The Call of Cthulhu Movie Information

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Overall Rank: 5496

Average Rating: 2.9/4

# of Ratings: 6

Theatrical Release Date: 10/07/2005

Language: English

Genre: Horror, Thriller

MPAA Rating: NR

Director: Andrew Leman

Actors: Ralph Lucas, Matt Foyer, David Mersault, Noah Wagner, John Klemantaski, John Joly

Plot: Adapted faithfully from the 1926 short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the film concerns three closely intertwined tales of terror and madness centered around the rising of an alien city in the Pacific Ocean, which is the tomb for a monstrous god who will destroy the world should it awaken...

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The Call of Cthulhu.

TrifibianTerror - wrote on 05/26/2010

The Call of Cthulhu.

Adapted from the celebrated short story by American horror maestro H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu tells its story through 3 narratives, The Horror in Clay, The Tale of Inspector LeGrasse and The Madness from the Sea. Telling these stories is Francis Weylond Thurston, executor os his late great-uncles estate. Essentially set in a mental asylum, Thurston tells an unnamed detective his story of how he came to know of the Cthulhu Cult, by way of recounting the stories he found in a locked box belonging to his great uncle, George Gammel Angell.
The Horror in Clay explains Thrustons first delving into the mystery, with his discovery of his great uncles involvement with a young, 'psychically sensitive' artist named Henry Anothony Wilcox. Wilcox had been suffering …

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