A Shoggoth on the Roof (2000)

Honorable Mention “There are some things man was not meant to adapt to musical theatre…” The finest H.P. Lovecraft adaptation ever made was the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s silent black and white version of The Call of Cthulhu. No questions asked. It took an enormously complex story line, with a series of flashbacks nested one […]

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Aniara (1960)

Sometimes you just have to say it straight out: This is the TV movie version of a Science Fiction Opera. An Opera about a gigantic spaceship on a trip to the stars. It gets better. Aniara started life as an epic, book-length poem published in 1956. And, I will note, written by a Swedish Nobel […]

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