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Forgive me father full video1/17/2024 ![]() ![]() Shaun Bishop’s cinematography adds to keeping Older Gods from staggering as well, from roaring vista shots out of the front window of the cottage to the dreamscapes of Chris at odds with an entity supernaturally as large as a planet. ![]() Or watching a psychiatric patient’s evaluation tape while Chris feels he’s succumbing to madness. These little juxtapositions resonate throughout Older Gods, from the seemingly boundless farmland Billy’s cottage resides on to the intimidating isolation Chris feels while he stays there. Roberts can then settle the viewer through nature, introduce a heart-stopping detail, and then turn the calmness of Chris’ environment against them. It’s much better than just watching the video play on the laptop, as we sometimes get in low-budget features, a choice that can kill the pace of a film. Roberts moves the story along by combining components, pushing Chris into a hike while he listens to Billy’s recordings through his iPhone, podcast style. Not many can pull it off, yet Older Gods captivates, engages, and embroils the viewer without sacrificing story or action while incorporating many of the author’s stories and themes. No matter what you think of any of them, one of the most challenging aspects of adapting Lovecraft or crafting a Lovecraft-inspired film is getting the Lovecraft elements to fit around a pace that works. ![]() I have seen a lot of indie Lovecraftian films, from pretty much everything in Stuart Gordon’s filmography to last year’s Offseason, The black and white indie Color Out of Space, ahead of Richard Stanley’s interpretation featuring Nic Cage. By blaming himself, Chris resigns himself to understand what happened to Billy, and if you know your Lovecraft, that never ends well. Grief spirals permeate throughout Chris’ struggle with both the relentlessness of Billy’s documentation and the events happening around him in the aftermath of loss. As Chris digs deeper into what Billy was involved in, intensely strange things begin occurring, from cosmic nightmares to the appearance of a strange cloaked man stalking Chris and breaking into Billy’s home. Much of Billy’s content concerns a symbol, a circle within a circle, and a conspiracy involving a religious cabal seeking to bring an ancient evil into our realm. Chris uncovers a host of video files and documents Billy left for him, knowing the end was imminent. ![]() Roberts is the latest director to join a wealth of talented compatriots with Lovecraftian creations, and if you’re a fan of Lovecraft, his film Older Gods is certainly worth a look.Īfter his childhood friend Billy (Ieuan Coombs) is assumed dead by suicide, Chris Rivers (Rory Wilson) heads out to his remote homestead in the Wales countryside to try and wrap his head around the senseless tragedy. Filmmakers like Del Toro continue to dream of these cosmic demons and the madness-consuming journey that will lead protagonists to them, but only indie directors have had the guts to push through and continue the well-spring of fear that has made the sci-fi horror writer of the ’20s and ’30s become a modern-day adjective. Yet, even with the weight his Academy Award-winning clout brings, major studios seem unwilling to grant him a budget suitable for an Eldrich god to make the film. Even rumblings of Guillermo Del Toro wanting to adapt Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness as an epic have been muttered. His stories are inspiring film, TV, and video games rather consistently lately, from HBO’s Lovecraft Country to Joe Lynch’s forthcoming Suitable Flesh, or Cyanide game Call of Cthulhu. It’s rare these days to do cosmic horror well, particularly with regard to H.P. ![]()
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