Lovecraft Historical Society, "a couple of guys with backgrounds in theatre and film." This dedicated team combined the skill of a professional and the love of a fan to create a unique movie that captures the mood of the silent film age and brings Lovecraft's outstanding tale faithfully to the silver screen. Lovecraft's story, but not from the silent film period but from the year 2005, an independent low-budget production pulled together by the H.P. The film you saw is indeed a silent film adaptation of H.P. Have you by chance discovered a forgotten treasure of silent film history? How can there be a silent film based on the story? But there it is, right before your eyes! Cut fast, with imaginative imagery, and an expressionist mood. That was at the end of the silent film period, Lovecraft wasn't even famous then, and later the story has been repeatedly considered "unfilmable". But "Cthulhu" was, as you recall, written in 1926 and first published in the American horror pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928. The film begins, and you're baffled more and more: It's a silent film! And indeed a faithful adaptation of Lovecraft's frightening tale which told the story of a man who in his late great-uncle's papers finds hints about the existence of an ancient monster called the mighty Cthulhu which is of such unspeakable horror that the knowledge of it is driving people insane. Lovecraft - you never knew that it had been adapted for the big screen! Wait a moment - that's the famous horror short story of H.P. And then the film begins with symphonic orchestral music, in black-and-white, and the title cards read: HPLHS Motion Pictures presents THE CALL OF CTHULHU. And it's raining so you can hardly read the exterior lettering, but you buy a ticket anyway. There's only one theatre with one film that night. So you decide to go to a local cinema and watch the evening performance. You find a little hotel but you're not tired enough to go to bed right away. It begins to darken and you decide to stay in the next village before you get tired. Imagine you are on a travel with your car.
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