When I found this last weekend, I watched it obsessively a number of times. It just seems right. Not exactly a vision of prophecy, but for a myth of collapse it will do?

Apocalypse -Cthulhu- Now by Cthulinos [Youtube]
Apocalypse Now intro – In case you’ve forgotten the visual pun [Youtube]

Not an adaptation of Lovecraft’s “The Lurking Fear,” but a hybrid pastiche/homage to Lovecraft and Buster Keaton, with a hint of Indiana Jones in a few places

Part 1

Part 2

The Lurking Fear by Eric Koenig [Youtube]

I hadn’t imagined the graveyard in this manner, but it works.

The Statement of Randolph Carter, by Eldritch Animation [Youtube]

Chris Lackey just posted these short cartoons of his on Youtube (unavailable for years after being hosted elsewhere). They include the efforts of others in the creative Cthulhu fandom clique (HPL Historical Society, the HPL Literary Podcast) including Chad Fifer and the distinctive voice work of Andrew Lehman. I detect a touch of influence from Mignola’s animated work such as The Amazing Screw On Head (EDIT: These films predate that comic and pilot) (which can be found in another Saturday Morning lineup), and of course a heaping dose of other inspiration (spoilers from the video). There is some genuine charm, and I love the recurring intro.

The Investigators by Christopher Lackey [Youtube]

Released in 1958 and a solid classic ever since, the 7th Voyage of Sinbad is a film each of us loved as children, and haven’t watched since. Let Ectomo gently remedy your ignorance. There was more, far more, to this film than a naga, a cyclops, living skeletons, and a dragon. There is plot, intrigue, racism, sexism, classism, orientalism, the Iraq War predicted 45 years early, a hidden protagonist, and salty Muslim pirates.

But even the hoary old stop-motion beasts will be newly appreciated by your CGI-jaded self. Bathe in the simple liveliness of clay, and Harryhausen’s genius for action and anatomy, simmering in an unforgettable Bernard Herrman score (which I highly recommend downloading on its own).

Scott Radke creates beautiful sculptures that take shape into delicate, bizarre and often frightening form.

They offer a darkness. Pretty and sinister. The expressions of his pieces are impactful. Sometimes giving one a feeling of uneasiness as if the piece is alive, then sometimes giving one an urge to protect them. They are helpless and beautiful. They have you under their spell.

Some film makers have brought the creatures to life with stop animation. Check out the Dark Matters project here.

His work is somewhat derivitage of my favourite sculptor Sergio Bustamante. Who’s sculpture of a crocodile on the toilet crying has been my conquest for the last 12 or 15 years. However Scott’s execution is unique and the range of emotion and cloak of mystery his pieces have are truly captivating and unsettling. Our fear of inanimate objects coming to life are burried deep with in them.

Scott’s work was in the recent Alice in Wonderland movie and can be found in this book.

I was a nervous child. My overactive imagination joined with my natural timidity to make an ongoing horror story of my life, thick with evil spirits and malevolent hands reaching out for my fat little feet from under my bed or pouring like smoke out of eerily anthropomorphic cracks in the plaster. I can trace all of these childhood anxieties to one point, one specific Boogieman that lay lurking in the dank swamps of my own brain: The Bunyip. This is his song.
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