Cthulhu?

[andrewducker]

Over here you can find the trailer for Cthulhu, the movie.  Which has some nice bits of camera-work, but also what looks like terrible script and acting.  Oh well.

Comments

[awdrey-gore.livejournal.com]

You know, I almost hate you for proving that a movie about the Cthulhu mythos casting Tori Spelling was not, in fact, just a terrible rumor. A sort of urban legend. A bad dream after inhaling hair dye and tanning cream.

I really needed for this to be fake.

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Fuckers. That looks totally doomed. And not a sniff of tentacles, starspawn or Shoggoth anywhere. This film had better be packed with special effects they're not leaking into the trailer because if it just turns out to be a movie about a cult and they're simply displacing Hollywood Satanism with Hollywood Cthulhu worship then... it deserves to die in the water before it hits the cinemas.

Arg.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

There's not enough for me to tell about the script, but the acting is pretty darn bad :(

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Well, there's always Stuart Gordon's Dagon. I've only seen half of it but the bit I saw was excellent. And even though they are fairly unfaithful, Reanimator and From Beyond are excellent. Necronomicon, which is a loose adaptation of four stories, isn't *awful* either.

[dalglir.livejournal.com]

Heh. Dagon was a laff.

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the hugely enjoyable 'In The Mouth of Madness', for the themes at least.

'Dagon' is reasonably good and worth watching the rest of. I was pretty sure we watched it as a group. Did you fall asleep or something? (It may have been during that era). ;-)

Another good one that comes to mind is 'The Dunwich Horror'. It should be experienced even just for the amazing animation in the opening credits.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

I've got Dagon on DVD now so I'll watch it soon. Yes, I did fall asleep and woke up for the last 30 seconds.

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Some of the regular posters on a horror list I'm on seemed to think it was okay, so maybe there's hope.

[johnbobshaun.livejournal.com]

Now this is interesting. How about a low Budget but reasonably accurate version of Call of Cthulhu done as a expressionist silent movie?

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Ah, this was the one the horror list was referring to, not the other film.

[ninox.livejournal.com]

I have a creeping horror that this will end up in the DVD collection. Woe is me!