Cthulhu and the Reich

[skorzeny]

This was a nice little find: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0M4xRwbs8

[xeoran]

Very interesting though frankly the guys should have gone on longer to make it seem more "real". As it is the disjointed camerawork and picture quality shows its a fake. Well executed nonetheless. Love the heavy goggled look, theres a head pack I'd love to see.

[tordenskjold]

Very cool, given that it is (I assume) amateur work, it really have a high quality. Though the sign held up at the beginning of the footage makes it too obviously fake, and some uniform details aren't as they should be.

Also, any of you guys spotted who is listed as a member of the experiment 17 team? A certain Mattias Kronen ;D

[xeoran]

Haha! Kroenen! ;D Good eyes Tord.

I think it would have worked better if at the point where the spell goes wrong (or right, depending upon your viewpoint) they should have lit a flashbang (or something similarly bright) and thrown down some smoke (ex-US army smoke grenades are quite cheap if you know where to go) then had the camera "dropped" and left on the floor so all you can see is smoke, weird lights and occasionally feet, flying limbs, blood and possibly a tentacle or two.

I think its independant professional work.

[tordenskjold]

Good points, some pictures of inhuman shapes from strange angles would have added to the horror, and judging by what resources they seemed to have at their disposal a tentacle or two wouldn't be hard to make. Is it just me, or would it have been good to see some of the scientists being dragged screaming away from the picture by an unseen assailant?

By the way, where exactly can you get those smoke greandes? I am going to a party next week and... forget it, that would probably be illegal.

[xeoran]

Well old Army Surplus stores are pretty good (though a little scary...last one I was in, back in Germany [long story, basicly I needed cheap warm clothing and that was the only place with it] had a radio blaring something about cannibalism and a 6ft guy with sideburns fondling a gun in a chair....) for finding smoke grenades. Nearly impossible here in the UK though. Dry ice is always a possibility and flare guns are easy to find. Illegal- probably but hasnt stopped me yet. Here the UK far too many things are illegal. Technically me practicing Parkour is illegal.

Yeah, tentacles would have been fun. Screaming scientists would have been great too- perhaps one clawing at the camera on the ground screaming something about Cthulu and then getting dragged away whimpering "Mein Fuhreur....mein Fuh...".

[kousa]

had to post it ;D

nice video btw, very well done except for the last test part

[tuska]

HELL YEAH Cthulhu+Nazis <3 just have to love, actaly Lovecraft did write some storys that did invole Germans, but that was for WW1

[skorzeny]

Yes, but 'The Temple' wasn't one of his better efforts and the Germans in that story were, well, very much the one-dimensional pulp villain variety.

[tuska]

I did like it, but the Translation to finnish might be good for that novel....
But i relly hope the "Occult War" to be heavly in to Cthulhu Myhtos.
German neads more Shoggoths!

[LibrarianBrent]

skorzeny said:

Yes, but 'The Temple' wasn't one of his better efforts and the Germans in that story were, well, very much the one-dimensional pulp villain variety.

I liked the one that was set on a U-Boat, forget what it was called though.

[skorzeny]

Actually that's the story we've been discussing; 'The Temple'.

[tuska]

Yeah the one on the U-boat was naimed Tempel

[kampfgruppe cottrell]

Here is a battle report we had a while back that you guys might be interested in.

Brian

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