Friday 7 October 2016

Howard Lovecraft And The Frozen Kingdom DVD Review And Giveaway

Released earlier this week by Lionsgate Home Entertainment, just in time for Halloween, is the monster-filled movie for children of school age, Howard Lovecraft And The Frozen Kingdom. Based on the 2009 graphic novel of the same name, and inspired by the writing of the American author H. P. Lovecraft, this is a teeny bit creepy and there is a maybe a little peril...


The movie has a great voice cast including Ron Perlman and Christopher Plummer, and Doug Bradley - who the adults watching may recognise as the far more grown up Pinhead from Hellraiser!

In the story Howard visits his sick father in hospital, and his Dad tells Howard to destroy a book that "I should never have written". When he gets home Howard finds the book, and can't help but read, accidentally opening a portal to another world, the Frozen Kingdom. There are all kinds of mysterious creatures there, including a creature who looks like a cross between a bat and an octopus - Spot.

Spot tries to eat Howard at first, but then they become friends. Howard also meets 4 children who join the party, and they all help him on his quest attempting to escape the Frozen Kingdom to make his way home.


I think this is a movie that suits school-aged children best. It's only a tiny bit dark and creepy, and Spot is a bit scary-looking, although there's no terrible peril as such. The storyline is quite complicated, and I'm not convinced my 6 year old even understood it entirely, although he enjoyed the whole movie anyway.

This is an animated movie, with models moving in front of CGI backgrounds, and the style reminds me of Boxtrolls or Tim Burton. The scenery is quite dark and brooding, it may be an ice kingdom, but this is not Frozen. It appeals to my 6 and 8 year old boys, and to the older people in the house, one of our teenagers watched it again today.

Howard Lovecraft And The Frozen Kingdom is out now, released by Lionsgate UK, it has an understandable PG rating. Priced around £6.99 from all good DVD stockists including online at Amazon.

Lionsgate have offered a copy of Howard Lovecraft And The Frozen Kingdom as a giveaway prize for one of my readers. Entry to the giveaway is open to UK entrants only and it will end at midnight Sunday October 30th...just before Halloween...

To see my other giveaways, including Crazy Claw Game (age 5+), or for assistance with Gleam, please go to my Giveaways Page...

Howard Lovecraft And The Frozen Kingdom DVD Giveaway


We were sent our copy of Howard Lovecraft And The Frozen Kingdom for review.

57 comments:

  1. It'd have a giraffes neck with a bats head & wings

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  2. A shark's teeth and a giraffe's neck.

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  3. An eagle and a bat

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  4. Wings of an ant, claws of a praying mantis

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  5. A leopard and eagle. To magnificent creatures

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  6. Bats for a hat and werewolf for the teeth with obligatory blood stained teeth

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  7. This looks like a great movie, would love to win. Thanks for the chance!

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  8. spiders legs and an armadillo face. I think they would be a scary combination and definitely an original idea.

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  9. Hmm.. I think a nipper ant and bat

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  10. Maybe a snake's head and pterodactyl wings!

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  11. I would add a horses lower body and give them fish eyes

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  12. A shark with wings would be pretty scary :)

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  13. I would cross a scary black cats body with puffer fishes head

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  14. Head of a Condor and the body of a lizard

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  15. For me it would be a spider with a snakes head..my two worst fears!

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  16. Anything that involves spiders, they give me the chills.

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  17. I'd turn a previous suggestion and have an eagles head on a lions body

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  18. Spiders legs and a shark head

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  19. Halloween I believe will be well Celebrated this year. As I know of several parties and events.

    Rachel Craig

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  20. Kangaroo legs and scorpion body

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  21. Spider legs hanging off and crocodile face :-0 haha

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  22. A bat and a spider would be super scary!

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  23. A snakes head and a scorpions body

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  24. A dinosaur head and a tiger body

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  25. A lions head and spiders body xx

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  26. A shark fin, and then dragon wings.

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  27. T-Rex tail and giant rat's head!

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  28. horses body and a giant spiders face with multiple eyes!

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  29. Elephant head , spiders body

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  30. Sharks head and a Spiders Body! x

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  31. A bat and a spider.

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  32. has to be a elephants body and head with bats wings xx

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  33. A wolf head on a gorilla body

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  34. A lizared's head and eagle's claws

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  35. A scorpions body with a sharks head. xx

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