![]() ![]() There’s a cute bit where our hero debates Charles Fort (a real life awesome guy who was into the paranormal and unexplained, weird phenomena), but this doesn’t deserve all the running time it gets. The entire extended first act of the film is extraneous and could be almost completely cut from the film without losing a thing. ![]() ![]() The idea of adapting the film in a style contemporaneous with the story’s publication just makes a lot of sense, and allows for a film that’s whole-heartedly into Lovecraft’s spooky, less explicit weirdness.Īnd then I fell out of love with The Whisperer in Darkness as the film plodded along for 45 minutes until it finally got to something - anything - interesting. In black and white and presented in the style of a 1930s horror film, this HP Lovecraft adaptation was doing something really cool and exciting right from the start. I fell in love with The Whisperer in Darkness right at the opening titles. ![]()
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