{"id":15714,"date":"2006-09-27T04:52:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T08:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=15714"},"modified":"2015-06-23T04:56:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T08:56:33","slug":"lovecracked-the-movie-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/27\/lovecracked-the-movie-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"LovecraCked! The Movie (2006)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/index.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/index.jpg\" alt=\"index\" width=\"282\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elias goes for the good old trick of cinema. When all else fails, throw in a hot chick or two. And man, are there ever good looking women here. Gillian MacGregor is one who will burn herself into your brain in \u201cWitch\u2019s Spring\u201d as a rather sexy witch seducing a man, and then there\u2019s Nicky Ladanowski in \u201cBug boy\u201d a fleeting and rather horrific little skit involving a man\u2019s rage manifesting itself into a monster. Elias\u2019 talent shows, and when he tackles the horror element, he really pulls through in a gritty disturbing manner. Take for the example the weird \u201cRePenetrator\u201d which is surprisingly funny and inappropriately erotic, in which the Dr. West re-animates a body so hot he has to engage in rough sex with it before it turns on him.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Director Elias seems to heavily aspire for the Quasi-Monty Python\/Troma effect, and it works in some instances, especially when the interviewer discusses H.P. Lovecraft with others, and they have no idea who he\u2019s talking about. \u201cLovecracked!\u201d works in some ways. Elias\u2019 film \u201cLovecracked!\u201d isn\u2019t awful. By no means is it an awful film. Would I watch it again? Most likely. Because this is a film that deserves a second chance. But is it memorable? I\u2019m not sure. I have to plead for middling here, folks. Because I was conflicted with \u201cLovecracked!\u201d One the one hand it was wild and crazy, but then on the other hand, I just couldn\u2019t find anything to laugh loudly about. Does it seek to spoof or pay homage to Lovecraft? Was this a loving homage, or a pure Brooks satire? I just couldn\u2019t decide.<\/p>\n<p>Elias\u2019 \u201cLovecracked!\u201d is well intentioned, poorly conceived. The interviews work on only some occasions, but the rest is filled with rather over-the-top acting, pretty weak gags, and jokes that seemed to be ripped directly from the boys at Monty Python. While it\u2019s funny in the context, it just didn\u2019t strike me while watching it here. The comedy was just lost on me from the very beginning, and for all it has going for it, it just loses it. Most of the stories are so short and rapid fire that I just couldn\u2019t find a moment to settle down and get into it. Stories like \u201cBugboy\u201d which drips with terror is much too fleeting to be enjoyed, and it\u2019s disappointing when we watch a story setting in and then suddenly we jump onto another scenario. I wasn\u2019t sure what to make of most of the stories, and I lost patience quickly. With \u201cLovecracked!\u201d it\u2019s a case of either getting it or not. And I just didn\u2019t get it, unfortunately. It\u2019s not an awful film by any means, but a film with potential, and occasionally funny moments that I could either take or leave when I was finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elias goes for the good old trick of cinema. When all else fails, throw in a hot chick or two. And man, are there ever good looking women here. Gillian MacGregor is one who will burn herself into your brain in \u201cWitch\u2019s Spring\u201d as a rather sexy witch seducing a man, and then there\u2019s Nicky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[103,219,477,484,501,590,1221],"class_list":["post-15714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-anthology","tag-comedy","tag-horror","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-indie-film","tag-l","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15716,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15714\/revisions\/15716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}