This is not an Oscar nominee. It was the disc I already had at home when the nominations were announced. An unnamed narrator (Matt Foyer) recounts how he became an unwitting chronicler of the actions of a cult designed to raise one of the Elder Gods from his sleep in 1925.
This is actually kind of a brilliant film. It's presented as having been made in 1925, so it's silent and black and white with some very nice Expressionist-inspired backdrops. It gets very hard to tell that this was actually made in 2005. It was obviously a labor of love for the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. I'm not personally big on Lovecraft; I find him a bit overwrought. I can't fault this production in any way, however.
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