While waiting for a repair guy and noodling around on Netflix, I found this today. The Call of Cthulhu is the oddest of movies, a silent film, done in 2005. It's about 45 minutes long and amazingly engaging. Full of scratchy black and white images, full of German Expressionist imagery, reminiscent of Metropolis or The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, this is the creepiest movie I have seen in a while. It sticks fairly well to the original Lovecraft story and is full of weird camera angles, cheesy 1920's FX, a super creepy musical background, excellent acting done by actors who really nailed the mime-like acting of the movies of that era, dark, dark, foreboding images and a general atmosphere of creeping insanity, doom and obsession.
As a horror movie this is just so much better than cute, ripped, sexy vampires and overused zombies that it's a relief to see that horror isn't as dead as some its characters.
Highly recommended for fans of horror or classic movies.
