There are so many great ideas in this movie: non-zombie reanimation, setting such a film on a college campus, a power struggle between a professor and his upstart student, &c. And practically none of them are executed well in Stuart Gordon's cult classic. Nor does the film share any of the gothic aplomb of Lovecraft himself, who although infamous for his purple prose, knew how to conjure atmosphere when he had to. This film has as much atmosphere as early Cronenberg, which is to say: none. But it also has none of Cronenberg's emotional intelligence or dream logic sensibility.
Frankly, I was disappointed, but that doesn't mean I won't crib from it wildly.
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