Oh boy! A $3 copy of the Call of Chtulu black and white short film from 2005...
The 2005 Call of Cthulhu movie is one of my go-to examples of how imagination and ingenuity can make the best of a literal backyard budget; the decision to execute the film as it would’ve been made in the late 1920’s, embracing their technical limitations, was sheer brilliance (leading organically to the use of askew Caligariesque imagery to portray the non-Euclidean architecture of R’lyeh.) It’s my favorite cinematic Lovecraft adaptation.
…why does the back cover call Lovecraft the "Father of Gothic Horror"? That's the wrong genre and he's at least 50 years too late…
Something like a century and a half too late; that title would go to Horace Walpole, with The Castle of Otranto (1764) (and let’s not forget that the genre had founding mothers aplenty, Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley being the most prominent.)
…(even if we assume they mean "guy who wrote several prominent examples of the genre" rather than "the guy who created the genre")
Exactly; Lovecraft was the Trope Codifier (the term I think you were groping for) of cosmic horror.
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The 2005 Call of Cthulhu movie is one of my go-to examples of how imagination and ingenuity can make the best of a literal backyard budget; the decision to execute the film as it would’ve been made in the late 1920’s, embracing their technical limitations, was sheer brilliance (leading organically to the use of askew Caligariesque imagery to portray the non-Euclidean architecture of R’lyeh.) It’s my favorite cinematic Lovecraft adaptation.
…why does the back cover call Lovecraft the "Father of Gothic Horror"? That's the wrong genre and he's at least 50 years too late…
Something like a century and a half too late; that title would go to Horace Walpole, with The Castle of Otranto (1764) (and let’s not forget that the genre had founding mothers aplenty, Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley being the most prominent.)
…(even if we assume they mean "guy who wrote several prominent examples of the genre" rather than "the guy who created the genre")
Exactly; Lovecraft was the Trope Codifier (the term I think you were groping for) of cosmic horror.