''Call Girl of Cthulhu'' is a 2014 independently made

horror film Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apoca ...

from Midnight Crew Studios that was directed by Chris LaMartina and stars David Phillip Carollo, Melissa O'Brien, and Nicolette le Faye. The film was distributed by Camp Motion Pictures and had its world premiere on May 8, 2014 at the

Maryland Film Festival The Maryland Film Festival is an annual five-day international film festival taking place each May in Baltimore, Maryland. The festival was launched in 1999, and presents international film and video work of all lengths and genres. The festival ...

. An artist falls in love with a woman who ends up being the chosen bride of

Cthulhu Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first introduced in his short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published by the American pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' in 1928. Considered a Great Old One within the pan ...

. The film is very loosely based on the writings of H. P. Lovecraft. ''Call Girl of Cthulhu'' makes reference to LaMartina's '' WNUF Halloween Special'' via the Shining Trapeze Strip Club, which is featured in a commercial shown during the film. Virgin artist Carter (David Phillip Carollo) wants desperately to lose his virginity, but only to the right person. He thinks he has found the right person in Riley (Melissa O'Brien), a

call girl A call girl or female escort is a sex worker who (unlike a street walker) does not display her profession to the general public, nor does she usually work in an institution like a brothel, although she may be employed by an escort agency.< ...

with a strange birthmark on her right buttock. Carter's dreams of romance are soon ruined, as several Cthulhu-worshiping cultists of the Church of Starry Wisdom see this birthmark as a sign that Riley is destined to become the bride of Cthulhu and bear his child. It is up to Carter, aided by Edna Curwen (Helenmary Ball) and Squid (Sabrina Taylor-Smith), to find a way (with the aid of a spell from the ''

Necronomicon The ', also referred to as the ''Book of the Dead'', or under a purported original Arabic title of ', is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in stories by the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers. It was first menti ...

'') to stop the cult from fulfilling their plan to mate Riley to the Great Old One.

In-jokes

The film contains numerous in-jokes referencing the names of Lovecraft stories and characters, including

Deep Ones The Deep Ones are creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The beings first appeared in Lovecraft's novella ''The Shadow over Innsmouth'' (1931), but were already hinted at in the early short story "Dagon". The Deep Ones are a race o ...

condoms and

Cool Air "Cool Air" is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of ''Tales of Magic and Mystery (magazine), Tales of Magic and Mystery''. Plot The narrator offers a ...

aerosol.

Cast

*David Phillip Carollo as Carter Wilcox *Melissa O'Brien as Riley Whatley *Nicolette le Faye as Erica Zann *Dave Gamble as Sebastian Suydum *Helenmary Ball as Professor Edna Curwen *Sabrina Taylor-Smith as Squid *Alex Mendez as Rick 'The Dick' Pickman *Craig Peter Coletta as Wilbur *Elena Rose as Whitney *George Stover as Walter Delapore *Leanna Chamish as Detective Rita LaGrassi *Troy Jennings as Ashton Eibon *Stephanie Anders as Missy Katonixx *Ruby Larocca as Billie *Scarlett Storm as Georgia

Reception

''Daily Dead'' gave ''Call Girl of Cthulhu'' a score of 3.5 (out of 5), stating that while the film was "not for everyone", it would appeal to "those of you Lovecraft (and horror) fans out there looking for something just a little bit outside the norm". ''

Fangoria ''Fangoria'' is an internationally distributed American horror film fan magazine, in publication since 1979. It is published four times a year by Fangoria Publishing, LLC and is edited by Phil Nobile Jr. The magazine was originally released i ...

'' rated the film "three out of four skulls" and praised its acting.

References

External links

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2014 films 2014 horror films Cthulhu Mythos films 2010s English-language films