jeudi 29 août 2013

H. P. Lovecraft films

A few nights ago I was channel surfing and found on the Chiller channel an exquisite black and white film version of H. P. Lovecraft's The Whisperer in Darkness. Unfortunately, I hit on it fairly well into the movie; but it was still well worth watching. It was set in the late 1920s, with a 20s' view of advanced technology. Filming it in black and white made for excellent use of chiaroscuro. It had a very creepy Lovecraftian atmosphere. The same people who made this film also made a silent version of The Call of Chthulu. I've heard of a German version of The Color out of Space, done, appropriately, in black and white, that is also supposed to be well done.



This is a lot better than the 1970 film version of The Dunwich Horror, starring, Dean Stockwell, Sam Jaffe, Sandra Dee and Ed Begley, although it was fun seeing Miss Dee in sexy open-sided outfit. Before that, there were a bunch of Roger Corman style films, supposedly based on stuff by Edgar Allen Poe, but in reality Lovecraft stories.



You can see a preview of At the Mountains of Madness here which is being produced by James Cameron. From the preview one can see that they've sensibly set the film in the 20s or 30s. It's big budget, which may be promising, although I'm not sure Tom Cruise is a good fit for the film.



What do the rest of you think of this film, as well as The Whisperer in Darkness, The Call of Chthulu, The Color out of Space and others?





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