The Unnamable

1988

Action / Horror

13
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 31% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 31% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 3498 3.5K

Plot summary

Students from Miskatonic University decide to spend the night in the Winthrop house, a spot widely believed to have been haunted for the past 300 years, ever since Joshua Winthrop was horribly murdered and mutilated by the hideous creature born of his wife.

Director

Jean-Paul Ouellette Photo
Jean-Paul Ouellette

Top cast

Lisa Wilson Photo
Lisa Wilson as Student 1
Paul Farmer Photo
Paul Farmer as Mortician
Paul Pajor Photo
Paul Pajor as Gravedigger 1
Marcel Lussier Photo
Marcel Lussier as Gravedigger 2
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
717.99 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 2
1.37 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 27 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by BA_Harrison 6 / 10

Trashy Lovecraft fun with a neat monster.

Students from Miskatonic University pay a visit to an abandoned old house that, as legend has it, was once home to a creature so ugly that it was dubbed 'The Unnamable'. Surprise, surprise... the monster is still there, trapped by a magic spell cast by its father, and it's not a happy bunny!After the success of Re-animator and From Beyond, H. P. Lovecraft was hot property. The Unnamable is based one of the horror author's short stories, which is padded out to feature length by lots of aimless wandering around the film's spooky house by the protagonists. The filler material is rather pedestrian, but director Jean-Paul Ouellette livens things up sporadically with some gnarly gore (best moments: a juicy torn throat, and a mangled body falling to the floor, brains spilling from its open cranium) and a spot of nudity (courtesy of Laura Albert, as freshman hottie Wendy), all guaranteed to keep the audience watching until the final reveal of the monster, which looks a lot better than I had expected given how long it had remained hidden: with vicious fangs, wings, and horns, and a natty pair of cloven Ugg boots for good measure, it's a creepy looking creature that is worth the wait.The fun ending sees bookish student Randolph Carter (Mark Kinsey Stephenson) reading from the Necronomicon (which just happens to be lying around the house) to invoke tree spirits that defeat the monster, allowing fellow students Howard Damon (Charles Klausmeyer) and Tanya Heller (Alexandra Durrell) to escape from the house.
Reviewed by skallisjr 6 / 10

Better If You Enjoy Lovecraft Stories

Howard Philipps Lovecraft was a remarkable author, and it's often an acquired taste to enjoy many of his stories. It's my opinion that the duller the original Lovecraft story, the more entertaining the film, and vice versa.This story is middle-of-the-road, and so is the film. It bears all the hallmarks of a standard 1980s horror film, but it has little allusions and touches that those who read Lovecraft would be familiar with would be entertained by. In-jokes, if you will.The original story was relatively short, and expanding it to feature length probably required the mortising in of the standard horror elements found in 1980s type films. There have been some pretty good films that use these elements -- Pumpkinhead springs to mind -- that even if this film uses those elements, that shouldn't detract from the overall story.
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