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01/11/1993 Horror 1h 36m
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Overview

H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".

  1. Christophe Gans

    Director

  2. Brian Yuzna

    Director

  3. Shusuke Kaneko

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Jeffrey Combs

    H.P. Lovecraft

  2. Tony Azito

    Librarian

  3. Juan Fernández

    Attendant

  4. Brian Yuzna

    Cabbie

  5. Bruce Payne

    Edward De Lapoer

  6. Belinda Bauer

    Nancy Gallmore

  7. Richard Lynch

    Jethro De Lapoer

  8. Maria Ford

    Clara

  9. Denice D. Lewis

    Emma De Lapoer

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Reviews

A review by Dr_Nostromo
Written by Dr_Nostromo on 2026-04-07
61/100

The Book of the Dead is used to present an anthology of H.P. Lovecraft stories. It's low budget, there's nothing particularly complex or profound about the stories and, if it weren't for the gore, it'd be easy to mistake this film as a made-for-TV movie. However, I thought it came off rather well. The overacting gave it a surreal quality (including overacting master, Jeffrey Combs), the gore was sufficiently squishy and the creatures were definitely Lovecraftian in nature ...especially Cthulhu. Very entertaining. -- DrNostromo.com
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$4,000,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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