Director Leigh Scott reckons his upcoming indie horror film The Darkest Evil, based on The Dunwhich Horror, nails Lovecraft. In a recent blog post, Scott criticises the Lovecraftness of Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator, takes a swipe at CGI, and praises The Darkest Evil's main actors Jeffrey Combs and Dean Stockwell.
He also hints at the design of Yog Sothoth:
Lovecraft's creatures are also strange hybrids of the known and unknown. I think people will be really freaked out by the creature Yog Sothoth who plays a big part in the film. It's nothing anyone has ever seen before. So much so that when the producer saw the concept drawings, he said "I don't know what I'm looking at, but it's disturbing". Always a good sign when trying to make a Lovecraft film.The film's in post-production, and a trailer is due in the next few weeks.
(Image shown here of the thoroughly un-Lovecraft, 1970's version of The Duniwich Horror)
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