Howard Lovecraft and The Frozen Kingdom Review

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  • @RavenFoxAudio
    @RavenFoxAudio 10 месяцев назад +30

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    • @Bobsheaux
      @Bobsheaux  10 месяцев назад +13

      _It's Not So Scary_ starring Pennywise The Dancing Clown! Our happy transdimensional jokester makes it his mission in life to help all the new kids who move to Derry by showing them that there's absolutely nothing to be afraid of. That big, threatening-looking kid at school? He just wants a friend. That scary dog who barks at you as you walk by his yard? He's just a big puppy! That giant spider in clown make-up in the sewer feasting on child flesh? That's... nothing, it's nothing...

    • @mackpines
      @mackpines 10 месяцев назад +9

      Anything by Edgar Allen Poe.
      Always found him to be a fascinating person and the poems he wrote were very creative.

    • @Seanatonin
      @Seanatonin 10 месяцев назад +9

      I would do a take on Wolfman named Wolfgang running a Doggy Day Care, which has him dogsitying those loveable Air Buddies and they escape. So Woofie turns it into a game of hide and seek. He finds them and blah blah blah saves the day

    • @EvieRawlings
      @EvieRawlings 10 месяцев назад +4

      We need more movies like Hocus Pocus in the modern day. Sure I appreciate my noble Harry Potter witches too but I like those Germanic stories of witches are hunting children and the kids have to fend them off.
      It's good for kids to know that they can fight their own battles. Even if its against adults who are supposed to protect them.

    • @sarahsims6164
      @sarahsims6164 10 месяцев назад +4

      "Reader Beware" with R.L. Stine. I'd make it similar to the 2015 Goosebumps movie and still have all of his cursed manuscripts opened. This time, however, the hero characters from the original books are also released, not just the monsters/villains. They'd be a great help in taking them down.

  • @Pipkiablo
    @Pipkiablo 10 месяцев назад +32

    Spot being Cthulhu was supposed to be a twist, but anyone who even has a cursory knowledge of Lovecraft would have known that "twist" from the start...as a child, before I even knew anything about Lovecraft, I knew who Cthulhu was because he's just one of those things ingrained in public memory, like Jason Voorhees or Pacman. When he gave his name, I even said out loud, "Wait, so that isn't Cthulhu?"

  • @albatross4920
    @albatross4920 10 месяцев назад +40

    The only time I've ever seen Lovecraftian critters in a kids show is Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy.

    • @LaDracul
      @LaDracul 10 месяцев назад +9

      "ANT Farm" had an episode where they refer to Chthulu as "Cat Hula Hoop".

    • @mitchfletcher2386
      @mitchfletcher2386 10 месяцев назад +10

      Also an episode of The Real Ghostbusters: "The Collect Call of Cathulu". Reason for the title is because somebody thought the original spelling was a typo.

  • @ChristopherSummer89
    @ChristopherSummer89 10 месяцев назад +89

    Fun Fact, H.P. Lovecraft's Father was actually in an Insane Asylum where his Mother occasionally took young H.P. to see his crazy Father -- the Sight of which I think disturbed the Boy's Image of Father-Figures and thereby feeding into his Twisting of God-Themes in his later Writings.

    • @The-Creeper69
      @The-Creeper69 10 месяцев назад +11

      No wonder he was a piece of work

    • @sammyvictors2603
      @sammyvictors2603 10 месяцев назад +12

      Wasn't his mother also committed?

    • @Shades14
      @Shades14 10 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah, that tracks.

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад +11

      Yeah the guy who wrote this is clearly a fan, and did his research well... yet the also turned Chutlhu into a cuddly pet.

    • @PelinalDidNothingWrong
      @PelinalDidNothingWrong 10 месяцев назад +10

      Lovecraft was a whole host of mental disorders in the form of a man. Severe anxiety,paranoia,agoraphobia and so on...
      One doesn't write the Cthulu mythos while being mentally sound and well adjusted

  • @jackofallclaws6672
    @jackofallclaws6672 10 месяцев назад +52

    Actually, the whole “looking upon the Old Gods will drive you mad” idea…is actually NOT one that came from Lovecraft. It’s NOWHERE TO BE FOUND in his original writings (edit: the closest you get is people who go mad at the revelation of these titanic creatures, but that’s about it). In fact, one of the stories has the Avatar of Nyarlathotep defeated by a guy looking at his true form (aka Nyarlathotep) through the Trapezohedron that summoned the Avatar to Earth in the first place…AND HE DIDNT GO MAD! He still went to the hospital after the whole ordeal, but that’s not because he went crazy, he just needed to get patched up.

    • @springheeledjackofthegurdi2117
      @springheeledjackofthegurdi2117 10 месяцев назад +8

      it was something popularised by the Call of Cthulhu RPG to my recollection

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад +9

      I am pretty sure that while it does not come from him, it is a recurring part of his writings that these eldritch things are indescribable and just looking at them fills people with revulsion and horror. Like when the Mi-Go took that guy's brain and masqueraded as him with a fake head and arms.

    • @jackofallclaws6672
      @jackofallclaws6672 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@SwiftNimblefoot that’s actually far MORE accurate to the original writings. Good job!👍

    • @PelinalDidNothingWrong
      @PelinalDidNothingWrong 10 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah,it wasn't in his work but I do like the idea looking upon The Old Gods can and will drive most people insane. Kinda like Chaos from Warhammer 40k where it could easily send me or you reading this insane but a Space Marine,Inquisitor or Custodes wouldn't be phased by it.

    • @ElFreakinCid
      @ElFreakinCid 10 месяцев назад

      Then what the fuck did looking upon Cthulhu do?

  • @elsie8757
    @elsie8757 10 месяцев назад +48

    Also it's funny how Howard is being portrayed as a brave and curious kid who barely even flinches at the sight of an eldritch being, when the _real_ H. P. Lovecraft was known to be afraid of things like... math. And colors outside the visible light spectrum. And interracial marriage. And air conditioning.

    • @SuperSwordman1
      @SuperSwordman1 10 месяцев назад +12

      honestly I couldn't stop thinking about that. The real HP Lovecraft would have folded into a pile of jelly by the...half way point if we're being gracious. And he CERTAINLY wouldn't seek to learn more!

    • @moonlightrobbery
      @moonlightrobbery 10 месяцев назад +7

      He was also afraid of Jews. Such a brave soul /s

    • @SuperSwordman1
      @SuperSwordman1 10 месяцев назад +9

      @moonlightrobbery think it's safe to say dude was legitimately insane.

    • @opalyasu7159
      @opalyasu7159 10 месяцев назад +3

      @SuperSwordman1 he makes the joker look like an advocate for mental health

    • @SuperSwordman1
      @SuperSwordman1 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@opalyasu7159 Now THAT'S a take. And sadly totally accurate.

  • @jackofallclaws6672
    @jackofallclaws6672 10 месяцев назад +39

    Fun fact: this movie and its sequel are actually based on comics…and the comics are WAY BETTER!

  • @nseven1117
    @nseven1117 10 месяцев назад +16

    the whole penguin thing is a reference to HP Lovecraft describing giant, albino, mutated penguins in one of his stories; in the mountain of madness.

    • @ToHoldNothing
      @ToHoldNothing 8 месяцев назад +3

      And was a perfect thing to incorporate Oswald Cobblepot in the Batman animated movie from last year that was Lovecraftian and...surprisingly good, though I'd have to watch it again

    • @nseven1117
      @nseven1117 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@ToHoldNothing oh yeah I saw that too. it's was awesome

    • @ToHoldNothing
      @ToHoldNothing 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@nseven1117 Feels like it was meant to be an Elseworlds title, but I don't think there was ever a Lovecraftian one with Batman. I think there's one where he becomes a vampire,but that's different than Doom That Came To Gotham

    • @nseven1117
      @nseven1117 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@ToHoldNothing it was Batman and Dracula: Red Rain

  • @mrcritical6751
    @mrcritical6751 10 месяцев назад +18

    This franchise apparently gets wild AF, with time travel and Howard meeting adult HP Lovecraft

  • @dikastederook6380
    @dikastederook6380 10 месяцев назад +25

    6:09 Not just that. Driving someone insane is pretty much the basics and sometimes the best case scenario. Even then, it goes beyond. Your mind is not broken, it's shattered and filled with horrors and disgusting truths about the universe. And again this is one of the lesser cases. Because yes, Cthulhu might be the most famous of Lovecraft's alien gods but he's on the very lower part of the ladder in terms of power. There are things IMMENSELY worse than him and looking at them (or rather their physical avatars) makes you WISH or even BEG for the above fate by comparison to what will happen to you.
    Let's just say that if you read a Lovecraft story where Thomas Edison pops up, you can already prepare yourself to realize Cthulhu is really the equivalent of a gentle teddy bear. At worst.
    Edit: It's not Thomas Edison but Nikola Tesla. The point about Cthulhu being a teddy bear in comparison to what (or rather *who*) Tesla really is still stands.

    • @HebiHouse
      @HebiHouse 10 месяцев назад

      Like Nikola Tesla being Nyarlothotep.

    • @dikastederook6380
      @dikastederook6380 10 месяцев назад

      @@HebiHouse of shit, thx for reminding me, it's not Edison but Tesla.

    • @HebiHouse
      @HebiHouse 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@dikastederook6380 not a problem!

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад +1

      Oh just you wait, later movies in this series will get Azatoth involved too, as well as Nyarlathothep. And you'll cry out to the Dark Tapestry when you see how they butchered them into saturday morning cartoon villains.

    • @HebiHouse
      @HebiHouse 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@SwiftNimblefoot NYARLOTHOTEP TOO?

  • @EvieRawlings
    @EvieRawlings 10 месяцев назад +14

    You know occasional hiccups aside I actually think the kid playing Howard is doing a pretty good job. With a few lessons I actually see a bright future ahead of him.

  • @CyberSpider35
    @CyberSpider35 10 месяцев назад +19

    I hope one day they will make "Clive Barker and The Land of the Brave... CYNOBITES"-cartoon in the same fashion.

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад +2

      Unlikely, as Clive is still alive and his work is not public domain, like Lovecraft's.

  • @entertainmentpowerfuchs5744
    @entertainmentpowerfuchs5744 10 месяцев назад +12

    The strange Part is in the 2 Sequels Mark Hamill is Part of the Voice Cast

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад

      Even Jeffery Combs and Doug Bradley gets added in the third.

    • @entertainmentpowerfuchs5744
      @entertainmentpowerfuchs5744 10 месяцев назад

      @@SwiftNimblefoot That's true but Mark Hamill is by far the biggest Star of them. Not only plays he Luke Skywalker but also voiced Batmans Joker and The Firelord from Avatar Last Airbander.

    • @TMNIsaac
      @TMNIsaac 10 месяцев назад

      And also Scott McNell's a part of the voice cast too

  • @springheeledjackofthegurdi2117
    @springheeledjackofthegurdi2117 10 месяцев назад +9

    granted this is an adaptation of a comic written as a parody of boy and his dog stories hence why lovecraft's father is alive, his mother isn't abusive (seriously she destroyed his marriage) and going to school, but it is a little distasteful to make Abdul Alhazred a villain as he was Lovecraft's persona he made after reading 1001 Arabian Nights and a fair amount of Islamic literature as a child, funnily enough, the whole being able to defeat or incapacitate the monsters with blunt force is somewhat accurate contrary to popular belief as many of Lovecraft's collaborations with Robert E Howard (the writer of Conan the barbarian) demonstrated though there is usually special circumstances.

  • @Reapermaskhybrid
    @Reapermaskhybrid 10 месяцев назад +8

    Seriously, Lovecraft's body of work is more at home in Japan, at least there it got adapted into this mecha story named Demonbane.
    Even if it's mostly just window dressing, you can bet that some Japanese robot show gave Lovecraft WAY more respect than the makers of this drek.
    Japan even made an anime named Nyaruko about, and I kid you not, Nyarlothotep becoming an anime girl and having a romantic relationship with a guy who's practically unphased by the Walking Chaos' existence at all. Again, it's crazy but way more respectful than trying to make Lovecraft a childhood staple.

  • @klimmr
    @klimmr 10 месяцев назад +4

    I'm immune to Let It Go Fatigue. Because it played all throughout my first college freshman year. One of the best years of my life. This song just takes me back to that year.

  • @tylerfish2701
    @tylerfish2701 10 месяцев назад +6

    Stuff like this makes me hope Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of The Mountain of Madness gets made someday and BLOW this trilogy out of the water.

  • @homecruz7743
    @homecruz7743 10 месяцев назад +12

    Frozen: The Halloween Special!

    • @melissalayson7275
      @melissalayson7275 10 месяцев назад +2

      I'm surprised Disney didn't do that. Considering how popular Frozen is.

  • @desrochessimon3044
    @desrochessimon3044 10 месяцев назад +5

    Fun fact: Sean O'Reilly also directed Pixies, a movie based on the comic book of the same name, written by Sean O'Reilly himself.

  • @CrazyCartoonCat12
    @CrazyCartoonCat12 10 месяцев назад +12

    The movie may have been boring, but you and Raven certainly make it more entertaining. LOL!

  • @EvieRawlings
    @EvieRawlings 10 месяцев назад +7

    3:19
    "What do you think you're doing?"
    Lady!? You're the one who brought him here, what did you think was going to happen?

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 10 месяцев назад +2

      And she did this in real life too! X_x

  • @NobodieZ26
    @NobodieZ26 10 месяцев назад +7

    Poor Lovecraft must be spinning in his grave when this movie was made. Also, when a few minutes before you show the clip of Cartman riding Cthulhu, I remember that scene.
    PS, good work here.

  • @sodanutmeg
    @sodanutmeg 10 месяцев назад +6

    Howard LoveCraft as a little boy is gonna be my new nightmare! And we’re both from the same state!

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 10 месяцев назад +10

    The Book of the Dead really gets around seen it in the Evil Dead universe and Friday the 13th universe and it even popped up in the Pumpkinhead universe.

    • @EpicJasonX9000
      @EpicJasonX9000 10 месяцев назад +2

      The OG Multiverse! XD

    • @philipgood5041
      @philipgood5041 10 месяцев назад +3

      Now I think about it, What's the necronomicon got to do with the Old Ones? Shouldn't it be full of necromancy spells?

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад +2

      The Necronomicon is not really a book of the dead in the Lovecraft-verse, unlike in Evil Dead. Summoning and controlling undead is something most warlocks in that universe can do by themselves. The Necronomicon contains information about the outer gods and great old ones that is not meant for mortal eyes.

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад

      @@philipgood5041 It's a misleading name, it has nothing to do with necromancy. I think it is called that only because the secrets it contains were held by the dead spirits.

    • @rockclanhawkstar1454
      @rockclanhawkstar1454 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@SwiftNimblefoot Yet can be found in easily in fancy colleges across the country.

  • @thegayghost872
    @thegayghost872 10 месяцев назад +4

    I can almost hear HP Lovecraft spinning in his grave, shouting racial slurs at the top of his lungs

  • @godforothchannel4272
    @godforothchannel4272 10 месяцев назад +11

    From what I understood, this all movie series was based on Graphic Novels… and as odd as this may sound, apparently the books were better than those movies… not sure how much « Better » those are but I do think the Graphic Novels would be more of your style

    • @ToHoldNothing
      @ToHoldNothing 8 месяцев назад

      Linkara reviewed at least 2 of them, though it was 8-10 years ago on LOTD

    • @godforothchannel4272
      @godforothchannel4272 7 месяцев назад

      @@ToHoldNothing yeah and due to the format of LOTD, Linkara never went in much details into them…
      So Bobsheaux doing a proper review on at least the first one could be interesting for - maybe- an future Halloween Episode or something…

    • @ToHoldNothing
      @ToHoldNothing 7 месяцев назад

      @@godforothchannel4272 I'm still horribly behind anyway on the archive of stuff and I'm skipping over what are comic book reviews, just on TV and movies. Feels like he's all but abandoned comic reviews, hard niche to compete in.

  • @kingofnerds1841
    @kingofnerds1841 10 месяцев назад +4

    Honestly, if you want to introduce kids to Lovecraft, there's a version of Call of Cthulhu illustrated in the style of Dr. Seuss!

  • @lOrdofdOrkness73
    @lOrdofdOrkness73 10 месяцев назад +5

    I am the terror that flaps in the snow

  • @gabriellavedier9650
    @gabriellavedier9650 10 месяцев назад +8

    Fish Police references are always valid. I'm glad someone remember that. It's sad it never took off. That and Scorch the Dragon from that very same programming block.
    Lovecraft conceived of people going mad fairly easily because he was born with a genetic predisposition to mental illness. Like a colorblind person, he assumed everyone was just on the brink of insanity. Also, his parochial xenophobia and monomania concerning his slice of New England exclusively made him intellectually incurious and a rather evangelistic luddite. He wrote a whole horror story about the terror or air conditioning, and his story about Herbert West was the off-the-shelf stock "Science goes too far into the realm of god" that Wells covered in Dr. Moreau. His idea that the enormity of the universe would crush man was because it crushed HIM. HE was afraid of not-New-England. And Italians. And Jews. And oh god how he was afraid of The Blacks (tm) (c) (r) Men like Carl Sagan and Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Stephen Hawking revealed the glory of a nearly limitless cosmos. It's dark and shows no concern for man but we are not special, and yet we can explore this enormity. So, the only reason Call of Cthulhu has insanity checks is because a mentally fragile racist luddite New Englander was scared of brown people, air conditioning, urban areas, and the wider universe.
    Oh, and while you didn't mention it, others made something of the Algen/Abdul al-Hazred matter. That's a reference to "The Thing on the Doorstep" where a sorcerer comes back by taking over the body of his daughter I believe. And yes, this was used better in Batman when Ra's al-Guul took over the body of Talia.

    • @koichidignitythief7429
      @koichidignitythief7429 10 месяцев назад +2

      There's "kinda" a happy ending since in his later life he ended up marrying a Jewish woman and was strongly opposed to the Nazi Party. Shadow Over Innsmouth being on of his last publications had the MC accept the fact he was a Fishman the whole time.

    • @gabriellavedier9650
      @gabriellavedier9650 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@koichidignitythief7429
      I appreciate the Shadow over Innsmouth, it's such a fun read and has such a wonderfully paranoiac tone. It's a perfect suspense story. The only rough part is the Innsmouth Look and the slight overtone of fear of miscegenation. As if South Seas people are fairly inhuman and the equivalent of an ancient species. I was happy the protagonist found happiness with his people, The Deep Ones, and I wish there was more cheerful connection between sapient species.

    • @koichidignitythief7429
      @koichidignitythief7429 10 месяцев назад

      @@gabriellavedier9650 Reading the story again. Both times characters try pinning down what ethnicity the Innsmouth Look could be and they can't because it's too inhuman and uncanny to be any irl race.

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 10 месяцев назад +4

    I want a lovecraft musical where the Great Old Ones sing Insane In The Brain by Cypress Hill

  • @SageMann92
    @SageMann92 10 месяцев назад +11

    The bit where Howard is disgusted by the penguin rings a bell. Isn't there a passage, maybe it's in "In the Mountains of Madness", where Lovecraft expresses contempt for penguins, in a matter not unlike the xenophobia and racism that permeates *all* his narratives? I'm sure the penguin bit has a precedent somewhere. Somebody check my memory, I've never read a Lovecraft book, just occasionally put on a fanmade audiobook as background noise...

    • @MintyCow101
      @MintyCow101 10 месяцев назад +1

      yep!!

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад

      I read pretty much all of Lovecraft's work and I have yet to find any racism or xenophobia in his writings. I mean, pretty sure we never see any african people in his books, ever. Al-Hazred it the one arab we know from it, but he is long dead usually in the stories. The things Lovecraft describes with revulsion are often white people , well, horrible fish mutants, mutated blobs from other dimensions or undead ancient warlocks masquerading as white people, really. The horror and revulsion would be felt regardless of skin color, as these things are inhuman.

    • @SageMann92
      @SageMann92 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@SwiftNimblefoot I don't know what you've been reading. Every story I've heard is screaming with it. Even in the 1920s people were telling him to cool it.

  • @Cine_Coverop
    @Cine_Coverop 10 месяцев назад +4

    Thank you for the reviewing this.... this.... something

  • @Naiki_Eri_Vescida_Yanmi
    @Naiki_Eri_Vescida_Yanmi 10 месяцев назад +6

    Hm, still can't believe this movie was created to begin with.. i'm still not really sure why but at least we get to break it down and laugh at how bizarre it is.
    Also, damn that spooky lair looks epic, the floating candles are a really neat touch!

  • @ninavale.
    @ninavale. 10 месяцев назад +2

    There is a property that did the "it's not exactly evil" thing with the mythos...and it's the video game Call of the Sea. It's not for kids, but it's an intersting inversion by being a story about finding yourself and changing in a postive way.

  • @Demolitiondude
    @Demolitiondude 10 месяцев назад +7

    Everybody gets five insanity points

  • @spellbound_1
    @spellbound_1 10 месяцев назад +3

    @Bobsheaux Thanks for setting my day off right! Just wanted to wish you and Raven a Happy Halloween!

  • @bjornjonsson6583
    @bjornjonsson6583 10 месяцев назад +2

    "Maybe he just landed in Minnesota in October"😂

  • @sjmhadsock4586
    @sjmhadsock4586 10 месяцев назад +4

    The awnser is you can't unless you are one hell of a writer even batman has lovecraft influence

  • @sjmhadsock4586
    @sjmhadsock4586 10 месяцев назад +1

    Actually fun fact Jeffery combs who played a few lovecraft characters even lovecraft himself in a movie appeared in one of these movies

  • @nourshokr3291
    @nourshokr3291 10 месяцев назад +2

    Why is it ok to hack Cthulhu in as a recruitable hero in a fantasy RTS to defeat the orcs?
    Because all's fair in Lovecraft and Warcraft.

  • @SwiftNimblefoot
    @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад +5

    The writer/director, I hope, was visited by cultists of the elder mythos who took him to He Who Sleeps Eternally and had his mind flayed for daring to call Chtulhu "Spot" and turning him into a loveable pet for Howard.

  • @EpicJasonX9000
    @EpicJasonX9000 10 месяцев назад +6

    The main protagonist looks more like Paranorman to me.

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад +1

      They clearly had "inspiration" (read: steal) from Tim Burton's stop motion movies.

    • @EpicJasonX9000
      @EpicJasonX9000 10 месяцев назад

      @@SwiftNimblefoot it obviously didn’t work. I’ve seen better effort from the Beetlejuice animated series.

  • @thomascircle245
    @thomascircle245 8 месяцев назад +1

    I was already cringing pretty hard when Cthulhu appeared, but when Howard pulled him out of the pit on his own, that’s when I noped out.

  • @TheSomewareMan
    @TheSomewareMan 10 месяцев назад +2

    I can see the skeleton of an interesting idea here, but it doesn't seem like they fleshed it out very well. There may be a little bit of heart in there, shriveled and meager as it may be, but certainly no brains to be found.

  • @SwiftNimblefoot
    @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад +3

    Ooooh I am so glad you continued to review this terrible series. It deserves to be taken apart... And it still amazes me the writer and his family (who are almost the whole voice cast too) had enough money to hire so many big names, from Ron Perlman and Jeffery Combs to Mark Hamill...

  • @themysteriouscrumpet
    @themysteriouscrumpet 10 месяцев назад +3

    What, was 'Edgar Allan Poe's Voyage to Candyland' too ridiculous for them? How about 'Mary Shelley's Magic School Bus' or 'Bram Stoker in The Big Balloon Adventure'?

    • @melissalayson7275
      @melissalayson7275 25 дней назад +2

      Mike Flanagan did a better job of making Edgar Allen Poe's work into a series with Fall of the House of Usher.

  • @sjmhadsock4586
    @sjmhadsock4586 10 месяцев назад +5

    Oof those movies

  • @baliyae
    @baliyae 10 месяцев назад +1

    I never read any of Lovecraft’s books, but this movie *does* have some interesting elements to it.

  • @mackpines
    @mackpines 10 месяцев назад +3

    Wow! Seriously? Cristopher Plummer is in this?
    I’m mildly shocked.
    Now you got me hooked on reading H.P. Lovecraft for Halloween.
    Been years since I’ve read the books.

  • @shwahgamer
    @shwahgamer 10 месяцев назад +3

    Love how they didn't even TRY to give Cthulu a grand or suspenseful entrance of any kind. The kid just turns around and boom, there he is just minding his own business.

  • @ARCtheCartoonMaster
    @ARCtheCartoonMaster 10 месяцев назад +3

    1:55 I mean... don't kids *love* stuff that's not deemed suitable for them?

  • @crypto457
    @crypto457 10 месяцев назад +1

    The fact this is based on the graphic novel and they decided to half ass the actual designs from that said novel.

  • @entityontheinternet
    @entityontheinternet 10 месяцев назад +3

    A Shame they didn´t make Lovecrafts Cat a Character in the Movie, what was it´s Name again?

    • @dikastederook6380
      @dikastederook6380 10 месяцев назад +2

      The bait is strong with this one

    • @entityontheinternet
      @entityontheinternet 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@dikastederook6380 I was making a Joke, there is no Bait

    • @dikastederook6380
      @dikastederook6380 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@entityontheinternet My apologies then, hard to tell these days

    • @entityontheinternet
      @entityontheinternet 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@dikastederook6380 It sure is

    • @vitorafmonteiro
      @vitorafmonteiro 10 месяцев назад +1

      I always answer that question with [Redacted] Man (N-word Man is also acceptable, makes it sound like a superhero with n-word pass powers). The most shocking thing is that the cat was already called that by the previous owner when Lovecraft got it (having in mind his famed obsessive racism, you'd think H. P. would have been the one to come up with that. Reality is often disappointing).

  • @seb24789
    @seb24789 10 месяцев назад +1

    Because the real Howard Lovecraft was such a nice person....

  • @greengem9132
    @greengem9132 10 месяцев назад +3

    How did a series about literals monster beyond horror written by a dude with so many problems ... Become a children's movie ???

  • @transformersfan500okane3
    @transformersfan500okane3 15 дней назад

    I am Shocked Nobody mentions that Barry and the Govlins were all Voiced by Scott McNeil Voice of Dinobot and Jetfire

  • @TommyDeonauthsArchives
    @TommyDeonauthsArchives 10 месяцев назад +2

    Wow! Literally a month after the Clockwork Girl movie review, Bob is taking on the first of the Howard Lovecraft movies. Am I a prophet or what?

  • @tultsi93
    @tultsi93 10 месяцев назад +1

    I'm pissed how they ruined Abdul Alhazred. Not only he got whitewashed, but also turned into a villain. He wasn't evil, he was just insane after seeing and hearing things he shouldn't have seen and heard. He was called "mad Arab" for a reason.

  • @shizuwolf
    @shizuwolf 10 месяцев назад +2

    As an adaptation of Lovecraft’s work, I give it an F.
    As a child’s introduction to Lovecraft, I give it a C.
    The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy is a much better introduction for children, imo

  • @EpicJasonX9000
    @EpicJasonX9000 10 месяцев назад +1

    Weird how he complained about the obvious Matrix joke, but didn’t notice the other Matrix reference a few seconds later where Spot said before throwing the snowball Trinity’s line: *Dodge This!*

  • @avacornthelastponybender8583
    @avacornthelastponybender8583 10 месяцев назад

    Mrs Evil McWhats-her-name calls Cthulu "The King of Monsters", but, from what I remember, he was The Elder Ones caretaker

  • @dubuyajay9964
    @dubuyajay9964 10 месяцев назад +2

    You ever thought of collabing with Possum Reviews? He reviewed the Undersea Kingdom film from this series.

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад

      Yeah, I knew someone I am subscribed to already reviewed this.

  • @MovieFan1912
    @MovieFan1912 10 месяцев назад +2

    I’ll give Avatar this, for as boring as that film was, at least that movie was visually interesting.

  • @koichidignitythief7429
    @koichidignitythief7429 10 месяцев назад +1

    I'm surprised you didn't mention how derpy and just straight-up inaccurate the Shogoth looks. The Shogoth is supposed to be an ever-changing, melting mount of flesh with no consistent form. Here it just looks like some kind of DND Beholder.

  • @BrandonCroker
    @BrandonCroker 10 месяцев назад +2

    Rob, Raven, and the Frozen Review?

  • @elsie8757
    @elsie8757 10 месяцев назад +1

    Are we not gonna talk about how Howard's dad is literally locked up in Arkham Asylum?

    • @SuperSwordman1
      @SuperSwordman1 10 месяцев назад +2

      Lovecraft did Arkham Asylum first

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад

      Well, if you had read Lovecraft, you'd know that Arkham is a town often occurring in his stories. DC's Bob Kane got the idea for calling the Asylum of Gotham Arkham after Lovecraft.

    • @elsie8757
      @elsie8757 10 месяцев назад

      @@SwiftNimblefoot I DID know that Arkham was a name associated with Lovecraft, ya silly. It's just funny that this movie chose to name specifically the insane asylum after it, considering the well-known Batman association.

    • @SuperSwordman1
      @SuperSwordman1 10 месяцев назад

      @@elsie8757 So because of Batman, Lovecraft works have to alter their naming?

    • @elsie8757
      @elsie8757 10 месяцев назад

      @@SuperSwordman1 Did I say anything even close to that?? No. Also this movie is hardly a "Lovecraft work". I didn't even say or imply it was BAD that they chose to call the asylum Arkham. I literally just think it's funny.

  • @MintyCow101
    @MintyCow101 10 месяцев назад +2

    22:05 omg massive facepalm. Education time! Abdul Alhazred in Hp Lovecrafts universe is the author of the necronomicon, hes also called “the mad arab”
    Also Cthulhu is known as the great dreamer, the priest of R’leh and is dreaming beneath our ocean. If he were to ever wake up it would be the end of everyone and everything. Depictions of him with wings and tentacles are the closest thing our minds can comprehend of him because his form isnt something we can understand. So we only see the wings and tentacles, who knows what he actually looks like because it would probably induce madness just staring at him.

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад

      I am pretty sure Abdul Alhazred was torn to pieces in ancient Baghdad by invisible monsters shortly after publishing the Necronomicon, so not sure why the dad warns Howard not to listen to him.
      Spot is meant to be Chtuluhu but as a weird dormant form, that is still awake...

    • @MintyCow101
      @MintyCow101 10 месяцев назад

      @@SwiftNimblefoot its puppy-thulu

  • @annieandelsieofarendelle3294
    @annieandelsieofarendelle3294 10 месяцев назад

    4:19 In all fairness, that moral does seem to be quite common in Lovecraftian stories.

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader8601 10 месяцев назад +1

    this film is a real family affair

  • @dylanpietz7855
    @dylanpietz7855 9 месяцев назад

    Hey there. I've been enjoying your reviews for some time now. And as such, just yesterday, I sent out some fan mail. Be sure to watch out for it. And invite Raven to join in. It's for both of you. Thank you very much.

  • @klimmr
    @klimmr 10 месяцев назад +1

    22:04 I AM DARKWING DUCK!

  • @nickmanzo8459
    @nickmanzo8459 10 месяцев назад +2

    As dumb as the Elder Sign being harmful only when it is visible to Cthulhu might sound, it fits in with Mythos Lore. The Elder Sign is unreliable protection at best, and it’s supposed to signify that even humanity’s best defenses against the hideous mysteries of the Great Old Ones can be rendered useless easily.
    Movie still sucks, just saying.

  • @CharlietheWarlock
    @CharlietheWarlock 10 месяцев назад +2

    Why are those kids not screaming and holding their intestines

  • @BrandonCroker
    @BrandonCroker 10 месяцев назад +1

    That title alone is awesome….

  • @williampj3573
    @williampj3573 10 месяцев назад +2

    Maybe until December
    You can review Caillou
    holiday movie
    You know Caillou was
    my least favourite childhood show
    From Canada since after I watch from
    phantom strider many times
    and we all know Caillou the worst PBS kids
    Show of all time but luckily Caillou was finally
    pulled of air from PBS kids since 6th January 2021
    That was the day on my 16th birthday
    I never know what happened to it that day
    Back to my watch from animat’s review
    And fruitbasket video about Caillou
    And 😊 anyway Bobsheaux happy Halloween 🎃👻

  • @SwiftNimblefoot
    @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад

    16:05 - It's not what I imagined either. I mean these textures remind me of Unreal, or Might and Magic VI. Y'know, from the mid-nineties. Not 2016!!!

  • @Hewylewis
    @Hewylewis 10 месяцев назад +1

    Please do Rob Zombie's The Munsters.

  • @WillieManga
    @WillieManga 3 месяца назад

    Hold on, they froze their civilization to stop a world ending eldritch thingy? When did Dead Space 3 come out again?

  • @Se7enBeatleofDoom
    @Se7enBeatleofDoom 10 месяцев назад

    Does this mean we will see a fish police review in the future? I hope the fish police reference was a teaser for an upcoming review.

  • @EpicJasonX9000
    @EpicJasonX9000 10 месяцев назад +2

    Unless you’re Ranger from Quake. All you need is a Nailgun and Quad Damage, then you can deal with these other worldly creatures without fear.

    • @dubuyajay9964
      @dubuyajay9964 10 месяцев назад +2

      "Groovy."

    • @EpicJasonX9000
      @EpicJasonX9000 10 месяцев назад

      @@dubuyajay9964 “along came a spider, sat down beside her, and said: what’s in the bowl, bitch?!” - Caleb (Blood)

  • @TheArmouredAlechemist
    @TheArmouredAlechemist 10 месяцев назад +1

    How. How do you turn somthing as powerful and beyond comprehension as Cutulu into a dumb idiot? Cutulu is amazingly inteligent and ruthless. He even made a curse that his daughter would give birth to him should he somehow ever be destroyed. Cutulu is ruthless and one of the Great Old ones who actually have malice toeards humanity and the mortal plane for his need of control. Come on.....

  • @natnerdz
    @natnerdz 10 месяцев назад

    It’s been a long while since I’ve seen your content and the last time I made a comment, I said some mean spirited things I wish I could take back.
    I wasn’t in the right place and I took a lot of time to reflect and improve on myself and I know my words will likely mean nothing. But I want to apologize and I hope you all are doing much better now and wish you all the best. ❤

  • @Tommedian
    @Tommedian 5 месяцев назад

    Am I the only one who thinks Howard’s dad looks like young Ford Cruller?

  • @klimmr
    @klimmr 10 месяцев назад

    7:44 Have you seen Across the Spiderverse? Don't downplay the word, "Spot"!

  • @PCPrincipalsHusband
    @PCPrincipalsHusband 10 месяцев назад +1

    This movie looks and feels like a wii shovelware game

  • @williampulfer-melville8536
    @williampulfer-melville8536 10 месяцев назад

    Hey Bobsheaux could you please consider doing a review on My Sweet Monster

  • @johnfindlay8981
    @johnfindlay8981 10 месяцев назад

    Happy Halloween 🎃

    • @user-iu4jy5fg2r
      @user-iu4jy5fg2r 9 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/3w19SAl1OBQ/видео.html May I ask what name of the movie in video

  • @Arkonu
    @Arkonu 10 месяцев назад

    Please review the others. Im begging here. Its beautiful.

  • @ryandowney8743
    @ryandowney8743 10 месяцев назад +2

    I saw this a couple years ago and you couldn't stress enough how utterly BORING this movie is! And insulting to everyone who knows anything about Lovecraft. Hell, it's insulting to the Cthulhu plushies!

    • @SwiftNimblefoot
      @SwiftNimblefoot 10 месяцев назад

      The writer is a self-expressed "huge fan" but I think he never really understood what the books were about. This is based on a comic he wrote, btw.

  • @SuperSwordman1
    @SuperSwordman1 10 месяцев назад +1

    You know it's funny you bring up how learning more can only bring bad things Bob. From what I can tell, that actually WAS kind of the real HP Lovecraft's worldview. Kind of sad when you think of it.

  • @hiranoguren459
    @hiranoguren459 10 месяцев назад

    I have a vivid memory of a review of Dinosaur Adventure made by Bobsheaux but I can't find the video. Does this video really exist or was it a fever dream?

  • @gstone8255
    @gstone8255 3 месяца назад

    Only “normal people” go insane from looking at the great old ones
    Strange special Divergent people can look at them and be fine ❗️

  • @wesmcinerny4524
    @wesmcinerny4524 10 месяцев назад +1

    There's two sequels to this, if you can believe it.

  • @WillieManga
    @WillieManga 3 месяца назад

    The next movie has Mark Hamill in it, by the way!

  • @motxmod
    @motxmod 10 месяцев назад

    The reason the terrible movies can't be self-contained stories is sane reason they're all CG. The models are already paid for so creating new content in the same universe is cheaper than making something self.

  • @pollycipher
    @pollycipher 10 месяцев назад

    Can you do the Zombies trilogy from Disney channel?

  • @aidanbarnes4290
    @aidanbarnes4290 9 месяцев назад +1

    22:44 My dog perked her head up when she heard those squeaking sounds

  • @callmethecommentcountess9329
    @callmethecommentcountess9329 10 месяцев назад

    Can you do Hansel and Gretel the movie?

  • @Danzin_Danzibar
    @Danzin_Danzibar 10 месяцев назад

    Is this a re-upload? Felt like I've seen this

  • @ivorynk752
    @ivorynk752 10 месяцев назад

    22:43 that made me laugh harder than it should have.