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Aug 21 08: mindbending
So I just found out that Cthulhu starts a tour of indie movie houses on Friday, which came as sort of a surprise because I first saw a trailer for it in May of 2006. I figured I had just missed the thing entirely, because any H.P. Lovecraft adapation1 with Tori Spelling in it has “Direct to Video” written all over its squamous, rugose forehead. But no! It’s out. And its early reviews have been more positive than I might have expected; I hear it has even won an award or two.
The current trailer confirms something else as well: there’s a gay-romance angle in amongst the human sacrifice and intimations of horrible things rising out of the sea. So what more could you want, really? This sounds so out-there that I may just have to see it, assuming it ever comes to NYC.
Oh, and my most favoritest thing of all is this phrase from the promo copy: “Caught in an accelerating series of events, he discovers aspects of his father’s New Age cult which take on a dangerous and apocalyptic significance.”2 Ha! Baby, that cult is about as old age as it gets.
Ia!
1 In this case it’s loosely based on “The Shadow over Innsmouth” (1931) and the Cthulhu mythos that (for those of you at home — hi, Dad) winds through works by Lovecraft and others after him, e.g. August Derleth. But it’s set in Oregon instead of New England.
2 We’ll leave the that/which issues aside for now, offensive though they may be.