Don't know what's more frightening.... that the movie is based on "The Shadow over Innsmouth"? Or that Tori Spelling is in it.
Why take away from the story that is the Call of Cthulhu by renaming another HPL story. Though, this trailer does make for an interesting movie. I'll probably watch it some time.
If you get a chance, though, watch the CofC silent movie version. It's really good.
Why take away from the story that is the Call of Cthulhu by renaming another HPL story. Though, this trailer does make for an interesting movie. I'll probably watch it some time.
If you get a chance, though, watch the CofC silent movie version. It's really good.
Scott Hajek
[i]"A beer right now would sound good, but I'd rather drink one than listen to it."[/i]
Scott Hajek Wrote:If you get a chance, though, watch the CofC silent movie version. It's really good.Seconded!
There's a thread about it around here somewhere.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
dejo Wrote:http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/cthulhu/
I'll watch it in a theatre or DVD. Sounds good!
WHY CAN THEY NOT DO LOVECRAFT RIGHT?!?!?
I swear, he used such a simple formula. Why is it so hard?? Then again, why can't they do zombie flicks that hold up to the original holy trinity by George A Romero? His movies weren't zombie movies. In his words they were character dramas with Zombies as the B story.
Ugh... I hate hollywood.
I swear, he used such a simple formula. Why is it so hard?? Then again, why can't they do zombie flicks that hold up to the original holy trinity by George A Romero? His movies weren't zombie movies. In his words they were character dramas with Zombies as the B story.
Ugh... I hate hollywood.
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Legion Wrote:WHY CAN THEY NOT DO LOVECRAFT RIGHT?!?!?
I swear, he used such a simple formula. Why is it so hard?? Then again, why can't they do zombie flicks that hold up to the original holy trinity by George A Romero? His movies weren't zombie movies. In his words they were character dramas with Zombies as the B story.
Ugh... I hate hollywood.
Why? Well, I'll tell yez, Steve.
The =least= important part of Lovecraft's stories is grisly action. The real action takes place inside the narrator's head. Now, how's that gonna be portrayed on film? Maybe Hitchcock could have done it. And even with that great Master, it's a big maybe.
Some fiction is just not filmable.
Legion Wrote:WHY CAN THEY NOT DO LOVECRAFT RIGHT?!?!?I quite liked Call of Cthulhu, and also Dagon and Dreams in the Witch House. There was another one which I thought held fairly well to the story, The Resurrected ???
I swear, he used such a simple formula. Why is it so hard?? Then again, why can't they do zombie flicks that hold up to the original holy trinity by George A Romero? His movies weren't zombie movies. In his words they were character dramas with Zombies as the B story.
Ugh... I hate hollywood.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ... The piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
~ Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Why? Well, I'll tell yez, Steve.
The =least= important part of Lovecraft's stories is grisly action. The real action takes place inside the narrator's head. Now, how's that gonna be portrayed on film? Maybe Hitchcock could have done it. And even with that great Master, it's a big maybe.
Some fiction is just not filmable.
Well... I see your point there, but even that might be doable. It all depends on whether or not you have narration, even in the smallest degree. If not you have to shape the dialouge to show or at least hint at the inner turmoil.
The other half of that equation is cinematography, which is why Hitchcock was a master.
The rest lies in Casting. Tori Spelling... not so much.:cryin:
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Legion Wrote:Well... I see your point there, but even that might be doable. It all depends on whether or not you have narration, even in the smallest degree. If not you have to shape the dialouge to show or at least hint at the inner turmoil.
The other half of that equation is cinematography, which is why Hitchcock was a master.
The rest lies in Casting. Tori Spelling... not so much.:cryin:
But let's remember too the film biz is not about art. Three things about that industry:
1)Money
2)$$$$$
3)Did I mention money?
See, our gang here might be enchanted by a good Lovecraft film. But it would be art house. Not a big-time blockbuster.