Call of Cthulhu movie trailer

[Turanil]

Those talented madmen over at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society have released a trailer for their highly anticipated film adapation of HPL's Call of Cthulhu. We first mentioned the ambitious HPLHS project back in July and after a screening at the recent H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, the HPLHS have now put copies of their Call of Cthulhu trailer on their web site for general viewing. The film is being made in the contemporary style of when the story was first published; a black-and-white silent film featuring an orchestral score and intertitles. I think it looks pretty darn amazing, myself. Check it out over at: http://www.cthulhulives.org/CoC/trailer.html (or directly here)

It's the first time I here about this film! (Maybe it has been already been mentioned on these boards?). I am not sold on this movie however... Seems to be done in a comical way, and I much prefer with color and speech.

 

[Viking Bastard]

Ooooh. Looks tasty.

I'd too want a modern-style (not to be confused with modern setting) CoC,
but this looks really cool.

 

[Jamdin]

I actually liked the black and white silent treatment. I would love to see the entire movie.

 

[EricNoah]

Looks like crap to me. Sorry!

 

[jester47]

I actually saw this trailer at the HP Lovecraft Film Festival and got to speak with some guys involved with it. I even bough the T-Shirt. I did not think it looked like crap. I think the medium of Quick time does not do thier trailer justice. Also, they produced it as if it were a 1920's silent film, so they followed many of the same conventions as the 1920's filmmakers did.

I am really looking forward to it at the HPLFF 2005.

Aaron.

 

[ivocaliban]

I'm rather torn. On the one hand I admire the approach (I'm a big fan of the silent-era horror films), but on the other the trailer often seems rather like a glorified LARP session. I'll reserve my judgement until I've seen the final result, however.

 

[Darthjaye]

Yeah, I have to agree, this is crap. Sorry but i'll stick to psuedo-Cthulhu movies like "In the Mouth of Madness" and some of the other decent adaptations for now. I hope I'm wrong on my instinct on this one and that this is mainly a attempt for them to sell the idea somewhere rather than an indication of the final product. I'm all for black and white nostalgia and the silent approach (makes them work harder to tell the story and impress me) but this seems unimpressive. Again, hope I'm wrong on this one.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

I'm just happy someone is attempting it, actually.

 

[Ibram]

I think it looks great, a real HPL movie instead of the garbage usualy put out under his name.

 

[Turanil]

I am on the side of those who think it is crap. I think it's but a matter of low budget: Special effects (i.e.: Cthulhu out of water) are those of the kind that was available during the fifties; Actors behave as if they were in a Charlie Chaplin movie; Not hearing people speak is extremely annoying after the first 10 minutes of film, as is a whole film in black and white.

Frankly, having a thirties feel is probably a good intent, but as is done now this film is going to look crap. I could look it if it only was thirty minutes, not two hours. A film based on Lovecraft's stories requires another novel, I would prefer Mountains of Madness, full color, digital modern special effects, and thus a big budget. Something they probably don't have. Currently the trailer looks like a bad parody, something comical, not a horror movie.