2005.11.11
The Call of Cthulu
The Call of CthuluSome time back I heard of a small film coming out called The Call of Cthulu
The film was just shot and released in the past year and is 47 minutes of silent movie era happiness. The camera angles, make up and lighting, many of the effects and the sets all give it a sense of something from the early days of film. They did use some modern green screen compositing, but there’s only one point in the film where I noticed it. The music, which runs almost non-stop throughout the movie, is quite good, though at times I thought I could hear that it was computer created and not played by live musicians. Hard to tell. Hardly matters.
The story starts with a man who wants the research he’s done destroyed, and the story goes into what the research was. Of course it’s about the imminent rise of sleeping Cthulu. A bizarre set of coincidences all point to the Old One’s rise, and the man isn’t sure the mind of man will ever be prepared for the horror and insanity.
Just as entertaining as the movie is the DVD extras, which include a making of and deleted scenes. One of the great things about silent film is that the actual spoken dialogue can be spoken, and a few of the deleted scenes (with the audio and color left in tact) are hilarious.
You can read more about the movie at the official site, and if you’re ready to face the horror and pleasure of this independent film buy it by clicking on the picture.
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