Necronomicon (film)

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Necronomicon
DVD cover
Directed by	Brian Yuzna ("The Library" and "Whispers") Christophe Gans ("The Drowned") Shusuke Kaneko ("The Cold")
Screenplay by	Brent V. Friedman Christophe Gans ("The Drowned") Kazunori Itō ("The Cold")
Story by	Brent V. Friedman Brian Yuzna
Based on	"The Rats in the Walls" "Cool Air" "The Whisperer in Darkness" by H. P. Lovecraft
Produced by	Brian Yuzna Samuel Hadida
Starring	Bruce Payne Richard Lynch Jeffrey Combs Belinda Bauer David Warner Maria Ford
Cinematography	Gerry Lively ("The Cold" and "Whispers") Russell Brandt ("The Library" and "The Drowned")
Edited by	Christopher Roth Keith H. Sauter
Music by	Joseph LoDuca ("The Library" and "The Drowned") Daniel Licht ("The Cold" and "Whispers")
Production companies	Davis-Films Optic Nerve Studios
Distributed by	August Entertainment Inc. New Line Home Video
Release dates	November 19, 1993 (1993-11-19) (London) October 29, 1996 (1996-10-29) (United States)
Running time	96 minutes
Countries	United States France Japan
Language	English
Budget	$4 million (estimated)

Necronomicon (also called H. P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon, Necronomicon: Book of the Dead or Necronomicon: To Hell and Back) is a 1993 anthology horror film. It features three distinct segments and a wraparound directed by Brian Yuzna, Christophe Gans and Shusuke Kaneko and written by Gans, Yuzna, Brent V. Friedman and Kazunori Itō. The film's ensemble cast includes stars Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Payne, Richard Lynch, Belinda Bauer, Maria Ford, Dennis Christopher, Gary Graham and David Warner. The extensive special makeup and animatronic effects were supervised by Tom Savini^[1] and were created by John Carl Buechler,^[2] Christopher Nelson and Screaming Mad George.

The three stories are based on three works by famed horror writer H. P. Lovecraft: "The Drowned" has light similarities to aspects of the short story "The Rats in the Walls",^[3] "The Cold" is based on the short story "Cool Air",^[4] and "Whispers" is based on the novella The Whisperer in Darkness.^[5]