Tired of waiting for Hollywood to produce a decent film based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft? You're not alone, not by a long shot. The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society feels your pain and they're doing something about it.
A couple years back they produced The Call of Cthulhu, a remarkably polished mid-length film that still stands as one of the better Lovecraft pictures ever made despite having been done on a shoestring. And now the society is back at it with the full feature adaptation of Lovecraft's The Whisperer In Darkness. Once again this one is being produced for passion, not profit, and once again it looks very good indeed. Though they don't expect the film to be fully complete until October they have just released a lengthy trailer which you can check below.
A couple years back they produced The Call of Cthulhu, a remarkably polished mid-length film that still stands as one of the better Lovecraft pictures ever made despite having been done on a shoestring. And now the society is back at it with the full feature adaptation of Lovecraft's The Whisperer In Darkness. Once again this one is being produced for passion, not profit, and once again it looks very good indeed. Though they don't expect the film to be fully complete until October they have just released a lengthy trailer which you can check below.
After the glorious success of the Call of Cthulhu, I for one cannot wait to see what HPLHS have wrought and dragged through time from 1931! I can only take my hat off to these dedicated folk. Bravo, and again bravo!
I totally agree that this crew really knows how to nail Lovecraft in media adaptations. I'd like to point out that they also have a really great set of audio dramas adapting several of HPL's more popular stories. They are easily some of the best adaptations around.
Totally looking forward to this.
It's just simply awesome. The good thing in it that it doesn't smell of Hollywood, very down to earth, as Lovecraft would have approved it...
Being a big fan of Lovecraft's work, I don't mind watching well-produced adaptations of his stories. However, I always find that the stories do not transfer well to film. Lovecraft was a master of words, invoking the alien and the unspeakable with the use of nothing but penstrokes. A film adaptation loses much of this brilliance and savagery which his prose is so pregnant with.
OK movies, GREAT posters!
It's about time - some of his stories would make excellent adaptations, but I suppose the funding for such projects would be a curse in itself - Holywood's demands would tear apart the fabric of the film. I recenty saw an adaptation of Shadow Over Innsmouth, bizarrely entitled Dagon, which was also fairly low budget, but nonetheless a fantastic piece of film. There's a real charm to that decaying, Gothic atmosphre in HPL's work. I've written a few rambling pieces about him on my blog - if you feel so inclined, please do check out www.letitbehid.blogspot.com .