H.P. Lovecraft revived the art of writing horror back at the beginning of the 1900’s with Call of Cthulhu and the subsequent books that followed. Hollywood has avoided making a Call of Cthulhu movie in the eighty years following the initial publication. The task of creating a visual representation of the book was left to a dedicated group of fans, who recently brought the story to life with a modern day silent film reminiscent of something Fritz Lang might have done. Currently playing at film festivals around the world, The Call of Cthulhu is growing a grassroots audience for what is arguably the best classic horror film made in years. If you can’t catch it on a big screen, a DVD of the film is available online in glorious Mythoscope. At the Seattle International Film Festival, I talked with director, Andrew Leman, about making The Call of Cthulhu, some of the challenges in shooting a large cast production on a tight budget, and how they managed to stay true to both the book and the time period while bringing their vision to the screen.
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