I’ve been meaning to mention this for a bit. THE CALL OF CTHULHU / THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS are the HPL Historical Society’s forays into filmmaking, and both are excellent reproductions of Lovecraft’s stories (people seem to like the first one better*, but I enjoy them both). Tubi has them up for free, but you’ll have to deal with ads. Such is life.
Moe Lane
PS: One of the conceits of the productions is that they are filmed as if they came out the same time as the stories were written. That’s why CoC (1926) was done as a silent film (which had the happy result of making it actually filmable**), and WiD (1930/1931) is more of a classic Thirties monster film. Check them out!
*Probably because the WiD movie had to add stuff to make it into a full-length film. They didn’t butcher the story, mind you, and the HPLHS has to do this for their*** DARTs anyway.
**Filming literally indescribable things is probably always going to be beyond the reach of special effects, so the deliberately retro style undoubtedly helps.
***Technically it’s our DARTs, since I’m a proud lifetime member of the Society. However, I had nothing to do with any of the productions, so it feels weird to write that.