For inspiration: "Cast A Deadly Spell"
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:49 pm
One of my favorite films is "Cast a Deadly Spell." This 1991 made-for-HBO film is a combination of 1940s detective film noir and "magic is commonplace" mentality, and it just strikes me as a perfect setting for the Majus games *I* wanna run.
Never heard of the movie? You're in luck as the entire film has been posted to YouTube.
Enjoy! (Click me!)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Fred Ward) is a private detective living in an alternative America in the 1940's where creatures thought fictional coexist with humans in a society where magic is real and practiced on a constant basis. Short on money, Lovecraft accepts a job from millionaire Amos Hacksaw (David Warner) to recover an ancient tome called the Necronomicon. Unbeknownst to Lovecraft he has stepped into a complex web of lies, deceit and murder. He is also mankind's last hope at repelling an ancient evil that if unleashed will mean the end of civilization.
(There was a sequel titled "Witch Hunt" starring Dennis Hopper as Lovecraft, but I haven't been able to find it just yet...)
Never heard of the movie? You're in luck as the entire film has been posted to YouTube.
Enjoy! (Click me!)
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Fred Ward) is a private detective living in an alternative America in the 1940's where creatures thought fictional coexist with humans in a society where magic is real and practiced on a constant basis. Short on money, Lovecraft accepts a job from millionaire Amos Hacksaw (David Warner) to recover an ancient tome called the Necronomicon. Unbeknownst to Lovecraft he has stepped into a complex web of lies, deceit and murder. He is also mankind's last hope at repelling an ancient evil that if unleashed will mean the end of civilization.
(There was a sequel titled "Witch Hunt" starring Dennis Hopper as Lovecraft, but I haven't been able to find it just yet...)