Call Girl Of Cthulhu (2014)

Recap:

What people want: the artist Dexter wants that very special escort lady, the cultist wants the very same escort lady for a ritual to bring Cthulhu to earth, and the professor wants Dexter to forge a nameless tome (the Necronomicon?) to prevent the ritual from working.

So much for the plot. The first review I read was quite salty, claiming that the movie was not true to the spirit of Lovecraft. This is true in so far that it doesn’t show the undepictable, it doesn’t give you a glimpse of the sheer size and emptiness of space and the futility of human existence, it doesn’t even show things so beyond the capacity of the human brain that the beholder will inevitably go insane (good thing, too).

Instead, it’s a parody, it’s loud and fast and trashy. However, this parody was clearly made by people who have read and love their Lovecraft. It wasn’t made with much of a budget and it wasn’t made by the most skilled movie makers, but it was made with diligence and with so much love for the spoofed that I even call it a hommage. Just look at the details: two important characters in this movie are Erica Zann (a musician) and Richard “Rick the dick” Pickman, the condom brand is “Deep Ones”, the febreeze is “Cool Air” and the viagra is “Celephais”.

This is a perfect example for a very good movie. It may not be great, but it’s so much better than just good. What bothers me is that the version I watched is shorter than the official length according to imdb. It may very well be that some of the funnier and/or grosser takes were edited. That would be a shame. But even this version is very good.