2011 Directed by Sean Branney
Folklore professor Albert Wilmarth investigates legends of strange creatures in the most remote hills of Vermont. His enquiry reveals a terrifying glimpse of the truth that lurks behind the legends.
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I've read Lovecraft more times than I've had hot meals, and The Whisperer in Darkness is probably my favourite of all his stories. It's a truly creepy tale with an absolutely brilliant kicker for the finale but it's not an easy story to adapt to, being primarily composed of a series of long letters. But the HP Lovecraft Historical Society tried their upmost, and the resulting film is a testament…
You gotta admire what these motivated Lovecraft-geeks have done here, and with their prior silent adaptation of "The Call of Cthulhu". Both films are shot on the double cheap in the true, modern guerilla-filmmaking spirit. They are also the most faithful Lovecraft adaptations ever produced.
Woah, sans doute la meilleure adaption de Lovecraft que j'ai vu dans les dernières semaines, à cheval entre le film noir, le film d'aventures et le film de série B. Il manquait un brin d'enquête obsessive et de fièvre de savoir (toute cette partie de la nouvelle a été raccourcie, et c'était pas plus mal, au fond), mais c'était vraiment une belle surprise (que j'ai regardé en mangeant trop de jujubes et de chips).
The evocation of a 1930s Universal-styled film is perfectly realised and the film is filled with dread and the threat of cosmic horror. The Whisperer in Darkness has a much slower pace than The Call of Chuthulu but it does reward the patient. The only issue is the CGI creatures at the end; mechanical or stop-motion would have been more effective and better fitted the period but I assume that a limited budget made this impossible.
mglw'nafh fhthagn-ngah cf'ayak 'vulgtmm vugtlag'n
"The Whisperer in Darkness" is one of my favorite Lovecraft stories, along with "The Colour Out of Space." While I don't get many H.P. vibes from this year's adaptation of "Colour," 2011's Whisperer gets the job done.
I noticed I didn't have this film logged on this site, which is absurd to me because a) I feel like I watch Whisperer, like, every 6 months, and b) that means it's been at least 2 and a half years since I did!
Whisperer, like the previous HPLHS production of The Call of Cthulhu, was shot in MythoScope, which means that it was shot in the style of the year the source material was published in. I think it's a great gimmick…
A bit overlong and I’m not actually sure that the added plot works though I suppose that it does in the context of what type of movie it tries to emulate. Very well made though and quite entertaining.
The only weak point of this film was the CGI because it's a low-budget flick. Otherwise, it was tremendous and well-made.
Die H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society hat mit The Call of Cthulhu anno 2005 die wohl beste Lovecraft-Verfilmung auf Zelluloid gebannt - zumindest eine der werkgetreuesten.
2011 folgte dann die Verfilmung von Lovecrafts The Whisperer in Darkness und auch dieses Mal setzte man wieder auf verfremdende Effekte in der Post-Production, um dem Film den wundervollen Vintage-Look zu verpassen.
The Whisperer kann dabei zwar nicht mit seinem hochgepriesenen Vorgänger mithalten, aber insbesondere die erste Hälfte des Films ist wieder bester Lovecraft-Noir-Horror. Angesiedelt in der berühmten, wenn auch fiktiven, Miskatonic University dürfen wir uns mit Albert Wilmarth auf eine detektivische Reise begeben und mysteriösen Sichtungen auf den Grund gehen.
Das ist so unterhaltsam, dass es fast schon schade ist, wenn es im…
These nerds don't know how to make a movie but they're clearly having so much fun :) good for them
Reviewed as part of the History of Horror 2018 Challenge. You can find my list here if you'd like to follow along!
The Whisperer in Darkness is directed by Sean Branney, who acted in and wrote the adaptation for The Call of Cthulhu in 2005, a film directed by Andrew Leman, the co-writer of the adaptation for this film. I was very impressed with The Call of Cthulhu, a short but faithful film that utilized a silent, black and white style of film making to capture the spirit of the tale. They used some wonderful sets, stop motion effects, and shadow play to make the most of the effort and so I've had my eye on their version of The…
