{"id":1498,"date":"2011-02-01T15:21:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2011-02-01T15:44:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T14:44:54","slug":"the-last-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2011\/02\/01\/the-last-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by Henry Saine, <I>The Last Lovecraft<\/I> (2009) is a horror comedy that follows the adventures of an ordinary man who finds out he is the last descendant of horror master H.P. Lovecraft and is forced to fight the monsters created by his illustrious ancestor. <I>The Last Lovecraft<\/I> is released on DVD in the UK by Kaleidoscope on 4 April 2011.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1499\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1499\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/last_lovecraft_medium.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1498]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/last_lovecraft_medium.jpg?resize=474%2C706\" alt=\"\" title=\"Comic review by Hannah Berry\" width=\"474\" height=\"706\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/last_lovecraft_medium.jpg?resize=594%2C885 594w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/last_lovecraft_medium.jpg?resize=201%2C300 201w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/last_lovecraft_medium.jpg?w=900 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1499\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic review by Hannah Berry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"info\">Hannah Berry is the author of the graphic murder mystery <I>Britten and Brulightly<\/I>, published by Random House. For more information, go to the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.co.uk\/catalog\/book.htm?command=Search&#038;db=main.txt&#038;eqisbndata=0224077902\" target=\"_blank\">Random House website<\/A>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"expander\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><I>The Last Lovecraft<\/I> (2009) is a horror comedy that follows the adventures of an ordinary man who finds out he is the last descendant of horror master H.P. Lovecraft.<br \/>\n<I><B>Comic strip review by Hannah Berry<\/I><\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[120,97,150],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-it-out","category-comic-strip-reviews","tag-comics","tag-horror","tag-lovecraft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/purUP-oa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4484,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2014\/06\/05\/re-animator\/","url_meta":{"origin":1498,"position":0},"title":"Re-Animator","author":"Pam Jahn","date":"June 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Stuart Gordon\u2019s take on H.P. 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