#THE WHISPERER IN DARKNES FILM 2007 MOVIE#

Pasadena City College is used for interior scenes of the school. The filmmakers used Mount Holyoke College to represent Miskatonic University. Regarding the introduction of a biplane, Leman commented, 'If you have monsters that fly, you have to have a dogfight with a biplane.' Cast The characters of Wilmarth's three friends at Miskatonic University were developed from Call of Cthulhu role-playing characters created years before by Branney, Leman, and a friend. Branney and Leman intended to make Wilmarth's world 'more emotionally complicated' because Hannah's future caused him to be 'invested in more than just himself'. The character of Hannah and opening of gate to Yuggoth were introduced in order to ' a good movie'.

#THE WHISPERER IN DARKNES FILM 2007 MOVIE#

From a dramatic standpoint, Lovecraft's story brought the writers through what would be 'Act Two' of a standard movie structure and felt incomplete. This differs from the original story in which Wilmarth flees in the middle of the night and safely returns to Arkham.Īccording to Sean Branney on the making-of featurette 'The Whisperer Behind the Scenes,' Lovecraft was better at set-ups than endings. His escape is unsuccessful and at the end of the film the audience discovers that Wilmarth has been narrating from a machine attached to the cylinder in which his brain now resides. He foils the plot with the help of Hannah, the child of one of the collaborators. The third act consists of entirely new material in which the Mi-Go are revealed to worship Shub-Niggurath, and the protagonist, Wilmarth, uncovers an attempt by cultists to open a gateway between Yuggoth and Earth. Plotįor the first two acts, the plot largely follows the short story. According to the film's website, the filmmakers intended to capture the look of 'classic horror films of the 1930s like Dracula, Frankenstein and King Kong'.

Lovecraft short story of the same name, it was shot using Mythoscope, a blend of vintage and modern filming techniques intended to produce the look of a 1930s-era film. The Whisperer in Darkness is a 2011 independent horror film directed and produced by Sean Branney, Andrew Leman, and David Robertson and distributed by the H.P. Sean Branney Andrew Leman David Robertson

The whisperer in darknes film 2007