# I just watched "The Call of Cthulhu" --the movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629 "2005-10-30T21:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/21 "2005-11-18T19:29:40Z")
The more copies of this they sell, the better a chance it is to see other films. I’d like to see The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward made into a silent film myself. I’m putting this one on my Christmas list cause my mom doesn’t like it when I buy stuff for myself this time of year. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/22 "2005-11-18T19:49:45Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > Oh, and might I add that antipiracy disclaimer at the beginning rocked? I’ve never had a publishing company threaten to have my eyes ripped out by byakhee in so many words. Sure, Sony and UA have both **strongly implied** it, but never spelled it out… WAHAHAHAHAHAH! Right. Off to shell out for the thing. (Thanks btw, **Miller**!) This is gonna totally rock my housewarming-slash-holiday shindig. We won’t mention that the housewarming is about a year late… ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/23 "2005-11-19T00:07:12Z")
> [@Rocketeer](#): > > Okay, I’m convinced. I have ordered one direct from the source. We’ll see; you might not be safe from nightgaunts yet, **Terrifel**. 🙂 \*What th’–?! \* When did recommending a movie suddenly become an invitation to be savaged by nightgaunts? What, is this “Sic Nightgaunts on **Terrifel** ” Week or something? Well, fine. That’s just fine. Just remember, though… _I have ferrets._ Eldritch, mocking ferrets! And I won’t hesitate to unleash the abominably fuzzy, writhing horde of mustelid chaos at even the slightest provocation. I’m not fooling around here, man. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/24 "2005-11-19T00:44:41Z")
Wait, nightgaunts don’t savage. They tickle and carry you off to dire places. Like Starbucks. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/25 "2005-11-19T01:42:35Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > I’ve had my copy for two weeks now (along with a really nifty **Innsmouth High School Swim Team** tee shirt… Where o where did you get this? Now I _have_ to have one. Stranger ([Miskatonic U](http://www.miskatonic.net/), Class of '95) ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/26 "2005-11-19T01:43:46Z")
Oh believe me, when taken to excess, “coffee” plus “tickling” can indeed equal “savage.” I found that out from an overly excitable quasi-Goth girl I used to hang with. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/27 "2005-11-19T02:42:47Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > Where o where did you get this? Now I _have_ to have one. Just go to the [website](http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/store.lasso?1=product&2=20) where you got the DVD. All manner of cool stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/28 "2005-11-19T02:47:25Z")
Let the Buyer Beware, though…that shirt was advertised as 100% cotton, and it’s got some cheesy polyester in it. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/29 "2005-11-19T04:30:18Z")
> [@Ukulele Ike](#): > > Let the Buyer Beware, though…that shirt was advertised as 100% cotton, and it’s got some cheesy polyester in it. Well, of course. What would you expect of a Lovecraft T-shirt but an abomination! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/30 "2005-11-20T16:01:31Z")
According to the Seattle Times, an independent, low budget film based on Lovecraft’s classic story is now in production, and the maker hopes to have it ready for Cannes in '06. He’s aiming for cineplex distribution. [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002579672\_lovecraft24.html](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002579672_lovecraft24.html) It’s ultra-low budget (only $500,000, a miniscule budget by today’s standards) so I’m not hoping for Spielbergian awesomeness in the sets and special effects. Even so, I’ll probably shell out the $6.50 or so it’ll take to see it. I’m definitely curious to see what he comes up with. Judging from the article, it looks like they had a lot of fun making it. (There seem to be a lot of Cthulhuvians on the SDMB, don’t there?) ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/31 "2005-12-05T14:22:47Z")
**Terrifel** , I won’t be siccing any nightgaunts on you. I got my copy of **Call of Cthulhu** this past weekend, and I was so enthralled, I watched it twice and re-read the Lovecraft story to see how faithful it was. Mrs. R liked it a lot, and even Little R said it was “really creepy”–high praise indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/32 "2006-06-06T22:24:06Z")
Bumping thread: I saw this movie on the big screen at the Seattle International Film Festival last night, and enjoyed it greatly. I wish they’d spent the money to shoot on film; the digital medium was a little distracting. But it’s remarkable how the filmmakers’ deep love for the original material goes a long way toward overcoming technical limitations. Plus: [QUOTE=ultrafilter] The more copies of this they sell, the better a chance it is to see other films. I’d like to see The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward made into a silent film myself. [/QUOTE] The director was present for a Q&A and said the team’s next project will be “The Whisperer in Darkness,” and that they’re making it as a talkie. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/33 "2006-06-07T00:56:53Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Bumping thread: I saw this movie on the big screen at the Seattle International Film Festival last night, and enjoyed it greatly. I wish they’d spent the money to shoot on film; the digital medium was a little distracting. But it’s remarkable how the filmmakers’ deep love for the original material goes a long way toward overcoming technical limitations. Plus:The director was present for a Q&A and said the team’s next project will be “The Whisperer in Darkness,” and that they’re making it as a talkie. 🙂 [/QUOTE] AAAAGH. My friend mentioned that last night at dinner, and we were thinking of going since she didn’t remember WHEN it was showing. I was hoping to see it on the big screen since I’ve got the thing on DVD. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/34 "2006-06-07T00:57:42Z")
Well, it would _have_ to be a talkie. The best things about that story are the ghastly recordings of Buzzing Imitations of Human Speech. Also, the racing out of the lonely Akeley farmhouse, through the wild domed hills of Vermont, in a comandeered motor at night. [sub]FUCK ME, I LOVE “The Whisperer in Darkness.”[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/35 "2006-06-07T03:06:11Z")
A really good HPL farce would be _Real World: Arkham_. _At the mountains of madness_ would be a good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/36 "2006-06-07T13:03:19Z")
[QUOTE=gytalf2000] I got this DVD from Amazon a couple weeks ago – it is a fascinating movie! I really enjoyed watching it! I couldn’t believe I was enjoying a silent movie so much. Plus, the outtakes were great! [/QUOTE] \ > **[Amazon.com: The Call of Cthulhu : Matt Foyer, David Mersault, Noah Wagner,...](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BQTC98)** > > The Call of Cthulhu, an all new silent film, is HP Lovecraft's most famous story. The film follows the story's three-part narrative construction, and it moves from the 1920s to 1908 to the1870s and back, as the story does. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629/37 "2006-06-07T15:11:05Z")
Huh. I somehow missed this thread when it was started, but in that time I actually read “Call” for the first time, and I’m now very interested in searching around for this film. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-watched-the-call-of-cthulhu-the-movie/328629.md?page=1)