Clevercell Very disappointing...

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Smoreni Zmaj Imagine that Stephen-King-wanna-be wrote the gay adaptation of Lovecraft and entrusted directing to David-Lynch-wanna-be. If this sounds to you like an interesting concept, make sure to check out "Cthulhu" from 2007. To me, this accomplishment has left the impression of a paranoid schizophrenic trying to meaningfully screen his hallucinations. On the one hand we have a boring, confusing and seemingly pointless story, mediocre acting and characters with whom I could not connect at any level, and when I saw Tori Spelling in one of the roles I was really on the verge of giving up. And yet, on the other hand, we have an interesting camera work and captivating mystical atmosphere that has kept me to finish it. How to evaluate a movie that I barely made to see through (2/10), which at the same time left a quite strong impression (8/10) ...5/10

Tay Berry This has got to be the worst film adaptation i have ever seen. After reading H. P. Lovecrafts "The call of Cthulhu" i got so excited thinking that this was going to actually follow that story. Within the first 15 minutes of the film i was slightly optimistic that it would put aside all of its rubbish and actually improve, but no. What i was then shown were scenes of a man being drugged and raped by a red neck hick who wanted a baby by any means necessary, man on man sex scenes and arguments about a man being gay. The story has just been ruined. Anyone unfamiliar with the original story would have no idea how fantastic it was because, despite the film having a great concept they could have based it off, they just stole characters and perverted it. How much irrelevance, swearing and sex scenes are the audience supposed to sit through?!

Christopher Osburn When I first viewed the film, I was seriously disappointed. It's slow, weird, choppy, inexplicable. Just like a Lovecraft book. (Have you read Lovecraft? Snooze city, seriously!) I would have given this movie a 4.And then . . .Two weeks later, this movie visited my dreams. Associations were formed in my brain. I changed. I would now have given the movie a 6.And I watched the movie again. Now it won't let me go. And once in a while, even these long years later . . . I find myself pulling down the DVD.It's a mistake to judge the movie against any specific Lovecraft book and a mistake to expect a literal interpretation of any book. The film takes an idea and runs with it, it runs, slowly, implacably, and very, very far.And my brain, MY BRAIN, it says GIVE THIS FILM AN 8!

mdelvecchio this was a pretty good version of Shadow Over Innsmouth, right down to several of the same characters from the original, such as a young liquor store clerk. i find it embarrassing that so many fellow Lovecraft fans seem to have sexual hangups, complaining about the gay element of the story. who cares? it completely works for the character and the store (adding to his outsider mentality) and is *not a big deal*. geeze! grow up! the general mood and atmosphere was completely Lovecraftian. uneasiness. not quite seeing things clearly... dread, gloom. these things the film did perfectly.