Also known as Shatterbrain. A bit slow, a bit strange. The acting is borderline painful to watch from a couple of the actors. Based on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, this film is one of the better Lovecraft efforts ever released. Although released direct to video, the film is very polished. (I suspect it failed to find a distributor.) The second of two films Dan O'Bannon directed (the first being the excellent Return of the Living Dead), the film is solid but not nearly as strong as his previous effort. The atmosphere, mood, and pace of the film successfully evokes Lovecraft (something very hard to do and still make a good movie), but something is still not quite right. Maybe I'll just have to chalk it up to its shifty Lovecraftian nature. For a low-budget effort, the special effects during the climax of the film are especially noteworthy.
6/10
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