QCA Film: Cthulhu

Finally! A genuinely creepy horror movie with hot man-on-man action! If you’re looking for some screams this fall, check out Cthulhu. After his mom passes, Russ (Jason Cottle), a thirty-ish history professor, returns to his seaside hometown determined to be himself. His family still disapproves of his being “a gay,” but they want him to stick around, and he’s not sure why. But reconnecting with his painfully closeted ex-lover, Mike (Scott Patrick Green), sure does sweeten the deal…
Sweetens, that is, until the simmering darkness boils over in a plot involving ancient sacrificial cults, humanoids sea creatures, and a handful of grisly deaths (though we haven’t seen it, we’re betting poor Mike doesn’t make it). According to the comprehensive review atAfterElton.com, it’s both a legitimate horror movie and a legitimate gay movie, doing both genres justice. And if that’s not enough, it’s even got old 90210 star Tori Spelling as a coquettish lady friend—how can you go wrong with Donna Summers?
For those of you in the know, the Cthulhu Mythos is the brainchild of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft. Cthulhu is a terrible god-demon from a very ancient, trans-dimensional realm who lies “dead, but dreaming” at the bottom of the ocean. Though the Lord himself never appears in this film (damn!), the film seems to capture the spirit of Lovecraft’s horror with its cult storyline and chilling atmospherics. It’s a beautifully shot film and one that will make you clutch your own lover or friend tight, screaming “DON’T LET THEM TAKE ME!!!”
Are you brave enough to look Lord Cthulhu in the face, after the jump?

Lord Cthulhu sets a mean table and when the demon god wakes up from his slumber at the depths of the ocean city, R’lyeh, you had best watch your ass. Cuz’ he’s gonna be coming for you (and the rest of humankind). The guy even despises his followers… rad! – picture taken from Summer Of Lovecraft
Here’s a description of Lord Cthulhu from Wikipedia: “One, constructed by an artist after a series of baleful dreams, is said to have “yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature…. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings.” Another, recovered by police from a raid on a murderous cult, “represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.”