Necronomicon

Based on horror author H.P. Lovecraft's writings, Necronomicon: Book of the Dead includes three short stories devoted to the deadly and mysterious "Necronomicon." When Lovecraft (played by Jeffrey Combs) manages to smuggle the legendary book out of a heavily guarded library, he quickly finds himself ...more

Anthology films by design are almost always uneven affairs, and Necronomicon is no exception; however, which of the three tales herein a viewer finds the weakest (or strongest) may well depend upon his or her familiarity with or fondness for H.P. Lovecraft, whose works are the film's inspiration. Lovecraft was an obsessive writer, drawn to writing about unnamable and indescribable horrors of a mystical nature; tension runs high in Lovecraft and the characters experience extreme horror and ...more