Gay Mythos Movie

here! Films is pleased to announce the acquisition of Cthulhu, a contemporary adaptation of the H.P. Lovecraft mythos focusing on a young gay man who discovers frightening aspects of his father’s New Age cult.

“Cthulhu is a superbly realized first feature from director Dan Gildark and writer Grant Cogswell,” said Mark Reinhart, West Coast General Manager and EVP, Distribution and Acquisitions for Regent. “The filmmakers did a wonderful job re-imagining the H.P. Lovecraft mythos using a gay lead character,” he added.

“We are pleased to be working with Regent in releasing this film to a broad audience,” said Daniel Gildark, the film’s director. “Fans of H.P. Lovecraft will be naturally drawn to the story as its appeal is as timeless as it is wide-ranging. Cthulhu’ is also the first big-screen take on H.P. Lovecraft’s work that does not rely on parody and camp, instead approaching the original material with real complexity.”

This is Dan Gildark’s debut feature; he was a founding member of Baltimore’s Contemporary Museum and of Seattle’s award–winning agit–prop multimedia theatre company, The Boondogglers. In 1990 Daniel created a series of original images used for years in the credit sequences for MTV’s 120 Minutes. In 1995 he traveled to the former Yugoslavia to document the civil war.

Filmed in Seattle and on the Oregon coast, the movie features beautiful, vibrant, torrential land and seascapes that foreshadow the lead characters’ ominous fate. Cthulhu is based on H.P. Lovecraft’s novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth. By setting the story in modern times and working with current social, ecological, and political issues, the film offers a provocative new vision of the world.

Jason Cottle, Scott Patrick Green and Cara Buono are featured as the lead characters, and the cast for Cthulhu includes Tori Spelling as a cheerfully evil seductress who wants the male lead to father her child in order to fulfill an ancient prophecy.