That way lies madness...
According to the latest entry at Wired's Table of Malcontents, there is a new Cthulhu movie coming to us soon. Ordinarily, this would be the cause of much rejoicing and excitement. Recent adaptations I've seen, like Dagon and the HPLHS's The Call of Cthulhu have been quite well done, and I'm always interested in seeing new ones.
Until now. They have cast Tori Spelling in a "horror movie with gay themes" that they claim is somehow related to Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos.
Apparently the screenwriter looked at the story "Shadow over Innsmouth" and decided that gays are just like the Dagon-worshipping inbred fish-folk of Innsmouth. Their lives run in parallel courses.
I had no idea.
And they've cast Tori Spelling. The one from Beverly Hills 90210 whose acting career exists primarily because of an accident of birth that left her the daughter of one of the rich and powerful producers in Hollywood.
I have no words.
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As much as I'd be fully
As much as I'd be fully supportive of any gay Innsmouth porn, and keep meaning to scribble a bit myself. .. whaaaaat????
First off. . .how does one even made a non-animated Cthulhu movie? It
could only be butchered, you can't possibly render that which defies
conventional dimensions with real footage. It just doesn't work. You
can't have real world perspectives AND Lovecraft, it just . . . doesn't
work. And how could Tori Spelling possibly be involved? Lovecraft
doesn't write about women, unless they're going to A) give birth to
monsters, and that's a different story, not CoC, or, B) do something
evil, and possibly really be a man, like Asenath in Thing on the
Doorstep. Which also wasn't CoC. HPL was terrified of woman, and
probably pretty gay but. . . I still don't see how this translates into
either gay themes in Cthulhu stories.
I'd hope this is one of those movies that only has a small chance of
actually being made. With luck, the Old Ones shall hear of this
blasphemy and eat a few select souls.