Only a handful of adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s literature have succeeded in capturing his unique brand of horror, and now The Whisperer in Darkness can join Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (also screening at Celluloid Screams 2011) on that very short list. When he receives a letter from a terrified farmer describing sightings of mysterious hoof-prints surrounding his farmhouse, Miskatonic University Professor and sceptic Albert Wilmarth journeys to Vermont to investigate and uncovers an otherworldly secret that threatens to shatter his sanity.
Conceived by filmmaking collective The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society and filmed in the style of a classic 1930s monster movie, The Whisperer in Darkness brings Lovecraft’s 1931 novella to life in stunning detail in a style that never once descends into parody. The Society’s dedication to capturing the essence and ethos of Lovecraft’s work is evident in every vivid frame and the result is a unique and immaculately constructed horror film.
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THE HAIRY HANDS
Director: Ashley Thorpe | UK | 2009 | 12 mins
Dartmoor: the dead of night… 953sq kilometres of desolate moorland…1000 ghosts…and a fugitive racing a haunted road to meet one.