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Besides some interesting tidbits of the writing for "The Curse" that was a no-nothing interview.

"'I was trained that you are supposed to make personal films. You are supposed to do as much of it as you can. We learned in film school to do all of it: the camera, the editing, the lighting, directing, writing, and even acting.'"
I think that George Lucas and Steven Spielberg was brought up in the same way. That's why their films are so beloved. Pity this style of teaching isn't done in film school anymore.

An interview with John Carpenter! Cool!

So, the first interview is on the composer for the Re-Animator trilogy, Castle Freak, From Beyond, and The Resurrected, all of which are inspired this book.

Now we come to the final section of the book: the interviews of what I'm guessing to be of various people who worked in these different productions.

The next few pages are all filled with production art, movie stills, and promotional posters for the various films.

"The Real Ghostbusters" animated show apparently had a couple of episodes inspired by the Cthulhu mythos. BTW, this show was based off of the OG Ghostbusters, and not the 90s group that had a more diverse cast.

"Lovecraft then rhapsodizes about his three great loves: 1) of the strange and the fantastic, 2) of abstract truth and scientific logic, 3) of the ancient and the permenant." Pretty sure his education was interrupted a lot as a child and he probably had anxiety fits due to large, crowded places like schools.

An alien, one-eyed monster that can suck out the brains of people, but their victims are still capable of walking and speaking? The heck?

So, this Japanese TV movie version of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" was made in 1992 and at the time of this writing, there has been no subtitles or dubbing in English? I wonder if that has changed in the 33 years since?