CGI 3D Animated Short: "The Mountains of Madness" - by "The SpookySpookyShoggoths" | TheCGBros

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  • On the anniversary of the death of H.P. Lovecraft, Drexel University and SpookySpookyShoggoths present: At The Mountains of Madness.
    In the uncharted regions of the Antarctic, dark secrets slumber. An ancient horror lies hidden in the bowels of an alien city, and two unlucky explorers race unwittingly towards it. Their scientific minds intrigued, they have no way of knowing the horrors that await deep within the Mountains of Madness.
    Produced by a team of student animators over a period of 9 months. www.mountainsof...
    Valentina Feldman
    Ethan Miller
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 823

  • @AtaMarKat
    @AtaMarKat 6 років тому +146

    “Mankind doesn’t matter!”
    Cosmic Horror in a Nutshell.

  • @ftlcaptain1441
    @ftlcaptain1441 8 років тому +512

    Pixar meets lovecraft and friends

    • @ggt47
      @ggt47 5 років тому +8

      I love Disney and Pixar but his writing is far to complex for to dumbed down for children.

    • @arandomzoomer4837
      @arandomzoomer4837 4 роки тому +12

      @@ggt47 More unsettling. I think even if a child could read his weird grammar and awkward dialogue they would probably have an existential crisis.

    • @arandomzoomer4837
      @arandomzoomer4837 4 роки тому +1

      ​@@hamppu83 You're too old you don't count. My cousin is 9 and he plays D&D better than my 15-year-old cousin. Also regardless of age Lovecraft still has no idea how to right good dialogue and punctuation.

    • @cha5
      @cha5 4 роки тому +2

      @@arandomzoomer4837 It can depend on the child, I have a younger nephew who's into Tolkien and also loved Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu when I introduced him to some of Lovecraft's work. Myself I'll take quite a bit of Lovecraft's dialogue over some of Tolkien's more purple prose.

    • @arandomzoomer4837
      @arandomzoomer4837 4 роки тому +2

      @@cha5 Oof. I'm trying to read lord of the rings, it's like swimming through molasses.

  • @erltyriss6820
    @erltyriss6820 8 років тому +717

    Not quite the way I would envision the Elder Things' city, but that Shoggoth wasgreat. For an animated short it really captured the flavor of Lovecraft's novella.

    • @owenst.hilaire769
      @owenst.hilaire769 8 років тому +14

      +Erl Tyriss ; see I liked the city but thought the Shoggoth was not quit right. Good job altogether in any case.

    • @wolfyboy
      @wolfyboy 8 років тому +48

      me neither, but it's kinda hard to make structures that are described as "impossible geometry" or what it said. if I were to make it, i would probably have a lot of thin spindly structures, and things disappearing and appearing depending on where you looked at it, and stuff like that. but the animation was STILL amazing! :D

    • @paddyb3510
      @paddyb3510 7 років тому +20

      Agreed. The city was bit puny and isolated. Not enough massive bizarre spires. Slightly stilted animation but no worries.
      Everything else worked reallywell I thought. Shoggoth was def great.

    • @SteelTyrant527
      @SteelTyrant527 6 років тому +3

      Paddy B it was the awesome sound work o. shoggoth that sold it for me

    • @ellisknight7766
      @ellisknight7766 6 років тому +2

      what did he see out the window

  • @scruffles3838
    @scruffles3838 5 років тому +227

    Looking really into more Lovecraft, the elder things are actually quite similar to humans(a thirst for knowledge, curiosity, pride, ect.) but instead of shaping metal to work for their desires they shaped flesh and when they shaped a sentient flesh machine to do all their work as slaves the shogoths, they eventually rebelled and drove their masters to extinction.
    When I think about it, shogoths to the elder things are basically what sapient A.I would be to humans, kinda like skynet
    The real horror isn't the elder things and their inhuman city, it's that they're a cautionary tale to humanity

    • @bethanypowell6840
      @bethanypowell6840 3 роки тому +2

      And yet, we still have these issues today. When you have a billionaire rocket themselves into the atmosphere, yet people are starving, that's nothing but doomed hubris.

    • @catherinecao4810
      @catherinecao4810 2 роки тому +10

      Well said, my friend ☕️
      It’s also interesting that the Lovecraft gods are either apathetic or outright sadistic towards humans. Or lesser beings.
      What does that say about us?

    • @akbarrmd7714
      @akbarrmd7714 Рік тому +5

      ​@@catherinecao4810 a small speck of dust, meaningless to them.

    • @michelecastellotti9172
      @michelecastellotti9172 Рік тому +5

      indeed, and that is at the base of his storytelling... his horrors are merely things we are discovering, these things are like tumors, and whaddya know, not that much later science dicovered tumors who kinda look like his most powerful gods? science is scary, we dont know what we will discover one day

    • @uriellando1104
      @uriellando1104 Рік тому +2

      @@catherinecao4810 Azathot is like cáncer

  • @napoleonsolo5929
    @napoleonsolo5929 5 років тому +330

    For all those wondering what Danforth saw when he looked back, consider this.
    "First, there is a Mountain
    Then, there is no Mountain
    Then, there is."

    • @hawkeyenextgen7117
      @hawkeyenextgen7117 3 роки тому +51

      What if the mountain IS the nameless beast?

    • @DeepEye1994
      @DeepEye1994 3 роки тому +137

      Some even like to think that Danforth broke the fourth wall and went mad at the realization he's a fictional character whose sole point to exist is repeating the horrible experience forever to entertain the elder gods: us.

    • @nicholasthompson9722
      @nicholasthompson9722 3 роки тому +23

      First he yes, then he no. Adam Sandler

    • @theheroneededwillette6964
      @theheroneededwillette6964 2 роки тому +32

      He realized the mountain is a giant monster?

    • @AleDidi
      @AleDidi 2 роки тому +30

      Tekeli li! Tekeli li!

  • @ZyioScalebane
    @ZyioScalebane 8 років тому +325

    It's hinted that he saw Kadath. Probably got a glimpse of some Great Ones taking a shower *shudder*

    • @jammignout
      @jammignout 6 років тому +38

      Some say it was yog sothoth... Probably just taking a leak

    • @richietozier7091
      @richietozier7091 5 років тому +38

      Isn’t it so annoying when you’re trying to have a shower and a idiotic sub creature tries to spy on you?

    • @xninewxw7559
      @xninewxw7559 4 роки тому +4

      Richie Tozier #relatable

    • @TyRiders2
      @TyRiders2 4 роки тому +10

      Maybe Cthulu was watchin' porn.

    • @scottbruckner4653
      @scottbruckner4653 4 роки тому +4

      @@richietozier7091 me and the spider in the shower have a mutual understanding.

  • @Bs60182
    @Bs60182 5 років тому +93

    I love horror and syfy based on and in the Antarctic.. There’s just something creepy and unsettling about it.

    • @31webseries
      @31webseries 4 роки тому +5

      I love it for the isolated, beautiful setting. But I must admit that the creepy/unsettling feeling from The Thing faded for me somewhere between March of the Penguins and the Metallica concert. (Though I so would've gone!)

  • @LazarusUnwrapped
    @LazarusUnwrapped 8 років тому +110

    'SpookySpookyShoggoths' sounds like a great band name.

  • @hubertvancalenbergh9022
    @hubertvancalenbergh9022 8 років тому +235

    A magificent city of the Old Ones (convincing architecture!) and a very impressive shoggoth!

    • @Heedfulconch3
      @Heedfulconch3 7 років тому +10

      Hubert Van Calenbergh
      Elder things
      Not old ones
      The Elder Things created the Shoggoths, and were indirectly responsible for life on earth

    • @manglemonster
      @manglemonster 7 років тому

      Heedfulconch3 I think the old ones is a pseudonym for the elder things

    • @Heedfulconch3
      @Heedfulconch3 7 років тому +5

      No
      The Old Ones were a pantheon of Eldritch Entities that included "Father Dagon" and his wife "Mother Hydra" along with the underwater race of fish humanoids known as "Deep Ones". Cthulhu and his Star-Spawn and Nyarlathotep are the most prominent ones as far as my knowledge goes
      The Elder Things were their own race, with no real discernible Individuals of Interest, not unlike the Mi-Go (Who would often remove a Human's brain and bring it with them back to Pluto as the Victim remains alive and aware as they travel to Pluto. Apparently this is a scientific gesture and could be considered Kind) and the Great Race of Yith (Who's minds transcend time and space, allowing them to possess any intelligent organism past, present or future to learn about that race while the victim assumes control of the Yithian's previous body and has the chance to assimilate into Yithian culture and assist in their constant historical and scientific work)

    • @FrankCastle-tq9bz
      @FrankCastle-tq9bz 6 років тому +3

      The Elder Things were actually in competition with the Old Ones' cultists - they waged war against the Star Spawn of Cthulhu and designed the Shoggoths as weapons of war against them: the Shoggoths eventually became too powerful for the Elder Things to control and turned on them - destroying the Elder Things and allowing many of their other creations to cover the globe (some of those creations being the ancestors of homo sapiens - in this universe, humanity was really just a cosmic accident resulting from a conflict between greater beings).

    • @someguy4405
      @someguy4405 4 роки тому

      Hubert Van Calenbergh
      That’s a review if I’ve ever heard one. “Impressive shoggoth”

  • @cha5
    @cha5 6 років тому +73

    0:57-1:32 'Indiana Jones and the Mountains of Madness' ;-)
    Oh c'mon...that certainly would have made a better movie than 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'.

    • @kyleshiflet9952
      @kyleshiflet9952 4 роки тому +2

      It would have

    • @DeepEye1994
      @DeepEye1994 4 роки тому +10

      THIS^^^
      I personally would've just made Indy going in Russia or Transylvania if they wanted to switch from Nazis to commies, but if they wanted to bring aliens into Indiana Jones, they should've depicted them as ancient creatures that look more monstrous like the Elder Things, that barely have any tech, but the little tech there is so extraterrestrial and incomprehensible that it comes off more like magic instead of science fiction stuff.
      The grey aliens and the shiny flying saucer that pops out from a Maya temple that we got instead sticked like a sore thumb.

    • @EthanFMiller
      @EthanFMiller 4 роки тому +3

      Haha that was definitely my inspiration when I worked on that sequence

  • @AlukardTheDeathknight
    @AlukardTheDeathknight 4 роки тому +21

    "Indeed there may be many gods, devils, elder God, The ancients, old ones in the end it matters not who you pray too what you should fear is which one comes to us first"

  • @Danblukk
    @Danblukk 7 років тому +76

    I know its only 7+ minutes but Danforth seem to come to the conclusion that mankind is nothing compared to the ancient ones just by looking at 1 wall inscription, little more bui8ld up maybe, plus wasnt Lakes body back at the camp with the rest and it was Gedney who was missing.

    • @aleamiller4910
      @aleamiller4910 6 років тому +28

      You need to cut them a little slack, most cg films are limited in time, and the original story was like 140 pages. To tell you the truth I think they did a good job working with their restrictions.

    • @KRatka-th9oz
      @KRatka-th9oz 6 років тому +5

      Yes you are right

  • @luthermcgee7297
    @luthermcgee7297 3 роки тому +3

    As soon as those tentacles came up that precipice, I would have shouted "RUN!" And his buddy simply whispers it.😆😆

  • @frederiksd
    @frederiksd 4 роки тому +24

    I was skeptical at first with how the characters were animated(duo to looking so similar to various children shows/cinema.)
    But when they found the ancient city and walked through its ruin, I felt an uneasiness creep up my back.
    And as they left in their plane, that look out the window, which drove him mad and the vision of the mountain turning had me sold!

  • @eDrIClImOAnCo
    @eDrIClImOAnCo 8 років тому +248

    Beyond the mad the mountain lay
    Maps and charts, the tale must stay.
    Beneath the barren, frozen waste,
    Of horror dwells the vanish race.
    They seek to find the empty home
    To there that found a thing it roam.
    Depict a task that which to sight,
    Nameless beast remain the night.

    • @collinquinsey2615
      @collinquinsey2615 7 років тому +8

      Edric L. Ha I was reading this then they said Milky Way and it ryhmed with it

  • @inkpenproductions3373
    @inkpenproductions3373 7 років тому +67

    Well done, guys. I think you did a fantastic job cramming one of Lovecraft's heaviest works into 8 minutes while preserving the feel of his story... it drives me nuts not knowing what Danforth saw. perfectly encompasses the "nameless horror" that is Lovecraft's style.

    • @magnvsmarcvs
      @magnvsmarcvs 4 роки тому +1

      @PerrySport
      Maybe he saw Whoopy Goldberg nude with her legs apart ....he saw in the depts of that hairy oiled Thing that swallowed his entire soul and kept him tormented for eternity in the crab infested cave .

    • @Xport9
      @Xport9 4 роки тому +2

      @@magnvsmarcvs
      Wat.

  • @lonestarwolfentertainment7184
    @lonestarwolfentertainment7184 7 років тому +163

    "Mankind doesn't matter!" ...maybe not to the Universe... but it does to me

    • @mihailazar2487
      @mihailazar2487 5 років тому +8

      We're gonna become kardishev 1 in a couple of years when we finally colonise Mars
      All hail Elon Musk, our lord and savior

    • @mihailazar2487
      @mihailazar2487 5 років тому

      ​@CheatyTycoon 2 as of 2015 we are 73% of the way to Kardishev 1
      ALL HAIL IN MUSK WE TRUST

    • @elnationalista
      @elnationalista 5 років тому +13

      That's is the point of Cosmicism. You do not matter to the Universe. We do not matter to the Universe. Humans do not matter to the Universe. Only humans matter to humans. That's it. Nothing more. It is a call to abandon religion, nationalism, and that of whatever separate us, and unite in favor of humankind. It is the answer to any philosophy. For 'what is our purpose?' to even Nihilism itself. Anyone who claims Cosmicism is nihilistic doesn't understand Cosmicism. It is anti-nihilistic, and pro-humanist and existentialist.

    • @tyleryoung9384
      @tyleryoung9384 4 роки тому +1

      Kemeticos dope comment

    • @dondragmer2412
      @dondragmer2412 4 роки тому +2

      @@mihailazar2487 If we ever do colonize Mars, which I highly doubt, it will take centuries. Not likely to even start for several decades.

  • @MacrossMike
    @MacrossMike 5 років тому +71

    I've tried reading Lovecraft but have never been able to read a few pages before giving up,partly because,I am mildly dyslexic but also because,I felt his wordsmithing was not up to,the monumental task of expressing his incredible imagination. This is why I love presentations like this and respect those who have painstakingly read his books then retold the stories contained within,in a far more palatable format. Cheers!!!!

    • @SoullessAIMusic
      @SoullessAIMusic Рік тому +1

      yeah lovecrafts oldish english is not friendly to dyslexics. Fun fact that is because dyslexics solely think in pictures so if they can't draw something in their head, like something they never experienced, seen, touched, heard, or interacted with, Dyslexics draw a big blank and have zero clue what the hell is going on.

    • @abnurtharn2927
      @abnurtharn2927 11 місяців тому

      @MacrossMike You also have audiobooks.

    • @bobbyrayvictory6905
      @bobbyrayvictory6905 8 місяців тому +1

      It's not just you, friend. Lovecraft was made fun of for that in his time. His word smithing is generally considered bad. But. He gave us the Cthulhu mythos which is his achievement. He wasn't the best at anything. But the Cthulhu mythos allowed for a whole genra to be created.

  • @krazytaxicabbie
    @krazytaxicabbie 8 років тому +64

    I'm a sucker for stories like this.

  • @poopertan
    @poopertan 8 років тому +814

    I love Lovecraft, but I do wonder if cosmic horror would impact the same way nowadays, would today's pessimistic worldview protect us from going crazy like most characters from his stories?

    • @elpinoles8340
      @elpinoles8340 7 років тому +98

      I found your comment very truthful and intersting so I'd like to quote it since I'm writing a paper on H. P. Lovecraft. Would you mind if I asked for your name so I can properly cite your words?

    • @poopertan
      @poopertan 7 років тому +40

      Yeah, is just George good enough?

    • @elpinoles8340
      @elpinoles8340 7 років тому +21

      poopertan It is enough George, however it would be best to have your lastname written instead.

    • @poopertan
      @poopertan 7 років тому +24

      Rigo Leyva Eh, kinda skeptical on the whole, give your last name out over the internet thing, but I guess that isnt too sensitive of information.

    • @elpinoles8340
      @elpinoles8340 7 років тому +12

      poopertan You don't have to if you don't want to.

  • @z0ttel89
    @z0ttel89 3 роки тому +7

    'The monsters! They're here, all over the walls!'
    That young man's played too much Bloodborne, smh....

  • @무설탕설탕
    @무설탕설탕 7 років тому +95

    Teke- LiLi!

    • @Mothbean
      @Mothbean 6 років тому +18

      TEKELI-LI! TEKELI-LI!

    • @RyunosukeHachi
      @RyunosukeHachi 4 роки тому +5

      There is a distinct lack of that here.

    • @chinofarmer85
      @chinofarmer85 3 роки тому +4

      @@RyunosukeHachi Pay attention. You can hear TEKELI-LI, TEKELI-LI.

  • @doppy8682
    @doppy8682 5 років тому +12

    Not to revive the comments section of a video made literally 3 years ago but, not gonna lie, the bit at the end with the mountain shifting into some horrible eldritch being got me.

  • @haremfanatic1014
    @haremfanatic1014 5 років тому +41

    7:08 Something tells me by what the window shows the side of a mountain, and how a giant horror couldn’t possibly be one.
    Going by the lore, it’s probably nylarthatep. Casually waving goodbye to our poor victim in the most horrid form with a twisted smile,

    • @ALANAD011
      @ALANAD011 5 років тому +7

      First of all you butchered the fuck out of that name, "Nyarlathotep" and second no I don't believe it was. Nyarlathotep lives in Egypt "Under the Pyramids" and when he emerges from hiding it is to cause chaos in populated areas like in the Poem.

    • @TyRiders2
      @TyRiders2 4 роки тому +1

      @@ALANAD011 It was a joke...

    • @DeepEye1994
      @DeepEye1994 4 роки тому

      Why not, Nyarlathotep is active, he takes different forms and he seems to enjoy inflicting pain on humans.

    • @RyunosukeHachi
      @RyunosukeHachi 3 роки тому +2

      @@ALANAD011 You forgot that Nyarlathotep does some traveling. He hung around New England for a while, making Keziah Mason (The Dreams in the Witch-House), Joseph Curwen, and Simon Orne (The Case of Charles Dexter Ward) into magical disciples, with the latter two serving Yog-Sothoth and the former remaining in his service.

  • @RiverSprite30
    @RiverSprite30 2 роки тому +12

    I'm quite impressed with how you illustrated the city. It's very similar to how I imagined it when reading the book. It's very difficult to put in illustration what HP Lovecraft is describing, and I greatly congratulate You and tip my hat to you for pulling it off. This is probably the best visual portrayal of one of HP Lovecraft cyclopian cities that one can get. Thank you :-)

  • @blackoceancreativeuniverse
    @blackoceancreativeuniverse 3 роки тому +50

    Finally, a Lovecraft story that doesn't take 3 hrs to listen to.

    • @deanthephilosopher9486
      @deanthephilosopher9486 2 роки тому +5

      The first two hours are always describing the architecture and background as-well

    • @blackoceancreativeuniverse
      @blackoceancreativeuniverse 2 роки тому

      @@deanthephilosopher9486 ADJECTIVE PORN

    • @prince-solomon
      @prince-solomon 2 роки тому

      Guess some people have the short attention span of a dayfly on crack combined with zero discipline and only a suggestion of intellectual curiosity.

    • @SoullessAIMusic
      @SoullessAIMusic Рік тому +2

      @@deanthephilosopher9486 and a good 10 mins of penguin hatred.

    • @Thor.Jorgensen
      @Thor.Jorgensen Рік тому +1

      @@SoullessAIMusic Well, we also never got to see the penguins, which the Elder Things deformed and mutated to become giant, blind, and serve as a form of nutrition for the Elder Things, who created this civilization.
      There is much detail about the world lost in all of this. A lot of lore and horror.

  • @charlespuruncajas9663
    @charlespuruncajas9663 3 роки тому +4

    Things I didn’t know I need but I NEED: a full animated film of Lovecraft’s Mountains of Madness

  • @TheRaccooning
    @TheRaccooning 6 років тому +5

    Probably the best visual representation of what Lovecraft meant when he described every shifting horrors like the Shoggoth, excellent work

  • @MrPhife333
    @MrPhife333 5 років тому +11

    I like the aesthetic of this production. I'd love to see Pixar hire you guys so you could all make some full length Lovecraftian features.

  • @gearandalthefirst7027
    @gearandalthefirst7027 7 років тому +24

    Tekeli-li, Tekeli-li!

  • @SpectrumDT
    @SpectrumDT 8 років тому +269

    Of all the Lovecraftian short films I have seen, this is one of the few that truly capture Lovecraft's cosmic perspective. Well done!
    I have one piece of criticism: The shoggoth shouldn't be shown so clearly. I would prefer to see only the occasional tentacle and perhaps a single very brief full-figure glimpse.
    I LOVED that final glimpse of what Danforth saw out of the window. The Elder Pharos! Yog-Sothoth! The Colour out of Space! \m/

    • @HotaruZoku
      @HotaruZoku 7 років тому +15

      Claus Appel I was waiting for it and it still scared the ever loving shit out of me.
      Talk about well handling a visual representation of "that which can not be described"

    • @galactusmonitor1977
      @galactusmonitor1977 5 років тому +1

      Yah

    • @pancakes246
      @pancakes246 5 років тому +16

      Lovecraft's true genius is the fact that he is able to create incredible terror without the aid of gore, jumpscares, or anything like that. Keeping the Shoggoth hidden would have been awesome, but it was still a really great film.

    • @arandomzoomer4837
      @arandomzoomer4837 4 роки тому +8

      @@pancakes246 I'd argue it's quite impressive for them to be able to show that level of horror fully. But my favorite part was the high pitched shrieking that made that thing seem terrifying and alien.

    • @hl8808
      @hl8808 4 роки тому +6

      Claus Appel yes the shoggoths were cool, I find it quite hard to envision some of lovecrafts scenes, I didn’t imagine them as that big, and I envisioned the shoggoth as coming up the strairs were the dead elder thing lay and came at them. I also thought the city would be a strip along the mountain range, not a unifying collection of buildings in a circle

  • @crucif0x
    @crucif0x 8 років тому +125

    Is it just me or does he look like Nigel Thornberry?

  • @alexandermrkich8734
    @alexandermrkich8734 Рік тому +14

    Nicely done. Wish it was longer.

  • @youngknight5589
    @youngknight5589 8 років тому +117

    Walt Disney pictures presents wait what this is too dark to put the disney charm on

    • @youngknight5589
      @youngknight5589 8 років тому +3

      Damn

    • @samahell9488
      @samahell9488 8 років тому +3

      Absolutely ! This kind of graphix is to cheap for that kinf of story .

    • @schechter01
      @schechter01 7 років тому +3

      "Walt Disney Pictures presents...wait, NO! AAAAAHHHHHH"

    • @gaintrobotsrulez
      @gaintrobotsrulez 6 років тому +2

      i dont know Atlantis was dark ish

    • @aleamiller4910
      @aleamiller4910 6 років тому +2

      I don't know. With the way some of the live action movies are doing, I could see them doing this one day. Besides look at The Little Mermaid, just think about those poor unfortunate souls in the garden.

  • @deborahcapuano1223
    @deborahcapuano1223 8 років тому +40

    "the spooky, spooky, shoggoths slithered up the waterspout..." (sorry couldn't resist LOL)

    • @jeffmusyoka1876
      @jeffmusyoka1876 6 років тому +5

      Deborah Capuano down came the madness anxiety and doubt🎶

    • @Richard-vu7kh
      @Richard-vu7kh 4 роки тому +1

      Jeff Musyoka - hahaha

    • @ratoim
      @ratoim 3 роки тому

      @@jeffmusyoka1876 Out fled the humans and the copilot's insane
      And the spooky, spooky, shoggoths slithered up the spout again

  • @Solo_Sessums
    @Solo_Sessums 7 років тому +1

    I loved the line "things that should not, COULD not exist."

  • @MillerAndrew-wt5jy
    @MillerAndrew-wt5jy 4 роки тому +7

    5:25 I loved him like a son, he was like a father to me ;-;

  • @nikiliophelia4973
    @nikiliophelia4973 8 років тому +94

    Nigel Thornberry in his youth

  • @simonskiprussell1472
    @simonskiprussell1472 6 років тому +6

    Bloody good work there chaps, please keep creating these short works of art, great for a 'little' alone time with both HPLOVECRAFT and his creatures, I'm impressed

  • @TreJowy
    @TreJowy Рік тому +3

    Someone needs to give you folks millions of dollars to make this into a full-length feature ASAP

  • @PixiePrincess501
    @PixiePrincess501 8 років тому +81

    That's Lovecraft for you! Very nice! I'd love to see an animation based on a story that was inspired by this one (completely different author, btw) It's called "The House on the Borderland." I've yet to finish reading it, but it would make for a very unsettling movie.

    • @peppermillers8361
      @peppermillers8361 8 років тому +1

      Giger is an artist.

    • @xavionbishop9322
      @xavionbishop9322 8 років тому +2

      The color from space

    • @Robert_Rankin
      @Robert_Rankin 7 років тому

      I have never read any books of H.P. Lovecraft just audio books and motion comics and i am in love with this mythos and this is my first time at the mountains of madness is it any good

    • @theinvisibleman1285
      @theinvisibleman1285 7 років тому +1

      Lovecraft himself listed "The House on the Borderland" as one his inspirations.

    • @brianartillery
      @brianartillery 4 роки тому

      William Hope Hodgson, who wrote the wonderfully dark 'Carnacki The Ghost Finder' stories, was the author of 'The House On The Borderland.'

  • @calebjohnson5058
    @calebjohnson5058 2 місяці тому

    I love the similarities between all different ways people see this world. From the same book yet it’s soo captivating sometimes

  • @Cam-jv7qy
    @Cam-jv7qy 4 місяці тому +1

    With the right crew and cast, this could've been the best horror movie ever made.

  • @noahconnors8001
    @noahconnors8001 3 роки тому +1

    At the Mountains of Madness, a heart warming Disney picture

  • @MrDrProfessor4
    @MrDrProfessor4 7 років тому +22

    That was really damned good. This deserves more views.

  • @JoeKerr019
    @JoeKerr019 8 років тому +61

    Please do more. Do The Whisperer in the Darkness or Dagon

    • @SpectrumDT
      @SpectrumDT 8 років тому +5

      +Joe Kerr : "Dagon" could make for a great short film. :)

    • @Tankdomain
      @Tankdomain 7 років тому +1

      There is a Dagon movie. Stewart Gordon directed it.

    • @SpectrumDT
      @SpectrumDT 7 років тому +5

      The "Dagon" movie is not based on Lovecraft's "Dagon". It is based on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".

    • @poxyclypse
      @poxyclypse 7 років тому +6

      Here is your Whisperer In Darkness
      www.hplhs.org/mptwid.php
      I want to see Shadow Out of Time.
      Dagon (the movie) is a crap version of Innsmouth. It had its moments, but the protagonist is insufferable.
      Re-animator was bearable, and there are good ideas in From Beyond. But they're still crap.
      Stuart Gordon, for all of his enthusiasm, did crap for Lovecraft.
      Carpenter did a better job at Lovecraftian with The Thing. And Mouth of Madness.
      Night Gallery did Pickman's Model, but my Goo-fu can't find a full version of it. Hulu has it.
      I don't think there has been a satisfactory movie of Lovecraft.
      H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's work comes closest. The have a great Call of Cthulhu.

  • @paulsternhagen1141
    @paulsternhagen1141 7 років тому +6

    Awesome cg. You did an especially excellent job capturing the pulsating Shoggoth.

  • @bendermender926
    @bendermender926 Рік тому

    "They were men, and this was their city." this video really contextualized the 4 hour audiobook for me. eldritch horror done very right

  • @opalthediloalt9595
    @opalthediloalt9595 7 років тому +1

    That thing... that's... PERFECT! TENTACLES, EYES, BUBBLES! PERFECT! It's just like something you would see in one of the books!...

  • @nslater1388
    @nslater1388 5 років тому +2

    Nice touch with the mountain warping at the end. Truly unsettling.

  • @Darkryers
    @Darkryers 8 років тому +148

    I didn't know it was Lovecraft until the last line. This was great!

    • @EthanFMiller
      @EthanFMiller 8 років тому

      +Sensible Sound Thanks!

    • @MattCrawley_Music
      @MattCrawley_Music 7 років тому +20

      Sensible Sound seriously, it's like his 2nd most famous work

    • @definesigint2823
      @definesigint2823 6 років тому

      Though I don't know much more than from the games, I assumed it was related to Lovecraft as it started, but didn't know until I idly scrolled down to your line :) [The Arkham stuff's a big hint, btw]

    • @leeroy2461
      @leeroy2461 6 років тому +1

      It’s the name of the book! At the mountains of madness! And you call yourself a fan?

    • @pancakes246
      @pancakes246 5 років тому +1

      You didn't know AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS was LOVECRAFT? Do you know who Lovecraft even is?? This book is legendary!

  • @annnichols3091
    @annnichols3091 Рік тому +3

    If you want to make me believe they're in Antarctica, have them wear gloves and mufflers, ear flaps down on that hat, and tinted goggles against snow blindness.

  • @duckman12569
    @duckman12569 5 років тому +1

    I love the child-like animation style.

  • @robertsides3626
    @robertsides3626 4 роки тому +1

    The internet has more cursed things on it than anything Cthulhu could throw at us nowadays.

  • @gkoh7503
    @gkoh7503 8 років тому +112

    Hey, I'm new into the Cthulu Mythos and I want to say that despite some animation model ideas, this was a pretty solid movie.
    I have to give credit to the voice actors. Very convincing.The ending monolgue was quite spooky. I must know. What did the other guy saw that make his scream like a head case. Was it Cthulu?

    • @stevenlopez4076
      @stevenlopez4076 8 років тому +17

      the nameless beast

    • @adlantian6334
      @adlantian6334 7 років тому +30

      I've heard others give convincing references/evidence that it is yog-sothoth, but I prefer the mystery of not knowing exactly. To me, the unspeakable, unquantifiable fear more closely mirrors what it would be like to experience a lovecraftian being.

    • @Phuzzylumpkinzz
      @Phuzzylumpkinzz 7 років тому +15

      its a "shoggoth" a servant of the "elder things" they were created as slaves to build their cities until they rebelled and one of theme laid dormant surviving the following genocide

    • @syrupsandwiches8664
      @syrupsandwiches8664 7 років тому +9

      he supposedly saw azathoth aka the nameless beast based on what the pilot said and the world lookin like it was turning into tentacles, sounds weird but look up azathoths lore

    • @AuntieInari
      @AuntieInari 6 років тому +41

      The book never tells. And in fact it was originally just a reflection he saw, and not the actual thing (whatever that was) but even the reflection of it was enough to drive him completely insane.
      It's been a while since I read it, but if I remember correctly, he saw something reflected in the clouds of ice above the mountain, that allowed him to see the entire area from a perspective it was impossible to achieve where they had been on the ground, and this "bigger picture" allowed him to grasp whatever it was in its entirety, something that no one else in the expedition had done, and was too much for him.

  • @lonnieveal9040
    @lonnieveal9040 8 років тому +2

    I like your rendition of a shoggoth. Plus the simplicity of the rendering gave a believable solidity to the story and characters.

  • @briankorbelik2873
    @briankorbelik2873 Місяць тому +1

    Yes, it did give a very good taste of Lovecraft's worlds.

  • @sprypinegames5390
    @sprypinegames5390 4 роки тому +2

    Just finished reading this, my first lovecraft story. All I have to say...is wow....

  • @chriswilliams7928
    @chriswilliams7928 3 роки тому +1

    This animation has portrayed the true horror of the great old ones. Which is more than can be said for any cinematic effort at a h p lovecraft story that I have ever seen.

  • @OroborusFMA
    @OroborusFMA 3 роки тому +3

    A super condensed version of the novella but extremely well done.

  • @3rdedk
    @3rdedk 7 років тому +7

    One of my favorite Lovecraft stories. For a short, this is really well done and a great concept; I've always wanted to see a proper full-length film done on this story, even if it has to be CGI

  • @MistCellaneous-5
    @MistCellaneous-5 6 років тому

    Finally, some gore and violence in an animated movie that isn’t family guy and anime.

  • @jmaan3
    @jmaan3 8 років тому +1

    Holy shit that was awesome. Dude if I won the lottery tomorrow I'd pay you guys to make a full version of this that covered the entire book, I've been dying for a movie version of this story for years. Please do more HP Lovecraft related videos in the future.

  • @_lithp
    @_lithp 8 років тому +1

    Usually, the story doesn't measure up to the animation, but this time it is the other way around.

  • @About9000
    @About9000 5 років тому +6

    that was a pretty good shoggoth

  • @DonPeyote420
    @DonPeyote420 6 років тому +1

    I love the character design lol :D William Dyer, the brave mustache-wearing pilot Indiana Jones type who's so tough he's not wearing a hat in Antarctic, and dorky Lake with his Harry Potter glasses :D it's great!

  • @BillyButton63
    @BillyButton63 6 років тому

    This should have been a FULL movie.

  • @Astrithor
    @Astrithor 7 років тому +1

    I would love to see you guys given some more funding and thechance to make a longer video. It seems obvious to me that you understand exactly how a Lovecraftian story should be translated to a visual medium.
    The only suggestion I would make, and it's so minor a thing that I would hardly call it a critique, I'd that you not include a full body shot of the shoggoth, or any unspeakable element, in future endeavours. The way you did it at first was perfect: small glimpses of different parts that give indications of the thing without painting a full picture, ending with a blurred indication of the immensity and complexity of it. What I mean is this: Lovecraft doesn't do "full reveals"; he gives you pieces from which the whole must be imagined, allowing the horror that IS human imagination to take it's course.
    Still, incredibly well done and faithful, while not being a total rehash. Bravo, sirs.

  • @nobodyofimportance3922
    @nobodyofimportance3922 6 років тому +3

    The Shoggoth was always my favorite Lovecraft abomination.

  • @1959Edsel
    @1959Edsel 7 років тому +2

    I like the way an unsettled state of mind is shown by misalignment of the color channels. Subtle but intuitive.

  • @bradpotts1747
    @bradpotts1747 7 років тому +1

    i found this short to be the most enjoyable cinematic experience related to Lovecraft's work that i have seen. well done on the voice acting and my hat is off to the designer as well as any and all animators. [ i believe even the surgical appearance of the dismemberment of those bodies found in the tent falls in line with the novels description. ]

  • @jakewallis7829
    @jakewallis7829 3 роки тому +1

    Really enjoyed the depiction of the shoggoth here. Simple but effective.

  • @jokingswood
    @jokingswood 8 років тому +5

    Really good depiction of a Shoggoth

  • @John-qx4ul
    @John-qx4ul Рік тому +6

    Well done. Please make more.

  • @CrossBorderNerds
    @CrossBorderNerds 7 років тому +8

    Tekeli-li, tekeli-li.

  • @z0ttel89
    @z0ttel89 5 років тому +3

    dude, this was AMAZING! One of the best Lovecraft interpretations I've seen on UA-cam :)

  • @Dethclaus
    @Dethclaus 8 років тому +24

    I love me some Lovecraft.

  • @CommodoreChauncy
    @CommodoreChauncy 5 років тому +2

    Loved it, this is easily my favorite Lovecraft tale. If you guys are considering ideas for the future, The Colour Out of Space would be an amazing one to see.

  • @codytaylor6839
    @codytaylor6839 7 років тому

    I can believe that story can led people into madness.

  • @Typhus47
    @Typhus47 4 роки тому

    Wealth beyond measure, awarded to the brave and the foolhardy alike.

  • @soylentgreen6082
    @soylentgreen6082 8 років тому +1

    Kelly Lee Shoggoth wants a date with Danforth. Great work guys, you captured the essence of the story quite well in 8 minutes.

  • @reggielovato9525
    @reggielovato9525 3 роки тому +1

    I would love to see a proper movie-length version of this!

    • @gustavogutierrez6568
      @gustavogutierrez6568 3 роки тому

      Guillermo del thoro was supposed to make it but i think is now more interested in the call of cthullu

  • @arandomzoomer4837
    @arandomzoomer4837 4 роки тому

    What you see here is the difference between a player who fails his sanity checks and a player who manages to succeed enough of them to progress in the story.

  • @daneastwood764
    @daneastwood764 7 років тому

    that short was better then 90% of the movies out there based on H.P Lovecraft. That really encapsulated the "unknown horror". kudos guys. kudos.

  • @OVETMUSIC
    @OVETMUSIC 7 років тому +1

    Please make a full movie. This is just awesome!!!

  • @luthermcgee7297
    @luthermcgee7297 3 роки тому

    Someday, somebody is going to make a really good video of an old one just like this one of the shoggoth.

    • @larrymarso4492
      @larrymarso4492 5 місяців тому

      miss the opening shot of the ice block?

  • @-Rook-
    @-Rook- 8 років тому +4

    Cool work, a nice rendition of the story. I like the Shoggoth it fits its description well.

  • @zeromoga
    @zeromoga 8 років тому +1

    Excellently done. I think that's my favorite verbal presentation of the "Tekel-li!" I've heard.

  • @slippytrippy8122
    @slippytrippy8122 Рік тому

    the last frame was really good

  • @brandonadrian1848
    @brandonadrian1848 2 роки тому

    Wow, goosebumps, yo that ending. Amazing

  • @JVarley9001
    @JVarley9001 7 років тому +4

    I like the cartoony character design, good way to avoid the Uncanny Valley in the protagonists.

  • @Duchess_Van_Hoof
    @Duchess_Van_Hoof 3 роки тому

    Exceptional job on the Shoggoth.

  • @kamisfx12
    @kamisfx12 5 років тому +6

    can you do a shadow over innsmouth one?

  • @michaelmellon7759
    @michaelmellon7759 3 роки тому

    Most impressive. Lovecraft would be proud.

  • @Boogie_the_cat
    @Boogie_the_cat 8 місяців тому

    Just reminds me of the twist of the knife in the story (unmentioned in this short) about how besides killing everyone, the elder things also performed an amateur autopsy on a party member. And there were penguins.

  • @RootsLion
    @RootsLion 4 роки тому

    THIS NEEEDS TO BE A FULL LENGTH MOVIE ...AWESOME WORK

  • @homeslipper
    @homeslipper 4 роки тому

    The minute Cthulhu came out I loved that craft.

  • @benjaminbruhn4360
    @benjaminbruhn4360 7 років тому +1

    Amazing! Would love to see a 90 minute version. Great conversion of the story into a short!

  • @Morghash13
    @Morghash13 7 років тому +2

    I missed the blind penguins, and the claustrophobic atmosphere of them running in a corridor when the Shoggot chases them making that noise like a piston compressing the air... But who cares about these details! I think these are the good part of reading the book: everyone focuses on something particular. The work is really well made. I like alot the characters, the general atmosphere and the camera angles. You made a nice gift to all the Lovecraft's lovers!
    So, now... Where are those damn blind penguins?

  • @galactusmonitor1977
    @galactusmonitor1977 5 років тому

    Lovecraftian horror is the absolute best horror genre