Call of Cthulhu Independent film

[Yog-Sothoth]

okay, i have been thinking about this for a freakishly long time... so i have descided........ me and my friends, err..... Cthulists, are gonna take our Cthulhu Cameras, and make a Cthulhu new Cthulhu Film based Cthulhu on The Call of Cthulhu.....Cthulhu.... and i just wanted to announce it, kinda get people to know about it, maybee get some supporters before we actually do it. so, err... comment on my idea?

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[Jesus Prime]

Will you be portraying or merely narrating the account of Cthulhu in R'lyeh?

[Yog-Sothoth]

we will be narrating the account, leaving it just as the book portrays it, it will be more about the voyage of the ship that stumbled upon Rl'yeh. if we feel confident enough to, we might make it a modern twist, but its something i personally look down on.

[Jesus Prime]

Yeah, I don't like the idea of modernising fiction or drama.
But good luck, I hope you get a finished product you can be proud of.

[Yog-Sothoth]

thanks, i guess we wont be modernizing it, so then all we need is a Special effects artist so we can animate Cthulhu. any takers?

[Jesus Prime]

What you could do is hold a few still pictures sort of half visible through the narrator (it's hard to describe, you know when the two images are both there but not blended or merged?), but not animated. Might give it more of a macabre effect, rather than an all out horror. Hell, even use mocked-up stone carvings or idols, so as to further avoid the shock-horror of big Squiddy.

[Yog-Sothoth]

well i wanna show Cthulhu as a full animation, or a tiny puppet handcrafted, we gotta do the scene where Cthulhu is Chasing after the boat clear accross the Pacific. say, anyone know what would make a good looking Cthulhu puppet or somethin?

[Jesus Prime]

Not the plush Cthulhu hand puppet, anyway. I've yet to scare anyone with it.

Maybe you could computer animate it?

[E.A. Lovecraft]

I've got it!

You take a squid carcass, scoop out the guts, and slide it over a labrador retriever's head. You then have the lab jump in a pool and chase a radio controlled boat.

Now, here's the important part:

The dog has to be wearing one of those collars that gives it an electric shock every time it barks. Reconfigure the collar so that it dishes out, say, umm . . . 10 times the normal voltage at the press of a remote button. That way, while Fido is swimming, every time you push the button, the squid's tentacles will flail about in a lifelike manner.

If you use a young, healthy dog, it might even live through the process long enough for a good seven or eight zaps. Just make sure that you put "No animals were harmed during the filming of this movie" to keep people from asking what happened to the dog.

[Yog-Sothoth]

lord SHOGOTH, i hope you were being sarcastic.

besides, i wanna put in it that Cthulhus head didnt touch the water, i was thinking only its lower body should. and as for computer animation....well i cant even program a basic BASIC game of Pong.

[Jesus Prime]

Do it in Flash - it works for the Brothers Chaps.

And that's E.A. - even I don't know when he's joking.

[Yog-Sothoth]

ahhah! there is another Mythos Phreak who Watches Homestarrunner! and i dont know how to use flash. unless you do, of course, then we can just mnake it into a flash movie,.... i gotta contact my friend jenny to help out with this. unless you will help?

[E.A. Lovecraft]

i hope you were being sarcastic.

That's usually a safe bet.

[Jesus Prime]

I tend not to gamble.

[Yog-Sothoth]

okay, my friend Jenny is gonna help me out with the flash