An assured, creepy effort that skillfully integrates gay themes and characters into a straight-up horror story.
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10/30/08
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Cthulhu (2008)
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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:8
Rotten:5
Average Rating:5.4/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Theatrical Release:Aug 22, 2008 Limited
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 source)
As 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
High on ambition and originality and the closest we've come to a true H.P. Lovecraft film.
04/27/09
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
What is best about Cthulhu is the style that insists on keeping the viewer completely off-balance.
09/11/08
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10/18/08
Stuart Gordon adapted the story more conventionally in 2001's Dagon, and it remains the better bet for Lovecraft lovers.
08/21/08
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
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
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.
08/14/08
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
Too much about the movie is just amateurish.
09/12/08
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
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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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