''Cool Air'' is a 1999 black-and-white

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 ...

directed by and starring Bryan Moore, and co-starring

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, with cinematography by Michael Bratkowski. It is based on the short story "

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 ...

" by H. P. Lovecraft. This film is the start of a multi-volume series called ''The H.P. Lovecraft Collection''. The series is supposed to feature the best of the films submitted at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.

Plot

In the 1920s, impoverished horror writer

Randolph Carter Randolph Carter is a recurring fictional character in H. P. Lovecraft's fiction and is, presumably, an alter ego of Lovecraft himself. The character first appears in "The Statement of Randolph Carter", a short story Lovecraft wrote in 1919 bas ...

rents a room from Mrs. Caprezzi, an elderly landlady. Not long after settling into the shabby and almost bare room, he discovers a pool of ammonia on the floor that has leaked down from the room above. Mrs. Caprezzi, while cleaning up the ammonia, regales Randolph with strange stories of Dr. Muñoz (Jack Donner), the eccentric old gentleman who lives in the room upstairs. Later, Randolph suffers a heart attack and painfully makes his way to the doctor's room where he is treated with an unconventional medicine and makes a remarkable recovery. Befriending the doctor, Carter soon discovers the awful truth about the doctor's condition, why his room is kept intensely cold, and the fragile line that separates life and death.

Cast

*Bryan Moore as Randolph Carter *

as Doctor Muñoz *Vera Lockwood as Mrs. Caprezzi *

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as Street Bum *Ron Ford as Repairman

Production

''Cool Air'' was filmed on location in

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, USA over several weekends, using a CP-16R regular 16mm camera package owned by DP Michael Bratkowski. The film was shot on Ilford Black and White regular 16mm film stock.

References

External links

Lurker Films (distributor)
* 1999 films Films based on works by H. P. Lovecraft American science fiction horror films American black-and-white films 1999 horror films 1990s English-language films Films based on short fiction Films set in California 1990s science fiction horror films Films shot in 16 mm film 1990s American films {{sf-horror-film-stub