While Lovecraft fans like me endure the excruciating wait for Del Toro’s “At the Mountains of Madness”, pickings are notoriously slim for any other tentacle-y goodness. Ordinarily, when Hollywood gets its grubby little mitts on any of Lovecraft’s work, the only resemblance it might bear to the original is the title. Sometimes, not even that. Lovecraft is not an easy author to adapt. It’s a job best left to professionals and scholars… like the people of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
Not content to spend their days with their noses in musty old tomes, the HLPHS is making movies. Their latest (the first being a silent version of “The Call of Cthulhu”) is a noir-ish interpretation of “The Whisperer in Darkness”. Color me happy because this movie is a Reese’s Cup of two of my favorite genres: 40’s noir and Lovecraftian horror. Look for a festival screenings and a DVD/Blu-Ray release later this year.
For more information, you can visit the HPLHS website.
February 17, 2011 at 12:50 pm
This film looks creative and original. I’m looking forward to it. Good review.
February 24, 2011 at 7:08 pm
I can assure you, they have done a great job. The Whisperer In Darkness will have its World Premiere in SFF-rated ATHENS Intl Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival, in March 12, 2011. Check
http://sffrated.wordpress.com/2011-whisperer-world-premiere/
Alecos Papadopoulos
Chief Festival Officer
SFF-rated ATHENS