Review – The Call of Cthulhu

Longtime readers of my thoughts on movies already know that I’m not easily impressed and even less so when the picture in question is an adaptation of a story by H.P. Lovecraft. But the folks who made this manage to pull it off. What they’ve done is genuinely innovative: the movie is put together as if it had been made at the time the source story came out. It’s silent and black and white. Further, they’re obviously well-versed in the conventions of the era, borrowing liberally from Haxan, Caligari and other masterpieces of silent horror. The use of models and stop-motion also give it a dream-like, period feel. Sticking to the story and using some of the tale’s actual locations also helped immensely. To date this is the truest and in many ways the best film adaptation of Lovecraft I’ve ever seen. Buy the disc