Q. Who are you?
A. Corey Whitworth.
Lovecraft fan and avid movie watcher. I have several hobbies,
most of which wouldn't interest you in the least.
Q. What's up with this site?
A. Well...I established
it to showcase movies and other media that has been inspired by horror
author HP Lovecraft. I've tried to compile the most comprehensive
collection of Lovecraft cinema.
Q. Where did you find all these movies?
What are the criteria to be included?
A. Some I just happened
upon in the local video rental stores, some I found at mall video stores,
a few are available online and some I caught on tv. The criteria
needed is to either be inspired by Lovecraft's stories/creations (such
as The Dunwich Horror or Re-Animator) or to have a theme similar to one
of Lovecraft's (such as The Thing or The Stuff). Also, borrowing
names or creatures from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos also can be considered.
Q. Who decides what ratings they get? Why'd
you totally trash some, and praise others?
A. I decided
the ratings based off of just how entertaining I found the film...the ones
I trashed mostly deserved it. If it really doesn't get a point across,
make you feel some kind of emotion (even repulsion is an emotion in my
book) or tell a good story...then its not going to score very high in my
book.
Q. What's your favorite Lovecraftian movie?
The Worst?
A. Wow...that's
tough. As for the best, I'll keep it as a tie between The Resurrected
and Cast A Deadly Spell. Both those films just really tried hard
to be faithful to a concept and idea, as well as not taking the low road
that most horror movies tread. Plus, when you can succesfully pull
off a pulp/horror/comedy with an original storyline...it's gonna get thumbs
up from me.
As for the worst...geez, I'd have
to say Cthulhu Mansion. Man, that one just stumped me. Although
the credits say "inspired by HP Lovecraft" and the title bears the name
Cthulhu...it had NOTHING to do with Lovecraft. The dialogue was a
mix of common street explitives and uninteresting commentary. I was
ashamed to have purchased this film.
Q. Can I use some of the graphics/sounds/videos
on your site?
A. Here's my two
cents on that subject: I can't stop you from "borrowing" anything
on this site. Anyone who can point and click can download all the
material from this site to a computer. However, I do frown upon people
using the material for their sites. I not only put several months
into this new site, but 3 years overall on some of the reviews and graphics.
If you end up using any of the material I have provided, please email me
and at least have the decency to let me know, and please link to this site
as the original provider.
Q. Well...who said you could post any of this
material??
A. All the multimedia
such as still images, video captures and sound captures are done under
compliance with the Fair Use Law.
Q. So how much money do you make from the
site?
A. Nothin', zip,
zilch, nada, absolutely not one dime. It's not-for-profit, just for
the love of the genre. If anything, I'm paying out the wazoo to pay
for this website's server. I provide everything here as a service.
To enlighten and inform the viewer on the subject of Lovecraftian multimedia.
Q. So how did you make the site? All the
graphics and videos?
A. I am running
Win98 with a P3 450 with 128 MB RAM, 8 MB Nvidia TNT video card, Soundblaster
128 Platinum sound card, Hauppauge WinTV video capture card, 20.5 GB Hard
Drive, 6x DVD Rom Drive, Lynxsys 10/100 Network Card connected to a Toshiba
Cable Modem and a NEC 17" monitor. I do all the video encoding using
Real Networks Real Producer Pro and Windows Media Encoder and all my graphics
are created using Adobe Photoshop 5.1. All the videos were
played on my trusty Magnavox 4 head VCR, and dvds were played on my fantastic
Toshiba 2109.
