CGI 3D Animated Short: "The Mountains of Madness" - by "The SpookySpookyShoggoths" | TheCGBros 

"Yes it fucking does!!!!" Dark Fantasy in a Nutshell.

I love Disney and Pixar but his writing is far to complex for to dumbed down for children.

@@ggt47 More unsettling. I think even if a child could read his weird grammar and awkward dialogue they would probably have an existential crisis.

​@@hamppu83 You're too old you don't count. My cousin is 9 and he plays D&D better than my 15-year-old cousin. Also regardless of age Lovecraft still has no idea how to right good dialogue and punctuation.

@@arandomzoomer4837 It can depend on the child, I have a younger nephew who's into Tolkien and also loved Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu when I introduced him to some of Lovecraft's work. Myself I'll take quite a bit of Lovecraft's dialogue over some of Tolkien's more purple prose.

@@cha5 Oof. I'm trying to read lord of the rings, it's like swimming through molasses.

+Erl Tyriss ; see I liked the city but thought the Shoggoth was not quit right. Good job altogether in any case.

me neither, but it's kinda hard to make structures that are described as "impossible geometry" or what it said. if I were to make it, i would probably have a lot of thin spindly structures, and things disappearing and appearing depending on where you looked at it, and stuff like that. but the animation was STILL amazing! :D

Agreed. The city was bit puny and isolated. Not enough massive bizarre spires. Slightly stilted animation but no worries. Everything else worked reallywell I thought. Shoggoth was def great.

Paddy B it was the awesome sound work o. shoggoth that sold it for me

what did he see out the window

What if the mountain IS the nameless beast?

Some even like to think that Danforth broke the fourth wall and went mad at the realization he's a fictional character whose sole point to exist is repeating the horrible experience forever to entertain the elder gods: us.

First he yes, then he no. Adam Sandler

He realized the mountain is a giant monster?

Tekeli li! Tekeli li!

Some say it was yog sothoth... Probably just taking a leak

Isn’t it so annoying when you’re trying to have a shower and a idiotic sub creature tries to spy on you?

Richie Tozier #relatable

Maybe Cthulu was watchin' porn.

@@richietozier7091 me and the spider in the shower have a mutual understanding.

I love it for the isolated, beautiful setting. But I must admit that the creepy/unsettling feeling from The Thing faded for me somewhere between March of the Penguins and the Metallica concert. (Though I so would've gone!)

And yet, we still have these issues today. When you have a billionaire rocket themselves into the atmosphere, yet people are starving, that's nothing but doomed hubris.

Well said, my friend ☕️ It’s also interesting that the Lovecraft gods are either apathetic or outright sadistic towards humans. Or lesser beings. What does that say about us?

​@@catherinecao4810 a small speck of dust, meaningless to them.

indeed, and that is at the base of his storytelling... his horrors are merely things we are discovering, these things are like tumors, and whaddya know, not that much later science dicovered tumors who kinda look like his most powerful gods? science is scary, we dont know what we will discover one day

@@catherinecao4810 Azathot is like cáncer

Hubert Van Calenbergh Elder things Not old ones The Elder Things created the Shoggoths, and were indirectly responsible for life on earth

Heedfulconch3 I think the old ones is a pseudonym for the elder things

No The Old Ones were a pantheon of Eldritch Entities that included "Father Dagon" and his wife "Mother Hydra" along with the underwater race of fish humanoids known as "Deep Ones". Cthulhu and his Star-Spawn and Nyarlathotep are the most prominent ones as far as my knowledge goes The Elder Things were their own race, with no real discernible Individuals of Interest, not unlike the Mi-Go (Who would often remove a Human's brain and bring it with them back to Pluto as the Victim remains alive and aware as they travel to Pluto. Apparently this is a scientific gesture and could be considered Kind) and the Great Race of Yith (Who's minds transcend time and space, allowing them to possess any intelligent organism past, present or future to learn about that race while the victim assumes control of the Yithian's previous body and has the chance to assimilate into Yithian culture and assist in their constant historical and scientific work)

The Elder Things were actually in competition with the Old Ones' cultists - they waged war against the Star Spawn of Cthulhu and designed the Shoggoths as weapons of war against them: the Shoggoths eventually became too powerful for the Elder Things to control and turned on them - destroying the Elder Things and allowing many of their other creations to cover the globe (some of those creations being the ancestors of homo sapiens - in this universe, humanity was really just a cosmic accident resulting from a conflict between greater beings).

Hubert Van Calenbergh That’s a review if I’ve ever heard one. “Impressive shoggoth”

I found your comment very truthful and intersting so I'd like to quote it since I'm writing a paper on H. P. Lovecraft. Would you mind if I asked for your name so I can properly cite your words?

Yeah, is just George good enough?

poopertan It is enough George, however it would be best to have your lastname written instead.

Rigo Leyva Eh, kinda skeptical on the whole, give your last name out over the internet thing, but I guess that isnt too sensitive of information.

poopertan You don't have to if you don't want to.

yeah lovecrafts oldish english is not friendly to dyslexics. Fun fact that is because dyslexics solely think in pictures so if they can't draw something in their head, like something they never experienced, seen, touched, heard, or interacted with, Dyslexics draw a big blank and have zero clue what the hell is going on.

@MacrossMike You also have audiobooks.

It's not just you, friend. Lovecraft was made fun of for that in his time. His word smithing is generally considered bad. But. He gave us the Cthulhu mythos which is his achievement. He wasn't the best at anything. But the Cthulhu mythos allowed for a whole genra to be created.

You need to cut them a little slack, most cg films are limited in time, and the original story was like 140 pages. To tell you the truth I think they did a good job working with their restrictions.

Yes you are right

@PerrySport Maybe he saw Whoopy Goldberg nude with her legs apart ....he saw in the depts of that hairy oiled Thing that swallowed his entire soul and kept him tormented for eternity in the crab infested cave .

@@magnvsmarcvs Wat.

Edric L. Ha I was reading this then they said Milky Way and it ryhmed with it

That was scary

Danforth realised that the mountain was in fact a Shoggoth itself

We're gonna become kardishev 1 in a couple of years when we finally colonise Mars All hail Elon Musk, our lord and savior

​@CheatyTycoon 2 as of 2015 we are 73% of the way to Kardishev 1 ALL HAIL IN MUSK WE TRUST

That's is the point of Cosmicism. You do not matter to the Universe. We do not matter to the Universe. Humans do not matter to the Universe. Only humans matter to humans. That's it. Nothing more. It is a call to abandon religion, nationalism, and that of whatever separate us, and unite in favor of humankind. It is the answer to any philosophy. For 'what is our purpose?' to even Nihilism itself. Anyone who claims Cosmicism is nihilistic doesn't understand Cosmicism. It is anti-nihilistic, and pro-humanist and existentialist.

Kemeticos dope comment

@@mihailazar2487 If we ever do colonize Mars, which I highly doubt, it will take centuries. Not likely to even start for several decades.

It would have

THIS^^^ I personally would've just made Indy going in Russia or Transylvania if they wanted to switch from Nazis to commies, but if they wanted to bring aliens into Indiana Jones, they should've depicted them as ancient creatures that look more monstrous like the Elder Things, that barely have any tech, but the little tech there is so extraterrestrial and incomprehensible that it comes off more like magic instead of science fiction stuff. The grey aliens and the shiny flying saucer that pops out from a Maya temple that we got instead sticked like a sore thumb.

Haha that was definitely my inspiration when I worked on that sequence

TEKELI-LI! TEKELI-LI!

There is a distinct lack of that here.

@@RyunosukeHachi Pay attention. You can hear TEKELI-LI, TEKELI-LI.

First of all you butchered the fuck out of that name, "Nyarlathotep" and second no I don't believe it was. Nyarlathotep lives in Egypt "Under the Pyramids" and when he emerges from hiding it is to cause chaos in populated areas like in the Poem.

@@ALANAD011 It was a joke...

Why not, Nyarlathotep is active, he takes different forms and he seems to enjoy inflicting pain on humans.

@@ALANAD011 You forgot that Nyarlathotep does some traveling. He hung around New England for a while, making Keziah Mason (The Dreams in the Witch-House), Joseph Curwen, and Simon Orne (The Case of Charles Dexter Ward) into magical disciples, with the latter two serving Yog-Sothoth and the former remaining in his service.

Claus Appel I was waiting for it and it still scared the ever loving shit out of me. Talk about well handling a visual representation of "that which can not be described"

Yah

Lovecraft's true genius is the fact that he is able to create incredible terror without the aid of gore, jumpscares, or anything like that. Keeping the Shoggoth hidden would have been awesome, but it was still a really great film.

@@pancakes246 I'd argue it's quite impressive for them to be able to show that level of horror fully. But my favorite part was the high pitched shrieking that made that thing seem terrifying and alien.

Claus Appel yes the shoggoths were cool, I find it quite hard to envision some of lovecrafts scenes, I didn’t imagine them as that big, and I envisioned the shoggoth as coming up the strairs were the dead elder thing lay and came at them. I also thought the city would be a strip along the mountain range, not a unifying collection of buildings in a circle

The first two hours are always describing the architecture and background as-well

@@deanthephilosopher9486 ADJECTIVE PORN

Guess some people have the short attention span of a dayfly on crack combined with zero discipline and only a suggestion of intellectual curiosity.

@@deanthephilosopher9486 and a good 10 mins of penguin hatred.

@@jamesesparza6893 Well, we also never got to see the penguins, which the Elder Things deformed and mutated to become giant, blind, and serve as a form of nutrition for the Elder Things, who created this civilization. There is much detail about the world lost in all of this. A lot of lore and horror.

Damn

Absolutely ! This kind of graphix is to cheap for that kinf of story .

"Walt Disney Pictures presents...wait, NO! AAAAAHHHHHH"

i dont know Atlantis was dark ish

I don't know. With the way some of the live action movies are doing, I could see them doing this one day. Besides look at The Little Mermaid, just think about those poor unfortunate souls in the garden.

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Yes it is you !!

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The untold origin story

Deborah Capuano down came the madness anxiety and doubt🎶

Jeff Musyoka - hahaha

@@jeffmusyoka1876 Out fled the humans and the copilot's insane And the spooky, spooky, shoggoths slithered up the spout again

+Joe Kerr : "Dagon" could make for a great short film. :)

There is a Dagon movie. Stewart Gordon directed it.

The "Dagon" movie is not based on Lovecraft's "Dagon". It is based on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".

Here is your Whisperer In Darkness www.hplhs.org/mptwid.php I want to see Shadow Out of Time. Dagon (the movie) is a crap version of Innsmouth. It had its moments, but the protagonist is insufferable. Re-animator was bearable, and there are good ideas in From Beyond. But they're still crap. Stuart Gordon, for all of his enthusiasm, did crap for Lovecraft. Carpenter did a better job at Lovecraftian with The Thing. And Mouth of Madness. Night Gallery did Pickman's Model, but my Goo-fu can't find a full version of it. Hulu has it. I don't think there has been a satisfactory movie of Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's work comes closest. The have a great Call of Cthulhu.

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Giger is an artist.

The color from space

I have never read any books of H.P. Lovecraft just audio books and motion comics and i am in love with this mythos and this is my first time at the mountains of madness is it any good

Lovecraft himself listed "The House on the Borderland" as one his inspirations.

William Hope Hodgson, who wrote the wonderfully dark 'Carnacki The Ghost Finder' stories, was the author of 'The House On The Borderland.'

+Sensible Sound Thanks!

Sensible Sound seriously, it's like his 2nd most famous work

Though I don't know much more than from the games, I assumed it was related to Lovecraft as it started, but didn't know until I idly scrolled down to your line :) [The Arkham stuff's a big hint, btw]

It’s the name of the book! At the mountains of madness! And you call yourself a fan?

You didn't know AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS was LOVECRAFT? Do you know who Lovecraft even is?? This book is legendary!

the nameless beast

I've heard others give convincing references/evidence that it is yog-sothoth, but I prefer the mystery of not knowing exactly. To me, the unspeakable, unquantifiable fear more closely mirrors what it would be like to experience a lovecraftian being.

its a "shoggoth" a servant of the "elder things" they were created as slaves to build their cities until they rebelled and one of theme laid dormant surviving the following genocide

he supposedly saw azathoth aka the nameless beast based on what the pilot said and the world lookin like it was turning into tentacles, sounds weird but look up azathoths lore

The book never tells. And in fact it was originally just a reflection he saw, and not the actual thing (whatever that was) but even the reflection of it was enough to drive him completely insane. It's been a while since I read it, but if I remember correctly, he saw something reflected in the clouds of ice above the mountain, that allowed him to see the entire area from a perspective it was impossible to achieve where they had been on the ground, and this "bigger picture" allowed him to grasp whatever it was in its entirety, something that no one else in the expedition had done, and was too much for him.