HALLOWEEN: Lovecraft Movie Moment #3 - King Kong and The Call of Cthulhu

3. Racism

King Kong, Merian C. Cooper   1933
The Call of Cthulhu, Andrew Leven   2005

Suddenly a ray of physical light shot through these phantasms, and Malone heard the sound of oars amidst the blasphemies of things that should be dead.

A boat with a lantern in its prow darted into sight, made fast to an iron ring in the slimy stone pier, and vomited forth several dark men bearing a long burden...

They took it to the...thing on the carved golden pedestal...

The strange dark men danced in the rear, and the whole column skipped and leaped with Dionysiac fury.  Malone staggered after them a few steps, delirious and hazy, and doubtful of his place in this or in any world.

Vaguely he was conscious of chanted horrors and shocking croakings afar off.  Now and then a wail or whine of ceremonial devotion would float to him through the black arcade...

"The Horror at Red Hook" 

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04. Cthulhu - "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
05. The Mist - "Dagon"
06. The Thing - "At the Mountains of Madness"
07. The Little Mermaid - "The Call of Cthulhu"
08. Dagon - "The Temple"
09. The Descent - "The Lurking Fear"
10. Hellboy - "The Other Gods"
11. Ghostbusters - "The Dunwich Horror"
12. From Beyond - "From Beyond"
13. Vampyr - "The Silver Key"
14. Evil Dead II - "History of the Necronomicon"
15. The X-Files: Fight the Future - "At the Mountains of Madness"