The style here is honestly the aspect that drew me in the most for this adaptation of the seminal literary classic "The Call of the Cthulhu". The black and white, while giving the film a clean look (almost unrealistic at points), does what it was meant to do in conveying THAT necessary tone for a story of this type. A nice added touch is that it is fully silent and for most in today's day and age, that would be enough to turn some off of it - at only 47 minutes though the director did a great job at keeping the viewers attention despite no audible dialogue.
Visual effects were not terrible and some of the set designs were very nouveau being reminiscent of the German expressionism found in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert Weine. Which I was enamored with as it both visually arresting and incomprehensible at the same time - lending itself to being unabashedly Cyclopian. A style of which is pure Lovercraft. Some of the cinematography was nausea-inducing at points though and the script cards in a handful of instances could have been on screen a few seconds longer. Those are just small, nitpicky things though that can come with more time doing of film of this type.
All in all, Call of Cthulhu does a decent job of bringing the story to life and is woth the 47 minutes of your time if you at all have an unquenchable thirst for Lovecraft adaptations.
Visual effects were not terrible and some of the set designs were very nouveau being reminiscent of the German expressionism found in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert Weine. Which I was enamored with as it both visually arresting and incomprehensible at the same time - lending itself to being unabashedly Cyclopian. A style of which is pure Lovercraft. Some of the cinematography was nausea-inducing at points though and the script cards in a handful of instances could have been on screen a few seconds longer. Those are just small, nitpicky things though that can come with more time doing of film of this type.
All in all, Call of Cthulhu does a decent job of bringing the story to life and is woth the 47 minutes of your time if you at all have an unquenchable thirst for Lovecraft adaptations.