Sunday, June 12, 2011

New Mountains of Madness Animated Movie

Chulinos on YouTube presents a new animated film about the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft.  Although rich with architectural detail, the characters are simple animated figures such as out of a graphic novel.  Although it takes a bit of time to get into the swing of things, this video gives you a pretty good view into the enormous panorama of The Mountains of Madness.  One note of caution:  the film is in Italian only but I think you will understand the storyline.  There is a caption function available in English by clicking the CC button.
The real horror movie, starring your favorite shoggoth Tom Cruise, has been put on hold indefinitely.  I suspect the movie moguls have been stopped listening to the demon pipers of Hollywood that lull them, and listened to the fans.  As much as I would like to see a full-length feature of The Mountains of Madness, I prefer nothing to the horror that Hollywood would have dished up.
                                                                                              CoastConFan
Lovecraft may well have based the Old Ones on figures from  these 19th century plates by Ernst Haeckel

1 comment:

  1. I am Joanne Westwood, P.R. rep for Stella James Studios. As a fan of Lovecraft and At The Mountains Of Madness, I want to let you and your readers know that Stella James Studios (stellajamesstudios.com) announced that they are doing the feature film adaptation of the classic movie last March, the day after Universal pulled their support for the $150million budget. Award winning cinematographer Keiko Nakahara will be lensing the movie, and director Shadow Mihai will be directing. If you want more info, let me know.

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