tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888235855149188471.post2913133702917881153..comments2013-03-29T12:00:51.677-04:00Comments on Keystone Gaming Society: Call of Cthulhu - The Movie!KGS Administratorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03758274743313147888noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888235855149188471.post-87380226947558268432011-05-26T09:21:37.841-04:002011-05-26T09:21:37.841-04:00Well, I have to agree with you on all points. the ...Well, I have to agree with you on all points. the movie is fantastic, though I have not seen many other Lovecraftian horror movies. A theme that always gets down played in the movies adaptations seems to be the constant dreaming, the uncertainty, and the running away in horror. <br /> <br /> I have recently been reading and audio booking many of Lovecraft's works, and I notice 2 main things, there is a lot of uncertainty and allot of running. strangely many of the main characters are men of learning all doing detective work. <br /> <br />As for movie adaptations here is a list: The Haunted Palace (1963) · Die, Monster, Die! (1965) · The Dunwich Horror (1970) · Re-Animator (1985) · From Beyond (1986) · The Unnamable (1988) · Cast A Deadly Spell (1991) · The Resurrected (1992) · In the Mouth of Madness (1994) · Necronomicon (1994) · Witch Hunt (1994) · Bleeders (1997) · Cthulhu (2000) · Dagon (2001) · Beyond Re-Animator (2003) · The Call of Cthulhu (2005) · H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House (2005) · Cthulhu (2007). <br /><br />Sadly I have only seen two of these films and bits and pieces of another. there are actually better adaptations on YouTube, not very visually pleasing at times but closer to the stories.<br /><br /> I think the hardest theme to be portrayed on the big screen is the uncertainty. even in the movie Call of Cthulhu the Architecture of R'lyeh cant really be distinguished as laying flat or upright as well as the many indistinguishable horrors from within. <br /><br />I actually like the idea of have more silent films, talking can screw things up, I listened to one horrible audio book were he speaking was speaking like it was an opera and the sound effects way off. I think a key to many of Lovecrafts works is the silence, like the Whisper in the Darkness which the main means of communication was through letters, and at the end it even mentions the silence beeing unnerving.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com