Samuel Peterson’s Reviews > The Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to Lovecraftian Cinema > Status Update

I wish that they put the pictures of the short films next to their corresponding names so I could identify them.

The final section is "Short Films" and then I'll be done with this book today!
Which, I'm happy about because I've got one more Redwall book I need to read from the library and I just got the manga version of Frankenstein that I want to read after seeing the movie.

And another example of Hollywood scamming people. This is why I'm staying away from Hollywood. Or, at the very least, do some research on companies there that are more equitable before sending in a résumé.

Bernie Writghtson is another artist I will have to check. His sketches here of the Deep Ones look cool.

[Tom Sullivan]"A Nazi bitch named Ilse Koch enjoyed skinning the prisoners of her husband's concentration camp. She made lamp shades, curtains, and book covers, and other items with the human tissue."
Of all of the Holocaust information that I've read up on, how did this slip by me all this time?! Fuck!

FUCK HOLLYWOOD ACCOUNTING!!!!!!!!! This was in the 70s too, so just before the court case that brought this sort of thing to the public eye. The thing is, it didn't stop it from happening in the future. The shady, unethical bookkeeping that Hollywood does is still happening in all major studios.

So, Tom Sullivan was an artist who did a lot of Cthulhu-inspired artwork including a game. I have a book that is a collection of various artwork like this, so I'll have to check it to see if he's in there and what he did.

[Stephen Parsons]"People love characters that are amoral, unethical, sweaty villains; they always love these characters. Yet the people who give the green light to this stuff go, 'Well, we must have likable.'"
I do get this. But I do think it's a little bit of both. The distributors tend to look at marketability of films and characters, especially outside of American culture. They also look at trends.

That's pre-Internet Hollywood for you. You do any independent work, and if you want to make money off of the overseas market, you have to go through a Hollywood distributor, and they don't honor any agreements to give money back to the actual creator unless it's in writing.

Oooh, a Puppet Master reference.