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Call Sign Of Cthulhu

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (10)

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You know what sucks about Altitude, the new film coming straight to DVD later this month? It is, in all likelihood, going to be mediocre at best. And yet, I will watch it all the way through, eagerly wading through what looks like fairly derivative dialogue and plotting, just to see the big reveal of the airborne Godtopus-on-crack monster.

I’m pretty sure that’s what the folks at Anchor Bay are banking on. If it actually ends up being good, well we’ll just call that a bonus.

Anyway, the merry band of reprobates over at Bloody Disgusting have scored a couple of clips. Honestly, I like the concept — it’s essentially another tin can movie, only it’s kids stuck in a plane that’s lost its bearings and is suffering from instrument failure, while something big (really big) is stalking them through the sky. All we know is it’s tentacled, and it’s pissed.

Check the clips.

(h/t: The Wakeful)









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Comments

Your fears of mediocrity are well founded as that describes the flick as a whole. Until they explain why this is happening and the ending, then it just becomes fucking stupid.

Posted by: digitalboy at October 13, 2010 9:14 AM

I just hope Godtopus has the self-confidence to keep slogging through these mediocre projects so that he can become the leading man we so desperately need in Hollywood.

Posted by: Robert at October 13, 2010 9:16 AM

I know they're just short clips, but the acting is REALLY bad.

Posted by: superasente at October 13, 2010 9:20 AM

I see Keanu Reeves has a new pupil in the actor riding shotgun in the first clip. His vapid expression recalls many wonderful moments from the '90s when Johnny Utah was slack-jawing his way into my heart.

Carry the torch proudly, young stallion.

Posted by: Kballs at October 13, 2010 9:33 AM

Who the fuck let the hot chick fly the plane?

Posted by: superking at October 13, 2010 10:34 AM

So we've graduated from "Idiots on a Ski Lift" to "Airheads on a Plane".

What's next, four bozos trapped in the ball pit at Chuck E. Cheese's?

Posted by: bleujayone at October 13, 2010 11:06 AM

What's next, four bozos trapped in the ball pit at Chuck E. Cheese's?

*crumples up screenplay* Damn it!

Posted by: PaulterA at October 13, 2010 12:06 PM

HEY! Godtopus gotta eat! You think s/he-it's paying the bills on 'mad props' and box-wine fumes?

Ingrates.

Posted by: replica at October 13, 2010 12:55 PM

Yankee Zulu X-ray is their call sign?
There's a "glitch" in their pitot-static instruments?
Who was the aviation advisor on this project?

Ice Man?

You are dangerous.

Posted by: NJ at October 13, 2010 4:33 PM

Okay.

Can the squid act?

I hope this screens on late night TV some time, because I can't afford this movie. If I'm at the DVD rental store on two for one tuesday, I'm sure there'll be something more deserving of the pittance I have to my name than this. I just can't, in good conscience, even hire a movie that doesn't take my needs into account when casting its actors. But I kinda, really want to see this, because I'm cookoo for Cthulhu-puffs!

SPOILERS (for other movies, and possibly this one): I'm guessing the twist is something like in The Sphere and Phantoms, i.e. one of them creates Cthulhu out of the Weird Tales stories I saw someone reading in a previous clip.

Posted by: DarthBrookes at October 13, 2010 6:22 PM