Please add to the ranks of the gay film classics (The Bird Cage, The Crying Game, et cetera, et cetera)- Cthulhu: or Welcome Home to the End of the World (2008)I first learned about this movie the same way I learn everything about Cthulhu, throught ambient noise, the only way anything Lovecraftian seems to travel. As if from the belly of some long lost god-creature my T.V. set, unaccompanied by my attentions, ran an ad for Here!- Gay Television on Demand . And through the waves of radiation something in the Cthulhu center of my brain, along with my Gaydar, was triggered and I heard the call of the beast; the call of gay Cthulhu.
It'd seem that sometime in the sadly Dickianless movie making period of 07-08 a littl Lovecraft novella called "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" was adapted by the up-and-coming gay production company and cable channel Here!. From what I understand the movie is a two way metaphor where the fear and pressure that Russ (the films gay protagonist) faces when returning home to his small-town roots in order to attend to his mothers estate is matched by the realization that his father is part of the Cult of Cthulhu, a cult that worships the greatest evil know in the universe, a large, flightless bird, generally found hibernating in the Pacific Ocean in the submerged ancient city of R'lyeh, who is most assuredly the sign of the end of days. It's pretty scary stuff.
Now truth be told I haven't seen this movie, as of yet, so I cannot say for sure that Cthulhu is gay in this movie, or if it even makes an appearance at all. But I'm hoping he does, and I'm hoping for some gay-tentacle love finally done tastefully.
PSA: National Coming out Day is October 11th. Remember, you've got a friend in BSD.
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