Review – Cool Air (1999)

This isn’t exactly one of my favorite Lovecraft stories. It always struck me as kind of like Poe’s “M. Valdemar” only with a broken air conditioner instead of hypnotism gone wrong. Nonetheless, this turns into a vaguely entertaining 45 minutes or so. However, I think it could easily have been cut down a bit. The disc also includes four short subjects: a passable interpretation of “Nyarlathotep,” a re-work of “Herbert West” that was at least a bit shorter than Stuart Gordon’s, an adaptation of “The Hound” even more boring than the source story (though it did have a cool amulet in it), and an Edward Gorey pastiche called “The Hapless Antiquarian.” Mildly amusing