Scott Hajek Wrote:If you get a chance, though, watch the CofC silent movie version. It's really good.Seconded!
dejo Wrote:http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/cthulhu/
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.
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.
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.
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: