Cthulhu Trailer

[trancejeremy]

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.

Well, I disagree. I can't think of many HPL characters that start off happy. Most are like HPL himself - gloomy, studious, artsy (poetry writing, anyway).

Secondly, I don't see how ItMoM has anything from beyond. Sutter Cane is the bad guy, and he's human. He's the source of all the craziness - his writings somehow become real, even his ability to create characters (ie, Sam Neil).

Thirdly, by the end of the movie, Sam Neil isn't struggling against it, he's enjoying it along with everyone else who has gone crazy. (That I admit, that does happen in some HPL stories, but generally only when the main character has weird ancestry)

By contrast, most of those things are very common in Stephen King's writings. A number of his books and short stories have apocalyptic endings. King has explored the idea of literary creations becoming real on a few occasions (like the Dark Half and a few others, IIRC). Sutter Cane is very similar to Stephen King in sound. The actual town of Hobb's End in the movie is much more like Stephen King's fictional towns than HPLs.

Yeah, HPL was a bit influence on King, but mostly on his early writings. ItMoM seems more based on King's later stuff.

 

[Lhorgrim]

I read somewhere that there was a production of "At the Mountains of Madness" in the works. Anybody have any info about that?

I think it was going to be done by Guillermo del Toro after he finished Pan's Labyrinth, but Imdb list his next film as Hellboy 2.

I'd love to see "At the Mountains of Madness" on the big screen if it's done well.

 

[KaosDevice]

I saw this trailer back in the long long far ago.Did this movie ever come out? It is impossible to tell AFAIK from the web site.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

That's because Stephen King is open about how influential HPL was in his own writing.

Yes- it is especially evident in his earlier short stories.

 

[Klaus]

Well, this movie sure is faithful... I want to gouge my eyes off.

 

[orcbane]

The jury is still out on it. Don discredit it just because it doesn't feature the normal main character. This is going to be the first HPL movie with an actual budget since Dagon, and it still has potential to be awesome.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Orcbane, are you aware that Klaus is not a native English speaker? Please remember that a number of our posters are from countries other than the US and UK. Civility is far more important to us here than perfect grammar, particularly from those for whom English is not their mother tongue.

 

[orcbane]

*civilized*

 

[Piratecat]

In addition, Orcbane, I'd recommend that before you criticize someone else's word usage you make sure that your own post doesn't contain six spelling and grammar mistakes. Glass houses, right?

Seriously, part of being friendly here is not fussing over other peoples' typos. If you disagree with someone else's opinion on a subject, criticizing their posting style sure isn't the best way to make your point.

Now, since I'm a huge HPL fan, I'll weigh in; based on the trailer (which is always a sketchy method of judging a movie), I'd say I'm cautiously pessimistic. I think it'll probably disappoint me, and I'll be thrilled if it doesn't!

 

[Darthjaye]

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.

I saw that episode it was indeed.

As for Trancejeremy's comment about ItMoM, did you watch the film? If you had you would have noticed the creatures from beyond towards the end of the movie who were indeed cthulic like. Take a gander at the film again.