ShenLong wrote:
Yes. I have yet to seeCall of Cthulhu. I wish it was longer than just 48 minutes and wasn't silent(I can't stand silent movies for some reason). I'm content reading the short story however. I just started reading H. P. Lovecraft. I was fascinated by the Mythos before then though. Righ now, I'm reading Call of Cthulhu and The Whisperer in Darkness. Next I'm going to tackle "The Shadow over Innsmouth" and "A Shadow Out of Time". and then the "Dunwich Horror" and the "Colour Out of Space". So far, I find the stories to be extremely interesting. Which movie do you think they should make next? I wan t see either "At The Mountains of Madness" or "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".
Anyways, since you mentioned it, I'm gonna put up a trailer for Call of Cthulhu
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHuY2wXTd0o[/youtube]
Actually, The Shadow Over Innsmouth has been done a couple times - as Dagon (despite the fact Lovecraft wrote a story called Dagon, this film is really a re-telling of Innsmouth), and Cthulhu. Dagon was made by Lovecraft film maker Stuart Gordon, who gave us Re-animator, and From Beyond, among others. While Dagon isn't as well known a movie as Re-animator, it's closer to Lovecraft's original material of decaying, isolated towns inhabited by sub-human hybrids worshiping monstrous gods. The movie Cthulhu, which I also own, is also a repackaged Innsmouth, but with a homosexual sub-plot. It's hard to find anywhere else other than Amazon, because the distributor is Here, which specializes in Gay movies. But finding it is well worth the effort. There have been two Dunwich Horror film productions - and both were pretty awful. There's even a low budget, independent short film based my favorite Lovecraft story, Nyarlathotep. While this was a decent retelling of Nyarlathotep, it wasn't able to capture the spell of catastrophic, cosmic doom Lovecraft was able to weave on the page.
I understand Guillermo Del Torro was considering making At The Mountains Of Madness, but was persuaded to direct The Hobbit, instead. Since The Hobbit project fell through for him, we can only pray to the Great Old Ones that he'll go back to Lovecraft. Del Torro's work on Hell Boy shows a very definite Lovecraftian influence.
I'm always happy to communicate with a fellow Lovecraft fan. My dad raised me on vivid descriptions of fiction by Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. In Kindergarten, I drew a picture of Great Cthulhu, which the teacher was unable to make heads or tales of. She told my parents there was something wrong with me - - she had no idea. I ate up everything I could find written by Lovecraft and Howard while in high school and college, and even today, they are both two of my favorite authors.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer