The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)
It's important to note that there is a reason that The Whisperer in the Darkness is made in the style of a late 1930s or early 1940s horror film. This is because it follows a 25-minute silent version of The Call of Cthulhu in 2005, also made by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, produced to look like what a film version of the story may have looked like around the time it was published. It was an underground hit and sold enough DVDs to encourage funding for a feature-length film. For that they chose one of the more difficult Lovecraft stories to adapt for cinema, The Whisperer in Darkness . Albert Wilmarth (Matt Foyer) is a folklore professor at Miskatonic University. He has been receiving letters from a farmer in Vermont named Henry Akeley (Barry Lynch) informing him of crablike creatures surrounding and attacking his home. After debating a sensationalist journalist named Charles Fort (Andrew Leman) about their existence, Wilmarth is confronted by Henry's son George