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Rating :  - Am I the only one that hated this film?
As a longtime fan of the author, I suppose I'm harshly critical of film adaptations of his works. That being said, this movie still stands out in my mind as one of the worst, most generic horror movies ever made, regardless of how badly they butcher the original story. My review is broken down into two parts: the views of a Lovecraft fan, and a more general view.
The original story for "The Unnamable" is only 20 pages long or so, involves two characters, and only takes place in one scene. Hardly the stuff movies are made of. The original story deals with the notion of a creature so hideous and evil, that it cannot even be named...yet the maker of this film dared to physically portray him. Can't name him, but you can put a guy in a hairy rubber suit and call him "unnamable"! Lovecraft was a respected horror writer because he left things to the readers' imaginations, and attempts to make his works into movies are almost always the quests of fools.
As far as generic horror movies go, this one is exceptionally generic. A bunch of college students at "Arkham University" and bearing the names of characters from OTHER Lovecraft stories investigate a haunted house. The creature preying on them in the house is laughable, not scary. The students suffer a number of horror movie cliches, and most viewers can not only easily predict which students survive the ordeal, but also the order in which the others will be killed.
I consider this one to be one of the worst movies of recent decades, if not the worst. The monster is not scary, the characters aren't interesting, and the plot (nothing like the story it's "based on") is utterly unoriginal.
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