Any Lovecraft fans here?

POSTED BY: ecgordon
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ECGORDON

Sunday, March 12, 2006 5:02 PM

The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society has recently produced a film - The Call of Cthulhu - and it is now available on dvd. Here's a link to their website - http://www.cthulhulives.org/cocmovie/index.html - although I haven't been able to access it all morning for some reason.

Anyway, my son (who posts here occasionally as Mohr Stoutbeard) recently bought the dvd, and he liked it a lot, and this morning I uploaded his review to our website. Please don't worry that it is a Tripod site, I pay a fee to keep the site ad-free. Check it out.

http://templetongate.tripod.com/call-of-cthulhu.htm

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JADEHAND

Sunday, March 12, 2006 5:30 PM

Hey, I'm a bit familiar with Cthulhu. I haven't really bothered to read much lovecraft though. My friends are really into it and we occassionally explore the world via the RPG. I think the less I understand the more fun it is. However,we played this new (rereleased) board game I think you and your son might enjoy. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/15987 Call Of Cthulhu Arkham Horror. Similar to Talisman if you've heard of that.

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NUCLEARDAY

Sunday, March 12, 2006 5:35 PM

Sounds quite interesting, thanks for the link to the review (I couldn't get on the actual site, either... possibly being mobbed by ravenous and gibbering truth-seekers?)

There certainly has been a certain... lack of good Lovecraftian movies. (My favorite being the Necronomicon, which was sort of an anthology film; the interstitials showing Lovecraft breaking into some cult temple to steal the famous tome and contains my favorite scene where Lovecraft himself sneaks up on a guard and rips his upper lip up over his skull ;p)

Like I said, though, this sounds interesting at least. Like the idea of doing it as an old silent film, sort of lends itself to the Mythos.

Cthulhu f'taghn!

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RELFEXIVE

Sunday, March 12, 2006 6:40 PM

Iä! Iä! Iä!

Anyways, I like these too:

http://www.hello-cthulhu.com/

http://www.macguff.fr/goomi/unspeakable/

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REAVERINA1985RIVIERA

Sunday, March 12, 2006 7:39 PM

Has any one played the Call of Cthulu video game on the Xbox? It's a great game if you're familiar the mythos.

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Sunday, March 12, 2006 8:36 PM

Ooo I love Lovecraft. Yes, the movie adaptations have blown over the years, but this new film you speak of sounds like it's actually trying to pay respects. I just hope the special effects are up to par, I don't want to see a paper mache shoggoth. The silent film idea, or even early talkie style film might be cool, like how A Scanner Darkly is being done as a rotoscoped animated film. Anything to be different from the crowd, and fresh, at least.

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LIGHTMEDARK

Sunday, March 12, 2006 9:16 PM

Yeah, the new Cthulhu game on the xbox/ps2 is pretty great. I'm definitely a fan of the Cthulhu mythos. Lovecraft was great, though I'm not the biggest fan of his writing style.

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V

Sunday, March 12, 2006 9:27 PM

His writing style does consist of basically the entire story being exposition.

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SINGATE

Sunday, March 12, 2006 9:59 PM

Lovecraft is easily one of the most underappreciated writers of the 20th century. A lot of it has to do with his writing style and use of some archaic terminology. Of course it wasn't archaic back in the 1920's when he did the bulk of his writing.

A few years ago I picked up the majority of his writings through Arkham House Publishing. It's a set of 3 hardcover books containing what I believe is his best work.

Yes the movies have sucked in a big way. I heard a rumor a few years back that there was going to be a big budget film based on "At the Mountains of Madness". Has anyone heard anything about this recently?

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LIGHTMEDARK

Sunday, March 12, 2006 10:47 PM

That would definitely be something to see if they "did it right." I've looked at some Lovecraft sets by Arkham House Publishing, haven't bought one yet, though. The style and the terminology don't bother me, it's the whole 90% is exposition thing that gets to me sometimes...still read and enjoy his works, though ;)

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