Guffey in Print (2023)

My 2023 print publications at a glance (I also wrote two articles for SALON and another for THE EVERGREEN REVIEW ).... "Toward a General Th...

This version of #ShadowOutOfTime certainly was interesting. Instead of a conventional film narrative, it presented itself as a series of stills with a background narrator. This enabled much smoother transitions between the parts set in our world and the nightmare fantasies the protagonist has. It helps that the lead is played by #AntonDiffring, a very expressive actor. It felt less like a true adaptation than just reading an illustrated book. Recommended if you can get your hands on it!

Since public pressure demands to watch "scary movies" around this time of the year, I have an obscure adaptation of #Lovecraft's #ShadowOutOfTime made for German TV in the 1970s lined up for tonight. I have heard good things about it and bought it last year, but never watched it this far.

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/669679-h-p-lovecraft-schatten-aus-der-zeit

H.P. Lovecraft: Schatten aus der Zeit

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, this is the story of a professor who suffers a seizure which results in total amnesia. As he recuperates he is so different his family deserts him. He gathers knowledge of things outside his specialty for five years, then has another seizure. When he reawakens he is himself again, but now he has no memory of the five years between the attacks. He begins having bizarre dreams, and tries to find out what he was doing during the five years he can't remember. What he discovers, combined with the growing reality of his dreams, convinces him that something much darker than a mere personality shift was going on.

The Movie Database

This week we finish out the ancient Lovecraftian alien empires with the Flying Polyps, truly a horror from beyond space.

https://solorunstudio.com/2022/12/11/starfinder-flying-polyps/

#starfinder #Lovecraft #SciFantasy #TTRPG #Alien #Monster #ShadowOutOfTime

Starfinder – Flying Polyps – Solo Run Studio