(urth) Stingray
Son of Witz
sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org
Tue Nov 4 10:22:04 PST 2008
>> I haven't read AEG or much Lovecraft, but did anyone see that "Call
>> of Cthulu" silent film that was made recently? It was very good up
>> until the monster showed up, then the whole film went POP. How can
>> a movie get everything pretty good, then fail on the most important
>> part? Seriously disapointing.
>
>I haven't seen it, but one could argue the novella suffers the same
>flaw. Well, *most* of Lovecraft does. The reveal is much less scary
>than the build-up, most of the time. There are of course exceptions.
>"The Color Out of Space" and "The Dreams In the Witch-House" are two
>exceptions that leap to *my* mind.
>
>Adam
I hear you. that's what I felt when I read it so long ago.
but nonetheless, a movie has an opportunity to deliver something here. Less would have been more even. but a crude, poorly lit stop motion puppet that looks about 2 feet tall... nah.
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