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Lovecraft fans: The Cloverfield monster turned out to have nothing to do with Cthulhu. Of course, there’s  Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of “At the Mountains of Madness”, but that’s not until 2010, and he’s going to busy with hobbits for a while.

If you need your fix sooner, there’s another Cthulhu movie making the circuits, this one with Tori Spelling.  Snarky comments aside, she’s done a few things since 90210, and The House of Yes still excuses a lot.

Cthulhu will premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival in June and is based on H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow over Innsmouth”, which, incidentally, is also the basis of the Oblivion quest “Shadow over Hackdirt”. The 17-word synopsis is that “dude goes back to small town, dude discovers awful secret, dude discovers he’s part of awful secret.”

Screenwriter Grant Cogswell somehow saw something there that resonated with stories he’d heard from his gay friends, so in Cthulhu the protagonist has been turned into a gay professor at Cascadia University who has to return to his mother’s small town in Oregon to execute her will.

1. Um.  OK. Why not?
2. Has anyone else noticed that the Pacific Northwest is now the default spooky part of the country in movies? It seems like it always used to be Maine.
3. From the trailer, I can’t tell what the hell is supposed to be going on. Anyone?

Cthulhu Official Movie Site

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