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| Festival Year |
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| 2006 |
21st Century Silents |
| Film Title |
THE CALL OF CTHULHU |
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| Country |
USA |
| Release Date |
2006 |
| Production Co. |
HPLHS Motion Pictures |
| Director |
Andrew Leman |
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| DVD |
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Time |
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47' |
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HPLHS Motion Pictures, Glendale, CA. |
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| Print Notes |
Didascalie inglese / English intertitles.
sonoro/sound |
| Cast |
| Matt Foyer, Barry Lynch, David Mersault, Noah Wagner |
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| Other Credits |
| prod: Sean Branney, Andrew Leman; scen., ad: Sean Branney, dal racconto di/from the story by H.P. Lovecraft; f./ph, mo./ed: David Robertson; mus: Troy Sterling Nies, Ben Holbrook, Nicholas Pavkovic, Chad Fifer; cost: Laura Brody; effetti speciali visivi/special visual effects: Dan Novy |
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| Program Notes |
Actor Andrew Leman and writer-director Sean Branney established the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society in 1985, and have subsequently explored various ways of dramatizing the “unfilmable” work of this science-fiction author, who died in 1937 at the age of 47. They determined to put one of his most famous stories, “The Call of Cthulhu”, published in 1926, on screen “the way it might have been made in the 1920s – when Lovecraft wrote it – as a silent movie. These films rely completely on action and visuals and music, all of which appeal directly to the emotions … Lovecraft’s story features numerous words – not least of which is the name of the title character – which are very difficult to pronounce correctly. But by shooting a silent film, none of our actors have to try to pronounce them, and every member of the audience hears those words in their head exactly the way they think they should sound. Because a silent film leaves more to the viewer’s imagination, it can be a very engaging and powerful and satisfying experience.”
The story of the film (shot digitally on mini-DVD with a Canon XLI camera) tells how a dying professor’s bequest to his nephew leads him on a globe-spanning quest to unravel a twisted knot of fear, madness, nameless cults, and horrors best left unknown. – DAVID ROBINSON
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