How odd that Dan Ireland, producer to such edgy filmmakers as Ken Russell and Bernard Rose, should have chosen such polite material for his directing debut. Based on the memoirs of Novalyne Price, Ireland's gentle film dramatizes Price's long-standing relationship with pulp
writer Robert E. Howard, whom H.P. Lovecraft dubbed "the greatest pulp fiction writer in the whole wide world." Howard (Vincent D'Onofrio), creator of such blood-and-guts heroes as Conan the Barbarian, Kull the Conqueror and Red Sonja, conjured entire worlds of epic savagery without ever leaving
his parents' home in Cross Plains, TX. He may also have been quite psychotic, a deeply disturbed you...
Released:
1996
Rated:
PG
Length:
105 mins