The makers have gone to great lengths to make sure that the movie has the same style all the way through and they've done really well. Once you start watching it the format is static so there's no being pulled out of the atmosphere by a sudden change in film making techniques. In high definition you can see that the quality is modern film equipment given some post-production treatment to make it look like a silent film - well, it's not like there's some hand-cranked 1920s cameras just lying around, is there? - but the quality is constant throughout the movie. As he pieces together the dreadful and disturbing reality of the situation, his own sanity begins to crumble. 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. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. a dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. It's a wonderful movie and, even though there are a couple of things that show it's modern-day technology and lack of budget, it's well worth a viewing.įrom the HPLHS website. That's the movie you have here an almost faithful adaptation of the story made to look like a classic silent movie, made by lovers of H P Lovecraft, with some great performances by the actors (some of whom are HPLHS members) and an excellent soundtrack. They filmed it, added some Willis O'Brien style stop-motion special effects, and allowed a couple of disturbing scenes of mutilation and insanity to get past the censors of the time. Okay, let me explain it this way - imagine that there was a studio back in the 1920s who decided to make their silent movie version of 'The Call of Cthulhu'. Instead of doing a simple, filmed-on-a-camcorder-in-some-home-made-clothes movie, or an attempt to update the classic story to the modern age to save on budget, the HPLHS society decided to make a pretty accurate story. The H P Lovecraft Historical Society's (HPLHS) movie 'The Call of Cthulhu' is one such pull-out-the-stops movie. Over the years there's been some very slick and professional fan-made productions and then there are some that pull out all the stops and simply go for it. There's a huge glut of them out there and mostly it's about a group's love of a genre or franchise, like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. Photographed and Edited by David Robertson Original Music by Troy Sterling Nies, Ben Holbrook, Nicholas Pavkovic and Chad Fifer Produced by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman
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