What a gyp!

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:37 pm

Notice the web site and other foo-faraw about the Cthulhu movie, with Tori Spelling?
I figure the chance of ever seeing this opus is pretty slim.
And from the little I'm able to glean, it's a rehash of "Shadows over Innsmouth"-a lot like the certainly watchable "Dagon".
Tori Spelling has had so much cosmetic surgery, she looks vaguely non-human.
It's the same story over and over again, why won't the film industry ever try a new idea?
It's five years between remakes, now, a pitiful state of affairs.
There actually are other stories that might make good films, ok?

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:37 pm

My thoughts exactly friend

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 2:54 am

the problem is that money has to come before everything else. nothing happens without money.. this is how tori spelling has an acting career in the first place

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:27 am

What I want to see is a film version of "Pickman's Model". Nothing happens, then a guy picks up a photo. Roll credits.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:01 am

I still wanna see all those old versions of Colour out of Space

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:15 am

What was the title of that very good adaptation of the "Case of Charles Dexter Ward"?
I can never remember the title, but it was the best Lovecraft film so far.
And I liked "Reanimator"-it was funny, and even picked up the comic possibilities of the wax head, as well as being spooky in spots.
CGI may bring Lovecraft to the screen after all these years.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 11:23 am

Was it "The Resurrected"?
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0105242/

and yah Re-animator was without a dought the most entertaining lovescraft inspired movie to date.

odin2 · Post by **odin2** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:22 pm

Eternities End wrote:Was it "The Resurrected"?
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0105242/

and yah Re-animator was without a dought the most entertaining lovescraft inspired movie to date.

It is matched only by 'Bride of Re-animator'.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 5:49 pm

I think there's talk of another one.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 2:45 pm

Yah starring that guys from Fargo

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:11 pm

Which one?

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 5:42 pm

that guy with the thing.. he said that line when they were in the place

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:18 pm

Yah you know which guy I'm talking about...the guy with the shirt...

odin2 · Post by **odin2** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:29 am

The one with pants?

krakenten · Post by **krakenten** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:15 am

Yes, it was "The Resurected".
That movie caught to spirit of the tale.
Lovecraft is not easy to adapt, he very much relied on the techniques of the written page, and the way that a twist ending can be accomplished-twist endings often don't get across well in visual media.
And "Pickman's Model", in the hands of a skilled film maker, might make a very effective film, in the style of "Blair Witch".