Witch Hunt (1994)

Witch Hunt (1994) dir. Paul Schrader, Home Box Office/Pacific Western

When Dennis Hopper says something is weird, you know you are in for a treat.

With that said, it is odd they would take so long to do a sequel to Cast a Deadly Spell (and with missing almost all the cast), but I think the end result was a worthy follow up.

The Lurking Fear (1994)

The Lurking Fear (1994) dir. C. Courtney Joyner, Full Moon Entertainment

Surprised it took this long to get to Charles Band's Full Moon group. Lovecraft's stories did inspire quite a few Full Moon flicks, but not as many as you would think. This being the second take on the story "the Lurking Fear", could Band and his merry group do better than the ultra low budget Dark Heritage?

Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1994)

Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1994) dir. Brian Yuzna, Christophe Gans, Shusuke Kaneko, Davis-Films

Given how many of Lovecraft's stories were short, I'm surprised there weren't more anthologies of the man's work. Coupled with Yuzna and a returning Jeffery Combs, one would expect something along the lines of Re-Animator. Did they succeed?

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

In the Mouth of Madness (1994) dir. John Carpenter, New Line Cinema

John Carpenter might one of the few directors who could come close to capturing Lovecraft's style on film. Guillermo Del Toro comes a pretty close second though. Carpenter did do Providence's Favorite Son justice by capturing the sheer horror of living in a chaotic universe, and did so in a way that best ended his "things are bad and are just getting worse" trilogy.