This is pretty fucking awful - my brain hurts. Badly. Pass the scotch.

REALLY...REALLY...well I guess the CW just might pass FOX someday for the "puttingout all kinds of crap till something sticks" TV channel. I mean, just how did reaper get a 2nd season anyway? Also, is anyone out ther actually wacthing Chuck?...Sorry went off on tangent, this show looks horrible, tired, and will not find an audience.

Goddammit...

Oh good Azathoth no. I will watch this, just as I have continued to watch Dollhouse, because no matter how bad it is I will read it/watch it/buy it if it's Lovecraft-based (even if very tenuously), but I won't enjoy it!

Though a single joke about someone's STDs and Y'Golonac will justify the entire series, so long as they just leave the comment as is, without ruining it by explaining it.

Hopefully they can get one of the Jonas brothers to play Kyle Cthulhu, heart-throb physics major and all-star badminton pro who schemes behind Herbert West's back to steal his girlfriend and take control of student council once and for all. They should also change Miskatonic University to Miskatonic High School and have Yog-Sothoth be the wacky janitor.

Wow. Abercrombie and Fitch models mixing with the undead, but not in the good "zombie eats naked coed" kind of way.

I also wasn't aware H.P. Lovecraft's writing was going for "charismatic, sexy, and dangerous".

I know this doesn't go with the "gee this'll suck" mean spirtedness of the coverage but THIS LOOKS AWESOME!...at least in my head. There is no way in hell any CW show will have a fraction of the gore'n'boobs of the movie or the brains of the Lovecraft stories, but until it comes out and disapoints us all, my immagination is going wild with Gossip Girl/One Tree Hill/Evil Dead mash-up maddness!

You know, as easy as it would be (with today's technology) to make a truly amazing series revolving around the Lovecraft stories (mythos and non-mythos alike), to see crap like this makes me wonder why they just didn't dust off Jeffrey Combs and be done with it.

And to use Herbert West of ALL characters! What a minor story when all things are considered. Why not take Randolph Carter and focus the series on him, Arkham, and Miskatonic University as a whole?

Total missed opportunity to FINALLY do Lovecraft right. He's not to be hip and trendy, he's to set your mind a screaming.

Pretty pretty
Pretty white kids with problems
And they have problems too.

This will do for HP Lovecraft what Charmed did for witchcraft.

What.

The.

Hell.

I just can't deal with this shit. It's just too much to deal with. My brain has officially shut off for the day.

If it doesn't have Jeffrey Combs in it, I want no part of it!

I have heard the same said of the new ST movie although I am reserving my judgement on that one.

I LOVE Re-Annimator. Why do people fuck with the classics? I'm offended they even had the gull to compare this to Buffy instead of...I don't know, Kyle XY?

Since it's on the WB does that mean there will be a weekly musical guest?

I'm assuming there will be no decapitated-guy-goes-down-on-naked-chick scene... Sad.

this just proves that Hollywood is bound and determine to remake every classic franchise it has and destroy all that was good of the original version . and the cw must want to replace fox as the evil leading the charge to do so.

So... no severed heads attempting cunnilingus on restrained coeds, then?

D'oh! Sorry Swifty. Just saw your post.

But who will portray a wisecracking Yog Sothoth?

Awful show is awful.

M.

It's...I mean...why are they...sigh...no.

Shit.

Oh God.....

I'll never watch it, but I hope it doesn't ruin HP Lovecraft for me.

This actually sounds like some of the unspeakable horrors the old gods threatened to destroy the earth with in Lovecraft's books. is this irony? I dunno. I can't tell anymore. My thinking bone hurts.

Pretty much all Lovecraft stories end with the narrator lamenting that he's out of morphine, theres an unmentionable horror scratching at the door, and only a single bullet left in the revolver.

Can't see that happening here.

Hmm... a One Tree Hill-meets-Lovecraft crossover could do well, actually.

I mean, I would totally watch something where ancient, eldritch unknowable horrors murder the cast of One Tree Hill or drive them insane. God, I hate that show.

Alas, it's not to be.

Something hurts deep inside...

A lot of the power of the original story comes from the fact that it's set at a time when science and medicine were just taking off, and science seemed like it could do ANYTHING, maybe even bring back the dead. I don't suppose this series cares much for subtletly, but setting the story in modern times strips it of nearly all the atmosphere that makes Lovecraft so much creepy fun.

Sexy Herbert West. Yeah, okay. I'm sure that's reasonable.

8den——they could probably pull it off, but they'd end up using Imogen Heap in the scene's soundtrack.

Re-Animator/Lovecraft for the MTV/OC/Prostitots set. Fucking nauseating.

Ugh the horror! this sucks the sweat off a dead deep one's cloaca. Someone should introduce the producers to Cthuhlu so he will devour them and we can all laugh. Pheh, major ass-holery is a foot. even seing the jonass brothers and miley cyrus devoured in slow motion would not assuage my displeasure.

Poor old HP must be spinning in his grave.

Fuck this.

This is quite possibly the worst thing I've ever heard. And it only further proves that America likes its bullshit warm and toasty.

i just threw up in my mouth.

This is the worst thing I have ever seen, I have to share an office with a bunch of hormonal women who drool over Supernatural all the time.

Everyone involved in this atrocity should be hung, drawn, quartered, reanimated and repeat until satisfaction is found for those of us who love the works of HPL.

I can't even imagine what network moron thought that teens would fall all over this show. Do they honestly think any of them have even read Lovecraft in the first place? Do they think this will have them going to the library in droves? No, they'll be too busy drooling over all the eye candy.

Boy will these kids be upset when they attempt to read the source material and don't find ol' Herbert stopping at a Starbucks on his way to the graveyard.

I do shudder at the thought of seeing this on t-shirts at the mall, however.

A lot of the madness people suffered in the old stories stems from the readiness to proscribe madness at the drop of a hat in the early 20th century. Look, a zombie, I'm mad now! Look, something that's not human, I'm mad now! I'm sure they maintain their cast as easily as they do given the modern diagnosis and treatment of psychological disease. And the fact that the characters might have seen a horror movie at least once in their lives.

This can only increase visibility of Lovecraft's work to the general public, and if H.P. is spinning over this then he must just have leftover momentum from near every work of film that's been made from his source materials. Beyond the Walls of Sleep, dear god.

wierd. I just finished reading that story less than a week ago.