I am not sure if this belongs here or in the music topic, but since it's a drama, I decided to go with here.

Today I listened to the Dark Adventure Radio Theater production (a.k.a. The Howard Phillips Lovecraft Historical Society) of At The Mountains Of Madness. It was fantastic. It is not an audio book, but done like an actual radio adventure/drama from the '30s. Even with a few cheesy commercials. I think I am going to try buying more of the radio shows off the HPLHS website.

That sounds really cool! Khajiit loves Lovecraft!

Have you seen the two movies that The HPLHS has done - Call of Cthulhu and The Whisperer In Darkness? Both were really cool, and done amazingly well, especially given the shoe-string budget they have. COC was done in the same style as a silent film from the early 20s, and Whisperer was done like one of the early 30's horror films by Universal.

I also decided to try another Dark Adventure Radio Theater program. This time I went for The Dunwich Horror. It was also really cool.

Khajiit has not seen them! Are they on Netflix or some other streaming service, to your knowledge?

Netflix does have Call of Cthulhu on disc, but Whisperer in Darkness is listed as Save to Queue. So there is no telling if or when they will get it.

I bought them both on dvd. As a big Lovecraft fan, they were well worth it to me. Plus I want to put money into the HPLHS, because they do a lot of wonderful Lovecraftian stuff, and I want them to keep it up. The bonus features on the CoC disc were worth the price all on their own. I think it was more fun watching the craziness of how they made the movie than the movie itself. For example, because it was a silent movie, they didn't write any dialogue. But the characters still had to be talking during scenes, so the actors made up their lines. Some are just hilarious. I don't know how they kept a straight face through it all.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 8 2017, 02:19 AM

Can you buy the discs from Amazon?

Probably. I got them off the HPLHS website.

I am sitting down with a big salad and glass of ice cold lemonade to watch Rogue One.

In his house at Mustafar dead Vader waits dreaming...

This is what happens when watching The Call of Cthulhu after Rogue One...

Lol

Who would win in a fight between Vader and Cthulhu?

Cthulhu cannot die, so that is off the table. But I do believe Vader would defeat him. It is not like Vader is going to go insane from merely witnessing the Mighty Cthulhu's cosmic horror. It would take a long time, but I think Vader would eventually chop Cthulhu up into little pieces, and toss him back into R'yleh. And then maybe blow it up with the Death Star.

But of course once the stars are right again, Mighty Cthulhu will rise from the waves once more...

Lol that would be something to witness!

I just finished watching A New Hope again. For the most part it dovetails in perfectly after seeing Rogue One. Everything we saw in Rogue One looks just like it does in A New Hope, especially the Death Star interiors and control screens and the Rebel Base stuff. Even the little personnel carriers in the Yavin base look the same. One little discrepancy I noted was that in the beginning of A New Hope Vader confronts Leia and says "several transmissions were beamed to this ship". But we (and he) saw in Rogue One that the plans were transferred to the Tantive IV on a data card, not by a wireless transmission. But that aside, it does look as if both films were essentially shot back to back. In the extras on the Rogue One disc, Gareth Edwards says that was exactly what he was looking to do.

Now I want to hear Mark Hamill do some of Luke's lines in his Joker voice. Well, almost...

Well the plans where transmitted from Scariff maybe that's what Vader meant in ANH.

I was thinking that too. But it is really stretching it. I think they went with the disc in Rogue One because in A New Hope we see Leia put the data disc into R2. But we never saw her copy the plans onto the disc before that. So in Rogue One we see the data copied onto the disc, and handed to her. That keeps the continuity intact. It just does not entirely match with what Vader said 40 years ago.



I love Mark Hamill's Joker. He is my favorite actor for that part. Hamill himself seems to have a lot of fun doing the voice. Perhaps too much...


This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 9 2017, 11:33 PM

Lol, oh yeah, he's perfect!

I just finished watching Moana. It was excellent. I was laughing when Moana insisted she was not a princess, and Maui shot back: “If you wear a dress and have an animal sidekick, then you’re a princess.” A very fun movie with a heart of gold.

I have also been listening to more of the Dark Adventure Radio Theater shows. Yesterday I did The Thing On The Doorstep, and today The Shadow Over Innsmouth. Next up is Dagon - War of the Worlds. From what I understand it is a completely new story, based on the War of the Worlds, but with Dagon instead of Martians. It is amazing how well done these things are. I just love them. This is all I can think when I go to the HPLHS site now.

And wow, Sean Branney from HPLHS just dropped me a short email saying what a great pair of shows I picked to buy the last time - The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Dagon - War of the Worlds. I figured they would dovetail nicely together. So fan girl *Squee!*

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 14 2017, 01:13 AM

Escape from New York!

You're Snake Plissken? I thought you were dead?


In other news I did listen to Dagon - War of the Worlds when I was at work Friday. It was really cool. It does pick up where The Shadow Over Innsmouth left off. The protagonist from SOI makes a brief appearance in War of the Worlds as well. It is an entirely new story, inspired by HP Lovecraft, and from real life The War of the Worlds radio broadcast. Basically it is the latter, but with Deep Ones instead of Martians. It was a lot of fun.

I also forgot to mention that a while back I listened to The White Tree. It is another original radio show by HPLHS. This one is a story of Inspector Legrasse from The Call of Cthulhu. It is a very neat mashup of a KKK group that have blended into cthultists. So far everything HPLHS has done has been outstanding.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 17 2017, 01:44 AM