Wednesday, June 07, 2006
The Thing in the Cinema
I try to keep up with the latest doings in the world of Lovecraftiana, but I just now discovered that a film called Cthulhu will be coming out later this year. From the movie trailer on YouTube, the lord of R'lyeh doesn't seem to be in the film that bears his name, his place taken by the Deep One known to the Shoggoths as Tori Spelling. Looks like the film equates the followers of Cthulhu with the evangelical movement currently taking over the country, turning reason into madness, light into blasphemy, etc. Name the soundtrack used for the preview and win a Toner Award.
The truth is, there has yet to be a good film of Lovecraft's writings. Re-Animator is as close as they come, I guess.
More Lovecraft stuff: Hippocampus Press is coming out with Lovecraft's New York Circle, and, you may have seen this one, one man has re-written Lovecraftian captions for a bunch of Family Circus cartoons.
I try to keep up with the latest doings in the world of Lovecraftiana, but I just now discovered that a film called Cthulhu will be coming out later this year. From the movie trailer on YouTube, the lord of R'lyeh doesn't seem to be in the film that bears his name, his place taken by the Deep One known to the Shoggoths as Tori Spelling. Looks like the film equates the followers of Cthulhu with the evangelical movement currently taking over the country, turning reason into madness, light into blasphemy, etc. Name the soundtrack used for the preview and win a Toner Award.
The truth is, there has yet to be a good film of Lovecraft's writings. Re-Animator is as close as they come, I guess.
More Lovecraft stuff: Hippocampus Press is coming out with Lovecraft's New York Circle, and, you may have seen this one, one man has re-written Lovecraftian captions for a bunch of Family Circus cartoons.
# posted by toner_low @ 10:50 PM 
