However as the original tale was written in the 1930s, this time the movie is a talkie and tonally takes its cues from the genre films of that era.
Like its predecessor, this too is shot in gorgeous black and white, using their patent Mythoscope to recreate the look of a period movie.
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Now spurred on by this success, HPLHS's next feature The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) was an even more ambitious affair, with a bigger budget and a full feature length running time. The results were fantastic and HPLHS's Call of Cthulhu (2001) was a huge success and hailed as an instant classic. Hence it was it was silent, filmed deliberately scratchy black and white, and used vintage special effects technology. While still only a fan short clocking in at 47 minutes and made for a tiny budget of $50000, it was extremely faithfully to the source, but the movie's inspired masterstroke was to make the film as it would have been when Lovecraft's seminal tale of Elder Gods was first published back in 1928. In 2005, a group of dedicated fans - actually Lovecraft LARPers - HP Lovecraft Historical Society (or HPLHS for short) undertook a hugely ambitious project to film one of his most celebrated works, The Call of Cthulhu. However Lovecraftian cinema isn't a complete wash-out and indeed in recent years we have seen some excellent movies derived from his writings. And sadly this is all too frequently the result of many screen adaptions of tales from the Old Gentleman of Providence, with many Lovecraftians feeling that the best pieces of cinema that capture the ethos, tone, and imagination of his work have actually been movies that have been loosely inspired by his stories, such as John Carpenter's In The Mouth of Madness rather than films bearing either his or his stories' names. Like many purported HPL adaptations, this segment in that early '90s horror anthology takes some elements of the tale, but in such a loose fashion that most would not connect it to the original source text. However as influential as Lovecraft has been on both the horror genre and pop culture in general, screen adaptations of his work have been somewhat scarce - or rather screen adaptations that bear any real resemblance to the tales they are alleging to bring to screen is perhaps somewhat nearer the mark.Ī case in point is a previous attempt to film this story, 'Whispers' in Brian Yuzna's HP Lovecraft's Necronomicon (1993). The Whisperer in Darkness is one of HP Lovecraft's most famous tales, one of his later works that blends horror and science fiction to ground-breaking effect.
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