Cast a Deadly Spell

Cast a Deadly Spell

Directed by	Martin Campbell
Produced by	Gale Anne Hurd
Written by	Joseph Dougherty
Starring	Fred Ward Julianne Moore Clancy Brown David Warner Charles Hallahan Alexandra Powers
Music by	Curt Sobel
Cinematography	Alexander Gruszynski^[1]
Edited by	Dan Rae
Distributed by	HBO
Release dates	September 7, 1991 (1991-09-07)
Running time	96 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$6,000,000

Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) is a horror, detective HBO film with Fred Ward, Julianne Moore, David Warner and Clancy Brown.^[1] It was directed by Martin Campbell, produced by Gale Anne Hurd,^[1] and written by Joseph Dougherty.^[1] The original music score was composed by Curt Sobel.^[1]

Plot

Ward stars as 1948 hardboiled private detective H. Philip Lovecraft, in a fictional universe where magic is real, monsters and mythical beasts stalk the back alleys, zombies are used as cheap labor, and everyone—except Lovecraft—uses magic every day. Yet, cars, telephones and other modern technology also exist in this world.

Sequel

HBO produced a sequel, Witch Hunt. Witch Hunt takes place in the 1950s during the red scare, in which magic is substituted for communism. Dennis Hopper played Lovecraft in place of Fred Ward. Additionally, many characters have different background stories than in Cast a Deadly Spell. For example, Lovecraft refuses to use magic in Cast a Deadly Spell on principle, and because of a bad experience in Witch Hunt.

Cast

Fred Ward – Harry Philip Lovecraft
Julianne Moore – Connie Stone
David Warner – Amos Hackshaw
Alexandra Powers – Olivia Hackshaw
Clancy Brown – Harry Bordon
Charles Hallahan - Detective Morris Bradbury
Arnetia Walker - Hypolite Kropotkin
Raymond O'Connor - Tugwell
Peter Allas - Detective Otto Grimaldi
Lee Tergesen - Larry Willis/Lilly Sirwar
Michael Reid MacKay - Gargoyle
Curt Sobel - Band Leader

Awards

Saturn Award - Best Genre Television Series (Nomination)
CableACE Award - Best Original Score (Nomination)
Emmy Award - Outstanding Music & Lyrics (Won)
Emmy Award - Outstanding Sound Editing (Nomination)

References

1 2 3 4 5 J. O'Connor, John (September 10, 1991). "Review/Television; A Detective and Sci-Fi In Los Angeles Magic". The New York Times.

External links

Cast a Deadly Spell at the Internet Movie Database
Cast a Deadly Spell at AllMovie

Films directed by Martin Campbell

The Sex Thief (1973) Eskimo Nell (1975) Three for All (1975) Criminal Law (1988) Defenseless (1991) Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) No Escape (1994) GoldenEye (1995) The Mask of Zorro (1998) Vertical Limit (2000) Beyond Borders (2003) The Legend of Zorro (2005) Casino Royale (2006) Edge of Darkness (2010) Green Lantern (2011)

Media based on H. P. Lovecraft works

Films	The Haunted Palace (1963) Die, Monster, Die! (1965) The Shuttered Room (1967) The Dunwich Horror (1970) Re-Animator (1985) From Beyond (1986) The Curse (1987) The Unnamable (1988) Dark Heritage (1989) Bride of Re-Animator (1990) Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) The Resurrected (1992) The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993) In the Mouth of Madness (1994) Necronomicon (1994) The Lurking Fear (1994) Witch Hunt (1994) Castle Freak (1995) Bleeders (1997) Out of Mind: The Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (1998) Cool Air (1999) Cthulhu (2000) Dagon (2001) Beyond Re-Animator (2003) Alone in the Dark (2005) The Call of Cthulhu (2005) H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House (2005) Cthulhu (2007) The Tomb (2007) Chill (2007) The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)

Role-playing games	Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game) (1981) Cthulhu Live (1997) Delta Green (1997) Trail of Cthulhu (2008) CthulhuTech (2008)

Card games	Mythos (1996) Cthulhu 500 (2004) Call of Cthulhu: The Card Game (2004) Elder Sign (2011)

Board games	Arkham Horror (1987, 2005) Mansions of Madness (2011) Eldritch Horror (2013)

Video games	Alone in the Dark (1992) Shadow of the Comet (1993) Necronomicon (1994) Alone in the Dark 3 (1995) Prisoner of Ice (1995) Innsmouth no Yakata (1995) Digital Pinball: Necronomicon (1996) Necronomicon: The Dawning of Darkness (2001) Eternal Darkness (2002) Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005) Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006) Call of Cthulhu: The Wasted Land (2012) Bloodborne (2015) Darkest Dungeon (2016)

Other	Neil Gaiman's Only the End of the World Again (2000) Alan Moore's The Courtyard (2003) Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) (2003–present) Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths (2003) Dark Adventure Radio Theatre (2006–2015) Demonbane (2006) Haiyore! Nyaruko-san (2009–2014) Neonomicon (2010) Re-Animator: The Musical (2011)

See also: Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture

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