If Pickman’s Model was an effective and  faithful in intent adaptation of a Lovecraft story, this version of Dreams in the Witch House is the ultimate lesson in how to absolutely fuck up a Lovecraft adaptation. 

This was awful in so many ways. 

The barest of bones of the original short story are almost visible but it’s completely lost in this bland, trite tale of a guy whose sister died when they were kids, he witnessed her ghost being taken to another plane, and wastes his life trying to get to her in a vain attempt to bring her back to life? It’s weird, it’s overdone and none it vibes well. The CGI witch looks not great, her goal of using this guy to come back to the land of the living but can manifest anyway. Whatever. It’s brain dead. 

It absolutely betrays everything that Lovecraft explored in his themes. This is the most Un-Lovecraftian Lovecraft adaptation. I was happy when it was over and can’t believe my brain keeps wanting to type things. I just didn’t like this at all.