So, we’ve had the movie translated into twenty-three different languages. Lovecraft is a very global community, more than just the English speaking world. We’re interested in looking for television opportunities. In terms of television, if there’s a channel bold enough to show a silent film, then we’ll see. At this point, there’s no thought of a 45-minute silent film going into theaters, of course. We’ve been approached by several people who want to distribute this, but because we’ve become our own distributors and know that business and are connected to the marketplace, I think right now it’s likely we’ll simply self-distribute through the website. We send stuff all over the world every day. As a result, we’ve been doing a not-insignificant business through our website. Then it became, like I said, about us as producers and creating products as well as just interesting stuff about the mythos. Then with the birth of the Internet it became about this web portal that shared what we were interested in. At first it was about a magazine and people who were into the live gaming. If you want to introduce someone to the works of Lovecraft, it is also an excellent introduction – though you should also first warn them of it being an indie, black and white silent movie.Sean Branney: The HPLHS really changed over time. Lovecraft, this is a must see movie – if not for the fact that it is the most faithful rendition of a Lovecraft story to date. If you are a fan or scholar of the works of H.P. To their credit, the appearance of Cthulhu in the story was itself sort of a let down. The presentation works, but it is still very clearly stop-motion. That leaves stop-motion animation, which is what they did. I doubt they could have come up with a good enough 3D solution as the tools and experience in a high quality 3D rendering would have been budget bursting and also may not have integrated well with the style of the movie. Full on animation in a 2D format would have not worked well with the Mythoscope style. The film makers had a very hard choice to make – animation or stop-motion. The greatest weakness of the movie also happens to be the greatest weakness of the story itself – the appearance of Cthulhu. The Greenland expedition of Professor Webb is surprisingly more vivid than you would expect given the focus of this portion of the story is Legrasse. Louis, which is rendered into the journal of Professor Angell, also present at the time. It begins at the 1908 American Archaeological Society meeting in St. Of the parts of the original story presented in the movie, the one I was most impressed with was The Tale of Inspector Legrasse, which is presented from the point of view of two sources: Legrasse himself, and also Professor Webb. Sadly missing are any Asian languages – there is a surprising number of Lovecraft fans in Japan. The title card list is very impressive, including: Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Euskera, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, Luxmbourgish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh. It is not available on Blu-ray.įor all its shortness and indie feel, the story manages to cover the three main parts of the original story – The Horror in Clay, The Tale of Inspector Legrasse and The Madness from the Sea. The DVD also includes a 25 minute ‘making of’ documentary. The movie itself is only 47 minutes long. Lovecraft Historical Society came up with a style called Mythoscope ™ that attempts to mimic the look of a silent movie era production – black and white, silent and with a music accompaniment. As a result, their movies are not funded like Hollywood productions, but are best described as entirely independent. Lovecraft Historical Society isn’t really a movie production company, though they have produced other movies and audio performances. Given it is such a niche market, you also have to appreciate that these are people that love the works of H. Lovecraft Historical Society is a business that focuses on Lovecraft fan products, especially related to the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. The same thing goes for the phrase ‘this is one for the fans’, which also applies. Just about any creative work that is a labor of love often is not very good. This is a movie that I wincingly refer to as a labor of love. Lovecraft Historical Society is one of the most faithful renditions of an H P Lovecraft story to date. The Call of Cthulhu movie from Sean Branney and Andrew Leman and distributed by the H.
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