• R'lyeh Finally Rises: Call of Cthulhu Movie Unleashed!

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    PoC
    Published on 3rd October 2005 04:43 PM
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    After many moons, the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's much anticipated Call of Cthulhu film has finally been released. We first covered news of the production back in July 2004, which was followed in October 2004 by the release of a CoC movie trailer.

    Now the HPLHS has made their magnum opus available on DVD...

    From the HPLHS web site:



    At last, the stars are finally right..

    "Written in 1926, just before the advent of "talking" pictures, The Call of Cthulhu is one of the most famous and influential tales of H.P. Lovecraft, the father of gothic horror. Now the story is brought richly to life in the style of a classic 1920s silent movie, with a haunting original symphonic score. Using the "Mythoscope" process - a mix of modern and vintage techniques, the HPLHS has worked to create the most authentic and faithful screen adaptation of a Lovecraft story yet attempted.

    From the cultists of the Louisana bayous to the man-eating non-euclidean geometry of R'lyeh, the HPLHS brings Cthulhu to the screen as it was meant to be seen. Eighteen months of production and a cast of more than 50 actors went into making this film a period spectacle that must seen to be believed.

    The DVD includes The Call of Cthulhu (47 minutes, black and white), the high-fidelity and "Mythophonic" soundtracks, a 25 minute "making-of" documentary featurette, two slide shows, deleted footage, a prop PDF of the Sydney Bulletin and more.

    To appeal to Lovecraft fans throughout across the globe, this DVD provides intertitles in 24 languages 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. These aren't just subtitles either - they are the real title cards rendered tastefully in each language. If you thought the story was scary before, wait until you see it in Welsh!"

    The Call of Cthulhu DVD (Format: NTSC, Region 0, Black & White [special features in colour with sound]) is available directly from the HPLHS web site at $20.00 (US), along with the CoC Soundtrack CD at $15.00 (US).

    For more information, visit the Call of Cthulhu movie web site.

    We know there are a lot of people looking forward to seeing this...

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    1. PoC's Avatar
      PoC - 3rd October 2005, 05:04 PM
      People going to the 2005 HPL Film Festival should get the opportunity to see this on the big screen.

      Also, we plan to interview Sean Branney and Andrew Leman of HPLHS in Yog Radio #2 later this month.
    1. Misterhawk's Avatar
      Misterhawk - 12th January 2006, 12:57 PM
      The site got very mad at me when I tried to post this article with the source code, and it's not accepting any html from me so I'll just post the link and hope you will forgive the lack of style:

      http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=19599

      It's a review of "The Call of Cthulhu" from the DVD Talk web site.

      Hawkeye