{"id":117,"date":"2006-10-03T13:19:15","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T17:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/117"},"modified":"2009-09-11T16:28:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T20:28:22","slug":"dreams-in-the-witch-house-2005-stuart-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/117","title":{"rendered":"Dreams in the Witch-House (2005, Stuart Gordon)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A novel plot (and supposedly based on a Lovecraft story, so no wonder).  Ezra Godden (of Stuart Gordon&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/387\">Dagon<\/a><\/em>) is a poor physics student who rents a room in a very crappy boarding house.  After some fun about studying the angles of his walls, a hot nude witch appears with her rat-creature pet to take over his mind and make him do weird things like sleepwalk to the university library and kill his next door neighbor&#8217;s baby.  After he&#8217;s arrested for the baby-killing, the cops find the remains of all the other babies that past residents of the room have killed, and the rat-creature sneaks into prison to bite our hero to death.  Oh and the crazy old man downstairs kills himself.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/dreamsinthewitchhouse3.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/dreamsinthewitchhouse4.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A lot better than the plot description sounds.  Ezra is pretty convincing and the weirdness and atmosphere and pacing are all well held.<\/p>\n<p>MOH trademarks: naked women, eye gouging (the witch&#8217;s eyes \/ ezra&#8217;s fingers), and our hero looks like Edward Norton most of the time (and Ben Affleck the other times).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/dreamsinthewitchhouse1.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/images\/dreamsinthewitchhouse2.jpg\" alt=\"image missing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Katy didn&#8217;t watch this one.  Katy wouldn&#8217;t have liked it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A novel plot (and supposedly based on a Lovecraft story, so no wonder). Ezra Godden (of Stuart Gordon&#8217;s Dagon) is a poor physics student who rents a room in a very crappy boarding house. After some fun about studying the angles of his walls, a hot nude witch appears with her rat-creature pet to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[321,310,54,12,59,52,320],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-eye-gouging","tag-haunted-house","tag-horror","tag-masters-of-horror","tag-stuart-gordon","tag-television","tag-witches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3156,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}