Is this how it ends? After months of toil, blood, sweat, and sacrifice Casting Call of Cthulhu is finished and ready for human consumption. In the bowels of Alter Ego we tracked the last super, synced the last sound, and restriped. My God, what have we done!
The Casting Call of Cthulhu is cursed to have so many talented and evil individuals disassociated with our doomed offering. And it is time again to scrawl yet another name in the Productionomicon. It is our great displeasure to welcome Alter Ego. This Toronto-based post-production facility have already coloured and transferred our tainted stock and added a level of artistry our inbred-minds could have never anticipated. The film look is professional – if only we had a script to match. Alter Ego will continue their contribution with their Flame Artists removing the unsightly seams, strings, and foul-ups, basically the bits that bind us to reality, and adding our titles, glows, shapes in shadows, and another head to an actor’s body. This is no line of work for any God-fearing soul – brace yourselves.
Many are the secrets the darkness conceals and in darkness dwells the editor; lurking in shadow, behind the scenes, out of the audience’s sightline. The supreme irony being that editing is often the most important part of the process. The editor has ultimate control over how we see a scene and can often alter the fate of a film entirely. We have placed this ultimate power in the hands of Geoff Ashenhurst and the fine folks at Stealing Time. Geoff is a consummate professional with idealistic values and unreasonable goals making him a perfect fit for the project. Coincidently he is also the leader of his local Cult of Cthulhu, so he’s got that going for him.
Iä! What was spoken of in dark circles and forbidden places is now manifest! Bad Advice for Good Times is officially making a short film inspired by the loose interpretations of the parodies of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The story takes place during a casting session for a film based on the work of the bard from beyond. The director, mildly familiar with themes of weird fiction, works his way through a series of minor monsters auditioning for the role of the big Cthuna. The session reaches the peak of cosmic horror when an actual Old One shows up and blows the room away, literally. Prepare to laugh with terror.
