Lovecraft's Fear of the Unknown这部纪录片向观众们展示了克苏鲁神话背后的生活、工作和思想。剧本和导演为Frank H. Woodward。制片人为William Janczewski, James B. Myers和Woodward。本片荣获2008年Comic-Con国际独立电影节最佳纪录片奖。
关于克苏鲁神话
克苏鲁神话(Cthulhu Mythos)是以霍华德·菲利普·洛夫克拉夫特的小说世界为基础,由奥古斯特·威廉·德雷斯整理完善、诸多作者共同创造的架空神话体系。克苏鲁并非此架空世界中的主神,虽然它是在地球上很常见的信仰,这些神话的题材可能来自世界各地神话传说的再诠释(如北美传说中的雪怪温迪戈(Wendigo))。只要是接受洛夫克拉夫特小说的概念而衍伸创作的小说都可以纳入此神话的一部分,所以此神话系统至今还在扩展,仍有许多新的创作。
When, at the beginning of Deus Irae, Father Javier stares at a crucifix, his expressions and his hands suggest that the nerves are consuming him. A flashback reveals that this priest devotes his life to visiting families that claim to have seen things that do not belong to this world and cleansing their homes from the demons that try to possess them. But, upon returning to those houses, he notices that the evidence is always destroyed. This way, he discovers that a clan is after him, and must decide whether to hide from them or join them. In times when horror cinema tends to fall into the hands of directors that seek to build narratives that are introspective and close to reality, Pedro Cristiani goes back to old-school horror, where gore and the physical experience are above any other kind of feeling. A cinema that places the camera in front of the faces of the bloodiest demons and, instead of giving logic to them, chooses to face them whatever the cost.
Didier Konings’ simmering mediaeval horror Witte Wieven explores the confluence of religion and patriarchy in an excessively puritanical Dutch village. Blamed by her community for being childless, Frieda immerses herself in prayer and ritual. When she returns unscathed from the forbidden forest surrounding the village, having evaded a lecherous butcher, she is condemned as an agent of the devil. Frieda, however, finds new faith in the dark powers that inhabit the woods.
Shot in a reduced colour palette at the edge of visibility, Konings’ gripping film constructs a convincing pre-modern society whose practices it elucidates with patience and attention. Although set in the Middle Ages, Witte Wieven displays an unmistakably contemporary spirit, crafting a feminist parable about women discovering new ways of understanding their lives and the world.