Call Girl of Cthulhu

Call Girl of Cthulhu
Directed by	Chris LaMartina
Written by	Jimmy George Chris LaMartina
Based on	the writings of by H. P. Lovecraft
Starring	David Phillip Carollo Melissa O'Brien Nicolette le Faye
Music by	Chris LaMartina
Cinematography	Nick Baldwin
Edited by	Chris LaMartina
Production company	Midnight Crew Studios
Distributed by	Camp Motion Pictures
Release dates	May 8, 2014 (2014-05-08) (Maryland Film Festival)
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Call Girl of Cthulhu is a 2014 horror movie that was directed by Chris LaMartina.^[1]^[2] The film had its world premiere on May 8, 2014 at the Maryland Film Festival and stars David Phillip Carollo as an artist that falls in love with a woman that ends up being the chosen bride of Cthulhu.^[3] The movie is very loosely based on the writings of H. P. Lovecraft.^[4]

The film makes reference to LaMartina's WNUF Halloween Special via the Shining Trapeze Strip Club, which is featured in a commercial shown during the movie.

Synopsis

Ineffectual and sexually inexperienced artist Carter (David Phillip Carollo) wants desperately to lose his virginity, but only to the right person. He thinks that he's found the right person in Riley (Melissa O'Brien), a call girl with a strange birthmark on her right buttock.

Carter's dreams of romance are soon ruined, as several Cthulhu-worshiping cultists of the Church of Starry Wisdom see this birthmark as a sign that Riley is destined to become the bride of Cthulhu and bear his child.

It's up to Carter, aided by Edna Curwen (Helenmary Ball) and Squid (Sabrina Taylor-Smith), to find a way (with the aid of a spell from The Necronomicon) to stop the cult from fulfilling their plans.

In-Jokes

The film contains numerous in-jokes referencing the names of Lovecraft stories and characters, including Deep Ones condoms, Cool Air aerosol , and many others.

Cast

David Phillip Carollo as Carter Wilcox
Melissa O'Brien as Riley Whatley
Nicolette le Faye as Erica Zann
Dave Gamble as Sebastian Suydum
Helenmary Ball as Professor Edna Curwen
Sabrina Taylor-Smith as Squid
Alex Mendez as Rick 'The Dick' Pickman
Craig Peter Coletta as Wilbur
Elena Rose as Whitney
George Stover as Walter Delapore
Leanna Chamish as Detective Rita LaGrassi
Troy Jennings as Ashton Eibon
Stephanie Anders as Missy Katonixx
Ruby Larocca as Billie
Scarlett Storm as Georgia

Reception

Daily Dead gave Call Girl of Cthulhu a score of 3.5 (out of 5), stating that while the movie was "not for everyone" it would appeal to "those of you Lovecraft (and horror) fans out there looking for something just a little bit outside the norm".^[5] Fangoria gave the movie three out of four skulls and praised its acting.^[6]

References

↑ Turek, Ryan. "From the Makers of the WNUF Halloween Special Comes Call Girl of Cthulhu!". STYD. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
↑ "WHOLE LOTTA LOVECRAFT". City Paper. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
↑ Barton, Steve. "Know a Lonely Old One? Dial up the Call Girl of Cthulhu". Dread Central. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
↑ Gingold, Michael. "And the best title of 2014 is… (with exclusive photos)". Fangoria. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
↑ Wixson, Heather. "Review: Call Girl of Cthulhu". Daily Dead. Retrieved 15 August 2014.
↑ Gingold, Michael. ""CALL GIRL OF CTHULHU" (Movie Review)". Fangoria. Retrieved 15 August 2014.

External links

Media based or influenced on H. P. Lovecraft works

Films	The Haunted Palace (1963) Die, Monster, Die! (1965) The Shuttered Room (1967) The Dunwich Horror (1970) Re-Animator (1985) From Beyond (1986) The Curse (1987) The Unnamable (1988) Dark Heritage (1989) Bride of Re-Animator (1990) Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) The Resurrected (1992) The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993) In the Mouth of Madness (1994) Necronomicon (1994) The Lurking Fear (1994) Witch Hunt (1994) Castle Freak (1995) Bleeders (1997) Out of Mind: The Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (1998) Cool Air (1999) Cthulhu (2000) Dagon (2001) Beyond Re-Animator (2003) The Call of Cthulhu (2005) H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House (2005) Cthulhu (2007) The Tomb (2007) Chill (2007) In Search of Lovecraft (2008) The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009) The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) Innsmouth (2011) Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)

Role-playing games	Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (1981) Cthulhu Live (1997) Delta Green (1997) Trail of Cthulhu (2008) CthulhuTech (2008)

Card games	Mythos (1996) Cthulhu 500 (2004) Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game (2004) Elder Sign (2011) Arkham Horror: The Card Game (2016)

Board games	Arkham Horror (1987, 2005) Mansions of Madness (2011) Eldritch Horror (2013)

Video games	Alone in the Dark (1992) Shadow of the Comet (1993) Necronomicon (1994) Alone in the Dark 3 (1995) Prisoner of Ice (1995) Innsmouth no Yakata (1995) Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness (2001) Eternal Darkness (2002) Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005) Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006) Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land (2012) Eldritch (2013) Bloodborne (2015) Darkest Dungeon (2016)

Other	Neil Gaiman's Only the End of the World Again (2000) Alan Moore's The Courtyard (2003) Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) (2003–present) Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths (2003) Move Under Ground (2004) Dark Adventure Radio Theatre (2006–2015) Demonbane (2006) Haiyore! Nyaruko-san (2009–2014) Neonomicon (2010) Re-Animator: The Musical (2011) Providence (2015-2016)

See also: Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture

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