#The Call of Cthulhu (Film)

[anim-ttrpgs]

Exerpt from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy.

[thechampagnesocialist]

hmm, today i will run a CoC game inspired by a horror movie that makes a point about slasher genre and violence in media <- clueless

[amartworks]

A scene from a recent session of Call of Cthulhu RPG where some delicious dynamics are being written alongside good friends.

[mister-killjoy]

Risate che scoppiano all'improvviso per battute insensate, carni al vento che seguono piccoli riflettori (gli smartphone) come un asino seguirebbe una carota appesa ad un bastone incollato sul suo stesso dorso; puzza di sudore, facce stolide e flaccide con occhietti meschini, canzoni sempre uguali, colori sbiaditi dal tempo e da estati trite e ritrite... ora io non voglio dire che recarsi a mezzanotte in un cerchio di pietre armati di un antichissimo tomo sacrilego per evocare divinità dormienti provenienti da oltre le stelle sia una risposta adeguata alla classica "estate italiana"... però sarebbe comprensibile.

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[cmrosens]

Best cosmic horror / eldritch horror movies??

ANNIHILATION (2018) was so good, I loved the Shimmer and the concept and the vibe, so interesting - a much better Colour Out Of Space film than COLOUR OUT OF SPACE (Nick Cage). But the body horror did get to me in COOS, I was eating my lunch while watching.

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THE THING is obvs great, and IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS and PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Love the John Carpenter trilogy. I can't decide which of the 3 I like best.

Some others that I keep thinking about:

JUG FACE - you never see the monster but it lives in a pit, cw for graphic miscarriage and incest among other things

THE CALL GIRL OF CTHULHU - I did laugh, I'm easily pleased

THE RITUAL - I wasn't sure about the Sami-coded cult (was it?? That felt ...off to me) but I loved the creature design and the atmosphere

SATOR - slowburn and more demonic entity, I wasn't sure about this film or if I liked it, but I keep thinking about it.

THE HALLOW - Irish eco-horror, so much parasitic fungi body horror and the fae creature design was great. Yes, I'm counting the fae as eldritch, that's where the word comes from! Not humans, not angels or fallen angels, but a secret third thing...

THE LURKING FEAR - 90s creature feature based on a HP Lovecraft short story, similar themes of heredity and concealed monstrosity as The Shadow Over Innsmouth, but this is about underground things.

HP LOVECRAFT'S THE DARK SLEEP - not great, actually pretty bad, but again the concept is something I keep thinking about.

THE DUNWICH HORROR (1970) - I haven't seen the 90s one, but I didn't mind the 1970 one. You can always trust the 70s to sex things up for no reason, and I quite liked it.

THE VOID - I do like this, it's got a lot of things going on in a besieged hospital

SACRIFICE - Norwegian cult and pregnancy horror, heredity and gods in the fjords etc, gave me big Ramsey Campbell The Inhabitant of the Lake vibes

I quite liked the Full Moon mini series THE RESONATOR even though ep 5 is missing and I'm not the biggest fan of The Reanimator as a story as I hate zombies and brain stuff. I have seen THE REANIMATOR though and it was fine.

UNDERWATER - loved this one, it starts off very The Shadow over Innsmouth and then segues into The Call of Cthulhu. Plus Kristen Stewart was good in it, I thought! I enjoyed it a lot.

HELLRAISER - I'm counting the whole franchise and the new film in this. All of it.

THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN - Yeah, I do think this counts, so little is explained (good) and it's a cultish conspiracy in NYC. Vinnie Jones has the best role. I liked the short story too!

STRANGER THINGS - yeah, I'd say this counts? Kinda?

NOBODY SLEEPS IN THE WOODS TONIGHT 1+2 - The sequel took me places I didn't want to go, but this is a solid Polish body horror concept. It's body horror and mutations caused by a meteor thing. I wouldn't rewatch them, I don't think, but it kept me on my toes.

MONSTERS (2010) - survival romcom? It was cute and I liked the alien thingys. I don't know if it really counts, it's dispassionate aliens invading accidentally creating an 'infected zone', which was similar to ANNIHILATION. I haven't seen the sequel yet.

APOSTLE - I might include this as there's some unexplained stuff going on with this island, and the whole 'prisoner of the landscape' thing that appears in Welsh Gothic fiction as a trope. In this case, if you've seen it, you'll know what I'm referring to.

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS - loved this the second time around. Saw it in the cinema and due to circumstances wasn't into it. Saw it again and realised it was more my thing than I remembered.

BLACK SPOT - This is a French series, folk horror, eldritch weird stuff in the forest, eco-horror, slowburn. Worth it, I thought.

REQUIEM - I think this does count, also a series, Welsh Gothic themes abound, it's classed as supernatural but it's much, much weirder than ghosts. Plus a lot of the Welsh Gothic themes - prisoner of the landscape (which also contains the haunted history and secrets relevant to the present), cultural disinheritance, music as language, etc, all pull through to create that folk horror/eldritch horror atmosphere. It also has weird cult playing with forces beyond their control.

SOCIETY - No idea where else to put this, but even though it's a cosy 80s teen body horror shocker, the themes are reminiscent of THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN (same basic concept in fact in terms of conspiracy and cult and so on) but with added overt class discourse. I do love this film.

LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM - based on the Bram Stoker story but has Lovecraftian overtones, and then goes full on Hammer Horror THE REPTILE which doesn't belong in this list. LAIR is - not good. Hugh Grant and Peter Capaldi carry the film and are so young, and it's not their best work ever. I made it 1min 30secs in twice and turned it off, but third time lucky. Now I can say I've seen it to the end. There was no prize.

THE STRANGENESS - abandoned gold mine and mysterious, people-eating slime creature that dwells within. Kind of "In The Mountains of Madness" but ... not.

THE WRONG HOUSE - This is weird, timey-wimey but not, inexplicable nightmare that's a lot more than a haunted or sentient house. It's the horror of being stuck somewhere that won't let you leave, and there are no rules, no explanations, and no way to figure it out.

DON'T BLINK - an extinction event that also goes completely unexplained, very weird, very unsettling concept. Life forms of all kinds just... stop existing when you stop looking at them.

THE CIRCLE (2017) - a stone circle on a remote Scottish island, a monster thousands of years old, a mystery that a group of archaeologist students try and solve (it doesn't end well).

I haven't seen a load of obvious ones, but would like some recs on which are worth watching? Anything with the above vibes (including the comedies) welcome!

[dandelionjack]

the urge to dnd-ify everything is a plague upon tabletop roleplaying culture. the mummy, being as it is about a party of 1920s archaeologists, adventurers, and opportunist treasure hunters who stumble upon an ancient cursed tomb with “-hotep” in the name, would so obviously be a game of call of cthulhu

[raggedgoodlooks]

Horror Month 2024 Day 24: The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

The idea of making this story by H.P. Lovecraft into a silent film works not only to look like the time in which it was written, but also as a narrative device. The title cards help in telling the story not only through dialogue but through the exposition of the main narrator of the story. In my mind, though, it’s hard at this point to watch a modern-day movie made to look like it’s from the…

[wyrmfedgrave]

Collider: This H.P. Lovecraft Story Was “Unfilmable” Until This Low-Budget Version Nailed It

So, here's an adaptation of Lovecraft's unfilmable story "The Call of Cthulhu."

Well...

It was once thought to be a nearly impossible tale to bring to life!

Turns out that we shouldn't have.

I had just been thinking of advances in AI or mechanical techniques to do HPL's most famous story some true justice.

Instead, these intrepid movie makers used silent film to...

(Think of this as a 1st draft - which disappeared from my phone before I could finish it!

So, I rewrote it!!

Now you have a 2nd & better version to read...)

End.

[jeandejard3n]

The Abyss: Alien Secret Base

[anim-ttrpgs]

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Though most PCs will be mundane humans—or perhaps because most PCs will be mundane humans—Eureka also supports playing monstrous PCs, such as a vampire, in a way we have never seen before. This isn’t just a watered-down stat bonus, it’s like playing an almost entirely different game, with all the monster’s strengths and weaknesses to account for while solving the mystery, plus the added incentive to keep it a secret from the other PCs as well as their players.

If you like or are interested in Call of Cthulhu, Monster of the Week, Dresden Files, X-Files, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Apocalypse Keys, or Gumshoe, you’ll probably find something in Eureka to really enjoy.

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[thingsiliketowatch9]

"The Call of Cthulhu" 2005

pt. 2 of photos

director: Andrew Leman

[vintagerpg]

Believe it or not, it is The Fall of Delta Green (2018) that finally got me to pay attention to Delta Green at large. Something about this cover art struck me as enticing, perhaps in the manner of a train wreck — Call of Cthulhu meets Vietnam? How are they going to pull that off?

Well, for starters, Fall isn’t Call of Cthulhu, it’s a standalone Gumshoe game (though it is compatible with both Trail of Cthulhu and Night’s Black Agents). I’m not super interested in the system, honestly, but I absolutely love the source material laid out here (and it is usable, really, with your Cthulhu game of choice). It was the operational history of Delta Green as presented here that hooked me on the larger Delta Green universe; the broad strokes of that are the same as in both the Pagan and Arc Dream DGs. What’s unique here is the particular focus on the ’60s, an era of dirty politics, dirty wars, massive social upheavals, drugs and all sorts of tomfoolery on the fringes of the counter-culture. As with the ’90s and our current era, the ’60s seem particularly rich backdrop suited to bringing out the themes of DG.

It’s also a rich moment in DG’s history. The titular fall — the unsuccessful dismantling of the program — is triggered by an unauthorized operation in Vietnam and Cambodia gone horribly wrong in late 1969, early 1970. That episode is kept vague in all histories of Delta Green, but here it takes on a vivid horror — Col. Wade Satchel is sort of a Delta Green version of Col. Walter Kurtz from Apocalypse Now. He traffics with dangerous forces and gets a lot of people killed before being assassinated by survivors of one of his doomed off-the-books operations. Marrying that film with the Cthulhu mythos makes for some truly unpleasant dreams!

[teaweltzer]

Going to be back in a Call of Cthulhu game again soon! Set in 1994 with working on a college film thesis thats going to be very blair witch

[kon-igi]

QUESTO MONDO NON MI RENDERÀ CATTIVO (ma un po' incazzato sì, dai)

Un veloce recap delle puntate precedenti:

TI AMO ERIKA DI NOVI LIGURE - Ventitré anni fa una sedicenne ha fatto a fette mamma e fratellino con l'aiuto del moroso diciassettenne, dando poi la colpa agli albanesi. La sera in cui la Lega stava per fare una fiaccolata a base di torce e forconi per scovare i responsabili e linc... assicurarli alla giustizia ops no, scusate ciabbiamo judo. Quella frase del titolo l'avevo vista scritta su un muro nel 2003 e a quei tempi le mie figlie erano troppo piccole perché capissimo le nostre colpe e le nostre responsabilità.

TUTTO D'UN PEZZO - Non leggo più e non guardo serie tv o film. Sono mesi e mesi che la sera faccio binge watching di One Piece, un anime da più di mille episodi, e a momenti mi metto in pari ma non ho idea quanto il mondo del cinema e dell'editoria sia andato avanti mentre ero distratto.

DUE METRI DI TERRENO - L'altro giorno ho assistito a un'accesa discussione su conti correnti, parenti serpenti e carichi pendenti, quando a un certo punto non ce l'ho fatta più e ho urlato un haiku ispirato dal tenore livoroso dell'argomento

Soffi di vento, l'attimo prima spiri e dopo spiri

DI QUESTO TI PUOI FIDARE - Ho ripreso a forgiare - caldo per caldo che sia un caldo fruttuoso - e sono a metà strada nel progetto ambizioso di un'arma inastata che nel Giappone feudale usavano le donne per proteggere casa.

MEDICE, CURA TE IPSUM - Una persona mi ha detto che mi invidia perché se sento male da qualche parte ne conosco subito le cause. Certo... contusione del piatto tibiale sx a opera dei condili femorali con infiammazione da stiramento dei legamenti crociati, rachialgia lombare a sbarra con irradiamento gluteo da compressione del plesso femorale dx a livello di L5-S1 da bulging discale, epicondilite dx con rizartrosi e mialgia del flessore del pollice, corda colica, bruxismo e reflusso gastro-esofageo. Che culo.

MUORE GIOVANE CHI È CARO AGLI DEI - Piccola pausa di ferragosto dal masteraggio su Discord di una campagna di Call of Cthulhu ambientata nel 1983 nel mio quartiere viareggino. Se non sapete cosa sia una Baldoria è inutile vi racconti la trama.

INTERCAMBIABILITÀ DI FACCIA E CULO - Qualche anno fa vidi uno scherzo in cui un critico veniva invitato alla premiere di una proiezione cinematografica d'essai (volutamente orribile) e a tutti i suoi colleghi era stato chiesto di parlarne in modo entusiasta, mentre lui si guardava attorno con sconcerto crescente. Sono 10 mesi che io ho quell'espressione tutte le volte che i mezzi di informazione parlano del genocidio del popolo di Gaza utilizzando perifrasi e litoti che tanto mi ricordano 'allergia al piombo' e 'la scuola non c'è più a causa di eventi esterni'.

NOTTE PRIMA DEGLI ESAMI - Ciao Laura... Ti ricordi quando ti sono venuto a prendere in macchina per andare a fare gli orali della maturità? La mia non fu solo la gentilezza di un compagno di classe ma che tu l'avessi capito o meno non importa... non ho avuto il coraggio di dirtelo e così la storia che avevo immaginato è sopravvissuta luminosa al mondo che è andato avanti.

[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

Stats from Movies 1201-1300

Top 10 Movies - Highest Number of Votes

Splice (2009) had the most votes with 854 votes. Dark Cloud (2022) had the least votes with 290 votes.

The 10 Most Watched Films by Percentage

Ghostbusters (1984) was the most watched film with 83.3% of voters out of 756 saying they had seen it. T Blockers (2023) had the least "Yes" votes with 0,3% of voters out of 732.

The 10 Least Watched Films by Percentage

Salem's Lot (1979) was the least watched film with 64.4% of voters out of 449 saying they hadn’t seen it. A Snake of June (2002) had the least "No" votes with 6,9% of voters out of 391.

The 10 Most Known Films by Percentage

Ghostbusters (1984) was the best known film, 0,5% of voters out of 756 saying they’d never heard of it.

The 10 Least Known Films by Percentage

A Snake of June (2002) was the least known film, 90.8% of voters out of 391 saying they’d never heard of it.

The movies part of the statistic count and their polls below the cut.

Bingo Hell (2021) The Descent: Part 2 (2009) The Reckoning (2020) The Lair (2022) Dream House (2011) The Other Lamb (2019) Unsane (2018) Children of the Night (1991) Manichithrathazhu (1993) They Live (1988)

Chasing Sleep (2000) The Special (2020) Grabbers (2012) Blood and Roses (1960) Eating Miss. Campbell (2022) Violated Angels (1967) A Snake of June (2002) The Alligator People (1959) eXistenZ (1999) Blood Widow (2014)

Blood Widow (2020) Honeymoon (2014) Uninvited (1987) Scarecrows (2017) Talon Falls (2017) They Reach (2020) Devil's Gate (2017) Killer Sofa (2019) The Ghost Within (2023) Hidden 3D (2011) Grave of the Vampire (1972) Lamb (2021) See No Evil (2006) Planet Terror (2007) Lights Out (2016) Gerald's Game (2017) Webcast (2018) The Love Witch (2016) No One Gets Out Alive (2021) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

Wounds (2019) Paintball Massacre (2020) A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) Charlie's Farm (2014) Child Eater (2016) Monster Brawl (2011) 247°F (2011) Dark Cloud (2022) The Hole (2001) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)

Hazard Jack (2014) Pumpkinhead (1988) The Resurrected (1991) Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) The Curse (1987) The Dunwich Horror (1970) Earth vs. the Spider (2001) The Fan (1982) Mute Witness (1995) The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

The Suckling (1990) It Conquered the World (1956) Bug (2006) The Signal (2007) Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) Gehenna: Where Death Lives (2016) Monsters (2010) YellowBrickRoad (2010) The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) T Blockers (2023) The Facts in the Case of Mister Hollow (2008) The Mothman Prophecies (2002) Baba Yaga (1973) Kill List (2011) Splice (2009) The Crazies (2010) Fire in the Sky (1993) Banshee Chapter (2013) Angel Dust (1994) Blood and Black Lace (1964)

It Came from Outer Space (1953) TerrorVision (1986) Lurker in the Lobby (1998) A Night to Dismember (1983) Altered States (1980) Cube²: Hypercube (2002) The Dark Half (1993) Darkness (2002) Ghostbusters (1984) The Keep (1983)

Cobweb (2023) The Empty Man (2020) Bloody Hell (2020) The Green Inferno (2013) Turistas (2006) Salem's Lot (1979) Stir of Echoes (1999) Christine (1983) Found (2012) The Hole (2009)