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''Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep'', AKA ''Strange Aeons'' and ''H.P. Lovecraft's Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep'' (2005 film)

==Summary==
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"[[The Thing on the Doorstep (fiction)]]".  Soon after his marriage to the beautiful but mysterious heiress Asenath Waite, poet and scholar Edward Derby exhibits alarming personality changes and mood swings. His graduate advisor, Dan Upton investigates. 

==Details==

* Release Date:  2005
* Country/Language:  USA, English
* Setting:  [[Modern]] [[Arkham]]
* Genres/Technical:  Horror
* Runtime:  1 hr 18 min
* Starring:  Angela M. Grillo, Erick Robertson, J.D. Lloyd
* Director:  [[Eric Morgret]]
* Writer:  [[H.P. Lovecraft]] (original story), K.L. Young
* Producer/Production Co:  Maelstrom Productions
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3_avZ7T9r4 link])
* IMDB: ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489410/ link])


==Ratings==
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* Rated:  (none) (possibly "R" for language, violence and adult content?)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* SSS__ (Three Tentacles: Lovecraftian)

Roughly faithful to the original story, but updated to the modern era, with modification for the screen, and some emphasis on the sexual implications that Lovecraft never (directly) explored, often without subtlety.

''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===
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Review Links:
* IMDb User Reviews ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489410/reviews?ref_=tt_ov_rt link])
* Review by Thomas M. Sipos at Hollywood Investigator ([http://hollywoodinvestigator.com/2006/horrorfilm2006.htm link])

==Synopsis==
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Soon after his marriage to the beautiful but mysterious heiress Asenath Waite, poet and scholar Edward Derby exhibits alarming personality changes and mood swings. His graduate advisor, Dan Upton investigates. 
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==Notes==

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===Associated Mythos Elements===
* fiction:  "[[The Thing on the Doorstep (fiction)]]"
* locations: 
** [[Arkham]]
*** [[Arkham Asylum]]
*** [[Arkham Cemetary]]
*** [[Miskatonic University]]
*** [[Orne Library]]
** [[Innsmouth]]
** [[Pit of the Shoggoths]]
* entities:
** [[Yog-Sothoth]] (name-dropped)
** [[Dagon and Hydra|Dagon]] (name-dropped)
** a [[Shoggoth]] (name-dropped)
* characters:  
** [[Asenath Waite]]
** [[Dan Upton]], wife [[Sarah Upton]] and son [[Richard Upton]]
** [[Edward Derby]]
** [[Clyde Derby]]
** [[Robert Black]] (a classmate of Ephraim Waite and Dan Upton)
** Dr. [[Philip Dexter]] (name-dropped)
* tomes:  
** The ''[[Pnakotic Manuscripts]]'' 
** ''[[A Study of the Pnakotic Manuscripts]]'' by [[Ephraim Waite]]
** "[[Shadows Over Innsmouth (tome)]]" by (?) Gilman (the fictionalized "true story" of the "[[Shadow Over Innsmouth (fiction)|Shadow Over Innsmouth]]", described in-context as a cover-up, with hints that the content dismisses the real events of the story as a raid on smugglers of illegal artifacts)
** ''[[Book of Yog-Sothoth]]''
** ''[[De Vermis Mysteriis]]''
** The ''[[Necronomicon]]''


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