Oh, and speaking of Providence: the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's performing wing, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre,
is offering a free download of their radio play of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." It'll be free only till the end of August 21, so if you happen to see this post before midnight, and like weird radio theater, jump on board
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YOINK.
(Thank you for the heads-up! I own The Call of Cthulhu, but none of the rest.)
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I believe Foyer's presence in the cast to be part of the reason I bought The Call of Cthulhu, the other being that it was the one of their CDs readily available at Arisia the year after I'd seen their movies. Speaking of which, have they done any work on film since? I was fascinated by the possibility that they might just keep adapting forward in time, leading inevitably to a Lovecraftian '50's B-movie.
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If they manage an At the Mountains of Madness before Guillermo del Toro, I will feel a little sorry for del Toro, but I will also happily hand these people my money, especially if they do it in the style of The Thing from Another World (1951) because that would just be a great callback.
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Oh, man, if they did it in two-strip Technicolor or a reasonable facsimile of the process, the colors would be weird and indescribable. It certainly added to the uncanny effect of Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) and Doctor X (1932), a similarly gruesome horror-mystery-screwball with a lot of the same cast which I never got around to writing up because it wasn't as gonzo. I can't believe I'm saying that about a movie in which cannibalism, serial killing, and tableaux morts are major plot points, but that's pre-Code horror.
(At The Mountains of Madness would also be less of a bummer than a domestic tragedy where a family is destroyed one by one, so that'd be a better first choice.)
(True that.)
What Lovecraft do you especially want to see on film?
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That's it! It just doesn't have a plucky hungover girl reporter or a museum gallery of waxified murder victims, so it came in second in the Warner horror-show stakes.
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I can't actually imagine a film of "The Outsider" unless it was a first-person camera à la Dark Passage (1947) or Lady in the Lake (1947) because it matters so much that the audience make certain assumptions about the appearance of the narrator-as does the narrator himself-which the finale overturns. I like the recorded version I have by Roddy McDowall precisely because it's all in the mind.
I'd like to see "The Dunwich Horror" made into a movie (I understand that's already been done, but it doesn't sound like a great version)
It's . . . not. I give it a brief gloss of snark at the end of my previous link about the HPLHS' movies. It was tremendously entertaining, but almost certainly terrible.
I'd like to see "The Lurking Fear" because I don't have a strong mental image of the landscape, the creatures, or the people and buildings, and I'd like to see a building give me one.And it's a story in which the ( ... )
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Last time I watched it, I decided Dean Stockwell's version of Wilbur was creepier than most, but that was because he pretty much played him as a sleazy pick-up artist.
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