Story Line
In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
“Bullets! Demons! The end of the world! Can’t hold a man like this!”
Top Cast
Fred Ward
Det. Harry Philip Lovecraft
David Warner
Amos Hackshaw
Julianne Moore
Connie Stone
Clancy Brown
Harry Bordon
Alexandra Powers
Olivia Hackshaw
Charles Hallahan
Det. Morris Bradbury
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Rating
6.1/ 10
Release Date
1991-09-07
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
TV MovieMysteryComedyHorrorFantasy
Part of the Series
The Philip Lovecraft Collection
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User Reviews (2)
Matt Golden
No rating•7/21/2013
The year: 1948. Magic is everywhere, the hallmark of progress. Hardboiled gumshoe Philip Lovecraft is a PI for hire, but his latest case, a search for a missing book called “The Necronomicon,” leads him down darker alleys than he’s ever traversed bef...
GenerationofSwine
10/10
•1/11/2023I guess the sequel to this is Witch Hunt, which I loved, and saw BEFORE Cast a Deadly Spell.
It doesn't much matter only instead of the guy Dennis Hopper, you got Fred Ward, who is probably known to everyone as either "That guy from the Right Stuf...