Like JG Ballard, the stories of HP Lovecraft have proved to be notoriously difficult to translate to screen. Apart from its modern-day updating, this version sticks quite substantially to the source material whilst also referencing various genre film tropes, from the appearance of the Necronomicon to some transformative Cronenbergian body-horror. Director Richard Stanley (a welcome return) marshals the visuals and tone effectively for the most part, but the experience is based around a wildly hallucinatory soundscape (Surround Sound or headphones are a must). It is certainly an upgrade on 1987's The Curse, yet the visualisation of Lovecraft's more fantastical visions still do not always convince as they should.
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