and then…well, there was this guy who played a catatonic mer-man who probably takes the third spot, which should tell you how bad pretty much everybody else was. Kyle Davis has this weird thing going on with his right eye, like it's lazy or glass or something, and Fat Derek Jacobi stands around with his mouth open whenever he's not reading his lines like it's the first time he's ever seen them. Devin McGinn is like a kid's toy with two settings: Annoying and Super-Annoying.McGinn truly has to take most of the criticism for The Last Lovecraft being less of a "B" movie and more of a "C". He's both writer and producer of this thing, which means he probably had the last word on all the stuff that sucked. Like, for example, casting Kyle Davis as the main character. I don't mean to beat up on the guy 'cause it's not really his fault but practically anyone in the cast, even Fat Derek Jacobi or one of the extras, would have been a better choice for the part of Jeff. McGinn makes it even worse by giving Charlie far better lines and better scenes than the guy who's theoretically the star. If you didn't show people the credits and asked them which member of the cast they thought wrote The Last Lovecraft, everybody would name McGinn as the culprit. So, he casts an unappealing shlub as the main character and then totally undermines him by writing an over-sized 2nd banana part and then giving it to himself. Why McGinn didn't just make himself the star, I'll never know.The costumes and special effects aren't bad and the action scenes, for filmmakers who don't have a lot of money or expertise to pull them off, are perfectly acceptable. The movie would definitely have benefited from cramming at least 20% more humor into it. For example, when Starspawn first appears he's wearing a goofy unicorn t-shirt. I'll skip over the reasons for that. It's not a great visual gag but it works. He then wears the shirt for most of the film before, without reason or explanation, slipping into a black robe. Why not have him wear the t-shirt for the whole thing as a running joke and let the other characters, especially our heroes, crack wise about it? Why not at least have a second joke after the initial laugh that spurs him to tear off the shirt and don the robe? There are some funny bits but there's also room to wedge in more.If anybody tells you The Last Lovecraft is an exceptionally putrid mess, that person is far too full of themselves. I have seen stuff that is exponentially more atrocious than this movie. It is too flawed for me to recommend it but somebody else might enjoy it a lot more than I did.

charlytully As anyone exposed to even ONE of Lovecraft's weird horror tales will recall, the great bulk of these stories are set and play off all the coarse, deformed distant off-shoots of the white people who descended upon Massachusetts a ship or two after the Mayflower. These people, whose ancestors were indentured servants (or white slaves) to the Mayflower folks, were forced to inbreed to produce subsequent generations of tools for rich folks, as the Puritans were too snooty and uppity to intermarry with poor peons. Eventually, according to Lovecraft, they went back down the evolutionary ladder enough rungs to attract the amorous attentions of the debauched progeny of various pre-human intelligent life forms long relegated to existence deep underground or in the ocean depths. For anyone who has seen the genetic decay evident even today in the boondocks of Massachusetts (and certain sections of Greater Boston, as well), Lovecraft's tales still ring true. However, uprooted from gloomy New England to sunny southern California, they're totally laughable (a result which LAST LOVECRAFT writer\producer Devin McGinn and "star"\cast-and-crew-caterer Kyle Davis may have been shooting for). Unfortunately, every minute of this movie elevates the duct-tape anchored skits in BE KIND, REWIND to the level of THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION by way of contrast. A few homophobic jokes, crude cartoons, clumsy costumes, cheesy "special" effects, grandparents reading lines (badly), and stolen literary allusions do not an entertaining movie make. Chalk this effort up as A LOVECRAFT TOO FAR: REJECT OF CTHULHU!