Dir: Sean Branney
USA/2011/104mins
Print Source: Sean Branney - branney@cthulhulives.org
Australian Premiere
Audience Award for Best Director: SFF Film Festival
Best Horror: WorldCon
Official Selection: Fantasia
Official Selection: Seattle
H P Lovecraft’s short story The Whisperer In Darkness is generally considered to be one of the author’s best realised works. It combines elements of haunting New England gothic, crypto-science fiction and the sense of a vast utterly alien intelligence at play in the darkness. Now – after eight years in the making – the H P Lovecraft Society has produced an epic feature based on the story, loyal to the original source material. The film is a slowly unwinding tale of uncanny suspense and creeping terror.
The H P Lovecraft Society’s previous film The Call of Cthulhu was shot in the style of a 1920s silent movie and garnered international attention from genre fans and Lovecraft enthusiasts who took it to their hearts, now The Whisperer In Darkness is set to do the same. Shot in glorious Mythoscope – which, the filmmaker’s state, combines modern and vintage techniques - the movie recalls the great thirties horror films such as Dracula, King Kong and Frankenstein as well as the classic fifties sci-fi shockers like It Came From Outer Space and The Thing. One of the best adaptations of Lovecraft to grace the screen, this multi-award winning feature will have everybody wondering exactly what lurks in the darkened Vermont countryside…
Screens with The Tell Tale Heart