Randolph Carter regales two of his university buddies, Howard Damon and Joel Manton, with ghost stories.

Soon a group of students decide to go there, two young lads fresh from the university football team, Bruce Weeks and John Babcock, and a couple of girls that they want to score with: one of which Howard is in love with, Wendy Barnes.

Soon Joel's decapitated corpse is found hanging upside down, his blood dripping onto a plate of some sort, along with his head, that rolls across the floor to look at a half naked Wendy.

This tree, with the aid of Randolph and the book, snatches Alyda from the house in the climax of the film, leaving Howard and Tanya the only two alive and in the desperately terrifying vicinity of the female demon.

[1] In their book Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft, Andrew Migliore and John Strysik write: "The Unnamable is not a great film, but the low-budget Holmes/Watson team of Randolph Carter and Howard Damon make for fun viewing.

Ouellette's restrained direction, Stephenson's performance as Randolph, and [Katrin] Alexandre's elegant portrayal of the creature help lift the film out of the muck of dead-teen flicks from the 1980s and onto the shelf of Lovecraftian cinema.

Lovecraft movie adaptation for John Rhys-Davis, for David Warner it was the first as he would appear in Brian Yuzna's Necronomicon, starring Jeffrey Combs and Signy Coleman.