The Whisperer in Darkness

It's hard to believe that The Whisperer In Darkness was created so recently. The artists that made it have captured the look, feel, and texture of a 1930s movie which is faithful to the original text and appropriate for it. The attention to detail is inspiring - from the language used by the actors, down to the use of retro technology. Highly recommended.

This movie, along with "The Call of Cthulhu" is clearly the best cinematographic work refering to Lovecraft's achievements. Its creators learned their lesson in all conscience and made their opus close as it's possible to Lovecraftian spirit. Playing with convention with taste and nonconformity they proove themselves trustworthy. That's how you are filming HPL stories, my friends, and that's how you want to watch them! Happily, the DVD is full of extras and multiple language versions (subtitles) which I personally found very important.

This is a great movie, felt like you were watching an old movie from the '30s or '40s, Another great job from HPLHS just like the radio programs. I highly recommend this movie. The only thing that would have made it better is offering the movie in a color version too. Please HPLHS make more movies to!

While not a Lovecraft super-fan, I do enjoy his works very much and have always been disappointed in the quality of film adaptations. This, however, is the exception. Although the acting slips a little in a few places, it is more than made up for with an excellent story line and absolutely GORGEOUS cinematography. Seriously, the film work is Citizen Kane/Casablanca quality stuff, and made even more amazing by the Blu-ray format. The screenplay deviates somewhat from the original storyline near the end, but it still flows well and is very engaging. I recommend this in the strongest terms not just for Lovecraft fans, but for cinema fans as well - mainstream distribution is called for here!

I found this to be incredibly well done and the production value was leaps and bounds over Call of Cthulhu. The actors all did an exceptional job and the soundtrack was very well done. My only issue is that there were fairly significant liberties taken with the original story. The movie started out well enough, but almost the entire second half of the film has absolutely nothing to do with Lovecraft's original story.

My suggestion would be to watch this film under the pretense of it being more of a homage to Lovecraft (which they makers seem to indicate when they say "expands on Lovecraft's original tale while still bringing you unparalleled authenticity") rather than an exact adaptation.

However, given how closely the film adheres to the original story in the beginning (relatively speaking), I do question drifting off into a completely different direction during the second half of the film when I simply don't think it was needed. For that reason alone, I give this film two stars. Had it been truer to the source material, I would give it five stars. Only true fans of Lovecraft are likely to watch these films, so why not stick to the source material without embellishing it? If you are going to do that, make an entirely original film set in Lovecraft's universe.

All that being said, I would like to see you tackle At the Mountains of Madness next.