Cthulu - The Stranger - Review - 0911

BRIDESHEAD REVISITED PORTLAND THE OREGONIAN SHAWN LEVY MENTION- OPENING THIS WEEK JULY 27 2008 COLOR PHOTO PAGE 1 OF 1

NICOLA DOVE!MIRAMAX FILMS

Ben Whlshaw (left) and Matthew Goode have a stylish commune with nature In "Brldeshead Revisited."

It's not all howlers on screen

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"Brldeshead ,Re~~lted" Evelyn _ Waugl1's mournful masterpiece about the slow crumbling of an ar­ istocratic family comes to the big screen for the first time 27 years after the famed TV miniseries.

CTHULU SEATILE THE STRANGER PAUL CONSTANT REVIEW NEGATIVE SEPTEMBER 11, 2008 B & W PHOTO PAGE 1 OF 1

CTHULHU

Ard",,,,,,, gay. j.t.St plain dumb.

Cthulhu

dir. Dan GUdatk COlt/li'" has bi!en trumpeted in t.h p~gl!:l of TM SITOllger for ye.vs now: Grant COg5weU is" contributor to our paper, and the arduous making of tM gay.themed horror film hIlS been painstak­ ingly documented from our 0Im .(,ction to a V"l'y good rnllldng-of feature by ~'e11 two months ago to a 2OO1i Drunk of the Week rameo (Ton Spelling ng "Elern.cU nUDC" at the Bu, top's kti­ tutional sh:u;oe that I admit Cthulh u i.< a poorly mad'" fiIul "ith almost no merits. The "a!most­ hen:: reI"," to the cinem;lt,ognp~'by Scan Kirb): wbieb is, at times. beautiful But e\·erythingcl<;e is shit. The pacing is ~wk­ wlW!. the roslUmes aN embarrassing, and the dialogue is wooden and j lISt prain dumb. Waggish critics will probabl)' comment that 'Ibn Spelling pUIS in th" be< perfornunc:e of the 100";", but thaI's a lazy zinger. Her aoring is exactly :IS b3d as ~eryone clsc's. The worst part is lhat. fiJmInakers arc tr)ing 50 ha:rd 10 lll'lil11ly tran.<;cend !be apocaI)-ptic oonm­ ~ coTllJ11ent, through little parodies and &ill·aWllre digs. that they're malting a "real" T1J(lI'ie ,,'th "n'al"lhemes---til>.t they wound up Jll'lducing a 00. r tIlO\;;' that's IJ()\ .in the least hilfrighten­ ing, Cth>