{"id":8578,"date":"2010-09-26T17:48:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T06:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=8578"},"modified":"2010-09-26T17:48:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T06:48:03","slug":"weekend-fright-flick-terror-from-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/26\/weekend-fright-flick-terror-from-the-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Fright Flick: Terror From the Abyss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Guillermo Del Toro heads into his much-anticipated production of H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s longest mythos story, <em>At the Mountains of Madness<\/em>, Undead Backbrain presents a much shorter, much cheaper version of the same tale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tfta_header2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8586 aligncenter\" title=\"tfta_header2\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tfta_header2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tfta_header2.jpg 893w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/tfta_header2-300x87.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This one comes courtesy of Daniel Lenne\u00e9r, who previously brought you the Jules Verne pastiche, <em>V\u00e5gbrytare<\/em> [aka \u201cThe Wavebreakers\u201d] (Sweden-2009; short [14:30 min.]) &#8212; see <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/24\/wavebreaking-with-jules-verne-in-sweden\/\" target=\"_blank\">this Backbrain article<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p>The new film&#8217;s called <em><strong>Terror from the Abyss<\/strong><\/em> [aka <em>Fasan Fr\u00e5n Avgrunden<\/em>] and is 11:56 min. in length, filmed in black-and-white in the style of a silent film of the &#8217;20s. This particular retro approach to Lovecraftian filmaking was popularised by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society&#8217;s <em>The Call of Cthulhu<\/em> (US-2005; dir. Andrew Leman) &#8212; and it works here, too. <em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Terror from the Abyss<\/em> is more light-hearted and somewhat tongue-in-cheek, filled with cute animated Elder Beings and Shoggoths, but the ending in particular is a doozy. Richard Svensson (&#8220;The Lone Animator&#8221;) is responsible for the &#8220;blasphemous&#8221; claymation and Stefan Harrysson for transfforming the footage into a 1920s silent film style using &#8220;glorious&#8221; post-production techniques. It stars Lenne\u00e9r and his oft-collaborator Christopher Johansson.<\/p>\n<p>Says Lenne\u00e9r: &#8220;To bring life to Lovecraft&#8217;s strange visions, the film uses mixed techniques like green screen compositing, cut-outs, and clay animation. The production took place in Sweden during 2009-2010.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"475\" height=\"292\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nlXOHl55nRU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"475\" height=\"292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nlXOHl55nRU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0x5d1719&amp;color2=0xcd311b\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Images:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/flight.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8581\" title=\"flight\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/flight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/flight.jpg 672w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/flight-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gs003.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8583\" title=\"gs003\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gs003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gs003.jpg 657w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gs003-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 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srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gs001.jpg 657w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/gs001-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/camp1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8580\" title=\"camp1\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/camp1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/camp1.jpg 713w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/camp1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/straffet.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8585\" title=\"straffet\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/straffet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/straffet.jpg 672w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/straffet-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shoggoth_riot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8584\" title=\"shoggoth_riot\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shoggoth_riot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"478\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shoggoth_riot.jpg 672w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/shoggoth_riot-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 478px) 100vw, 478px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lenneer.se\/\" target=\"_blank\">Leneer&#8217;s website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/millroad.lenneer.se\/\" target=\"_blank\">Millroad Production&#8217;s website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Research: Avery Guerra\u00a0 |\u00a0 Written by Robert Hood<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Guillermo Del Toro heads into his much-anticipated production of H.P. Lovecraft&#8217;s longest mythos story, At the Mountains of Madness, Undead Backbrain presents a much shorter, much cheaper version of the same tale. This one comes courtesy of Daniel Lenne\u00e9r, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/26\/weekend-fright-flick-terror-from-the-abyss\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,4,44,103,91,128,104,95],"tags":[407,406,408,1439,405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8587,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8578\/revisions\/8587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}