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The Call of Cthulhu, an all new silent film, is HP Lovecraft's most famous story. It is the only story to feature the celebrated monster Cthulhu and in many ways it encapsulates the ideas that went on to permeated Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The film follows the story's three-part narrative construction, and it moves from the 1920s to 1908 to the1870s and back, as the story does. The story embodies HPL's nihilistic world view, his cosmic perspective, and his sense that mankind is doomed by its own insignificance. And it's a pretty good globe-trotting adventure story.
(Spoiler Warning) In the story, a dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own. As he pieces together the dreadful and disturbing reality of the situation, his own sanity begins to crumble. In the end, he passes the torch to his psychiatrist, who in turn hears Cthulhu's call.
Complete Intertitles in 24 languages: Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Euskera, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh
| Catalog Number: MC-664 |
Type: Feature |
Genre: Horror / Bizarre |
| Copyright: 2005 |
Length: 72 minutes |
Format:
DVD Region: 0 (All) |
| TV System: NTSC |
ISBN: |
UPC: 837101095662 |
| Label: HPLHS |
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Call of Cthulhu, The directed by
Sean
Branney
USA,
Science Fiction,
2005,
B&W,
Silent,
01:12:00
The Call of Cthulhu is HP Lovecraft's most famous story. It is the only story to feature the celebrated monster Cthulhu and in many ways it encapsulates the ideas that went on to permeated ...
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2008-08-25 Synergy
There have been many adaptations of the work of H.P Lovecraft with the Cthulhu mythos developing a cult following in both literature and film. While many films have attempted to re-create the mood and feel of his many works, the Call of Cthulhu has proved the most difficult with the quality of film adaptations varying
greatly and none especially successful. This adaptation is a real triumph; it follows the story closely and embodies the unique mood and feel of the work. It is all the more impressive when you realize this is the work of a small independent society rather than a large studio ! The story begins in a non-descript Arkham Asylum, where we find the clearly disturbed great-nephew of Professor George Gammell Angell of Brown University. He is outlining to a doctor the terrors that have befallen both himself and his family and requesting that all of his papers be destroyed for the benefit of mankind. It is from this nexus that the story unfolds in a meandering sequence of flashbacks and visions. Each of the flashbacks tell the story of those poor souls who experience dreams of a strange city and its inhabitant Cthulhu and return with various forms of madness, if at all. These tales climax in the tale of the fishing vessel Alert and its experience in the South Sea. During a storm the ship takes refuge on an uncharted island, what they find is beyond their comprehension, as this isle is the great city of R’lyeh and is the home of the great god Cthulhu.
| 2007-06-22 Gamespy
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a more than fitting tribute to its literary inspiration.
| 2007-06-22 Game Over
If you’re a Lovecraft fan, you’ll want Dark Corners of the Earth because it’s great service to a fanbase that’s rarely treated this well.
| 2007-06-22 Gamespot
... a one-of-a-kind game that fans of horror and action adventure gaming (and of H.P. Lovecraft) absolutely should check out.
| 2007-06-22 VGGEN
..the reason it's so effective is that it affects the player directly; when he hears things, you hear things, and you question what you're really hearing and what you just thinks you're hearing.
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