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  • @pantherhuntR

    In Call of Cthulhu, the city of R'lyeh (Cthulhu's tomb) rises above the waves for a few days and Cthulhu himself emerges for a mere 15 minutes. In that time, countless people went mad, killed themselves, cults came of the woodwork and pretty much everyone on Earth suffered unspeakable nightmares. He was only driven back under by getting a steamship rammed into his face because he had only woken up. The worst thing? He's not even the most powerful of the Mythos.

  • @binarynightmare Srry im just trying to learn here Mythos?

  • @pantherhuntR

    Mythos is a word usually used to describe a set of stories, characters and worlds and can be applied to anything, really. The Cthulhu Mythos (a term coined by Lovecraft's controversial successor August Derleth) is made up of his various alien races (like the Elder Things and Mi-Go), gods (like Cthulhu and Yog-Sototh), human characters (like Randolph Carter and Richard Pickman) and locations (like Arkham and Innsmouth). People tend to just call it the Mythos, though.

  • @binarynightmare Ok this is all new to me umm is there a book i can read or something?

  • @pantherhuntR

    No real books, as in novels (save for maybe 2), but there are a good few short stories.

  • I think Ichigo Kurosaki from bleach should fight Cthulu

  • @pantherhuntR

    I have absolutely no idea who that is, but I can tell you right here and now that he/she shall lose pitifully. A human (right?) even with some kind of occult superpower, can still only barely escape with their sanity intacy from the mountainous bulk of alien flesh, squirming and reaching tentacles, flabby claws and soul-searing, mind-sahttering form of Cthulhu. Strictly speaking, you can't actually kill this thing, let alone get near it without going insane.

  • @binarynightmare It was just an idea.

  • @pantherhuntR

    There's nothing wrong with that! I'm just saying you can't really go up against Cthulhu and win. Either you ram a steamer into his face while R'lyeh is still on manual and you get killed by his cultists later on, or you go completely insane there and then - or get killed.

  • @binarynightmare Ok no offense but since you seem to know alot about Cthulu where did he come from.

  • @pantherhuntR

    No offense taken! I love telling about the Mythos.

    Cthulhu came from somehwere out in sapce - possibly from another dimension. His (well, It really) origin is never really explored in the stories. All we know is that Cthulhu is ridiculously ancient and far more powerful than any mortal entity. The Elder Things just about managed to lock him in R'lyeh as it sunk beneath the ocean by using their science/magic, but could never kill him.

  • Cthulhu, you are my GOD! :D

  • @ShadowParanoya

    And you shall worship is Dread Highness for all eternity! Iä!

  • Cthulhu isn't a Myth, he's FUCKING FACT!

  • @ShadowParanoya

    Mythos just implies a collection of stories, really. The Cthulhu Mythos are the stories, the creatues, the characters - and if the theory that there is an infinite amount of parallel universes is true, it literally means that everything he wrote about is real, albeit in some other dimension...unless that dimension IS this one.

  • @binarynightmare ive heard that the cthulhu is fucking big! imagine that thing before run for ya lifeeeeeeee!

    

  • @iblisrapper

    Cthulhu is fucking GIANT. A titanic, rotten green horror from the primal universe. Looking at tends to sne dmost people insane because the sheer alien horror!

  • @utahthewatcher

    (cont. from last post)

    The Valusians would make some sense, though, I'll admit. They're snake people right? Well, Ol' Howie Lovecraft did just happen to have a Snake God named Yig, who, if you'll rmemeber, cursed people to turn into snakes or even snake people...children of Yig, perhaps?

  • @utahthewatcher

    Also, The Thing is just another faint nod to HPL with the 'shapeless aliens buried under the ice' idea. John Carpenter is a fan of Lovecraft and his setting is half a nod to Lovecraft, half a nod to the original The Thing.

    Anyway, ATMOM takes place in the 30's, neither happens for another 50+ years. The original Thing From Another World is in the 50's, too.

  • and the thing at 1.26 means.

    in his house in r'lyeh wait, dreaming the dead cthulu

  • @Numira

    'In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming'.

    I never really found the first part of that too threatening. His house? Couldn't have been his tomb or even palace? Nope. His house. Nothing really scary about that.

  • so cool in a word task in school there was a cthulu pic to resize the one at 0.22. he is everywhere

  • @Numira

    What school is this and where do I sign up!? I'm 19 and finished my education, but I don't care!

  • @wowthanduin1

    Damn straight!

  • Now everyone lets not forget who created and imprisoned the great old ones the Elder Gods.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Which of course, if you'll remember, only serves to delay them. They have time on their side. Cthulhu got loose in the 1920's. These gods are called up on a regular basis by their cultists. And Nyarlathotep is loose in his Thousand Forms, walking about mankind and causing madness and suffering at will.

    Anyway, their influence his felt in the dreams of mankind the world over and they are worshipped by countless alien cultures.

    Imprisonment is a mere inconvienence.

  • @binarynightmare however my friend, the only reason the great old ones awaken free to roam the earth and bring woe onto man once more is because the Elder Gods fall into a deepsleep for exsausting there magic to keep the old ones dormant.when they awaken they will destroy the beings who defied them and recreate the hollow universe in there image.

  • @utahthewatcher

    And there lies their flaw - exhaustion! The second anything looks bad, Nyarlathotep will awaken Azathoth and he will in turn devour the universe.

  • @binarynightmare But if this proves anything is that the Elder Gods have the power, and time to enhance that power ,to destroy there ex-servants and avenge those who fell by the old ones.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Ah, but as we've seen, many cultures just fall into decadence or go underground (Nameless City) or are wiped out by thier servants (Elder Things). Anyhow, Cthulhu and his ilk are just freeform consciousness, their bodies formed form matter in thus universe. We've seen firsthand that they can just reform from unjuries (The Call of Cthulhu).

  • @binarynightmare Your statement is overlooking one small detail the most powerful Elder God and cthulhu's own brother Kthanid.As evil as cthulhu is kthanid is good and has every power his brother has combine that with nodens and yad-thadaga and you have the winnig team.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Hold on - what is Kthanid? Is that post-Derleth stuff? Sorry man, I can't stomach Derleth or his successors. Derleth made a joke out of the Mythos, turning from amoral, uncaring yet malignant cosmic horrors into pure evil elementals with all kinds of Greek Pantheon-esque relationships. To me, it humanizes them too much, doesn't make them scary. Applying good and evil to something so utterly alien as Azathoth or Yog-Sothoth is insane.

    Still, if Azathoth wakes up - goodbye reality.

  • @binarynightmare actually he's Brian Lumley's creation.But to the situation at hand I've learned in my many years of searching for this knoweledge that it was the Elder Gods that created and are destined to end the Great old ones,Gods of earth,and outer gods once they awaken for it was them who created the old ones out of the mess of the universe to serve them and build there universe for them.

  • @utahthewatcher

    See, I can't stand that. It's making what should be incomprehensible and absolutely alien far too understandable. What makes the Mythos great is its utter originality. They aren't gods nor devils, but extra-dimensional alien creatures so far beyond the ken of mankind that to know them is to invite madness. Making them good and evil is just wrong in my opinion.

    In HPL's universe, Azathoth is top dog, not even Yog-Sothoth would have a place once Azathoth wakes up.

  • @binarynightmare but HP made four of the elder gods you may recognize there learder as Nodens from the "strange high house in the mist" or "the dream-quest of the unknown kadath" in wihch he acts as the oppisite of Nyalarthotep. And countray to popular belive the Elder Gods don't care any more for humanity as the Old ones do but they do care for vengence.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Off the top of my head I can name Nodens is one of the feeble gods of Earth (even though Nodens has Night-Gaunts). HPL was rather inconsistent when naming his pantheons, there's been Elder Gods, Great Ones, Great Old Ones and Old Ones (I think these are the same), Ancient Ones, Other Gods and Outer Gods (to my knowledge those are Azathoth, Nyarlathotep and Yog-Sothoth). But in Dream-Quest, Nodens didn't do anything, he was just named as master of the Night-Gaunts.

  • @binarynightmare The gods of earth are the Great Ones thats why Nyarlathotep protects them.Nodens hails from the star of Beetaljuice and is the only creature in the universe to defy the horrorable Nyarlarathotep.Some of the Gods of earth even are Great Old Ones such as Tamash god of trickery and illusion.

  • @utahthewatcher

    You see, I never bring up post-1937 creations in a Lovecraft debate becuase it really diluted the whole thing made it less scary and just about big monsters and sorcerery, it became fantasy. HPL's own work and few collaborations were the best, in my opinion, becuase they had thier core that unnerving notion that they didn't care about you and weren't actively out to hurt you. You just happen to be there, so they'll step on you. Derleth changed all that.

  • @binarynightmare ture,true, hay how do you feel about Robert E. Howards help with the Mythos?

  • @utahthewatcher

    I'm more inclined to like that stuff, because like Clark Ashton Smith's stuff, they lived and were created in Lovecraft's lifetime. Things like Tsathoggua, although created by Howard, pops up a good few times, but these were more or less just shout-outs to his friends. The Conan stories have even be recognized as a perihpery to the Cthulhu Mythos. There's some decidedly Lovecraftian creatures in those stories (like Yag-Kosha from The Tower of the Elephant).

  • @binarynightmare Ya thats the best thing about the cthulhu mythos it can be and is in everything.videogames,comics,a­nd movies.

  • @binarynightmare Ya I belive robert gave the best way to describe the cthulhu entities by rounding all the chracters as the nameless gods for the multipuly pantheons to be known as one race.

  • @utahthewatcher

    That's the thing though, he never actually mentions any mythos gods (save for Tsathoggua whom he invented anyway), but the Conan stories are a mythos periphary! I love that! If you looked hard enough I think you'd find subtle references, though. All the weird gods of Stygia and Kush and whatnot are probably mythos gods.

  • @binarynightmare Well I count at least 5 of the mythos monsters he made and he even named a few of them such as Thog from the "slithering shadow" and of course Tsathoggua. Yet he left a few of them unnamed like a moth like entity in one of his stories he left unfinished. But the best is how he hintted at The dieitie known as Father Set may be one of the Great Old Ones.

  • @utahthewatcher

    At least! A weird one hwoeve,r that doesn't fit too well into any Mythos deities is Yag-Kosha from The Tower of the Elephant. He was in some way benevolent, although he was mor or less powerless. I think he was just an alien, though, not a god. I still have to finish the last few of Howard's stories.

  • @binarynightmare Yag-kosha dose show that there is good in the race of the Great Old Ones or either he helped conan kill yara only because he wanted revenge on the wizard.Either way he won in the end.

  • @utahthewatcher

    I think Yag-Kosha was just an alien though, because how would a puny human ever imprison, disable and torture a Great Old One!? Yeah, the Elder Things imprisoned Cthulhu, but they were ancient super-scientists. Yag's kind were worshipped as gods, though...but that might've just been theur egos.

    I think Yag-Kosha needed Conan to help him get his final revenge. Bit of there's a candidate for a benign Great Old One, it's Yag-Kosha.

  • @binarynightmare Well my memory is a bit foggy but I belive Yag-Kosha used the wizard as a student to teach his magic to. Then he was betrade by that Mad wizard.

  • @utahthewatcher

    He did indeed, but as Yag-Kosha said, he didn't teach him all of his secrets. I still Yag-Kosha might have been just an alien, not a Great Old One, because they tend yto cayuse severe insanity in people who see them. Also, the whole city would be having nightmares, as would have Conan in the time he spent there.

  • @binarynightmare Well conan see's beings like the great old ones everyday he even faught one named thog in "the Silithirng Shadow" to a stand still until thog ran away and a fanged ape in "The Pheniox on the sword" was slain by conan and said to be one of "The Nameless Old Ones". Perhaps primitive man in that universe had not yet gained the sanity needed to be driven mad.

  • @utahthewatcher

    I think Thog was in 'Rogues in the House', wasn't he? The ape in the red cloak?

    There was a shadow creature in 'The Slithering Shadow' that Conan fought. I think a fair few of Howard's titles, like Nameless Old Ones, might've been a shout-out to his friend Lovecraft, although they were sort of melded together afterwards, and I think a lot of the monsters in the Hyborian Age are remnants of primal earth, like the 'dragon' that read more or less like a dinosaur in Red Nails.

  • @binarynightmare No thog was more of a slug monster with tentecals. dispite being an old one he fought conan to a stand still and ran away but if it wasn't for that enchanted water conan may have shared the same fate as thog.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Oh yeah! You're right. The ape was Thak or something along those lines, I can't quite remember. But the more I think about it, the more I'm inclined to think Thog was perhaps a Spawn of K'n-yan. Not quite a Shoggoth, because he's not described as having lots of eyes or mouths nor was he 15 feet long.

  • @binarynightmare He sounds a littel like a relitive of Glaaki or one of the slug monsters who reside in the dark. However I'm not sure who came first in the mythos.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Glaaki was post 1937. Wikipedia says it first appeared in 1964 in 'The Inhabitant of the Lake' and was created by Ramsey Campbell.

    I'll have too look for the description of Thog again.

    I actually a conversatin with a few people like this on the trailer for the unreleased Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth sequel, Destiny's End. We were trying to indentify the creatures in the video - I even e-mailed Bethesda about it.

  • @binarynightmare I was too young to of got the first one but this new cthulhu game shall be mine. Also Have you herd of that new video game being made by Guillemo Del Toro schedueled for 2013 called Insane? It looks lovecraftian as well.

  • @utahthewatcher

    They cancelled 'Destiny's End', unfortunately. 'Dark Corners of the Earth was good', a kind of first person stealth game with some action elements, it's quite good but ridiculously hard in some areas.

    I've only heard vague rumours of it, not much else. I think I saw a teaser trailer somewhere. Knowing Guillermo, it'll be incredible!

  • @binarynightmare I belife with Guillermo making this game and the "At the Mountains of Madness" movie and some comic book writer adapting 4 of H.P.L stories, Cthulhu will reach a new rank of popularity and be more well known around the world.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Sorry for the late reply!

    Guillermo hasn't made a thing I haven't liked so far.

    I know of the graphic novel adaptation of 'At the Mountains of Madness' by I.N.J. Culbard, it's incredible. The animation isn't what I was expecting, but it's really good.

    To be honest, I'd hate to see some hipster walking around wearing a Cthulhu shirt because it's 'ironic'. But I'd like to see some recognition for HPL himself, for his contribution to literature, he's looked down upon a lot.

  • @binarynightmare Ya the posers will rise when cthulhu becomes famous just like with lord of the rings and twilight. But back to Guillermo made Hellboy and the golden army into a movie.

    P.S. Golden army had the Elder Things have little cameos in it.

  • @utahthewatcher

    That'll be a sad day...but yes, Guillermo! I really liked Golden Amry, very colourful, but didn't feel very Hellboyish. The first film is one of my favourites, because not only is it much closer in feel to the comics, but it has a crapload of Lovecraftian imagery. The opening quote of the movie even references Des Vermis Mysteriis (even though that was Robert Bloch). Mike Mignola said Lovecraft was a big influence on Hellboy. The Ogdru Jahad are just like Great Old Ones.

  • @binarynightmare There was one 2-part comic crossover with batman,hellboy, and star man fighting a being that resembles cthulhu. Star man even say's it's something out of a lovecraft story and helboy say's lovecraft was inspiered by true events.Approperate for hellboy and batman but i do not know of this Star man vvery well.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Woah, really? What's it called?

    Hellboy has so much Lovecraft stuff in it crossed with folklore, I love it. Batman, not so much (except for Arkham Asylum of course).

  • @binarynightmare It's called "Batman/Hellboy/Starman". It is interasting about how much stuff cthulhu is in and yet remains almost unknown to the world.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Why have I never heard of this!? I should really look out for it. Batman? Awesome. Cthulhu? Awesome. Starman? Sure, why not?

    Cthulhu is almost popular culture, his name is like a byword for evil! It's crazy and kind of sad that he's not as well known. Lovecraft did so much for modern literature, but he's overlooked or looked down on as a hack pulp writer. It's a real shame.

  • @binarynightmare Like sure Lord of the rings and Tarzan are Idolized know days but cthulhu and conan get very little acknowledgment for today.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Especially Conan. Yeah, there's been a few terrible games and three movies, although the only good one if the 1980's Conan the Barbarian. There were some very good comic book adaptations of Conan, but all in all, he's nowhere near as big as I would expect. There's been countless imitations, though.

    The ATMOM movie would have given HPL some huge recognition, I think, and it's a shame the studio freaked out and dropped the film, because Guillermo would have done it perfectly.

  • @binarynightmare Well actually thanks to James Cameron vulonterring to produce the film, oddly enough, Guillermo is taking the project again and is talking about having Tom Cruise for the lead role which means alot of running from Elder Things and Shoggoths.

  • @utahthewatcher

    That's what was going on, yeah. Tom Cruise was supposed to be in it at first. I can kind of see him in it, actually.

    I was really wary to hear James Cameron was producing because I knew he'd somehow screw it up. He didn't evne get a chance... I know that Guillermo said it was still on his plate, but wouldn't be going anywhere for a good while, which is a shame.

    Funny, no Elder Things really show up in the story, like face to face with Dyer and Danforth. Dead ones, yes.

  • @binarynightmare Ya the way I see James messing it up would be either preaching his political or religous views or either having it drag on for 3 hours. The other guys are alright in my book.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Oh, I don't mind 3 hours - it's 3 hour sof delicious Lovecraftian horror - but you're right. Hell, Avatar was just one giant political rant (or some I'm led to believe).

    Guillermo can't really do any wrong in my opinion, and although Tom Cruise fills me with loathing and his part of an insane cult, he is good to his fans and contrary to popular belief, he's not a crap actor.

  • @binarynightmare They need to make some notable refrence to other works of lovecraft and friends. A good refrence to Conan,Evil Dead, and some other third thing. point is they have an excellent way to make some great shout outs to great works of the master of cosmic horrors.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Evil Dead isn't particularly Lovecraftian. For one thing, Sam Raimi only used the name Necronomicon because it sounds evil, and secondly, it all involves demons, when the Mythos is all about de-mythologizing, making your demons totally non-supernatural and tangible.

    I'd prefer they didn't make random shout-outs to other HPL stories, let alone completely different authors. I'd prefer ATMOM to be a straight-up adaptation, it doesn't need anything more, it's perfect they way it is.

  • @binarynightmare Yes but a good refrence to something like the Serpent men of Valusia or Conan would be a crowd pleaser and allow them to have an excuse to make more movies. Ya know gives you more bank for your buck.

  • @utahthewatcher

    In a way, yeah, but then again, how would Conan fit into ATMOM? The Elder Things were all dead/frozen/exiled way before mankind rose up. I can see a quick reference to the Serpetn Men, though.

  • @binarynightmare Well they could mention "Father Set" the serpent god and Crom the cheif of the Cimmerian Gods.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Well, I suppose so. It doesn't reall fit in anywhere, though. There's never a mention of anything really like that in ATMOM. Though I suppose if Guillermo is directing, he through in a few other things.

  • @binarynightmare Then they can refrence stuff inspiered by ATMOM like "Aliens VS Predator" and "The Thing".

  • @utahthewatcher

    NOPE - I flat out disagree with that! Neither films takes place in the Lovecraft universe, for one. Whereas I enjoyed AVP because it was dumb sci-fi fun (and Aliens are one of my favourite movie monsters), there is no way in Hell should they reference AVP. If anything, AVP references Lovecraft with the whole 'ancient city under the ice' thing. Plus, it's a completely different franchise. Valusians and Set, sure - but Xenos and Predators? That wouldn't make any sense!

  • @binarynightmare On the contrary my friend The predators refered to the xenos as Serpents. And lets not forget that Jhon Carpentor's "The Thing" was apart of his apocolaypes trilogy which ends with "In the Mouth of Madness" and the thing from another world was based off of Joseph Campbell's novella "Who goes There" and Joseph himself wrote additions to the cthulhu mythos aswell.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Calling Xenos Serpents I'd imagine is what the Predator name translates to in English.

    Thing is part of the Apocalypse Trilogy, both are just too weak a link to ATMOM. They shouldn't need to add in references from completely unrelated franchises to make it interesting. There's already so much going on in that story.

    And are you sure it's not Ramsey Campbell? Who Goes There was written in 1938 by John W. Campbell and Wikipedia doesn't mention anything about him writing Mythos.

  • @binarynightmare Hmm? must be a case of mistaken identity all I remembered was a Campbell. sorry for the delyed response. But I still think it would be a great "thanks" to those few who have truly refrenced the Cthulhu Mythos without messing it up. Those guys deserve at least that much.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Ah, no problem.

    I was thinking about it, to be honest. I wouldn't mind them referencing Valusians, they could at least tie in somehwere (John Coulthary mentions them in his graphic novel adaptation of Call of Cthulhu). AvP just wouldn't make sense to me.

    But neither The Thing or AvP are Mythos related. The Thing has a few themes, but isn't tied into it, and AvP is its own Mythos, and is far more sci-fi than horror.

  • @binarynightmare You mean to tell me theres a graphic novel adaption of the greatest Cosmic Horror book ever? How come no one tells me about this stuff? But anyways ya as long they can make refrence to The big bad Valusians or other great tie inns then I'd be one happy Lovecraftian fan.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Yeah! John Coulthart adapted The Call of Cthulhu, The Haunte rof the Dark and The Dunwich Horror (sort of). It's a fantastic collection, the art is beautiful; pencil drawn with intricate detail. They really do justice to the stories! There's also a few Lord Horror pieces in it, too, which is a creation of Coulthart's. It's really dark and twisted, and not Tim Burton or Guillermo del Toro dark and twisted - he reinvents Auschwitz to look like R'lyeh.

    (cont.)

  • @binarynightmare Why dosen't anyone ever tell me about these things? I mean the only way to ever find stuff half that good is to go on to the internet they don't advertise anything anymore. Hopefully the Movie can be advertised better.

  • @utahthewatcher

    I know, I know. I tend to hear about most things on the Internet nowadays, too.

    The ATMOM movie? If they ever get around to making it. Guillermo says it's still on his plate, but nor a good long while.

  • @binarynightmare Well Guillermo dose at least have a cthulhu video game schedueld for 2013 called "Insane" and it looks epic. You can find a trailer on youtube.

  • @utahthewatcher

    I have to watch the trailer again, but from the simple fact that it's Guillermo, it'll be awesome. He has yet to be involved with something I don't like.

  • @binarynightmare Well i kind of did not care for "Don't be afraid of the dark" but it was good enough to watch and to enjoy. I'm not saying that it was bad just that I didn't like the kid and dad in that movie.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Yeah, it was good - very enjoyable, but not groundbreaking. It was a remake of a 1970's tv movie that scared him as a child, I believe.

    I didn't like the dad, but I thought the kid was a great actress, leagues beyond most child actors I've seen.

  • @binarynightmare Ya i just did not like how they handled the situation at hand and the end the only person with brains dies and they over looked the fact that they had a great size and weghit advantage over the tooth fairies.

  • @utahthewatcher

    In a way you're right. I didn't like that fact the faeries (the creatures in the film were actually called Homunculi, apparently - thank you TvTropes) were so small, I didn't feel threat from them. All you really need is a phone book or a shovel - or Hell, a lantern! - and you could take a good few out. If they were larger, maybe about as big as the kid, then yeah, but they were kind of crap.

  • @binarynightmare Ya I hope Del toro make the Elder Things and Shoggoths more of a threat in ATMOM and Yog-Sothoth a small cameo he deserves at the end.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Apparently he and his team actually maquettes made for both creatures during pre-production, a good while beofre it fell through. And there's the Elder Thing cameos in Hellboy 2, in the Troll Market.

    Yog-Sothoth? You mean the thing at the end that drives Danforth insane? I always thought that was Kadath or Leng!

  • @binarynightmare Ya wikipedia said it was either Cthulhu or Yog-sothoth but that dose kind of controdict there bios but eventually all of the guys look a like so it is hard to say.

    I found the elder things twice in the troll market, once at the beging and i forget the third but needless to say that Del Toro dose have the design right but still have not seen a Shoggoth in any of his movies yet.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Elder Things twice? I'm gonna have to watch that movie again, I want to see that!

    I don't know if we'll see a shoggoth soon, because, as far as I know, most of his upcoming projects don't allow for them (Frankenstein and The Haunted Manison), and they're ridiculously huge and constantly shifting. I'd imagine a shoggoth would be difficult to animate!

  • @binarynightmare He's remaking frankenstien , I suppose someone has to with all the Vampires and Werewolfs being mutilatied by the posers. Hopefullly when Cthulhu becomes more famous no one decides to make him a teen icon for individuality.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Yeah, I'm not sure about it - I mean, it's been done to death. I hope he does the whole story, because Mary Shelley's novel had the Bride in it, and had Frankenstein hunting the monster in Antarctica! If he adapted the whole thing, it'd be amazing.

    I'm really torn between Lovecraft getting more recognition. I'd love to see him get it - he really deserves it - but as you have said, I wouldn't want him becoming some sort of hipster icon.

  • @binarynightmare Now they have a new board game, from the creators of Arkham Horror comes Elder Signs. This should keep true fans patient until a movie or videogame can do Lovecraft justice.

  • @utahthewatcher

    A new boardgame? Awesome. I've only ever played Arkham Horror once, and that was at a sci-fi convention. From what I remember, it was great fun. It's too damn pricey, though - and I'm pretty much Irelands only Lovecraft fan, so there's no one to play it with.

  • @utahthewatcher

    (sorry for the two replies, I forgot to add this in the first response)

    And you're right - no film so far, save for 2005's black and white silent Call of Cthulhu adaptation (made for cheap by fans, so they're excused for any dodgy effects), which did it well. I thought their Cthulhu was pretty weak though, and the acting didn't feel 1920's, they used modern acting methods for a film that was supposed feel old.

  • @binarynightmare Ya it's like 37$ for a quick game honestly I'll stick to the books,movies, and video games ya know stuff that dosen't take 8 people to play.

  • @utahthewatcher

    $37? Damn! Yeah, I'll stick to the books, too! As for video game,s the only worthwhile one (on consoles at least) is Dark Corners of the Earth. There's a few Lovecraftian (Lovecraftian, as in more like Derleth than Lovecraft) games on the PC, from what I've seen. A friend told me Amnesia is pretty Lovecraftian, what with the vague glimpses of horrors and helplessness. I've yet to play it, but it looks awesome.

  • @binarynightmare Well the 2010 game Splatterhouse, while a fighter, had the "many angeld ones" and professor west, who used the necronomicon at the Mskatonic University to summon them in the game. And deminsion hopping is a major part of the story.

  • @utahthewatcher

    Splatterhouse? Really? Man, I have wanted to play that game for ages, I didn't know it had any Lovecraftian references. I want it more, now. Many Angled Ones? How much more Lovecraftian can you get!?

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  • This monster is gayy. Those who call their self gods, are wanna be.

  • @Fabio212817

    THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A MAN WHO DID NOT DO THE RESEARCH.

    Fabio, sir, the creatures in the Mythos aren't gods, nor do they call themselves gods. Man calls them so, because they are so powerful and totally alien we mistook them for gods.

    Also, their creator, H.P. Lovecraft, created them, essentially, as a parody of organized religion. Instead of a benevolent, merciful all powerful creator in God or Allah, we get a seething mindless vortex of alien chaos in Azathoth.

  • @binarynightmare They aren't powerful. They just got good skin to protect them for rockets launchers and stuff lol.

  • @Fabio212817

    When R'lyeh rose from the Pacific Ocean, thousands of people were plagued with nightmares, went insane and killed themselves. Ghatanothoa mummifies people with it's stare. Simply saying the name Hastur aloud is enough to summon it and kill you. Yog-Sothoth IS time and space. Azathoth dreamed the universe into existence. Simply looking at most of them is enough to drive you insane.

    They aren't made of flesh, they're made of a differnet kind of matter that can reform at will.

  • 0:59 HIS NOODELY APPENDAGE!

  • @VanKlaunch

    Fhtagn Ramen!

  • is this music from The Library? The same fucking library that I struggled to complete for 1 month?!?

  • @thamastachief

    Hehe, I'm not sure if it was used in that level, I always remembered it from the '343 Guilty Spark' level where you first meet the Flood in that little room.

    And that was an absolute bastard of a level.

  • chuck norris could kick this things ass

  • @dilanrivera360

    BITCH PLEASE.

    Chuck Norris IS one of these things. Chuck is in fact one the various forms of Nyarlathotep.

  • @binarynightmare hahaha. cthulhu will always just be calamari to chuck

  • @dilanrivera360

    Stay your tongue, mortal! Do not anger the god of tentacle hentai!

  • @dilanrivera360 actually this is chuck norrises pet

  • wheres the coon?

  • @BullTaurenz

    Bah! Eric Cartman is but a pawn in an almighty and terrible cosmic game of chess between Great Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos of a Thousand Forms! Because, let's face it, untold eons of dreaming in R'lyeh must get boring. Influencing the minds animated children is far more interesting to timeless alien gods.

  • @dtrmn2wn

    Are you still here? Go away. Nobody likes you. We've ascertaind your problem - you're a very, very stupid racist. Go fix that and come back when you're not a 'retardo'.

  • @binarynightmare no no no he's just afraid of cthulhu (sry if misspelled) so he trolls those who thinkn cthulhlu as just an intersting concept and fun idea. so ignore him

  • @evilfrogstudios

    Oh, I do now. I couldn't tell if he was trolling or just very stupid.

  • @binarynightmare How is he racist?

    Stating that he hopes to see your flesh get ripped to shreds by cthulu as he devours your soul is NOT racism.

  • @XxDyiingBlackRosexX

    You mean the comment by Shadow7787? No, I was calling dtrmn2wn racist, because, well, he is. The whole 'conversation' can be found if you have a look through some of the older comments. My comment and Shadow7787's just happened to be in the same section, but both are directed at dtrmn2wn. YouTube has been messing around with the locations of names in comments lately, it might've looked that way.

  • @dtrmn2wn When Cthulhu comes, I hope I see your flesh become mangled and torn into bits as he devours your soul. Please refrain from dying until then.

  • Nice Halo soundtrack

  • @Utubepooperful

    I know, I know. It's all I really had laying around att he time of making the video...that was about 3 year ago. I have a lot of better stuff now, though.

  • I bought the complete fiction by H.P. Lovecraft. It's amazing.

  • @TheNightsMoon

    Hold the phone - there's a complete collection? Like, every single little thing? Even the pointless stuff he wrote before 1908?

    And damn straight it's amazing - it's H.P. Lovecraft.

  • @binarynightmare yes. i believe nightsmoon is talking about the large barnse and noble exclusive book? if not, its what i got. every story he ever published yes

  • @dtrmn2wn

    There you go! You've finally admitted your're a bigot. I'm glad we made this breakthrough. Cracker language...yeah, you're still speaking and spelling it (sort of). Guess that makes you a retard!

    And calling me a faggot? Really? Had to resort to insulting me sexually?

    Tell you what, I'm actually sick of you, so how about I just block you now? That probably makes me look like a pussy in your ignorant eyes, but it's not fun anymore seeing as you can't make a logical argument.

  • retards are u n your recessive gene kind. a freak of nature. like we suppose to unite with a disease. the cancer of the earth. no. u divide us n we have found strenght in dat division. u must think i am going to defend myself on how u see shit. but u don't mean shit so u calling me prejudice is of no consequence. n to be a cracker u stumbling over your own cracker language. retard.

  • @dtrmn2wn

    You're still doing it! You call all whites a disease, a cancer, ergo, IT IS YOU WHO ARE prejudiced AND racist. Give up, fuckhead. I've beaten you. You're an ignorant idiot who's too stubborn to admit he's wrong. Not all white people are radical fascists like you yourself. I know a lot of it is that stupid 'bro' shit that's become a stereotype, but there's still that element of ignorance.

    And, heh, I'm stumbling over my own language? You can't even spell strength right, dumbass.

  • @dtrmn2wn Do you have too much freetime or poor relationship? If you do... fix them and then if you still got time, oh do come here and bark to the people. Every people, no matter where are they from, what language they speak, what is their skin colour or what they do for their living.

  • @dtrmn2wn

    And I can barely understand you, I have to decipher your text because I'm not some semi-illiterate fuck. Also, my patience wth you is really starting to wear thin. Why not just fuck off instead of hocking your ignorance around here? If you're prepared to stop the retarded racist slurs and perhaps try to be creative on the comments section, I'll call this quits. If not, I'll just block and report you to somebody because I'm well and truly sick of you.

  • ok shithulhu turder, i didn't divide humanity your white albino cave dwellers did. fascism was father by your kind. n since shithulhu's time is up, u have no authority of definition much less wat is considered proper communication or wat is phonetically correct.. u r makin out wat i am saying just fine. dat is y u responding

  • @dtrmn2wn

    You're still doing it, retard. When you divide blacks and whites (the so-called white albino cave dwellers) it makes you a prejudiced fuck by insulting whites like you've been doing. You are ignorant and scared of what you have been taught to be evil. Why not have an original thought instead of jumping on the 'all whites are evil' bandwagon, hmm? You're coming off worse here, I'm just trying to make sense of your bullshit.

  • your section, albino, is in da caves of europe warming up from da steam of your own shit..

  • @dtrmn2wn

    My section? You do realise that by your divising of humanity into 'sections', it makes you as bad as any fascist. A human being is a human being and you are an ingorant, worthless sack of shit who'll get himself killed going on that way. And why do you assume I'm 'albinio', let alone white? Why trust anything I say?

    And please try to use proper communicative skills instead of phoentically spelled bullshit. I can barely make out what you're trying to say.

  • y come here an insult the cracker shit? becaz i want to n i can do dat.. go suck your mother disease pussy. don't insult Shithulhu dude. lmao.

  • @dtrmn2wn

    Nobody gives a flying fuck what you think or what you think you can you can do, you're only creating trouble. Fuck off instead of wasting my time. If I were to use a racila slur, I know you would have a hypocritical shit fit. You clearly think your better than everyone else because of your skin colour or because of some ingrained feeling of self-worthlessness.

    Get off my comments section.

  • bunch of cracker garbage

  • @dtrmn2wn

    You some kind of retard, son? Kindly fuck off and get a life, you dumb shit. Why even come here to insult the video? Have nothing better to do with your sorry excuse for a life?

    And don't start with the racial slurs you stupid cunt.

  • fucking like half of these are not even of Cthulhu. A whole lot of them are of Azathoth, the Blind Idiot, you blind idiot.

  • @ALLFUCKINGDAYLONG

    If you actually read the title of the video, it says 'Cthulhu Mythos'. If you know your shit - which you clearly don't - the name encompasses THE WHOLE pantheon of gods.

    Do some research before you try to insult somebody, fucktard.

  • @binarynightmare

    Owned, but fuck you dearly even still.

    No, but in all seriousness, you win, I concede. I have much to learn of the Lovecraft's Nerconomicon.

    tousche, you prince of knowledge. you duke of enlightenment.

  • @ALLFUCKINGDAYLONG

    Not too sure if that was sacastic or not. I don't really care, but stop spamming my video.

  • @binarynightmare not sarcastic. don't know how i posted it that many times. also goodbye

  • I really hope someone makes a real Cthulhu movie soon, and I mean real soon.

  • @vgmaster9

    Not gonna happen. The production company behind At the Mountains of Madness pulled out THE DAY BEFORE SHOOTING BEGAN. Lovecraft is too hard to adapt to the big screen. Studios hate that there's near to no female characters, happy endings or romances. And it's not just Hollywood, every studio knows what types of film work, and HPLs material can't make them. Sure, there's already a vast HPL and horror fanbase which guarantees a certain amount of comeback, but it's not enough for them.

  • @binarynightmare People also thought that the LoTR trilogy was impossible to make, but PJ did so well with that. As for a movie with no female characters, John Carpenter's The Thing did quite well actually.

  • @vgmaster9

    You know they cut and changed a lot of stuff in LotR, right? Most movies these days must have a female character in them, no sexism implied. AtMoM was a big budget R-rated horror film - $150 million I believe. These virtually don't exist. I imagine they took out the whole backstory for the Elder Things and Shoggoths. With all the source material intact, it would have been 3 hours long. Too long for a horror. You'd get the barest bones of the story and that wouldn't have been right.

  • Heh, I knew it was from halo. Sweet.

  • nice choice of music brilliant

  • @Muskokona

    Thank you! Although I have much better music nowadays. I'd love to put in some Lustmord or something instead.

  • K, who and what is cthulu?