The Resurrected
I saw the Resurrected the other night. It's based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward -- a story that I haven't read. It is a horror movie, although you won't find the usual trappings of a horror flick. Not a whole lot of action or gore -- and not too many frightening scenes. It's more of a detective story, and moves with a slow, steady pace. The acting wasn't anything special -- neither was the filming or effects -- what little there was of effects -- in fact, some of the effects were cheesy.
The plot: a husband, Charles Dexter Ward, starts neglecting his wife, Claire, spending way too much time in his homemade lab running some strange experiments way into the night -- in fact, the experiments seem to be taking over his life. Claire stays with him instead of running away from home. When she yells at him and demands he finds a new place to run his "experiments" -- he moves his lab out of the house to an old, spooky and isolated family house that he inherited. He doesn't return home, but stays at the house running his experiments. Claire doesn't leave him -- in fact, she's worried about him, and hires a PI, John March, to find out WTF is going on. I personally think that like her husband, Claire has just gone off the deep end. Love, yeah, OK -- but when your husband becomes obsessive about experiments that smell disgusting -- it's time to take drastic measures.
Apparently Ward has inherited the house and the experiments that were being run there by his great-great grandfather, Joseph Curwen, some hundred years ago or so. In the house, a portrait is found of Curwen -- and he bears a startling resemblance to Ward. Curwen it seems, was being a very naughty boy. He was running experiments to make himself immortal -- but part of the price he paid was the "hunger." The "hunger" gave him an insatiable appetite for blood and fresh, raw meat. When he died at the hands of a mob, he had his remains collected and hidden away for some future generation to resurrect him. Stupid, stupid Ward. He goes and brings grandpa Curwen back -- and in no time, Curwen offs Ward, and proceeds to impersonate him. Curwen feeds his hunger -- sometimes on animal meat and blood that he buys from a slaughterhouse -- but every now and again, he goes for a two legged animal, and literally eats them alive. As March and Claire figure this out, it is up to them to face off against the resurrected Curwen and the monstrosities from failed experiments.
The plot: a husband, Charles Dexter Ward, starts neglecting his wife, Claire, spending way too much time in his homemade lab running some strange experiments way into the night -- in fact, the experiments seem to be taking over his life. Claire stays with him instead of running away from home. When she yells at him and demands he finds a new place to run his "experiments" -- he moves his lab out of the house to an old, spooky and isolated family house that he inherited. He doesn't return home, but stays at the house running his experiments. Claire doesn't leave him -- in fact, she's worried about him, and hires a PI, John March, to find out WTF is going on. I personally think that like her husband, Claire has just gone off the deep end. Love, yeah, OK -- but when your husband becomes obsessive about experiments that smell disgusting -- it's time to take drastic measures.
Apparently Ward has inherited the house and the experiments that were being run there by his great-great grandfather, Joseph Curwen, some hundred years ago or so. In the house, a portrait is found of Curwen -- and he bears a startling resemblance to Ward. Curwen it seems, was being a very naughty boy. He was running experiments to make himself immortal -- but part of the price he paid was the "hunger." The "hunger" gave him an insatiable appetite for blood and fresh, raw meat. When he died at the hands of a mob, he had his remains collected and hidden away for some future generation to resurrect him. Stupid, stupid Ward. He goes and brings grandpa Curwen back -- and in no time, Curwen offs Ward, and proceeds to impersonate him. Curwen feeds his hunger -- sometimes on animal meat and blood that he buys from a slaughterhouse -- but every now and again, he goes for a two legged animal, and literally eats them alive. As March and Claire figure this out, it is up to them to face off against the resurrected Curwen and the monstrosities from failed experiments.
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