wing'ed monkeys

[Jared A. Sorensen]

>I've been agreeing with you up to this point, but here I'm going to have to
>disagree.  This is something that I think that Hollywood has for the most part
>forgotten- you DON'T have to show everything.  Lovecraft knew what was up- you
>don't have to describe everything in every little detail- the reader's
>imagination is far more potent a force than all the CGI in the world.

i knew someone would call me on the "the viewer's imagination is more
potent" angle...

eeehhh...i agree with the spirit behind this argument but i just don't think
that it flies with hpl.  you don't set up a horror movie and not
deliver...can you imagine a direct translation of anything he wrote?  ick. 
even re-animator (a movie i did like a lot) shied away from the source
material, using it as a premise and then discarding most of it.

now "the blair witch project" (coming soon i hope or so help me...) or
psycho is definitely "hint, don't show" material that works.  but those
movies (and jacob's ladder, and seven, and alien) are a lot different than
hpl.  maybe it's me, but i think that the old man's too cosmic (one of the
reasons that i never latched onto his stuff) for film.  how can you film
"the unspeakable?"  how can you even imagine it?  it's too abstract. 
everything *around* might contribute to a feeling of terror/dread/shock but
you have to deliver somewhere down the road.  has your gm ever not described
the horror in the dark that just ate your pal charlie?  i dunno...coc has a
huge following, as does lovecraft...maybe i'm wrong...

winged monkeys...now *they* scare me.