Sound from the Deep - Short Film
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2021
- Sound from the Deep is a horror short film inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
An international research group is searching natural resources from the newly melted waters of the Arctic Ocean. They pick up a strange underwater sound from far north. Thinking it might be natural gas, they start their journey to the uncharted waters. Soon they begin to understand the true nature of the Sound.
Best Short Film & Audience Award - H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival 2017
Best Lovecraft Short Film - A Night of Horror Film Festival 2017
Honorary Mention - Morbido 2017
Audience Award - Nevermore Film Festival 2018
Best Horror Short - Philip K Dick Film Festival 2018
Audience Award - Media Film Festival, Horror Fest 2018
Best Horror Short - Motor City Nightmares 2018
Best Horror - Hyart Film Festival 2018
Best Science Fiction Short - Apocalypse Later International Fantastic Film Festival 2018
Honorable Mention - Dragon Con Film Festival 2018
Written and directed by Joonas Allonen & Antti Laakso
Starring Eero Ojala, Lasse Fagerström, Anastasia Trizna, Mikael Andersson, Fabian Silén
Produced by Jupe Louhelainen / Twisted Films
Production country: Finland
#HPLovecraft #shortfilm
www.imdb.com/title/tt7213856/
Contact: soundfromthedeep(at)gmail.com 
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"Sometimes when I look north I feel like I'm in church"
"Like you’re facing something greater than yourself?"
"Like we shouldn't be here"
Brilliant.
But why?
@@BarterTom Pancakes!
@@Wild-Eye What?
@@BarterTom BUT WHY?
But why he asks…..? Because he can feel there’s something not right north like he has a 6th sense of the evil that lurks north like there is something in the air tonight and it’s not Phil Collins Duh….der…..deeerrr……!
It's a crime against humanity that this has only 72K views. It's a Lovecraftian masterpiece in every way.
160k now! 😀
559k on 10 April 2023!
573k as of 4/28/23, let's keep that number climbing!
576k on 1st May 2023
588k on may 14th
Bravo. Best Lovecraftian film I've seen in quite awhile. The portrayal of slow madness really had me guessing if it was the crew...or the main character that was losing touch. The shoggoth towards the end looked fantastic and just as I imagined them...the eyes appearing and reabsorbing was fantastic. Again well done. I would be remiss if I did not also give a huge shout out to the actors in this project. Your commitment to the moment was true artistry, kudos.
It was a shoggoth? Not Cthulhu?
@@BarterTom That was my impression. I could be mistaken. I thought the oozing mass of eyes and mouths more closely resembled a shoggoth than Cthulhu. But, the film makers would have to be consulted to be sure.
@@BarterTom How could that be Cthulhu? The shoggoths are the ones affiliated with the Elder Things.
@@BarterTom it's ubbo sathla...
The thing we saw in the end was Ubbo Sathla - a being created by HPLs Pen Pal Clark Ashton Smith. Ubbo Sathla is said to be the first thing arising in the earliest stages of earths development, and it is the source of all life on this planet. The Elder Things, once they arrived on earth, might have used DNA or other samples of that being to create the Shoggoths, and most possibly even all other life on earth.
Ubbo Sathla is said to dwell in an arctic cave, deep below the earth, continuously spawning and devouring creatures from its own shapeless body.
I love that final shot
The way we don't get to see anything, only marvel at the immensity of the deep, and imagine what lays beneath...
A truly wonderful film
This proves that Lovecraft can be translated to film. I hope some studio give you a billion dollars to start producing a ton of movies like this.
I have to wholeheartedly agree with everyone who is saying this is some of the best Lovecraft since the man himself passed. I feel like we finally got a small taste of Guillermo DelToros "At the Mountains of Madness" would have been like. Absolutely superbly written, shot, acted, edited, and polished. Myself and everyone on this planet needs much more of this. You win my personal award, which I call The Golden Bloodborne. It's for outstanding lovecraftian media (without being a direct adaptation of any of his stories). You guys get it. I'm going to stop writing now, because I've already rambled enough. Just bravo. BRAVO!!!!
I'm really happy to hear you liked our film! And please ramble on, it's a rare pleasure to get feedback like this!
I am so impressed with how well you guys pulled this together. Definitely one of the best indie projects I have seen in a long time. My jaw dropped when the monster hit the glass and the fish eyes were appearing and pressing against the surface. Normally I don't like seeing the monster but you guys did it so well that it added to the experience rather than took me out of it, which is better than I can say for 99% of the crap that Hollywood generates. Bravo!!
Thanks, very nice to hear that! We followed the "Alien approach" and showed the monsters only briefly and covered in shadows. It was fun to figure it all out, and to use practical effects as much as possible. Our limited budget liked that approach too.
The world will be destroyed with in few centuries
@@soundfromthedeep yeah ! Budget ! When you see how much they give for really dumb things !
*Isaac Wilson*
Thanks for cheering us all up.
You sound like a follower of the three Abrahamic death cults.
Agreed-- excellent work. VASTLY better than most Hollywood horror films, especially most "Cthulhu Mythos" films...
Awesome! This short comes the closest I have seen to representing cosmic horror in film.
Thank you, great to hear that!
I agree one of the best lovecraftian movies I have ever seen. Far out paces anything hollywood has come out with.
Funny enough, as goofy as Nicholas Cage tends to be his acting in The Color Out of Space was actually pretty on point with a man slowly going insane. Should check it out.
I've been on a Lovecraftian/cosmic horror binge for a year or so now, but I'm afraid it ends (or more like culminates) with this movie, because I don't think I'll be able to find anything better than this in the genre out there. Great work, congratulations!
Thanks! Let's hope the binge goes on!
I had similar thoughts re: Lovecraft adaptations in general. Then I saw _Color Out of Space_ with Nicolas Cage in 2020... I was never happier to be proven wrong!
Well, watch the episode “in vaulted walls entombed” of the third season of Love Death and Robots.. trust me!
If you haven't already, go check out The Void.
and a hell of a lot better then "Lovecraft country" which was basically a black supremacist fantasy.
This was a really awesome short film. The acting was fantastic. The cinematography and setting were beautifully shot. The atmosphere and sense of dread was executed to perfection. Bravo to everyone involved with this project. You guys nailed it. I'm so glad I stumbled across this gem.
Me 2
Me 3 !!!
I'm impressed. You could have made a full length film of this. The creepy factor was off the scale. Crazy good Lovecraftian piece of work. Kept me riveted the entire time.
some of the best athmospheric horror I have watched
What a cool short film ! As an avid Lovecraft reader, I love to see cosmic horror based movies. This one really managed to render the paranoia, helplessness, and fatalism of Lovecraft's books imo. The color palette is on point. The actors are very good, and the infinite landscape of the far north sea is really atmospheric
I'd love to see a movie based on one of my favorite stories of his that he never finished. The Black Book. I seen an animated video a while back based on it which did very well. I'd just like to see more.
Those underwater shots were fantastic.
@camobranson09 where can I watch that animated video?
Amazing. I was particularly unexpectedly impressed with how good the dialogue was, which is very rare in this kind of genre. "...like I'm in church." "Like there's something greater than you." "Like we don't belong here." That's...just really good writing.
Let's hope this explodes! Could you imagine this team with near limitless cash to make a full length movie?
YES!!! I am so tired of the drudgery turned out by the main stream
The layers of the story just kept peeling back until the big reveal. I could not turn my eyes away.
Don't look at it! DON'T LOOK AT IT!!
I did not understand the end. And feel stupid about it.
@@rosietheriveter107 he was rescued by a search team that is headed back to the location of the ship
Absolutely the best use of CGI to portray a monster with.
This film had no right to be this good. You guys nailed it.
Finally a worthy depiction of a Shoggoth. Really good work, loved the whole thing. This one is sooo much better if you've read "At the Mountains of Madness" though. (:
Agreed
It's implied that this is a bit more than a garden variety shoggoth-- this is Ubbo-sathla, the Outer God itself.
@@jodyrich2935 Yeah I though so. The depiction is despite the size really what I thought a Shoggoth would look like.
I absolutely love this! The elder things have an underwater prison featuring, flying polyps, Ubbo-Sathla as prisoners, and lord knows what else! Incredible work to everyone involved in creating this masterpiece!!
Best bit was the city on the ice. That's what cosmic horror is all about. Showing me something, but don't show me enough to dull my imagination. Perfect
I was just like: Oh i see were this is going.
This was absolutely incredible. One of my favorite short films now! The cinematography was beautiful, and the growing feeling of dread was perfectly handled. The best part about this, in my opinion, is the concept that the ancient beings are hidden in places we thought would never surface. But now that we are destroying our planet...they return.
"The ice is melting and the old gods will awaken."
Can I say how much I love the use of stark white light in this, it's one of those rare cases where an old cliche'd technique really works, and that's mostly because of how it bleaches away the colour, makes the good and positive beats feel unreal, and makes the danger feel more grounded and powerful.
That was incredible!!!!! Usually once the "creature" appears things get far less scary but this one was horrifying. And it was a perfect depiction of a shoggoth, but scarier (the eyes really got to me). Holy cow just wow!
This is an absolute masterpiece
why can't we have movies like this?
You could turn this short into a full length feature, I think. Portrayed the maddening of Lovecraftian horror tastefully. Very well done!
Incredible. On top of nailing the feeling of good cosmic horror, you actually SHOWED the horror. It feels like we never get to see the dam monster. And when we do it’s like 2 seconds.
The way the Shoggoth didn't stay in a single form. It was solid, liquid, gas... Truly the way such an eldritch being would be, unrestricted.
Great job, this is probably the closest anybody has come to portraying cosmic horror in movie format.
Ive always wanted like some sort of adaptation of the call of cthulhu and the closest we had was the 2005 film and underwater but this. Mwah!! This is perfection. Its not an exact adaptation of the call of cthulhu but rather taking key elements from it and other stories. Like this honestly the closest and best adaptation of a lovecraft story and that ending was so hauntingly beautiful. Props to this team I can't wait to see more from you all.
The only thing was missing is the crawling madness, rise the overwhelmed mind, cant grasp the mere sight of the entity...
Hey what are the films you are talking about. The 2005 film and underwater? Would love to find them. Thanks.
@@seanoneill8195 underwater with chick from twlight
"Color out of Space" from 2019 is a really good Lovecraft book to movie adaptation if you haven't seen it.
@@beemelonhead1The Void is a must.
Perfection. Amazing in every way. My friends and I get together a few times a month to watch short films on youtube and we ALWAYS rewatch Sound from the Deep. This is by far our favorite short film. This terrifying example of cosmic horror is worthy of being played on a big screen
Wow, that's amazing to hear, best wishes to your short film group! When our film toured festivals, it was so great to see it in a theatre on a big screen and with a good audio. RUclips is a compromise, but I'm very happy that people get to see the film!
This was one of the most professional short films I have seen! It deserves a full-length version!
When Mikhail read Norberg's notes with the "Binary code?" and "Message?", that part gave me goosebumps ❤ Also the part where the Shoggoth just wells in through the broken window is masterfully done!
Beats anything in the cinema that's certain! Hollywood can't get a grasp of true cosmic horror, but the smaller independent films are spot on
Finally something that resembles a good Lovecraftian 'end-of-the-world' experience. Can't believe it's over and so fantastically done in under 30 minutes what hollywood can't do in 1 hour and 30 minutes. Beautiful. You can get all my HPLHS stickers!
HPLHS is awesome, give me the stickers!
That is the best illustration of shoggoth I have ever seen!
I enjoy this lighting. Gives a sort of bleak and analytical atmosphere to the start.
What a masterpiece of Lovecraftian horror. Even with the reveal it remained so formless and unimaginable. Great freaking work!
Extraordinary.
Perturbador 👀
*sonidos perturbadores*
First time I've seen a film that perfectly embodied cosmic horror. You've done more with your (probably limited) resources than any big-budget director could. I'd love to see. What you (and your brilliant production team and actors) could do with Cameron- or Wan-sized budget.
I totally agree Brennus...Lovecraft was a genius!
This is absolutely incredible! Criminally under-viewed if you ask me. Absolutely loved it!
Damn, this is awesome. This needs a full movie or a miniseries like The Terror season 1 with a considerable budget. The actors here are great as well. Lovecraftian horror at it's best. A modern take on At the Mountain of madness.
WHY has this not been commissioned for a full length film? Absolutely the best Lovecraft film since The Call Of Cthulhu
Thank you, Scandinavians, for saying and writing everything in English for us Americans.
Absolutely amazing. I’m new to cosmic horror/lovecraft so I’ve been basically injecting all of these shorts into my veins
'At the Mountains of Madness' is among my favorites when it comes to the works of H.P Lovecraft which this film seems mostly inspired by as well as 'The Call of Cthulhu' to a degree.
Capturing cosmic horror in a live action movie is very tricky but for a short film this was pretty good. I particularly enjoyed the scene where the main character sees or thinks he sees a structure of some kind on the iceberg in the distance, making us the viewer question what's real or not.
This is how you do Lovecraftian Eldritch horror, fantastic work.
This is superb. I think what dooms a lot of US made Lovecraftian efforts is the insistence on steeping it in schlock, kitchen, or trite humor. This is what it should be.
Such beautiful cinematography! I was enthralled with how the plot constantly drove the story foward with slow and inexorable intrigue, avoiding the same tired old machinations of the standard horror fare. What a haunting story! How did you get producers to fund these incredibly stunning locations?
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! Yes, we shot most of the film on an actual icebreaker. While it wasn't cheap, it was critical for the film and everybody understood that. And luckily there's lots of icebreakers in Finland.
Excellent film. The vulnerability of being out on the icy water was a wonderful backdrop.
Almost all the attempts to bring Lovecraft's universe to screen had been laughable at best. This one is truly brilliant.
This is the best lovecraftian short movie I've ever watched. Well done
Impressed by the actors. Especially by the main actor, he has power when he acts. Congrats to every member of the crew and Eero Ojala. I just discovered the film, and watched it 2 times.
THIS NEEDS A LONGER VERSION. IT IS PERFECT!! We should let our minds run more and more into the lovecraftian world, the cosmic horror is something we should explore deeper, the way this movie adapts the unknown is brilliant. The filme is amazing on it's own short version, but I really need to experience a full 100 minutes version of this.
Cthulhu Kerfuffle on the high seas - a box office hit 👍🏻
If this were a preface for a feature length film I see it in a heartbeat😍🔥
OMG!! This is so good!! I'd watch a series/full length in a heartbeat just based on this amazing short. The talent on RUclips is so great and having access to folks like you and your team that create and post amazing content is a great privilege. Awesome!!
Beautiful beautiful work! Captures the unfathomable horrors beyond human comprehension of lovecraftian horrors. Love from Finland!
This deserve so much attention, the acting is amazing for a short movie and the Lovecraft story are always amazing
The color grading alone is unsettling.
Honestly a great effort made by you guys. I hope this blows up and receives more numbers so people can recognize that talent can exist without needing a large film budget. I appreciated everything throughout the entire movie. Really great job ya'll and I hope you make more in the future.
I'm very impressed. One of the best I've seen.
This film has atmosphere in spades, and the creature was surprisingly well done. I'm not usually a huge fan of monsters that are all slime and tentacles and eyes, but It feels so *present* , like it's really *looking* at you.
I immediately thought "the old ones" at the fossil. The creature at the end ha to be a shogoth. Brilliant film
Best adaptation of lovecraft horror ive ever seen
10/10. Incredible film. Great story, great visualizations and execution, very good acting and special effects -- great job on a great project. I hope there is more to come from this channel!
Takes a connoisseur to recognize the legitimate ones.
Amazing work all of you. Acting, production, director’s job and so forth.
Love captivating motion picture produced by other nations besides ourselves in the USA.
That was superb . The tension rose throughout and the Acting was outstanding . They Awoke the Kraken . One of the Titans .
How does this not have millions of views, possibly the best lovecraftian short movie i have ever seen
Very well made. I have a deep fear of big unknown things/beings in water, and yet I could not stop watching. It was great that there was no clear description o visuals on the "thing", which mades it more scary, makes your imagination run wild. Great job!!!
Amazing! Best rendition of Lovecraft that I've ever seen! Should definitely be made into a full-length film. Looking forward to seeing what you guys will come up with next!
That was one of the BEST short horror movies, since I've been on RUclips. We need a full version of this, with the same amazing actors.
3 years later and barely at 1M? this is so good!
This was superb. Very well made and acted. Deserves a lot more views.
This is a masterpiece. Without a doubt the best cosmic horror I have ever seen in any medium outside of dungeons and dragons, or literature. Amazing work. It was bold indeed to show the thing in the way that it was shown, most filmmakers I think would shy away from depicting an elder god visually simply because of the difficulty inherent in creating an image that does the concept justice. But quite honestly, you took a risk and it bloody well worked.
This was so much better than I had any right to expect from a RUclips short. Top notch filmmaking. Bravo.
"When I'm facing North, I sometimes feel like I'm in church" ///"You mean like facing something greater than yourself?"/// No, like we shouldn't be here" -- Great analogy. We shouldn't be here, but we are. We betrayed God in ways we don't even grasp to understand. And here we are, far removed from beauty, truth and perfection.
Absolutely incredible film, this was so nicely done! Conveys the true essence of Lovecraftian horror, with really good portrayal of insanity in the face of uncaring, unfathomable powers far greater than us. 11/10
This was so damn phenomenal and chilling !! Please do a part two !
Brilliant!! This film, concept, production, characters, cast, special effects, EVERYTHING…just brilliant!
That was AWESOME! I cannot believe more people haven't viewed this. I really appreciate the effort put into this film!
Just, wow, that was amazing! Please, more.
This was awesome😀 One of the best H.P. Lovecraft inspirerad cosmic horror I have ever seen. Very well done 🐙👍
Very good indeed. As an oldtime Lovecraft reader/ cosmic horror fan this was one of very few good Lovecraftian films I've seen. Makes me produkter to be a fellow Scandinavian.
Makes me proud.
It starts like "the statement of Randolph Carter", and I'm lovong it.
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masterpiece
You give us this short film _and_ a traditional Lovecraftian point-and-click adventure game? Sir, you have more than earned a sub.
already added it wishlist, any ETA?
@@DoeShardik Thanks! No exact release date yet, but it will happen this year. Also, a demo will arrive in June.
Fantastic film, can't wait to see more from the same team
Such an exquisite joy this film is to a Lovecraft fan such as myself! The slow buildup of terror, the impending doom, the excellent acting, sound and music.. this is a true masterpiece!
BRAVO! It's a crime that this only has 6k views. Amazing work!
Wow. Excellent. Really well done. Glad I found this! For those of you who dig H.P. Lovecraft stories, movies based upon them, films adapting or influenced by them, or anything along those lines, I discovered this little gem on RUclips. I've been scouring RUclips for quite some time and viewing Lovecraftian films (mostly short, independent, and bad) and found a few out of scores, that piqued my interest. This is certainly at the top of the list. It's a bit of a slow burn, but the acting is good, the production values are high, and overall experience is rewarded by the end. Very VERY well done. Check it out, you'll be glad you donated those 30 minutes.
Well done bravo, I actually enjoyed this more than most of the huge corporate garbage we get these days. I like the fact that rather than concentrating on the woke and virtu-signalling and gas lighting it just concentrates on the story and the the build in intensity until the beast with a million eyes is released. It really builds that feeling that something is very wrong indeed and that it’s already watching you louring you in and that science is so focused on the reward it fails to see the danger which is a common thing these days and then it’s too late the damage is done. It really is a one of the better movie shorts out there and I hope they make more. I hope this movie short feeds millions of hungry eyes in return and it goes viral.
Phenomenal. Absolutely phenomenal. It looked and sounded professional the whole way through, I wasn't sure if the main character was going mad or if everyone else was and the tension had me hooked the whole way through.
This film should have views in the millions, not hundreds of thousands.
This needs a full movie. The story telling have me glued to the picture wanting more.
Best thing I've seen on Y/T. I've always felt story 1st, everything else I can forgive. All this & a little nod to H.P. - Thanks
Wow, that's a high praise! Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed our film.
That, was beautiful!! Excellent Lovecraftian, Primal, Cyclopean, Eldritch Horror.
Elder Things, Shoggoths, Cosmic Gods...
Done correctly. I am a voracious reader of Cosmic Horror. I know what I'm talking about. I enjoyed this very much.
WOW!This short film should have at least 1,000,000 hits from youtube.Glad I found it.This was a very good film.
Added to everything that I already saw being said: The use of sound and music is SO amazing.
The centre of this story is our sense of horror towards the strange, especially when encountering something that is potentially greater than us. In this, I think this story delivers that sensation. I don't want to give anything away, in case people may read this before they watch the video, but there is a glut of short films like this, attempting to capitalise on the ongoing interest in Lovecraft and the genre he inspired; yet this film handles what it displays with a good level of reserve in 'holding back' revealing everything. There is a nice sense of horrors only half-glimpsed. Consider how effective the alien's appearance is in the original film 'Alien'; it's power is mostly in the fact that it is only seen briefly, and often in only half-light. Perhaps a bit too much is shown in this, but I think the audience desires a certain pay-off, and I think that balance is handled well. It feels like quite a bit of money went into the creation of this. On another level, it held my attention and interest more than a lot of things do on television now. The acting of some of the characters brings it back to a level that one might call 'amateur', but it didn't really effect my enjoyment. A couple of the actors are actually very expressive and convincing. I will be recommending this to some friends.
This is the best Lovecraftian movie I've seen. I hope you make more.
I'm currently working on a "Dreams in the Witch House" video game adaptation, so if you are interested in gaming, you can check out the trailer here: ruclips.net/video/Z889XCE-Zq0/видео.html
Wow, awesome short. Atmosphere, acting , sound, script...Excitement from the beginning to the end. 10/10
This is excellent. Story, acting, sets, costumes, FX, cinematography, lighting, audio, score, editing, all top notch. Would be a great beginning to a limited series on Netflix. There is much more to this story.
This was really nicely done! I think when the entity began to board the ship it was one of the best visual representations of Nyarlathotep in his incarnation as the Crawling Chaos that I've seen to date. In his incarnation as "an Egyptian of the old native blood" I'm partial to Imhotep in the 1999 "The Mummy", but this fits the later versions better. Thanks for an excellent film!
Thank you very much for the nice words! All the special effects were based on practical effects, no 3D CGI was used in this film.
@@soundfromthedeep No CGI? Daym :O It would be super interesting if you did a Making Of featurette
@@soundfromthedeep Ah, so that’s why even the most crazy of the visuals didn’t suck! CGI always looks slightly off and takes me out of the film, but that didn’t happen here. I totally appreciate the added effort _)
Decent suspense!