The Statement | Award Winning Lovecraft Short Film 

The sound engineer on this film deserves an individual award. The sound editing was impeccable. Kudos to all involved in this little masterpiece. ♥

Remembering that HP himself wrote short stories, building his universe incrementally, I love how these short films pick up the threads he left for us.

I love how you switch the original perspective form Lovecraft original story! It’s pretty clever and interesting

Imagine watching a horror short film with tons of high concepts involved, and then going on at length about the inaccuracy of the smoking as if that was the most important part of the narrative.

had to watch it twice, im slow lol... love it... the movie, not being slow.

I like my Carter shaken, not stirred.

This is AMAZING! So happy to finally see it on the internet

imagine making a short that's this fantastic, with an interesting POV choice, great effects, great atmosphere, very solid acting, and then half your comments section ends up being arrogant nitpicking jackasses who are so desperate for a chance to look smart that they didn't actually put in the effort to understand the film they were watching. sorry you have to deal with that. this is fantastic and i'm glad it won awards because i'd rather be down in that cistern screaming in the dark than spend another minute thinking about what it must feel like to put in so much work, make something excellent, and then instantly attract swarms of people who think that knowing big words and having basic narrative comprehension (let alone actual intelligence) are the same thing

RE complaints of bad acting: Guys, it's LOVECRAFT, who couldn't write natural dialogue or people behaving normally. The actors are perfectly in character! As for what Nyarlathotep is after, he wants to find out who the Professor shared information with to know who else to kill to keep things secret. And since he can't read the guy's mind, he has to use trickery. It was irresponsible for the Professor to send Carter into such danger without an Elder Sign or protective mantra or even a revolver, just in case. Armitage wouldn't have made that mistake.

A creepy, "Kafka-esque" little film, with good acting. Nice to see some more mature actors in a short film.

Nice. Good use of imagination. Liked the atmosphere. Very noir feel to it.

What an excellent vid! This is, I think, a worthy spiritual successor to some of lovecraft's short stories and his ideas vis: cosmic horror, etc; While it avoids some of his worst tendencies (towards excessive verbosity, anglophilia, repetitiveness, etc... And, you know..) The pacing, the dynamic between the two primary characters- the willingness to allow its ambiguity to be integral to its horror, and so on. Thanks for posting it!

Great short film! It's been so long since I read. Time to go through all of HP's stories again :)

Well done. Great adaptation of one of my favorite HPL stories.

A really good little film here and a fine effort by all. As a non-smoker I wasn't even aware of the smoking issue until I read other comments.

Splended film! Nicely done, great sets... I'd love to see you do "The Lurking Fear".

"You fool! Randolph is dead!"

Very very well done! We need more on this please!

No tentacled monsters, but l like the loop effect, which reminds me of 'lnto the Mouth of Madness'. Full length film, to my mind a Lovecraftian masterpiece. Nobody else gives a shit about it, which l think is fitting.

love the ending!

Very nicely done.

Very Good, Thank you.

A fantastic short!!

So good!

Excellent ... everything flows nicely, evolutive loops are the right way to use them :)

This… was really F’n good.

This was excellent.

Very well presented.

Statement of Jonathan Sims, the Archivist, regarding his experiences with eldritch horror. Statement begins.

Supernice ❤

Very interesting film.

This was great! People who can't do bitch about everyone who does!

Even more interesting than "The Statement of Randolph Carter" itself

amazing

Cool

Really nice take.

Excellent little concept and well executed. Really liked it

Nobody of smart assases in the comments didnt thought that detective wasnt human, that means it maybe can read proffessor mind to produce a likeable image of a "cool smoking officer"? And may be proffessor didnt smoke himself?

Good use of sound.

very nice. Piece of construvtive critisism, would be the sound. The dialouge sounds tinny, no matter the environment. But nice. Good to see H.P. still has a legacy that inspires. D

Such a good lil film. Guy should known be careful as when staring into the abyss it stares back.

Cthulhu Phone Home!

NEXT !

What did the older guys left hand say?

What was the purpose in carving 'he knows? I'm kind of confused '

H E K

This was my first Red Flag right here 2:34. so any takers on the end's meaning?

As a non smoker who even avoids smoking people, I have no idea what people are talking about 😂😂 maybe they are right

what was the point of the interrogation ,,what the *cop* wanted to know?

Loved it! just one tiny detail, wish the guy paying the investigator really knew how to smoke, it was the only detail that kept me thinking this was not real.

super obvious that the dude doing the questioning doesn't smoke

the guy's supposed to be gandalf?

𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐦 💞

Don’t put stage actors in films. This was community theater acting.

The awkward smoking has already been mentioned, but I wanted to add to that. If the actors don't smoke and want to puff, to appear as if they are smoking, fair enough, but don't do it from the middle of the mouth. Smoke from the opposite side of the mouth from the hand holding the cigarette for authenticity. Cigarette in left hand, take drag from right side of mouth and visa versa. Never the middle.

Why do film makers use a non-smoker to play a smoker in their films? It's so obvious their actions of smoking are contrived. Actors should study how real smokers actually smoke.

They don't even inhale the smoke they just suck it out of cig then let it out their lips 😂

Good little film. Its always funny to see a non smoker trying to play a smoking role and how ridiculous they look. What was he trying to do when taking a puff...eat it like an ice cream cone and then not inhale. Jeez would have been better to make him non smoker instead of him looking like a fool. The old man was a smoker though. That's the only constructive criticism I can bestow.

He hit it like a joint and then immediately blows it out without inhaling. Wtf. Why even include the smoking?

The cop isnt even inhaling the cigs lol its so distracting.

dialogue is unnatural and stilted

4:54 ? why is there room echo in the voice overdub? I assume the lines were overdubbed later and the actor had too much room echo so the vid editor put a room verb on the other actor as well to make them sound similar in the walking with back to camera section. Shame because suddenly they're both in a bathroom talking instead of outdoors with no echo like before 4:54. Not nitpicking like others will say but noticing an obvious error that should not be there and is easily fixed by asking the actor to do his overdubs in a vocal booth. You can buy those things to put around a mic to block out most of the room echo. Ah the old feedback cycle plot tactic. How did he carve such great letters with only his teeth? wow. but why would he carve out HEK the first time? Maybe he didn't have time to finish it? anyway.... another unresolved short. Leaving stories unresolved is not cool, it's lazy, imo. It's all the rage with people but to me it's basically saying I can't figure out HOW to create a great ending so I'll just chop it off w/o having to commit to anything and call it a CLIFF HANGER! oh well.... There's a few ways to end but just stopping it seems a cheap way out of making that executive decision. I think resolving the conflict AND leaving something left dangling is a great way to end a story. Here, nothing is resolved except who the interrogator is (basically, the bad guy). But how does prof get out of the loop and to safety? Okay, carry on!

As another noticed… 10000% the cop or whatever doesn’t actually smoke. It is obviously done to give them a cool or tough vibe… but when they don’t inhale or even hold it right… it just looks ridiculous… if smoking isn’t cool or whatever… why would you even use that as a prop? It looks so stupid trying to take him serious and he takes a puff and blows it out of his mouth lol

Ugh. There's fourteen and a half minutes of my life I'm not getting back.

The fake smoking is not to pretend anything. If it were, then at least one smoker would support that theory. Comment section just looks as non-smokers took it personally.

i wanted to like it... but i didnt get it. mostly i agree with the other comments about the wrong smoking act. I read others saying its because he is not human. If so, they should enfatize the not-knowing-how-to-smoke factor. Make it more accentuated, maybe grotesque, or maybe we could see its efforts to mimic the other smoker human, or something. It just looks like an actor who doesnt know how to smoke properly. Also, the chewing hand... I love the concept, but i dont understand the reason, and i also find hard to believe that you can chew a sentence in the palm of your hand using your teeth. I appreciate the effort put on it, and the story got my attention for a while Keep it up!

Great video ...just dont have anymore smoking scenes unless the actor knows how to smoke js

I’m sorry but the acting is annoyingly over the top

Obviously your interrogator has never smoked before.

Why do you have to promote smoking cigarettes in the 21st century?

That's the most horrible acting I've seen in a while.

Lol its terribly obvious when an actor doesn't smoke and pretends

Very well done, really. But actors should actually smoke, they are faking, it's evident and it's very annoying.

Old guy acts real well . Tho whole movie was meh

The acting is very amateurish, sorry 😞

the acting was bad

amused that others believe this is good acting. sorry, not impressed ... stilted , dry , unimaginative

More confused, bewildered and perplexed at the end than at the beginning. Bad acting, bad sets, bad dialogue and this short probably assumes the viewer already knows something about some backstories. Should have left the cigarettes out; this was distracting and awkward.

No smoker smokes like this. Better try more next time, this one is a joke and HPL doesn’t approve.

That was anything but lovecraftian