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Authors Note: This is Part 7 of an ongoing series. It is fitting that we save this text for last as it brings the article full circle and back to the plot of The Shadow over Innsmouth. Cthulhu is a film which loosely adapts TSOI and presents it in modern times.

While the queer themes in the film split viewers, it has garnered a following and an appreciation in the last few years. Film critic Steve Barton of Dread Central writes that the film is:. Lovecraft film. They do this not only through the dialogue and acting but predominantly in this opening scene through the cinematography.

Behind him in his bed, a young man stirs. We gay chuthulu then shown several shots of him driving home alone, the film wants to make it very clear the loneliness Russ embodies. Nobody gets away dude! No one! These boys act as a herald to Russ, paradoxically both a call to adventure as Vogler and Campbell would say, and a warning to turn away from the gay chuthulu knowledge he is beginning to approach.

Outside the wake, Russ stands amongst the beach grasses and looks down at the ocean. His father joins him briefly, places a hand on his shoulder in comfort. Russ immediately walks away from him and walks through the township arriving shortly thereafter at an old boat house on another section of the beach.

This building is insinuated through the use of flashbacks to be a place Russ and his friends hung out in as a teenager. However, upon breaking and entering into the boat house as an adult, he discovers the inside of the building scrawled with first and last names of people unknown to him, other than one name that will become important very shortly.

About to leave, Russ notices something similar to a funeral procession of hooded members presumably from the Esoteric order of Dagon, marching down the docks towards the Boat House entrance. Russ manages to escape the building unnoticed by heading through a trapdoor and onto a small boat that he rows ashore.

That evening, reunites with the face to the name he recognized inside the boat house — Mike. His best friend from his teenage years, who it is revealed once again through the use of flashbacks had some kind of a sexual relationship with Russ, which may have become at one point unrequited love, causing Russ to attempt suicide.

The next night Russ attends dinner with his father, where probably some of the best dialogue in the film is uttered, and ties perfectly into our analysis here:. Stay out of this. Look I can back for sisters sake and for my mum sister these are sensational rolls. Yes, I am. But apparently that is the only way I can get through a dinner with you.

These scene highlights through the use of a kind of satirical lens to audiences the absurdity of what goes on between many Christian families and their gay children every day around the world: We wanted grandchildren, We want you to gay chuthulu a family, etc. As Hain writes this scene and the film in general uses the horror of a Cthulhu cult to paint a picture of forced or at the very least, peer-pressured conversion from queerness to heterosexuality.

The next evening Russ is introduced by his sister to her friend Susan, trying to blatantly set him up with her.

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Russ discovers through conversation with Susan that she is married and her husband a paraplegic is a huge history buff with a whole book written on the cudgel Russ has shown her from his dream. She invites Russ around to meet him and discuss the object. What follows is a frenzied conversation, rivaling the dialogue of the family dinner a few nights prior.