Films

STYLE GUIDE

Cut-n-Paste the following for each Mythos film, short film, TV series/serial/mini-series, etc. Remove irrelevant sections.

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==Summary==
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SUMMARY

==Details==
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specific film out of many with the same name, to make them easier to
tell apart - some stories have been adapted numerous times by different
amateur short film makers!  Some films have a "TVTropes" page, which
will often detail obscure "Lovecraftian" elements of a film that this
wiki misses, and, if a TVTropes page exists, it can be a useful
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* Release Date:  
* Country/Language:  
* Genres/Technical:  
* Runtime:  X hr X min  
* Starring:  
* Director:  
* Writer:  
* Producer/Production Co:  
* View Trailer: ([URL link])
* Film Website:  ([URL link])
* View Film:  ([URL link])
* TVTropes: ([URL link])
* IMDB Page:  ([URL link])

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===
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* Rated:  MPAARATING (notes)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* S____ (One Tentacle:  Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
* SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; could be a very loose adaptation)
* SSS__ (Three Tentacles: Lovecraftian)
* SSSS_ (Four Tentacles: Unusually Lovecraftian; a remarkably faithful adaptation)
* SSSSS (Five Tentacles: definitively Lovecraftian; everything you'd expect from a Lovecraft adaptation and more)

''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:
* Author_andor_Location, ([URL link]) - RATING


==Synopsis (SPOILERS)==
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==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===
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===Associated Mythos Elements===
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etc. that appear in the film/show/etc.  It helps to specify if it just takes
the form of general "name-dropping" (someone mentions "Yog-Sothoth!", but 
Yog-Sothoth doesn't actually appear; a random creepy tome in the background
is labeled ''Necronomicon'' but never actually appears, a character is wearing
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considered "stand-ins" that are effectively the same as specific Lovecraftian
monsters, though the film never makes that explicitly clear - for example, a
standard-issue Gill-Man from "Creature from the Black Lagoon" might be labeled
a "Deep One" for the purposes of this Wiki, even though any resemblance is
probably unintentional.  Vaguely/generically "Lovecraftian" elements might 
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* fiction:  "[[title (fiction)]]" or ''[[title (fiction)]]''
* tome:  ''[[Tome1]]''
* race:  [[Race1]]
* deity:  [[Deity]]


===Keeper Notes===
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interpretations; unofficial humorous or eccentric versions; identification with 
"Real Life" mythological, religious, folklore, natural, and historical phenomena; 
rumor and speculation contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos. 
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This section is more commonly used on YSDC Wiki pages for suggesting ways to
adapt the film to use as a Call of Cthulhu scenario; the Keeper Notes section 
might include multiple such suggested adaptations.
* (One/two sentence story inspired by the film, starring investigators.)
TIP:  Film plots are often difficult to adapt into RPG scenarios; try having
the investigators arrive after the events from the movie have started happening
or have already happened to NPCs, and leave the investigators to piece together
the clues to find out what happened.  Adaptations of film plots to RPG scenarios 
almost always benefit from changing cosmetic details around until the exact story
is no longer easily recognizable, by changing the setting, descriptions of monsters,
character names, and that sort of thing.
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