Review – The Shunned House

Aside from small snippets here and there, this should be “The Shunned Movie.” Elsewhere I’ve tagged Brain Dead as an even lower rent version of Full Moon, and I guess the BD people took that as a challenge. So here they import a bad Italian shot-on-video production loosely (and I do mean loosely) based on not one but three H.P. Lovecraft tales (the title tale at least very briefly “The Music of Erich Zann” and “Dreams in the Witch House”). The Zann piece has a moment or two, even if it does turn out to be an awkward Erica Zann rather than a more literal interpretation. But the other two plotlines are little more than muddled messes filled with actors struggling with the English dialogue and gore so cheap most bargain basement haunted houses would reject it. The production’s final downfall is the curious decision to intermix the three tales so that they run together in a really uninteresting way. See if desperate