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Country: USA
Year: 2011
Director: Sean Branney
Starring: Matt Foyer, Barry Lynch, Autumn Wendel
Status: UK premiere (UK release not yet set)
Screening: Sunday, 11.30AM. Win a H.P Lovecraft Arkham Asylum Board game and ‘Whisperer’ movie poster at this screening!
The Bastard Love Child Of… Guy Maddin and Brian Yuzna!
Following a series of floods in rural Vermont, the bodies of grotesque creatures are reportedly found floating in several rivers. The creatures match descriptions given in certain local myths and legends – but Miskatonic University Folklorist Albert Wilmarth is sceptical.
That is, until he starts to receive a series of increasingly disturbing letters from Vermont farmer Henry Akeley that hint at a horrifying truth. He travels to Vermont to investigate further and uncovers a conspiracy that extends out into the furthest reaches of space and the darkest pits of hell.
Grimm’s Eye View: HP Lovecraft was one of American horror fiction’s greatest and most unique visionaries. His work has influenced authors as diverse as Robert Bloch, Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell and even misanthropic French miserablist Michel Houellebecq. His unsettlingly odd mixture of invented mythology, gothic horror, and science fiction, with its hysterical, unstable narrators and unspeakable, unnameable, half-glimpsed abominations has long been a challenge to filmmakers.
Whisperer in the Darkness is a particularly weird and wonderful narrative, featuring Native American folklore, brain transplants, unspeakable cults, and Elder God crab aliens from Pluto. Hats off then, to the HP Lovecraft Historical Society for rising boldly to the challenge with this unmissable cinematic gem. Shot to look like a 1930s RKO horror movie – in elegant B&W, with wonderful retro production design and special effects- it’s a real labour of love that will appeal to Lovecraft fans, film fans and anyone looking for something a little unusual.
