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And Trent's belief that he knows reality when he sees it starts to fall apart. Are his memories, indeed his entire life, nothing but a matthew grace novel? Or is the novel itself taking over matthew grace reality, driving the world into the deepest, most depraved forms of madness unknown to the likes of man? Carpenter leaves this matthew grace open for debate until the last three minutes of the movie. Even when the movie turns into a standard blood-and-gore hack-'em-up, it is still perfectly realized. No money is wasted creating the “great old ones”, each more hideous and terrifying then the last. Sadly, I don't know which is Cthulhu, which is Yog-Sothoth and so forth, but the creatures look as real as Trent and Cane, not your standard rubber monster from the depths of cult film hell. The special effects really kept this one alive for me in the end, even though the film lost its mysterious and philosophical appeal earlier on.
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