Review of The Call of Cthulhu (2006) by Svein-Gunnar J — 06 Jul 2007
Amazing! It's great in both the sense of a modern semi-kitschy tribute to silent movies and as an honorable adaptation of classic literature (especially HP Lovecraft's, which has almost always been done poorly).
Like Lovecraft's fiction itself, it strives for believability in what it pretends to be, and some of the performances are perfectly overwrought directly in line with the pre-talkie style. Some of the parts, though, are a little too drawn out.
.. that's its weak point, it seems to try to obey both the "this is a silent movie in all its occasionally-boring and poorly executed glory" and the "we're doing Lovecraft the way it was meant to be done" directives.
At the end of the day, though, it is at least as good as Dagon and should be seen by anyone mildly interested in its multiple premises.
This review of The Call of Cthulhu (2006) was written by Svein-Gunnar J on 06 Jul 2007.
The Call of Cthulhu has generally received very positive reviews.
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