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Call of Cthulhu Available on DVD
An anonymous reader writes "The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society is finally finished with the ultimate labor of mythos-love. The Call of Cthulhu is now available on DVD! For those not familiar with the long-awaited project, The Call of Cthulhu is a silent film adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's famous literary masterpiece of the same name. It really looks like something that would have been shot in the 1920's silent film era. I, for one, welcome our new multi-tentacled, aquatic, ancient overlord. Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn."
I ordered it the other day and got the testimonial of randolph carter as well (based on my favorite lovecraft story). and this is the message I got back.
Thanks for your order; your DVDs will ship the end of the week via US
Airmail. Be forewarned, the quality of The Call of Cthulhu is WAY better
than Randolph Carter. TTORC was shot on VHS tape and suffers from poor sound
and image quality. It's watchable but I wanted to give you fair warning.
Sean
I have no problem with that. But thought I would share.
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isn't Chtulhu a father of Flying Spaghetti Monster?
It had better feature non-euclidean geometry.
I loved that game =)
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http://www.cthulhulives.org.nyud.net:8090/toc.htm
These links do not go over standard port 80 and so may not work behind company firewalls
A silent feature of Cthulhu released on the heels of photographs of a live battling giant squid. Isn't it better to leave dreaming leviathans lie?
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It's been a while since I've seen a silent film. I don't think too many have been made since we've had the technology to have audio in films. Does anybody know of any?
At least this means that the movie can be multilingual with few problems.
I'll subscribe to Slashdot when I see a month without a dupe, a typo, or an article the "editors" didn't read.
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and woken from his slumber as a result. Shit man! A server on fire is one thing, but bringing on the end of the world as we know it ...
My wife is a huge fan of Cthulhu. This is the perfect X-mas present for my geeky lady. Too bad it's already down.
"Armed forces abroad are of little value unless there is prudent counsel at home" - Cicero
DON'T welcome this particular overlord!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I'm really glad to see the correct spelling of "Iä Iä". As a native Swedish speaker I use the "ä" daily as it is a common vowl in Swedish. "Iä" is pronounced quite like an English speaker would pronounce "yeah". I'm not quite sure of how Lovecraft would've pronounced it though.
- Henrik
- when the Shadows descend -
Slashdotting brings him to his knees... Er... Tentacles...
If my grammar and spelling are off, I am [distracted/tired/careless] (take your pick)
I got all the brushing with Cthulhu I wanted from playing Dungeons and Dragons.
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I, for one, don't even know what this particular overlord is!
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
Cthulhu is real. Here's the proof :)
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2003-07-02-s
but rather than the Necronomicon, I'd recommend reading the Gastronomicon. Yum, fried Chtulhu tentacles...
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For those of you who have no idea WTF is this, here's the original text:
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http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Call_of_Cthulhu
and one of my favourites, the Mountains of Madness:
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of
In general, wikipedia has lots of material on Lovecraft:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
Another great of the field was L. Sprague De Camp
The Elric Saga by M Moorcock remains my all time favourite.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
So, will it be shown at the Miskatonic University film festival?
Do not buy it! The Dolby Digital and the DTS are sooooo crappy that my home cinema receiver does not decode it! Dhu!
I for one welcome our overused Slashdot joke overlords. Ah... The irony is delicious.
Now that phase one is complete, we can look at "fixing" the administration;
http://www.cthulhuforpresident.com/
I know how John, Paul, Ringo, and George would have said it:
He wants you Iä, Iä, Iä!
He wants you Iä, Iä, Iä!
He wants you Iä, Iä, Iä!
With a lust like that, you know it's gonna be baaaad!
Apologies to the Pre Fab Four
"If god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him" --Voltaire
- Hello Cthulhu
Circumcision is child abuse.
Teaser Trailer, but the site is slow. Coral Cache didn't give me the cached version of the trailers and this specific Web page. :(
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I've read The Call of Cthulhu and a few other Lovecraft stories that I dug up online in the past few years and really liked them. Does anyone have any suggestions for one or two good comprehensive compendiums of his works? The Library of America book looks pretty good, but I just wanted to see if anyone else had any other suggestions before I order. Thanks for your help!
"Kill your friends, Light your feet, Do what I want, Lovecraft." -Vaselines
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
yeah, I should get a new one. Sigs used to be longer on here. It was perl code for decrypting dvd's.
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..Am pissed off. " I, for one, welcome our new multi-tentacled, aquatic, ancient overlord." What is that shit? the submitter took my standard ploy for +5 funny. Now i have to be original. Damnit.
are there japanese schoolgirls?
Wow - subtitles in 24 languages, but the DVD is not region-free? Pretty stupid, if you ask me (and they misspelled "Luxembourgish", too).
quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur.
Lest we forget The Real Ghostbusters? http://archive.ghostbusters.net/episodedetail/rgh/ 28/
Maybe just include a link to this.
thats insane!!!
do they offer it in the original Chuthulian text? Klingon? Bork?
A morning without coffee is like something without something else.
Readers of Slashdot who also enjoy Lovecraftiana should check out Charles Stross who has written a few 'Lovecraft-meets-Dilbert' stories.
The Atrocity Archives comprises The Atrocity Archive & the sequel novella, The Concrete Jungle wherein the protagonist, Bob Howard, provides IT support for a fictional British Intelligence agency charged with stopping the horrors from the next dimension from encroaching into our universe.
The stories are set in a universe where the running of certain esoteric code on your PDA can inadvertently open portals into the dimensions where the horrors wait.
Not only does Bob have to keep Cthulhu etc. from encroaching into our dimension, he also has to justify his expenses to his pointy-haired manageress. The Concrete Jungle recently won a Hugo award for Best Novella.
A previous story that is available online, A Colder War, has a similar setting but is much more grim. Stross regards it as a 'dry run' for The Atrocity Archives.
I don't think the javascript is compatible with Firefox or IE... this actually frightened me since i tried both.
I'm sure the special effects will be done with strange non-euclidean angles and planes.
Cloned foods give the statement "We had that last week!" a whole new meaning.
I have a friend that is making a new movie based on this that is in production right now! It's called, simply, "Cthulhu". I forget who their lead is, but Tori Spelling is in it! LOL. They're filming locally (Seattle) but most on-location is in Astoria, Oregon (Goonies was shot there). Check it out http://www.cthulhuthemovie.com/here. The Website is very simple, it should be updated/redesigned shortly (possibly by me). I hope it doesn't get Slashdotted!
Dos it have to be a print copy?
If not, try this: The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft, completely free (and legal!) in HTML. His works are available in a few other places online too, like here (see the copyright information at the bottom of the page-- most or all of Lovecraft's work is in the public domain), here (complete works, mostly in PDFs-- probably your best source), here (PDFs of several works), and here (a 100-page collection in a few different formats, including PDF and HTML).
Since most of Lovecraft's work is in the public domain, you can find other sources around the internet.
If you do want books, please consider buying from Arkham House, which has done a lot to promote Lovecraft's work, encourage and publish studies of it, and keep the genre alive by publishing the works of other authors. You'll find Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (the leading Lovecraft scholar), and other authors like August Derleth on the authors page. You may notice on the main page that despite Lovecraft's works being available in the public domain, books of his works are three of the top five sellers at Arkham House.
Whether you read Lovecraft in electronic format or in bound books, enjoy!
"It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too." --Eugene Wigner
Anyone manage to download the trailer?
Not sure if they're selling it, but I have the HPLHS cast recording of A SHOGGOTH ON THE ROOF, the brilliant re-writing of A FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, orginally by Bock, Harnick and Stein. The rewrite is by He Who (For Legal Reasons) Must Not Be Named.
... It's not easy having a shapeless, malevolent monster hanging over your head like that, but there it is... A big monster like that, on such a pointy roof, you may how it stays up there? That I can tell you in one word: TENTACLES!"
Henry Armitage, opening the show:
"A Shoggoth on the Roof. Sounds crazy? No, certifiably insane!
Chorus of Old Ones and Townfolk:
"Tentacles, Tentacles! Tentacles, Tentacles!"
My favourite is "To Life, to life, I'll bring them! I'll bring all these bodies to life!" It's hilarious if you're into both FIDDLER ON THE ROOF and Cthulu, which is admittedly a select group...
Dvd his what?
Or did you mean DVDs?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
These links do not go over standard port 80 and so may not work behind company firewalls
Just once, I wish that all the "security administrators" out there who are convinced that they are protecting their network from "the evil hackers" by blocking *outgoing* ports need a swift kick in the ass.
God forbid that the evil hackers work their way back up the finger connection and destroy the entire LAN!
I remember at the place I used to work, I once asked a DNS question (I wanted to know whether I could have a CNAME set up.) The IT guy (long distance, sounded Indian) that eventually called me back, who *claimed* to be a "DNS administrator", had no idea what a CNAME is, but after about ten minutes of talking finally said "Oh, an *alias*!"
I don't get it. I'm pretty sure that IT people weren't always this clueless. I'm suspicious that they aren't all like this, but I can't figure out why I have a perpetual cloud of bad ones following me around all the time.
Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.
Where else but on Slashdot would you find an imaginary, ancient, dead language grammar Nazi.
You need a question mark at the end of that sentence.
Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.
Bear in mind that the site is still slashdotted, so I'm essentially ordering the DVD sight-unseen, but with the Canadian dollar worth $0.85 of 1 USD, *and* the fact that I'm not supporting the MP** with this purchase, it's worth it already.
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
Thanks for the info! I'm always leery of US-Canada ordering for that very reason - some pretty outrageous shipping costs that have no basis in the reality of the postal system. I didn't expect the HPLHS to do this at all, but your confirmation of it is welcome.
Freedom: "I won't!"
How, exactly, would you post the lyrics to "The Call of Ktulu", anyway? Besides, "The Thing That Should Not Be" is pretty damn clearly based on the Cthulu mythos, anyway. And, it totally rocks.
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Okay, I'm confused.
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When HP Lovecraft wrote his work, IIRC, copyright was for 14 years, with a possible 14 year extension.
He died in 1937, meaning all of his work would have been public domain by 1965. Specifcally, The Reanimator in 1922 would have expired in 1950.
In 1976, the US extended copyright retroactively to the life of the artist plus 50 years. So, Lovecraft's work was then removed from public domain. All of his work would be copyrighted until 1987.
Then, in 1996 - thanks to Sonny Bono - copyright was again retroactively extended to life + 70 years. So Lovecraft's work is now copyrighted until 2007.
Even the supposed official HPL site says, "Please note that Lovecraft's fiction is still considered to be under copyright by Arkham House, and any texts presently available on the web without their consent are in violation of that copyright." ( http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/hwr.h
So, what's up with that?
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
The Reanimator is definitely in the public domain by now; any creative works produced in the United States with a publication date prior to 1923 is considered to be public domain, no matter what. Reanimator just squeaks in at 1922.
Anything published after that is iffy -- but could very well be free, depending on how careful Lovecraft or his estate holders were in renewing their copyrights after the initial period was up. This includes Call of Cthulhu, which was written in 1926, and thus I assume published sometime in the late 1920's.
For much of the 20th-century, initial copyright and renewal was for 28 years, by the way, not 14. Later on the renewal period was extended to a whopping 67 years; this includes anything published after 1922 -- which, as I mentioned above, includes a substantial portion (but by no means all) of Lovecraft's work. This doesn't change the fact that it would have to have been renewed in order for Arkham House to claim ownership.
As for the "death plus 50/70" situation, that was generally only applicable for unpublished works. So if you're digging through some murky basement, and you stumble across a pile of ichor-splattered, hand-scrawled notes of hitherto unknown Lovecraftian ghoulishness, you can publish that in 2007.
Here's a nice site with a handy-dandy chart that can help clear away some of the murk for you.
Yeah, I saw a clip where two girls were licking one guy's thingie at the same time.
I've yet to see the film rendition of any horror story which comes even close to imparting the same feelings of dread and chills down the spine as occurs when reading the story in print. I'll probably buy the DVD but can't imagine it will do justice to Lovecraft's masterful descriptions.
Back in my college dorm days one of the guys in the next room asked to borrow the paperback copy of Lovecraft which I was just finishing. Later that night, some time after midnight, there came a blood-curdling scream from his room. It seems the borrower had become totally engrossed in the book and was at his desk long past his normal bedtime. His roommate, awakened by the light, padded barefoot over to see what was keeping him up and happened to touch him on the shoulder.
Does anyone have any suggestions for one or two good comprehensive compendiums of his works?
I recommend the H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus vols 1-3. Here's the first.
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is informative, surely
Released in the Europe as Belleville Rendezvous...best film I've seen in years.
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"...nocturnal displays of glowing sea surfaces stretching outwards to the horizon"
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(whilst humming "The Thing The Should Not Be" - Metallica)
I like the universe and all, but he never could tell at story straight and get the plot sorted out properly without resorting to mindnumbing overload of adjectives. His ability to develop a story line is virtually non-existent. There, said it.
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I made a portrait of Lovecraft with images and a quote from one of my personal favorite stories, the Dreams in the Witch House. You can view it here:
:-)
http://www.spanishcastle.com/lovecraft.html
It's silent, too
You're not taking much of a risk. I've seen the trailer and it is FANTASTIC! I imagine that the film will be pretty good.
"sweet dreams are made of this..."
In countries which stick to the Berne conventions 50 year copyrights, Lovercraft is in the public domain no matter what. Of course the US is now trying to get its trade partners to go to 70-90 year copyrights that retrospectively affects works that have fallen into the public domain.
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Please post reviews after you've seen this. =) I'm confident I'll enjoy the movie, but I'm curious if you think the movie would also appeal to like-minded geeks/movie/horror fans who aren't familiar with/fans of HPL.
And speaking of Cthulhu:
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Samurai Jack.
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Tuvalu is probably the closest thing to a silent film that we have today. It doesn't have any dialog, but does use sounds and vocal elements. I highly recommend it. Here's the IMDB link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0162023/
I always though The Rutles were the Pre Fab Four!
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Actually, a systematic set of rules covers about 85% of the words, and most of the rest are former loan words. *wry grin* Although, as someone who learned French in school, it's still kind of bizarre that "canapé" is pronounced "canopy" and "forte" is pronounced as a two-syllable word that rhymes with "Court A."
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SPOILER
The last scene involves Cthulhu towering over the local houses, picking up a cast member (!), and then destroying all of the buildings on set in an orgy of destruction. ^_^ And then there's the happy ending with a zombie romance. "He can destroy the town. He can even kill all of us, but he can never destroy knowledge and as long as we have knowledge, there will always be a Miskatonic!"
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Here's a recent movie.
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Text in french with english subs.
http://www.reellifereview.com/fantasia_review_200
L'Invasion Silencieuse (Quebec - 2000)
Starring: Jean-Sébastien Durocher, Martine Losier, Martin Sauvageau
Director: Eric Lavoie
Plot: Santos, the masked ex-wrestler crime-fighter, must team up with police to stop an invasion of undead zombies and save a young woman abducted by a UFO.
Review: Mixing a huge variety of genres and B-movie icons, L'Invasion Silencieuse is the ultimate homage to the bad films of our youth. Starring the Mexican serials-star Santos, and running the gamut from Buster Keaton and the Key-stone cops to Hong Kong films and Plan 9 From Outer Space, with a plot that tries to include every zany idea and every theme ever presented in these types of film, it is a bad-movie buff's dream of film references. True, it is the epitome of cheesy, but what it lacks in production values it more than makes up in sheer spunk, chutzpah and imagination and it's obvious the whole cast and crew had great fun making it. The editing, camera-work, and good use of the black-and-white, silent media (often imitating various film styles along with the bad acting) cleverly hides the fact that the whole endeavor was made on a sub-basement budget. Imaginative, entertaining, witty, L'Invasion Silencieuse is a charming spoof of Hollywood '20s and '50s films, and is a great B-movie in its own right.
Entertainment: 7/10
Nouvelles de jeux et technologies en français. TC
is that he's so realistic. Just think of all the fish-faced officials we see at the federal level, some of whom are unable to speak intelligible English, as the horror and morass that spreads consumes our society of greed.
We live in dark times - and having Cthulhu on DVD is really good market time.
Sinister, even.
oh, has anyone checked to see if Rove or Cheney has gills yet?
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