Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)

CAST A DEADLY SPELL  (1991)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Martin Campbell
    Fred Ward, Julianne Moore, David Warner,
    Clancy Brown, Alexandra Powers, Charles Hallahan 
This is interesting: a comic film noir that imagines H.P. "Phil" Lovecraft as a private eye in 1940s Los Angeles. There's a missing copy of the Necronomicon, a hulking zombie, a virgin unicorn hunter, some gremlins and demons, and an alignment of the planets that only occurs once every 666 years. Fred Ward plays the world-weary gumshoe. (This guy was born knowing how to light a cigarette.) Julianne Moore plays the femme fatale. The dialogue's hard-boiled and Curt Sobel's musical score plays like a tribute to (or theft from) Jerry Goldsmith. The zombie construction crew and the fat guy who bleeds to death from a thousand paper cuts are high points. Made for cable television.