THE WHISPERER IN THE DARKNESS making-of online

If you're a fan of the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, you absolutely need to snap up a DVD copy of The Call of Cthulhu, the epic fan film made a couple of years ago by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. Cthulhu is a silent movie made without irony but with a lot of love; it plays like some lost classic of the Chaplin era, with great fidelity to the source material, imaginative art direction and appropriately melodramatic acting.

The same crew is currently at work on "The Whisperer in Darkness", set at Lovecraft's frequent locale, Miskatonic University. (The people at that last link take their pretend college website so seriously I almost wonder if they really believe the college exists. I mean, they even have a section on Undergraduate Financial Aid!)

The Historical Society did such an amazing job on Cthulhu that I have no doubt they'll also wow us all over again with Whisperer when it's done. Damn, I just wish I'd had half as much fun in college as the students in this clip are having. If there had been cute girls in flapper outfits and fancy dresses swooning around the quad when I was in school, I never would've left!



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