I select a thematically appropriate horror movie for each day of the year and tell you about it.
Why?
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
How do you get to decide what qualifies as a horror movie and where each one goes on the calendar?
I am the Mayor of Horror Movies.
Are all these movies good?
Oh gosh no. But I recommend all of them to the adventurous viewer.
What’s with the CWs?
In horror movies, disturbing material is part of the entertainment package. But for some viewers, elements like sexual violence or bigotry ruin the fun. For those folks, I include content warnings. That said, the warnings are based on my personal reactions and should not be expected to cover all potential cinematic skeeviness, so proceed with caution.
Who are you, aside from the mayor?
I’m Shaenon K. Garrity. I’m mostly a cartoonist. I watch a lot of scary movies while I draw cartoons.
I once heard rumors that this was supposed to be an adaptation of “At the Mountains of Madness” by H. P. Lovecraft, but got changed into an adaptation of the 50’s version with James Arness instead at the last minute. If memory serves right, the original 50’s version was itself an adaptation of “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell. I also seem to recall a remake back in 2011, but never saw it so I don’t know much about it…
I was just wishing that there had been a good film version of At The Mountains of Madness for this day. Maybe someday Del Toro will get the right backing.
The Call of Cthulhu was reasonably well done. Dagon owes far more to “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” than to the titular short story, but is also enjoyable.
Wasn’t this like, the third or fourth version to be made? It was based on a very old short story or something? Also, the sequel made recently wasn’t too bad. The one with that girl from Scott Pilgrim vs the World?
Assuming that the Things know each other I’ve felt there is no ambiguity. If there are two Things they work together. If there is one Thing and one Human they thing would fight the human rather than die. If there are two Humans they wouldn’t know so they both wait it out.
Within that assumption the only thing that makes sense is that there are two humans who are both going to die alone and afraid.
Or the Things don’t know they’ve been converted until their instincts kick in which is honestly scarier to me.
I once heard rumors that this was supposed to be an adaptation of “At the Mountains of Madness” by H. P. Lovecraft, but got changed into an adaptation of the 50’s version with James Arness instead at the last minute. If memory serves right, the original 50’s version was itself an adaptation of “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell. I also seem to recall a remake back in 2011, but never saw it so I don’t know much about it…
I was just wishing that there had been a good film version of At The Mountains of Madness for this day. Maybe someday Del Toro will get the right backing.
Trust me when I say that you’re not the only one! Lovecraft’s works have been begging for a proper film adaptation for decades now, IMHO!
The Call of Cthulhu was reasonably well done. Dagon owes far more to “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” than to the titular short story, but is also enjoyable.
Sorry if this is cheating, but Wikipedia has a plausible summary of the original Campbell story and the various adaptations and responses to it.
Wasn’t this like, the third or fourth version to be made? It was based on a very old short story or something? Also, the sequel made recently wasn’t too bad. The one with that girl from Scott Pilgrim vs the World?
Assuming that the Things know each other I’ve felt there is no ambiguity. If there are two Things they work together. If there is one Thing and one Human they thing would fight the human rather than die. If there are two Humans they wouldn’t know so they both wait it out.
Within that assumption the only thing that makes sense is that there are two humans who are both going to die alone and afraid.
Or the Things don’t know they’ve been converted until their instincts kick in which is honestly scarier to me.
Shoot, I forgot about spoilers. How do I delete a comment? Can admin do it?