Shane Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:41 pm Post subject:
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I had an old copy of the Cthulhu RPG but I haven't seen that in years. It was an old box set like the ones they put out before the AD&D books, back when it was pamphlets and what not.
used to play CoC long long ago. I had looked forward to Dark Corners of the Earth but the PC release is still on hold supposedly.
Isn't Del Toro doing an adaptation of "At the Mountains of Madness"?
Vegeta wrote:I have a very old copy of D&D Fiend Folio that has an entire section on Cthulhu. I believe that TSR even got sued by Lovecraft's family, because later prints of it don't have the Cthulhu mythos in it. Betcha that's worth a pretty penny...
Dagon was Stuart Gordon, not del Toro.
The Vicar wrote:A plush Cthulhu????
Hot freaking damn.
Gimme my checkbook....
Hermanator X wrote:There are a few of Lovecrafts books on audiobook format here. http://greylodge.org/gpc/index.php?s=lovecraft
call of cthullu makes for nice bed time listening.....
TonyWilson wrote:Hermanator X wrote:There are a few of Lovecrafts books on audiobook format here. http://greylodge.org/gpc/index.php?s=lovecraft
call of cthullu makes for nice bed time listening.....
Oh man that's awesome. Anyone read The China Town Death Cloud Peril? It fetures a brilliant fictitious cameo from Lovecraft, very much in the style of his writing. The book is more traditional pulp but the Lovecraft bits are great.
There was of his stories that I love but can't remember the name of. It has a bit with a guy being rescued from slug like animlas by giant cats. And him scaling the walls of a mountain to look at the face of a god. Can anyone help?
bastard_robo wrote:Never read Call of Cthulhu though.. nor finished Mountains of Maddness.. should do that one day.
Fawst wrote:And I didn't notice this elsewhere in the thread, but Mayimbe over at Latino Review posted his review of del Toro's Mountains of Madness script. He gave it an A+, so... hurry the fuck up, Guillermo!
TonyWilson wrote:Mouth Of Madness is the John Carpenter/Sam Neil film right? The end with him in the cinema watching himself in the cinema watching himself in the cinema, going on and on forever was fucking brilliant.
bastard_robo wrote:TonyWilson wrote:Mouth Of Madness is the John Carpenter/Sam Neil film right? The end with him in the cinema watching himself in the cinema watching himself in the cinema, going on and on forever was fucking brilliant.
Correct! No lovecrafter here!
Chairman Kaga wrote:bastard_robo wrote:TonyWilson wrote:Mouth Of Madness is the John Carpenter/Sam Neil film right? The end with him in the cinema watching himself in the cinema watching himself in the cinema, going on and on forever was fucking brilliant.
Correct! No lovecrafter here!
That's not entirely accurate. While that movie is in no way based on a Lovecraft story it's obvious that Sutter Cane is based loosely on Lovecraft plus a number of references to his stories are made in the names of places and characters in the film. While it's not a "Lovecraft" film in the strictest sense it comes much closer to the vibe of Lovecraft's weird fiction that supposed adaptations like Re-Animator or Dreams in the Witch House (burn in Hell Stuart Gordon!!)
unikrunk wrote:Chairman Kaga wrote:bastard_robo wrote:TonyWilson wrote:Mouth Of Madness is the John Carpenter/Sam Neil film right? The end with him in the cinema watching himself in the cinema watching himself in the cinema, going on and on forever was fucking brilliant.
Correct! No lovecrafter here!
That's not entirely accurate. While that movie is in no way based on a Lovecraft story it's obvious that Sutter Cane is based loosely on Lovecraft plus a number of references to his stories are made in the names of places and characters in the film. While it's not a "Lovecraft" film in the strictest sense it comes much closer to the vibe of Lovecraft's weird fiction that supposed adaptations like Re-Animator or Dreams in the Witch House (burn in Hell Stuart Gordon!!)
I, ah, always thought they were making allusions to Stephen King. Sutter Cain. Stephen King.
Agreed that it certainly has direct references to Lovecraft lore; the sleeping old gods, the idea that reality is not in any way how we perceive it, and of course, the horror that our minds cannot even process.
Chairman Kaga wrote: While that movie is in no way based on a Lovecraft story it's obvious that Sutter Cane is based loosely on Lovecraft
Kutulhu wrote:Chairman Kaga wrote: While that movie is in no way based on a Lovecraft story it's obvious that Sutter Cane is based loosely on Lovecraft
In what respect do you see Sutter Cane as Lovecraft. Lovecraft was a racist, xenophobic Anglophile who liked cats and hated the cold.
Adam Balm wrote:Kutulhu wrote:Chairman Kaga wrote: While that movie is in no way based on a Lovecraft story it's obvious that Sutter Cane is based loosely on Lovecraft
In what respect do you see Sutter Cane as Lovecraft. Lovecraft was a racist, xenophobic Anglophile who liked cats and hated the cold.
And a misogynistic anti-rationalist. Yet we can't help loving the guy...
Adam Balm wrote:Well it's less apparent than his racism, you're right. He doesn't outright rail with disgust about women, as he does of darker skinned people and immigrants in Horror at Red Hook for instance. But I still think it's there, especially in something like Thing on the Doorstep (where someone wants to be a man in order to feel entirely human.). But overall is he anymore misogynist than the rest of the Weird Tales crowd? Is he more misogynist than Robert E. Howard? I dunno, maybe not.
Adam Balm wrote:I think Eskimos are smug...
bastard_robo wrote:Lets all look at the real crime here, the man hated ESKIMOS!
Chairman Kaga wrote:bastard_robo wrote:Lets all look at the real crime here, the man hated ESKIMOS!
I think you mean Eskimaus.
Kutulhu wrote:Since we are speaking of Lovecraft, I really wish Guillermo del Toro would use the internet freakout about 01-18-08 to his advantage and get funding for his At The Mountains of Madness script.
"Look, they WANT a movie about Cthulhu" (although Cthulhu isnt central, it is mentioned)
Chairman Kaga wrote:A Cthulhu movie should not be a giant monster movie but I appreciate your enthusiasm.
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