# Whatever happened to "The Cry of Cthulhu"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 6, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484 "2003-05-06T19:40:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SeamusMcCool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@SeamusMcCool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeamusMcCool)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/21 "2011-04-05T14:02:15Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > They have discovered the only lurking terror that is more horrible and relentless than Cthulhu … the IRS! 😃 LOL! The gentleman I was referring too wrt special effects is Tom Sullivan. He did the special effects for Evil Dead and if you ever get to see his museum of the dead at a horror movie convention, he’ll have copies of his artwork for “Cry of Cthulhu” available for viewing and/or purchase. Some really cool stuff in that 70s Heavy Metal kind of way. ---
**Author:** ![SeamusMcCool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@SeamusMcCool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeamusMcCool)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/22 "2011-04-05T14:08:41Z")
Here’s an example from his website [http://www.darkageproductions.com/color\_gallery.php](http://www.darkageproductions.com/color_gallery.php) Also from his website: “I met some aspiring filmmakers in Jackson Michigan and did some Posters, Paintings and Sculptures to help promote their movie that was never made called “The Cry of Cthulhu”. We did get some attention from Cinefantastique and Starlog and both published my art with their articles.” [http://www.darkageproductions.com/artist02.php](http://www.darkageproductions.com/artist02.php) ---
**Author:** ![Suil\_Dubh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@Suil\_Dubh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suil_Dubh)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/23 "2011-04-06T01:37:25Z")
> [@SeamusMcCool](#): > > Here’s an example from his website > > [http://www.darkageproductions.com/color\_gallery.php](http://www.darkageproductions.com/color_gallery.php) Cool, thanks for the link. If I am remembering things correctly the illustration on the second page was used as the cover for a “Call of Cthulhu” RPG adventure. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/24 "2011-04-06T12:19:39Z")
> [@Dijon\_Warlock](#): > > Don’t forget [The Dunwich Horror](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0065669) with Sandra Dee and Dean Stockwell. Trippy, man. I love that movie. Part of it is childhood nostalgia (my parents took us to see it at the drive-in when I was about 10) but I think it really holds up. Btw, BrainGlutton, I have that Heavy Metal issue somewhere! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/25 "2011-04-06T13:15:44Z")
> [@Gravity](#): > > Oh, there have been a few real sinkers that have been “based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft”. > > [Dagon](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0264508), anyone? > > [From Beyond](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091083)? [The Lurking Fear](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0110410)? Or maybe [Necronomicon](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0107664) , [The Unnamable](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0096344) or [The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0108447)? > > And there have been others. _shudder_ > > (I wonder how many sanity points I just lost?) From Beyond sucked, but MAN, did Barbara Crampton look **HOT** when she she got her freak on! > **[From Beyond (1986)](https://www.imdb.com/media/rm2438169856/tt0091083)** > > Barbara Crampton in From Beyond (1986) Papa like! ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/26 "2011-04-06T14:36:36Z")
2003, hmm? "That is not dead which can eternal lie . . . ", indeed. At least this zombie returned from the dead with new insight 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/27 "2011-04-06T15:45:17Z")
It’d make a cool Tim Burton movie… ---
**Author:** ![Reno\_Nevada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Reno\_Nevada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reno_Nevada)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/28 "2011-04-06T15:50:00Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > What I want to see is something as faithful as possible to the spirit of the original – e.g., a story set in the 1930s, where all the protagonists are creepy New England shabby-gentry like Henry Armitage and Randolph Carter – and the theme of racial prejudice = fear of humanoid hybrid monsters really comes across, the way HPL himself would have done it, fuck the PC police – and there’s no soppy sex or romance or ordinary emotional interaction between human beings. Something really HPL! I have no idea whether “Cry of Cthulhu” would have been like that. Of course, in the strange aeons, a movie with some correspondence to what \*\*BrainGlutton \*\*wanted has been made–I refer to [The Call of Cthulhu](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478988/), a silent movie made in 2005 to look like a movie made in the earlies. It is surprisingly well-done, thought the SFX for Cthulhu are appropriately terrible. I don’t know that the racial prejudice really comes through, though. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/29 "2011-04-06T17:47:34Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > It’d make a cool Tim Burton movie… _NOOOOO!!!_ Cthulhu can awaken, I guess, but _please_, just let Tim Burton lie dormant for a while… ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/30 "2011-04-06T17:53:01Z")
Apparently, **DreadCthulhu** has been banned. I would not have thought the moderator’s powers extended that far… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/31 "2011-04-07T21:32:15Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Apparently, **DreadCthulhu** has been banned. I would not have thought the moderator’s powers extended that far… That is not banned which can eternal lurk; And in strange eons, the mods may well unban that jerk. ---
**Author:** ![Byron\_Craft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Byron\_Craft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byron_Craft)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/32 "2016-02-18T18:58:15Z")
I was the producer of the film project titled, “The Cry of Cthulhu.” Unfortunately, after years of work on the project, it never came to fruition due to budgeting restraints. However, the novelization of the screenplay is available at Amazon @ [Amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1523479760?keywords=The%20cry%20of%20cthulhu&qid=1455132434&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1) Byron Craft ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/33 "2016-02-18T19:07:04Z")
Please note that this is a 13-year-old thread. > [@Reno\_Nevada](#): > > Of course, in the strange aeons, a movie with some correspondence to what \*\*BrainGlutton \*\*wanted has been made–I refer to [The Call of Cthulhu](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478988/), a silent movie made in 2005 to look like a movie made in the earlies. It is surprisingly well-done, thought the SFX for Cthulhu are appropriately terrible. I don’t know that the racial prejudice really comes through, though. Not that I remember. The genius of making it as if it were a Thirties movie is that we _expect_ it to be low-budget and cheesy, but fun. And it is! The HPL Historical Society has some other good multimedia mythos-related stuff, too: [http://www.cthulhulives.org/HPLHSPress/PressIndex.html](http://www.cthulhulives.org/HPLHSPress/PressIndex.html) ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/34 "2016-02-18T19:59:23Z")
Why does (SDMB guest) MineFujiko 's name appear in it’s own font for me? It’s not a clickable handle… ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/35 "2016-02-18T20:07:37Z")
> [@mlees](#): > > Why does (SDMB guest) MineFujiko 's name appear in it’s own font for me? It’s not a clickable handle… No one ever finds out the truth behind Mine Fujiko. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/36 "2016-02-18T20:17:49Z")
I assume (now that I think about it) that that user’s account data got lost in some server merge. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/37 "2016-02-18T22:12:52Z")
> [@Number](#): > > [Cast a Deadly Spell](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0101550) was pretty good. It wasn’t based directly on any of Lovecraft’s works, but fans should enjoy it. Ah, I really liked that movie. Saw it when it was new, but forgot the name. ---
**Author:** ![Number](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/number/32/242_2.png) [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2016, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484/38 "2016-02-20T04:50:55Z")
I’ve seen _Dagon_ in the years since replying to this thread, and I thought it was pretty good. It may not have been a perfectly-faithful adaptation of the book, but it definitely had the right tone and was generally well executed. It’s not a movie, but the Darkest of the Hillside Thickets’ album _The Shadow Out of Tim_ is the best Lovecraft-inspired work I’ve experienced in recent memory. It’s a labor of love which also happens to rock really hard. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-cry-of-cthulhu/173484.md?page=1)