Cthulhu Trailer

[JoeGKushner]

Other than the title, I've never understood what is Lovecraftian about it. People going crazy? All in all, it seemed more Stephen King-ish to me than anything else.

1. Man starting out happy and cynical?

2. Man starting to slowly unveil that there are things man was not meant to know?

3. Man learning that there are indeed things beyond our keen and still struggling against it?

4. Man trying desperately to avoid dealing with these things from beyond?

5. Man inevitabily failing that and actually taking it a step further than H. P. did and actually have the world end?

Heck, the first four elements could've been lifted right out of many Lovecraft stories.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

Well, the trailer seemed unfocused. It also had more socializing in its, what three minutes, than HPL had in everything he wrote. But then sitting through a movie with only one character who goes bonkers would be ugly. Most damaging was it seemed to lack energy.

I hope this improves with time and attention.

Some of the links at the movie site are fun.

 

[Sir Brennen]

Other than the title, I've never understood what is Lovecraftian about it. People going crazy? All in all, it seemed more Stephen King-ish to me than anything else.

Speaking of Steve and Howie, TNT's Nightmares and Dreamscapes had an episode that was a Lovecraftian pastiche by King - "Crouch End". Complete with tentacles and everything.

 

[Merlion]

Yea Stephen King-ish and Lovecraftian definitely overlap a bit here and there. "The Mist" is another good example.

 

[orcbane]

That's because Stephen King is open about how influential HPL was in his own writing. Just look at his work! Rose Red, Dreamcatcher, that weird short about the white primate in a crate. He's a fanboy! Sure his work doesn't count as Lovecraft fan-fiction (which has become its own sub-genre in the horror world), but its pretty close.

 

[Sir Brennen]

King's "Crouch End" was definitely a fanfict piece, complete with names of great old ones dropped in. He wrote it for a anthology entitled New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980).

 

[Hand of Evil]

Saw the trailer for this rather a long time ago and forgot all about it.

 

[Thanee]

There's a 'new' Cthulhu 'trailer' out.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

There's a 'new' Cthulhu 'trailer' out.

Bye
Thanee

That is great

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

"Do you have six tounges..."

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