As Wilmarth investigates further he discovers the horrifying plan of these beings and it’s up to him to stop the invasion… Wilmarth learns about a cult of locals in cahoots with the Mi-Go, and the remains of Henry Akeley are found. Human’s can also travel and are re-animated through an electronic device reminiscent of the projection apparatus from Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004). There he meets the strange and ill Henry Akeley who speaks with a strange auditory vibratto.Īkeley reveals the story of the Outer Ones who travel the universe by surgically extracting brains and placing the liquid/ether in cylinders to allow for safe storage and passage on long temporal journeys. Wilmarth investigates further and travel’s to the Akeley farm. Through the use of a parallax-corrected stereoscope a strange entity is visible. The man provides Kodak images of claw-like tracks and the alleged carcass of a Mi-Go, but the being is invisible. After a radio-broadcast debate (moderated by a man named Ray Bradbury), Wilmarth is approached by a young man who claims crustacean-like beings, or Mi-Go exist on his uncle Henry Akeley’s farm in Vermont. He claims it’s all bunk and based on mythology. Miskatonic University professor of English, skeptic and folklorist Albert Wilmarth (well-played by Matt Foyer) questions the existence of a hidden race of monstrous beings or hill creatures appearing in rural Vermont. It all starts with the unprecedented Vermont floods of 1927… The Whisperer in Darkness (H.P Lovecraft) was written in 1930 and first appeared in Weird Tales in 1931. I vaguely remember reading the story in a collection of Lovecraft works. The story has sci-fi and horror elements and was a departure from the tales of Cthulhu and the ancient ones. This film adaptation should keep any fan of b-movies happy.

Their new film The Whisperer in Darkness, directed by Sean Branney is even better and had me hooked by the end of the opening prologue. There are exceptions -I like Stuart Gordon’s 1985 cult classic Re-Animator and especially the silent-filmed gem The Call of Cthulhu (2005) rendered by the H.P. It’s difficult to capture the genuine eeriness conveyed by his writing style.

The whisperer in darkness 2011