"Cthulhu" "Cthulhu Trailer" - First Look "Cthulhu" - In Theaters August 22, 2008
"Cthulhu" - The movie "Cthulhu" is adapted from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. RUSSELL, a young, gay history professor currently living in Seattle, is called upon by his sister DANNIE to execute their late mother’s estate. He is reunited with boyhood chum MIKE and with his father, REVERND MARSH, the charismatic leader of a New Age cult. While exploring his memories, Russ wanders into a warehouse where hundreds of names are listed on the walls. As he sleeps that night, he dreams of a stone cudgel. He awakens to find a cudgel in his motel room. The town drunk warns Russ that it is an instrument of sacrifice, and a young liquor store clerk enlists him to help find her brother, who she believes has been taken by the cult. Russ’ AUNT JOSIE, who has been living in an asylum, tells him that his mother left a message hidden in her house which has been sealed by fumigators until auction. Looking for answers in the warehouse, Russ is taken on an unbelievable journey through the small town’s ancient, subterranean origins. When he escapes, he and Mike share a long–awaited tryst, after which they find the girl’s brother murdered. Russ begins to believe preparations are underway for a mass sacrifice, and engages the attentions of sexy seductress SUSAN in order to obtain information. After Susan rapes him and he is arrested for murder on the eve of the May Festival, the stakes are raised – maybe higher than the world has ever known*
STARRING: Jason Cottle, Scott Patrick Green, Cara Buono, Robert Padilla, Tori Spelling
DIRECTOR: Dan Gildark
STUDIO: Regent Releasing
RATING: R (For language, full frontal male nudity, homosexual sexual situations)
THEATER COUNT (Opening Weekend): TBD
RUNNING TIME:
TBD
TOTAL DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE: TBD
U.S. DVD RELEASE DATE: TBD
"Cthulhu" is a giant fictional being, one of the Great Old Ones in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. It is often cited for the xtreme descriptions given of its appearance, size, and the abject terror that it invokes. Because of this reputation, "Cthulhu" is often referred to in science fiction and fantasy circles as shorthand for extreme horror or evil. Lovecraft transcribed the pronunciation of "Cthulhu" as "Khlûl'hloo." Lovecraft gave several differing pronunciations on different occasions. According to Lovecraft, this is merely the closest that the human vocal apparatus can come to reproducing the syllables of an alien language. Long after Lovecraft's death, the pronunciation k-THOO-loo became common. Cthulhu appears in various monstrous and demonic forms in early myths of the human race. Cultural memory preserves the would-be deity as humanity's most deeply rooted nightmare. "Cthulhu" is known as the high priest of the Great Old Ones, unnatural alien beings who ruled the Earth before humanity formed, and still worshipped as gods by misguided people. It is said that they will return, causing worldwide insanity and mindless violence before finally displacing humanity forever.
