Yeah at one point his parents are like: "Bob, you got a letter from some guy in New England... do you know a Howard Phillips Lovecraft?"

Hey, it wasn't that bad. It was definitely TV-movie quality in terms of plot and dialogue, but the basic idea was great and the aesthetic was cool, especially the cars, the clothes, and Amanda Seyfried's look. Yeah, Justin Timberlake's acting was distracting, and Seyfried's wasn't that much better. I bet if they'd got a better leading man and a top-notch director, they could have made a classic. As it is, the movie made a pretty good profit, so I'm not the only one who thought it was all right.

Seems like it might be a pretty good movie. I think early King was the best, and the movie almost gets the feel of some of his early stories. But tbh I stopped watching halfway through, it got kind of predictable.

BTW if you go to "Subtitles" and select "Auto-translate" to "English" on youtube, the results are usually very good.