Ep. 50 - Unusual Suspects

Seth and Jon are in the balcony to talk about movies made within the last ten years that are considered Lovecraftian, or Lovecraftian adjacent.

But first, thank you to Graeme Patrick for sponsoring this episode! Check out his amazing scenario, Of Sorrow & Clay, available on the Miskatonic Repository on DriveThruRPG.

• Of Sorrow & Clay is an 1880s scenario set deep in the Appalachian Mountains

• Has a fantastic cast of extremely memorable mountain-folk NPCs for the PCs to encounter and 5 pre-gen investigators perfect for this remorse mountain setting

• Some really cool (and new) creatures for the investigators to encounter

• New spells and new magical items, and a couple of really nice handouts

• Just 23 pages + Pregens

• Alex Guillote handled art and design

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The Ritual (2017)

• Studio: eOne / Netflix

• Director: David Bruckner

• Staring: Rafe Spall, Arsher Ali, Robert James-Collier, & Sam Troughton

• Based on the book, The Ritual, by Adam Nevill

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ritual_(2017_film) 

 

Older Gods (2023)

• Studio: Wagyu Films

• Director/Writer: David A. Roberts

• Staring: Lindsay Bennett-Thompson, Ieuan Coombs, & Jonathan Keeble

• Making of Podcast: From Dream to Silver Screen (conversations about making this movie)

• https://oldergodsmovie.com/

 

The Void (2016)

• Studio: D Films / Cave Painting Pictures

• Directors/Writers: Steven Kostanski & Jeremy Gillespie

• Staring: Aaron Poole, Kenneth Welsh, Daniel Fathers, Kathleen Munroe, Ellen Wong, Evan Stern, Trish Rainone, & Mik Byskov 

• Creature special effects crowdfunded on Indiegogo for $82,510 (the rest of the picture was funded traditionally) 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Void_(2016_film) 

 

Underwater (2020)

• Studio: 20th Century Fox

• Director: William Eubank

• Starring: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Jessica Henwick, John Gallagher Jr, Mamoudou Athie, & T. J. Miller

• Last movie released under the “20th Century Fox” brand, before being rebranded as “20th Century Studios”, and it was a box office bomb

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_(film) 

 

The Lighthouse (2019)

• Studio: A24 / VVS Films

• Director: Robert Eggers / Writers: Robert Eggers & Max Eggers 

• Starring: Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe

• Max Eggers had the original idea for this movie as a re-envisioning of the unfinished Edgar Allan Poe short story with the same title. 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_(2019_film) 

 

We can’t do this show alone. We want to thank our amazing editors Max Mahaffa, Edwin Nagy, and Zach Sokol for their hard work and keen skills at making us sound awesome! 

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And finally, we want to thank The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets for generously allowing us to use their song, Gluttony, as our intro and outro music. If you are a fan of Lovecraft’s writing and the Call of Cthulhu RPG, then you need to check out The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets. Please check out their BandCamp site and their official band site. Links in the show notes. 

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And once again, a huge thank you to our sponsor Graeme Patrick. Thanks for listening.