This is a far more accomplished film than their first effort. Mind you, he fits in very well with some of Lovecraft’s themes, but it still seems an odd addition. Curiously, they also added an opening featuring Charles Fort, a famous real-life author who collected all kinds of strange and unbelievable newspaper stories in his books. While The Call of Cthulhu was almost a slavish adaptation of the original, they chose a much freer approach here, adding a very Thirties-style adventure film climax as Wilmarth takes on the Mi-Go and tries to stop their hideous plans. For the most part, they’re fairly successful, and the black and white film helps enormously. The alien’s themselves are moderately successful - they are CGI, but the HPLHS crew deliberately tried to make them look like they were old school stop motion creatures. Part of the fun is that the alien technologies look deliberately retro - and come complete with a pair of Jacob’s ladders, straight out of a classic Thirties mad scientist lab. However, he quickly becomes aware that something strange and unearthly is at work on the farm… Henry invites him to his farm, and Wilmarth finds him in a poor health, only able to speak to him in a whisper. He’s ignored the stories of the locals finding bits of giant crustacean-like claws and legs after a flood in Vermont, but finds himself increasingly drawn into the story as an old man named Henry Akeley sends him a collection of photographs and other evidence of the strange things happening on his farm.Īnd while the dead creatures don’t seem to show on the photographs, they suddenly become visible when you look through a 3-D viewer. If there is any truth to them, he thinks it is entirely mundane, based on things science understands and can explain. While The Call of Cthulhu had been a silent film, shot in a high contrast, Expressionist style, they chose instead to make The Whisperer in Darkness with sound, with a softer black and white look reminiscent of one of the classic adventure films of the Thirties like King Kong, or perhaps like the old Universal Horror films.įolklorist Professor Albert Wilmarth may delve deeply into the stories and legends he’s collected over the years at Miskatonic University, but that doesn’t mean he believes any of them. Six years later, they followed it up with their version of a story Lovecraft wrote in the Thirties. Lovecraft Historical Society, which tried very hard to look like a film that had been made in the year Lovecraft wrote the original story. It was an intriguing oddity, made by a fan group called the H.P. It’s not like there’s any real competition. Lovecraft film ever made, I would immediately reply The Call of Cthulhu (2005). Last Three Days (202… on Synchronic (2019)Īventuras com Tio Ma… on Supersonic Saucer (1956)Ĭhopper Chicks in Zo… on The Return of the Living Dead…
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