ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

suite92 A Boston archaeologist sorts through his dead great-uncle's papers. He finds information about the Cthulhu Cult. The great-uncle was a psychiatrist. One of his patients was a young man named Henry Wilcox. Wilcox reported dreams; the shrink asked that he record the dreams for discussion. When Wilcox failed to appear one day, the great-uncle tracks him down to a mental ward. Wilcox had lost his memory of his obsession.The present day nephew skips to other parts of the great-uncle's stored papers, which included newspaper clippings, and visits to conferences. At one conference, a policeman presents an artifact to some scholars. One man had seen the same sort of piece in Greenland in Esquimaux (sic) territory. Another described odd goings-on in a swamp near New Orleans where children were disappearing. In both cases, there was a chant that named Cthulhu. A similar artifact was at the site of a cult fire dance where cannibalism was being practiced. The investigator came with police; the dance was dispersed; arrests were made.The nephew keeps reading. This seems to be a common mistake made by actors in Cthulhu films.He follows the notebooks, and goes to places described in the notebooks. He locates a Cthulu statue, and gains more information than what was in the notebooks.The effort eventually drives the nephew mad. -----Scores------Cinematography: 4/10 Presented in black and white in the 4:3 aspect ratio. Full of simulated scratches and floating dust. Ugly.Sound: 6/10 This is a silent film with musical accompaniment and inter-titles. The music was fairly good for the on screen action.Acting: 4/10 Without voice, these actors seemed to be lost.Screenplay: 4/10 Too many dream sequences and flashbacks. A lot of this looks like Freudian themes with visuals in the style of Dali.-----Post Script-----In graduate school at Indiana University, I saw a dozen or so silent black and white films at the Auditorium, which had a large screen and a huge pipe organ of fine sound quality. The organ player was not only a skilled musician, but also a BW film buff of broad experience. The films were A list when they were released, and were often in 1.85 or wider format. They looked like movie films, not television. The film actors and directors were experienced and skilled at making the best silent films. These experiences were rather rich; I felt like I was catching a glimpse of the silent era during its height.Why go to so much effort to make something that looks so bad? The black and white silent era is over. Go the route of The Artist instead.

Hitchcoc What a wonderful effort by a creative team. I've always been disappointed with Lovecraft inspired films. They tend to ignore the master's plots and the fear of the unknown, which is at the center of every story. Having read the canon several times, I went into this thinking, "OK. Another novelty film. What has transpired here is masterwork, using movie techniques from another era (ala "The Artist). The creation of dark shadows and the ongoing threat after discovery of documents that we should not see, sets this up so well. I had not heard of this production so will put it on the shelf with the great cinema surprises of my life. Cthulhu is there in many of the Lovecraft stories. All we know is that seeing him can induce horror that will drive one to madness (don't you just love it). Cthulhu hangs over every element, as the character bumble their respective ways from discovery to discovery. The scenes of terror are masterfully underplayed and are still designed to grasp us by the throat. I am hoping that someone else has the courage to try something like this again. Perhaps to do "The Dunwich Horror" properly.

Rectangular_businessman The problem with most of the film adaptations of the wonderful works written by H.P.Lovecraft is that most of them fail to capture all the subtle elements that made his stories so incredibly fascinating and influential, keeping only the premise or the most basic components of each tale, resulting in very poor adaptations that sometimes doesn't have very much in common with their literary counterparts.Fortunately, this fascinating short remains faithful to the essence of the original story, resulting in a incredibly well done adaptation which also pays homage to several horror films from the Silent Age of cinema (Such as "Nosferatu") Despite some little differences between this and the original tale, "The Call of Cthulhu" it's a pretty solid film that gives this great story the sober treatment that it deserved.Sometimes I wish that the other movie adaptations of Lovecraft's writings were as good as this one.

Ben Larson H.P. Lovecraft was a prolific writer, and many films were made by or inspired by his works: Re-animator, Bride of Re-animator, Dagon, From Beyond, and many many more.If one were to do a movie during his time, it would look exactly like this one: black and white and silent. Neither takes away from the interesting story. What we see is a tale of hair-raising mystery full of bizarre dreams, murderous eskimos, and blood-thirsty cultists that culminates in the revelation of an unspeakable horror, just as it would have been made in 1925.With German impressionism prevalent, the music and shadows made this a terrifying tale.