Matt Foyer plays Albert Wilmarth, a skeptical professor of folklore at Miskatonic University, the hallowed institution of all things Lovecraftian.

ItвЂ™s heady and effective, and when the monsters and the cultists need to be shown, everything makes as much sense as it possibly can. Director Sean Branney here leans into the mood and tone of a noir-era pulp fiction piece, from which the story was derived, and delivers exposition by way of conversation and academic debate. It does a more straight-up interpretation of the authorвЂ™s tales and eschews the more exploitation leanings of previous filmmakers. Think the Stuart Gordon productions of From Beyond or The Re-Animator, or the nightmarish scenes from At the Mouth of Madness. How then, do you take something so over the top horrifying and put it to film?ДЇor many people, the association with the sub-genre is with over-the-top gore and plenty of tentacles. The blasphemous beings from another world were not meant to be understood, and those who did see these horrors would be driven mad. The trick with doing Lovecraftian cosmic horror is that so much of the authorвЂ™s work is consumed with the flowery and arcane language that he liked to use. It will also be playing again at the streaming portion of the festival. The Whisperer in the Darkness celebrated its 10th-anniversary release and was also celebrating a blu-ray printing, and it was a featured film once again on the big screen at the Hollywood Theater for the HPLFF.

They often bring stage actors to do reenactments of famous Lovecraftian stories, and made a significant splash with their low-budget silent film creation of the famous tale The Call of Cthulhu back in 2005, with the context set in the 1920s, the classic heyday of the Cthulhu Mythos stories. Lovecraft Film Festival for its entire existence. Lovecraft in film and audio radio dramas since 1986 and has been an integral staple of the H.P. Lovecraft Horror Historical Society is an organization that has been faithfully adapting the works of H.P. Matt Foyer is Professor Wilmarth in The Whisperer in Darkness (2021)

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