![]() The cinematography is excellent and I grew more impressed watching the extras. Though the origins of the production sound like someone shouted "hey kids! Let's put on a show!" the final result looks like anything but an amateur construction. She is a solid actress who was able to look realistically terrified without overacting. Usually those type of roles are given to the producer's niece or something in independent projects like this one, and it always shows. Most surprising was Autumn Wendel who plays the young daughter of a man involved with the conspiracy that Wilmark uncovers. ![]() The other performers did their parts well too. It's his acting that makes the movie the success that it is. He was serious and restrained in his performance, and managed to make his character seem like he had just stepped out of the 1920's. Matt Foyer, who plays Wilmark, stole the show with his portrayal of the researcher. A feeling of foreboding permeates the movie, and I'm sure that's exactly what the creators were hoping for. They use glimpses of creatures and shadows until the very end to build the mystery and tension rather than filling the film with quickly forgotten shots of monsters that don't really do anything to advance the story. The film doesn't revolve around the creatures (as Clash of the Titans did) instead it focuses on creating an atmosphere and telling a story. It's clear that the creators knew what made Lovecraft's stories so enduring and they were able to get that eerie feeling up on the screen. Once in Vermont however, he finds things not only stranger than he'd imagined, but stranger than he could imagine. He says that he has valuable information for Wilmark, and that the scholar needs to travel to Vermont, bringing the photos and audio recording with him, and that all will be revealed.Ĭuriosity gets the better part of the professor and he sets off, as instructed. He now doesn't mistrust the mysterious creatures and says that they're just misunderstood. Soon after, Wilmark received a strange letter from Akeley, typed instead of hand-written, where the farmer claims to have had a change of heart. The professor is supposed to meet George at the train station to collect the stone, but he isn't on the train that he was supposed to be on. The old man feels that the black stone has some evil properties and agrees to give it to Wilmark. There are also images of a strange, carved black stone that his father found in the woods and brought back to his house.Įnticed, Wilmark continues corresponding with Akeley. Even more, he has a recording of a ceremony that George claims is linked to a local cult that worships the creatures. One evening Akeley's son, George (Joe Sofranko ) shows up in Arkham with more than just descriptions: he has photographs of the crab claw-like footprints that these strange creatures leave as well as a picture of one that his father had killed. He sends Wilmarth several letters describing the things that he claims are living around his farm. ![]() One such person is Henry Akeley (Barry Lynch), farmer from Townshend, Vermont. He chalks these up to superstition and the local recalling fables they heard as children, but some people insist that these creatures are real. After extensive flooding in Vermont, there have been several reported sighting of strange and unearthly creatures floating in the flood waters. He studies folklore and myths and has recently been embroiled in a controversy. It is a fun and chilling movie that will hold up to repeated viewings.īased on the 1931 short story of the same name, The Whisperer in Darkness is the story of a quite instructor at Miskatonic University in Arkham Massachusetts, Albert Wilmarth (Matt Foyer ). Not the feel you get when you watch one now (and don't get me wrong, many of those old Universal horror films are still great even today) but this movie recreates what it was like to see one of those old creature-feature flicks back when you were 10-years old. Filmed in glorious black and white, this latest adaptation of a Lovecraft story has the feel of a 1930's early talky horror film.
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