Cool Air (1999 short)

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"Cool Air" (1999 or 2000 short by Bryan Moore)

Summary

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's classic short story, "Cool Air" anticipates cryogenic research and the tragic consequences it can bring. Writer Randolph Carter moves into a squalid boarding house in the summer of 1925. In between confrontations with a colorful landlady, he becomes friends with a mysterious doctor who revives him after a near-fatal heart attack. Learning the circumstances that had brought the doctor to the boarding house, Randolph discovers the awful truth about the doctor, and the fragile line that separates life and death.

Details

• Release Date: 1999 or 2000
• Country/Language: USA, English
• Genres/Technical: Horror, black-and-white
• Runtime: 44 or 50 min
• Starring: Jack Donner
• Director: Bryan Moore
• Writer: H.P. Lovecraft (original story)
• Producer/Production Co: Beyond Books
• View Trailer: (link)

Ratings

MPAA Ratings

• Rated: (none) (presumably equivalent to "G" or "PG" for mild violence/creepiness?)

Tentacle Ratings

A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:

• SSSS_ (Four Tentacles: Unusually Lovecraftian; a remarkably faithful adaptation)

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

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Synopsis

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's classic short story, "Cool Air" anticipates cryogenic research and the tragic consequences it can bring. Writer Randolph Carter moves into a squalid boarding house in the summer of 1925. In between confrontations with a colorful landlady, he becomes friends with a mysterious doctor who revives him after a near-fatal heart attack. Learning the circumstances that had brought the doctor to the boarding house, Randolph discovers the awful truth about the doctor, and the fragile line that separates life and death.

Notes

Associated Mythos Elements

• fiction: "Cool Air (fiction)"