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11/27/08
My favorite Lovecraftian movie (actually, my favorite movie, period) is a forgotten little made-for-HBO gem called "Cast a Deadly Spell." While the Cthulhu mythos is mainly set dressing for a straight-up 1940's detective story, it's totally worth it to see Fred Ward playing a hard-boiled shamus opposite David Warner, Julianne Moore, Clancy Brown, and a pretty Grade A cast all around.
If anyone here hasn't seen it, I highly recommend tracking a copy down.
11/27/08
A friend of mine had us watch that in college, and I was just trying to remember the title after seeing this post. Best I could think of was the fact that I recognize one of the actors (plays Tugwell) from a Season 5 episode of Babylon 5.
It's too bad they never released it on DVD.
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11/27/08
Cast A Deadly Spell is an excellent tongue-in-cheek noir sendup. I didn't know that it had been released on tape. I guess the VHS tape that I've kept safe since it aired on HBO back in '89 ain't so special no more.
Best line is a toss-up between David Warner's "It's not a squid!" and Fred Ward's "The f*&ck that saved the world!"
Track it down, it's worth a watch.
11/27/08
Don't be so sure. I looked it up on Amazon, and the cheap price for one of the two listed New copies was $117. Used copies are a bit less painful in the pocket, but you never know whose kid shoved a sandwich in that VCR right before they tried to play the copy they want to sell you.
11/28/08
It came out in two formats: Crappy MacroVison-protected VHS (Which basically means the color looks like crap on a legitimate copy, and even worse if you try to copy it) and sweet beautiful laserdisk!
For years, this and my Japanese import copy of 'Army of Darkness' (at the time, the only method of seeing the original ending) were the only reasons I still kept lugging my laserdisk player around with me from apartment to apartment.
Thankfully, high quality DVD bootlegs are readily available if you know where to look, but I'd still give my right arm to see an officially licensed release, especially if it came with any nifty extras and/or some of the cast back together to record a commentary track.
11/28/08
Actually, I like his idea for the monument even better :)
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Double Agreed.
This movie, aside from the aid of a six pack and going all Cinematic Titanic on it, is damn bad.
Well, aside from the nudity.
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11/27/08
No. It's awful. Totally stage-y and over-acted.
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This is an adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth
11/27/08
Wait, why do they chant Cthulhu fthagn for Dagon?? Conflict of interests!
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No, but they could have saved a lot of money on makeup for the frog-people if they'd just cast her as everyone instead.
11/26/08
what must it be like to hang out with her 24/7...?
11/26/08
so much i wrote a song about it. well, no, but inspired by:
"Drowning (Mermaid Tale No. 3)"
http://www.Nonplus.us/audio/np_dmt3.m3u
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