High on ambition and originality and the closest we've come to a true H.P. Lovecraft film.
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04/27/09
Cthulhu (2008)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:8
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.4/10
Genre: Horror/Suspense
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Adapted from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reaquainted with his best friend... [More]
Starring: Jason Cottle, Scott Green, Cara Buono, Tori Spelling
Director: Dan Gildark
Reviews for Cthulhu
1 - 13 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth looms largest in this offbeat film's influences, and while it can't be called faithful ... it does have an authentically doom-haunted atmosphere.
03/03/09
An assured, creepy effort that skillfully integrates gay themes and characters into a straight-up horror story.
10/30/08
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10/18/08
Too much about the movie is just amateurish.
09/12/08
H.P. Lovecraft has a history of mistreatment in the cinema, but nothing comes near the abomination of Cthulhu, which not only desecrates Lovecraft, but film craft.
09/11/08
What is best about Cthulhu is the style that insists on keeping the viewer completely off-balance.
09/11/08
Cthulhu isn't awful, but it isn't particularly compelling either, as Glidark and Cogswell make their message so plain that it robs the story of its broader mysteries.
08/22/08
Top CriticAs the creepy gives way to the criminal, and ultimately to the genuinely supernatural, Cthulhu maintains its grounding in the sort of real-world interests that holds one's attention without shocking demonstrations like dismemberment or decapitation.
08/22/08
A trippy, unsettling experience with a clear eye for mesmerizing visuals. Genre fans grown weary by today's mainstream spate owe it to themselves to seek out this grim, creatively sumptuous, unapologetically chilling indie effort.
08/22/08
Stuart Gordon adapted the story more conventionally in 2001's Dagon, and it remains the better bet for Lovecraft lovers.
08/21/08
The most fantastical plotline can be a perfectly convincing movie, but in Cthulhu, the acting is so emotionally unhinged and erratic it borders on camp.
08/19/08
Top CriticThe film effectively locks down a literally captive audience, and the eerie images of the mystical, tempestuous Oregon coast are both stunning and nerve shredding for the entire bewitching duration.
08/14/08
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Latest News for Cthulhu
March 24, 2009:
Royal Art News: The film effectively locks down a literally captive audience, and the eerie images of the mystical, tempestuous Oregon coast are both stunning and nerve shredding for the entire bewitching duration. 
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August 24, 2008:
SF-Fandom.com: The film effectively locks down a literally captive audience, and the eerie images of the mystical, tempestuous Oregon coast are both stunning and nerve shredding for the entire bewitching duration.
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August 14, 2008:
Supernatural News: H.P. Lovecraft lives in haunting dirge.
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July 20, 2008:
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