“You admit it is possible for a piece of glass to retain the image of someone who sits in front of it for a great period of time?” Wait. No! Where do you get this nonsense? H. P. Lovecraft? Oh. Okay. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Crystal Cleveland, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they discuss The Unnamable (1988), about an unnamable creature that, oddly enough, has a name.
Decades of Horror 1980s
Episode 292 – The Unnamable (1988)
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Synopsis: College students check out a haunted house where, in the 1800s, an ugly monster, called “the Unnamable,” was trapped in a vault.
The Unnamable (1988), based on the 1925 H. P. Lovecraft story of the same title, is the 80s Grue-Crew’s topic for this episode. The Crew generally agrees that it is a good-looking movie with excellent practical makeup effects, but that it’s still a bit of a slog in the watching. Even though parts of Lovecraft’s story are adhered to, the creature is more banshee, harpy, or demon than she is Lovecraftian. The film also treats viewers to some good old-fashioned gore of the throat-ripping, decapitation, and organ-removal variety. Is enduring the slog worth getting to the effects? The Grue-Crew is glad they watched it, but you be the judge.
At the time of this writing, The Unnamable (1988) is available to stream from Hoopla, Tubi, Plex, and Prime. It is available on physical media as a Blu-ray formatted disc from Unearthed Records.
Every two weeks, Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1980s podcast will cover another horror film from the 1980s. The next episode’s film, chosen by Chad, is Demonoid (1981). Wait. Chad chose Demonoid? Really? This should be interesting.
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