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Call of Cthulhu Available on DVD

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the say-is-that-a-tentacle dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Silent Film Eh? by HermanAB · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually, it is amazing how much better some movies are if you press the mute button...

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    Oh well, what the hell...
  2. Re:Server slow: see below by Winckle · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Last time I had mod points, I didn't see any options for "-1 Too helpful"

  3. Re:Silent Film Eh? by xTown · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not the technology. Silents really don't play well today; the acting style is so different from what we're used to that modern audiences just don't understand them. I used to go to silent screenings at an old theater near my house, but after suffering through people laughing throughout the entirety of "Phantom Of The Opera", I vowed that I would only watch silents on TV.

    Anyway, I couldn't think of any modern silents other than "Silent Movie," which someone else mentions. There are long stretches of movies that have (and need) no dialogue (isn't a lot of "Castaway" dialogueless?), but I don't think there are any modern silents that preserve the style and feel of movies from eighty-five years ago. Our visual language has moved past that, sort of the way we don't say "23 Skidoo" anymore.

  4. Excellent....*heh, heh, heh* by Nihilist+Hippie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now that phase one is complete, we can look at "fixing" the administration;
    http://www.cthulhuforpresident.com/

  5. Not region-free by slavemowgli · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Wow - subtitles in 24 languages, but the DVD is not region-free? Pretty stupid, if you ask me (and they misspelled "Luxembourgish", too).

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  6. Re:Security Administrators and port blocking by Flaming+Foobar · · Score: 2, Insightful
    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.

    Well, I don't want anyone logged on to eDonkey or somesuch at work. And believe me, no company policy is enough to stop people from running those things on warehouse terminals having a direct connection to our ERP.

    God forbid that the evil hackers work their way back up the finger connection and destroy the entire LAN!

    Well, I guess you aren't familiar with this, then.

    I don't get it. I'm pretty sure that IT people weren't always this clueless.

    Well, you'd never get employed by me, that's for certain.

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