Whisperer
“I could tell that I was at the gateway of a region half-bewitched through the piling-up of unbroken time-accumulations; a region where old, strange things have had a chance to grow and linger because they have never been stirred up.”
H.P. Lovecraft - The Whisperer in Darkness
W H I S P E R E R
(Feature Film, In Development)
Format: Feature Film / Genre: Cosmic Horror / Comps: The Thing, The Orphanage
Director: Ryan Mackfall. Producer: Kingsley Marshall. Writers: Lachlan Marks & Ryan Mackfall
Project Summary
A feature film based on the H. P. Lovecraft story The Whisperer in Darkness. Penny, a science student at a university in the 1930s, receives a strange recording from her estranged adoptive father Henry, his first contact with her for several years. After taking the recording to her professor Albert, she discovers her father’s belief that the recording is of unnatural forces in the woods that surround her childhood home. When Albert doesn’t return from a trip to visit Henry, Penny returns home to come to terms with a dark, unfathomable power that will reshape her forever.
This story is centered around a fear of the other, the dangers of entitlement, the corrosive nature of obsession with status and the question of what we owe to the generation that precedes us, and those that follow.
