"The Call of Cthulhu" Movie to Screen at Fantastic Films

The blog "Unfilmable" reports that the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's 2005 version of "The Call of Cthulhu" is set to air at Britain's annual Fantastic Films show next month. Yog-Sothoth.com is helping to sponsor the screening. This is quite a pleasant surprise, and will certainly generate further interest in Lovecraft and Lovecraftian films in the UK and further abroad. While HPL was an American writer, the appearance of the best movie to date based on one of his most popular creations is in many ways a sort of homecoming. Britain has long had a powerful tradition of the weird in literature and movies. What better way to once more meld the two aesthetic currents separated only by the Atlantic than by presenting Lovecraftian cinema to an audience just as enthusiastic (or potentially even moreso) than an American one? A favorable response may also help generate international attention for the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, an added impetus to support their continuing work on a cinematic version of Lovecraft's "The Whisperer in Darkness."

Two screenings of "The Call of Cthulhu" will take place at the British film festival in Bradford:

June 12, 2009 10:45 AM

June 14, 2009 12:00 PM

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