Smoreni Zmaj "Dreams in the Witch-House" is movie based on the short story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft, published in "Weird Tales" magazine in 1933. Director Stuart Gordon already wrote and directed several Lovecraft adaptations: "Re-Animator" (1985), "From Beyond" (1986), "Castle Freak" (1995), "Dagon" (2001), but this time he has overcome all the previous adaptations and made a real little masterpiece of horror. Although it's placed in present time and modernized, this adaptation has preserved the spirit of the original story and even improved it in some aspects. I'm amazed.9/10For those interested in more thorough review, I recommend great text by Matthew Janovic (9 April 2006), which you can find here on IMDb.

Jim Wollf This simply works. Lovecraft's original adaptation may have been abused here, (and if you expect a short horror film to match your expectations from a book you read 25 years ago that's your problem) but I'm guessing most have never read it anyway. Surely not 5 star for effects or cast but nonetheless the story itself and main character's acting are fantastic. What I loved most about this show is that unlike most 'horror movies' these days, the final moments left me hanging, left me in suspense, criticizing the TV, and then they fixed it. Most shows are too lazy to clean up after themselves but this one, it takes care of that. Certainly not anticlimactic. My review in summation is sit back for a 2 bit thrill ride and you will get your money's worth.

Vivekmaru45 This Is Horror at its very best.Based on a short story by the undisputed master of the horror tale H.P Lovecraft first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales .The Dreams in the Witch House was likely inspired by the lecture "The Size Of The Universe" by Willem de Sitter which Lovecraft attended three months prior to writing the story.Several prominent motifs—including the geometry and curvature of space, and a deeper understanding of the nature of the universe through pure mathematics—are covered in de Sitter's lecture. The idea of using higher dimensions of non-Euclidean space as short cuts through normal space can be traced to A. S. Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World which Lovecraft alludes to having read.A graduate student Walter Gilman (played by Ezra Godden) rents a cheap room. The dimensions of Gilman's room in the house are unusual, and seem to conform to a kind of unearthly geometry that Gilman theorizes can enable travel from one plane or dimension to another.Walter hers some shrieks coming from a neighboring room where a single mother Frances Elwood (played by Chelah Horsdal) lives with her baby boy. He immediately goes to see what the trouble is and finds her fending of a rat. He chases the rat away which disappears through a hole in the wall. Frances tells Walter that the rat has been plaguing her baby for some time.He informs the unconcerned landlord who promptly tells him to sort out any problems he has by himself. It is her that he first meet Masurewicz (played by Campbell Lane) who asks him if the rat that he saw had a human face. Walter denied having seen a rat with a human face.In a dream that he has he is visited by a rat-faced human familiar Brown Jenkin who tells him that "She will come for him".He goes to Masurewicz and tells him about the dream. Masurewicz tells him that his life is in great peril.What happens next in the film is for you to find out.Expect nothing but the best from Stuart Gordon the director of The Re-animator (1985), From Beyond (1986), Fortress (1992) and Dagon (2001). Special effects are solid along with terrific acting.Buy the Masters Of Horror Complete Collection on DVD and enjoy horror by the greatest horror directors of all time.

shawshank86 this was a fairly well executed movie. genuinely creepy. there was a tragic flaw, which is a line that i consider to be atrocious. i added it to my list of incredibly dumb things people say. the main character is a grad student working towards his physics degree specializing in time/dimension travel. he explains how the witch is able to stay alive all these years by stating: "witches were astrologers; they knew a lot about science". horrible explanation, sir. astrology is a pseudoscience, meaning there is no scientific basis. also, knowledge of star alignment does not imply knowledge of relativity.otherwise, fantastic movie with an ending that is not normative. one of those movies that leaves you with a feeling of "oh wow, i can't believe that just happened". an absolute must for fans of this series or horror in general.