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Cthulhu at the mountains of madness
Cthulhu at the mountains of madness












cthulhu at the mountains of madness

we had Tom Cruise and we thought we were gonna get it made and we didn't, it didn't happen. We had James Cameron as a co-producer with me. Making a horror film that relies so heavily on the right atmosphere is a difficult feat, and Guillermo del Toro could not ultimately bring the project to fruition despite coming close a few times. The writer relied on scaring readers by creating an atmosphere of madness and paranoia with his words, where the dangers are never given a definite shape, but stray somewhere around the edges of the reader's psyche, making the undefined cosmic horrors hinted at through the stories seem all the more dreadful. Despite being considered by many to be the greatest horror writer of all time, Lovecraft's books are notoriously difficult to adapt to a visual medium.














Cthulhu at the mountains of madness