The Worst Film Ever

A Disappointing Continuation

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I'm going to agree with some of the other reviewers and start off by saying that I hate to be mean. But sometimes you just have to be honest. I saw this in a packed theater here in Houston and have to admit, at first I was excited. The notion of seeing a super low budget horror flick in theaters appealed to me. I love the DIY ethos and love the fact that it would be displayed in a public setting. But from the beginning that enthusiasm quickly drained. I mean, there are lots of things one can forgive in low-budget flicks. But the one thing I cannot forgive is an out of focus camera. At first I thought hmmm maybe it's just that one shot...but it played for almost an entire scene...and it made it in the film. The other thing is the constant comparisons I've read to this honoring Lovecraft. Maybe Stuart Gordon's interpretation to what he thinks Lovecraft's writing was, but I don't see anything even remotely "Lovecraftian" in execution. There was bad ADR, there was the bad acting...there was even a moment at the end of the flick where all is revealed (I won't give away what) and the audience (at least myself) knows exactly what has happened yet the main character says exactly what has just happened, like the filmmakers thought their audience was stupid. Just pass on this flick and don't bother wasting your time.

One hates to be mean, but everyone involved in this "film" please keep your day jobs. The acting, writing, look, F/X, everything is just so amateur. I was dragged to a screening here in Texas with some friends and they apologized afterward for making me go. I truly tried to like it for the independent spirit, but it is worse than Ed Wood bad. With all the garbage out there, you would think that people would know what to avoid. It amazes me that these people who attempt to make a movie, still do not know how to put one together that is remotely entertaining. Stay Away!

I was at the recent screening of this film at Fangoria, and I had several issues with the film. Most of it was dialogue-based - it struck me as false, even by horror standards. Some of the lines were played (or were seemingly played) for quips and it didn't settle well with the rest of what was trying to be a tense thriller. What was meant to be, I guess sardonic, came across as simply cheesy.The pacing was long - there were a lot of shots of the actors stumbling along in the dark that could have been sacrificed to move to the exposition faster, or portions of the exposition could have been doled out along the way.All that said - full kudos to the FX team. For a shoestring budget, they made the best. While some of the "closet set" shots were a little thin, the majority of the practical blood and make-up gags were well executed. I think the director and the crew managed to stretch a little quite far.And the opening credit sequence was very well done. Editing, photography, dialogue and sound were tight, concise, and enticing.But unfortunately it wasn't enough to keep me interested.

Closet Space is a very interesting little film. It was made on a shoestring budget, but manages to capture a lot of the enormity that was the work of H.P. Lovecraft.The film follows a group of college students who are searching for their missing professor. When they arrive at an old farmhouse where he was last working, they discover a shocking secret. The house contains a closet door that serves as an inter-dimensional portal between our world and that of Lovecraft's tentacle-whipping, bile-spewing monsters. Well, needless to say, the kids venture in, the monsters venture out, and all Hell breaks loose.The film starts rather slowly and builds toward a very tight finale, in which several surprising plot points are revealed and a final showdown of man vs. beast takes place.The acting is above par on almost all accounts and the effects are killer throughout. While you most certainly won't forget that you're watching a low budget feature, you'll probably be surprised by how well it covered the often-maligned Lovecraft mythos without becoming a self-referential mess.I caught an early screening of Closet Space and thoroughly enjoying it from beginning to bloody end. I hope its legit DVD very soon!