The Whisperer in Darkness
The story of 'The Whisperer in Darkness' starts at the hills of Vermont, where a strange creatures appear and many of these bodies' creatures floating on the surface of rivers. Professor Albert William receives many reports about this but he doesn't ratify this story to travel later and investigate the truth of those creatures and find massive numbers of them he can't imagine.
25 November 1961, San Jose, California, USA
8 October 1971, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
20 February 1969, El Paso, Texas, USA
17 October 1980, Middletown, Connecticut, USA
August 22, 2012
The pacing is unbearably slow, and scenes languish for long minutes in dialogue and suspense-free padding. Whale would never have been so wasteful.January 25, 2012
...provides a good reflection of Lovecraft's obsessions while affording contemporary audiences some good old-fashioned midnight movie fun.July 05, 2012
The atmospherics are in place, and the filmmakers catch the essence of Lovecraft's expansive horror with efficiency. The film is entertaining without attaining greatness.August 02, 2012
"Whisperer in Darkness" has a chiller-diller conclusion and some moments of real terror.August 23, 2015
The filmmakers cared about every moody shadow, every slightly stodgy performance, and (of course) the dark, disturbing imagination of H.P. Lovecraft.March 12, 2012
Only a playful horror picture, where Call of Cthulhu was actually a great & largely successful experiment; but it still gets to the heart of why Lovecraft works.April 09, 2015
The effect doesn't quite come off, mainly because the images are too sharp and the editing and camera work too modern. But the movie is endearing anyway for its fanboy ardor.