Showing posts with label Cthulhu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cthulhu. Show all posts
"You cannot escape us..."
A new trailer for the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's adaptation of "The Whisperer in Darkness" is online:
Highlights include a working brain cylinder and several glimpses of the pseudo-crustaceous Mi-Go.
Sadly, this won't be an October 2010 release as originally planned; it looks like they're hoping to wrangle a TV or theatrical deal next year.
I'm petitioning ThinkGeek to start selling brain cylinders. And Red Lobster to add "pseudo-crustaceous" to their menu descriptions.
Shadow Over Innsmouth Part Deux
Dave's post reminded me of this image, drawn by Crogan's Adventures artist Chris Schweizer:
Shadow Over Innsmouth
Came across some surprisingly effective fan art for Lovecraft's famous tale of sea creatures interbreeding with the residents of a coastal village. It's a bit like a creepy children's book as imaged here.
"Let me whisper it to you..."
Incidentally, if you haven't seen The Call of Cthulhu, and you can stomach the sanity-blasting horror of silent films, you should absolutely watch it. It's available from Netflix Instant, so there's no excuse.
He will know if you ignore him.
Wow.
That's a lot of symbolism....
One Nation Under God
This being the internet, however...
There's an exceptionally awesome Lovecraftian response image.
One Nation Under God
This being the internet, however...
There's an exceptionally awesome Lovecraftian response image.
Rock on, Cthulhu.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster saves us all from stupidity:
Evolution Beats Intelligent Design in Florida
Members of a Florida county school board who last month wanted a classroom balance between evolution with intelligent design have quietly reversed their positions.
Shortly before Thanksgiving, four members of the Polk County School Board said they didn't support Florida's proposed science education guidelines, which designate evolution as a fundamental concept that every student should understand.
Wired Science covered the controversy, which came hot on the heels of a Texas education official's firing for telling people about a lecture critical of intelligent design. A new battle appeared to have broken out between proponents of evolution -- the scientifically observed and accepted explanation for the development of life on Earth -- and intelligent design, a religiously-inspired account of life's origins as being too complicated and coincidental to be explained by anything but divine intervention.
Barely a month later, reports the Tampa Tribune, "the controversy is dying with a whimper," with school board officials insisting that their personal belief in intelligent design shouldn't be taught to kids as science.
What happened? You can start with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
The satirical religious Web site asserts that an omnipotent, airborne clump of spaghetti intelligently designed all life with the deft touch of its "noodly appendage." Adherents call themselves Pastafarians. They deluged Polk school board members with e-mail demanding equal time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism's version of intelligent design.
"They've made us the laughingstock of the world," said Margaret Lofton, a school board member who supports intelligent design. She dismissed the e-mail as ridiculous and insulting.
The Tribune also credits attention generated by science bloggers, especially Pharygula and Wired Science, who took a locally reported story and made it national. And make no mistake -- this was, and is, a national story. If evolution and intelligent design were forced to share classroom credibility in Florida, it would be that much easier for a similarly diluted curriculum to pass in Texas, which is embarking on its own curricula revisions. If Texas wanted scientifically bankrupt textbooks, then textbook manufacturers would provide them -- and other states would buy them, too.
So chalk one up for science, and remember: just because you believe in God doesn't mean you can't believe in evolution.
Horror Visualized
Culled from Google Image Search and DeviantArt, some images of famous monsters and horror themes that seemed cool or weird or just struck me...(click to biggie-size)
VAMPIRE
THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN
HAUNTED HOUSE
GREAT CTHULHU
WITCH
FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER
THE BRIDE
MUMMY
GHOST
BIGFOOT
GOJIRA!
Post your own fave artists covering monsters and images of any monsters I forgot! Like, how did I forget zombies? I just did, okay. It's frickin' LATE.
Long before Resident Evil...
...my favorite instances of video games suspense were the old Infocom text adventure games. If you've never heard of 'em, educate ya self, then give one a shot...For your Halloween pleasure, I offer up both the classic Infocom game, The Lurking Horror, and perhaps more interestingly, the excellent fan-made, Lovecratian-themed Anchorhead.
The Whisperer in Darkness
The silent movie adaptation of Call of Cthulhu was an impressive homage to the dawn of film, but I think there's a good chance the new Lovecraft adaptation - The Whisperer in Darkness - will trump it. As you watch the preview, note that while filmed in black and white, the film's techniques are clearly modern, and, I suspect, more approachable.Here's the trailer
"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming..."
A few years ago, a creative group of Lovecraft fans put together a silent film based on his most famous work, The Call of Cthulhu. I'd embed a YouTube trailer, but there's a weird sound glitch on it, so you're gonna have to take the one baby step of clicking here to view a Quicktime version. There's no doubt it has a slight campiness to it, but not by virtue of its content so much as the fact that silent films simply look a touch campy viewed in a modern context.
All told it's a remarkably faithful adaptation.
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