Country and Year: USA and Canada
Directors: Raymond St. Jean, John Strysik, Aaron Vanek
Starring: various

Review By: David Austin
Rating: 3 out of 4 stars (good)

Out of Mind is the third collection of H.P. Lovecraft adaptations from Lurker Films (a fourth volume is coming soon). Lurker has found an interesting niche for itself diligently gathering cinematic odds and ends focusing on several authors of the macabre and the mysterious (Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, and Robert W. Chambers) and presenting them on anthology DVDs. The films themselves range from television specials to student short films, and the budgets and technical quality vary accordingly. However, at least based on my experience with this collection, all treat their subjects in a literary manner rather than an exploitative one - certainly a welcome and atypical trait with regard to Lovecraft at least (not that I don’t enjoy the collected works of Stuart Gordon). Volume 3 has as its centerpiece the fiction/biographical piece “Out of Mind,” and also includes three short films, “The Music of Erich Zann,” “The Outsider,” and “My Necromicon,” two of which are drawn directly from Lovecraft’ short stories.

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