Cool Air (film)

Cool Air
DVD cover
Directed by	Bryan Moore
Produced by	Ted Newsom Andrew Migliore
Written by	H. P. Lovecraft
Based on	"Cool Air" by H. P. Lovecraft
Starring	Bryan Moore Jack Donner Vera Lockwood
Music by	Steve Yeaman
Cinematography	Michael Bratkowski
Distributed by	Lurker Films Beyond Books
Release dates	October 1999 (1999-10)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Cool Air is a 1999 black-and-white horror film directed by and starring Bryan Moore, and co-starring Jack Donner, with cinematography by Michael Bratkowski. It is based on the short story "Cool Air" by H. P. Lovecraft.^[1]^[2]The film starts a multi-volume series called The H.P. Lovecraft Collection. The series is supposed to feature the best of the films submitted at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival.^[3]

Plot

In the 1920s, impoverished horror writer Randolph Carter rents a room from Mrs. Caprezzi, an elderly land lady. Not long after settling into the shabby and almost bare room, he discovers a pool of ammonia on the floor that has leaked down from the room above. Mrs. Caprezzi, while cleaning up the ammonia, regales Randolph with strange stories of Dr. Muñoz (Jack Donner), the eccentric old gentleman who lives in the room upstairs. Later, Randolph suffers a heart attack and painfully makes his way to the doctor's room where he is treated with an unconventional medicine and makes a remarkable recovery. Befriending the doctor, Carter soon discovers the awful truth about the doctor's condition, why his room is kept intensely cold, and the fragile line that separates life and death.

Cast

Bryan Moore as Randolph Carter
Jack Donner as Doctor Muñoz
Vera Lockwood as Mrs. Caprezzi
Dukey Flyswatter as Street Bum
Ron Ford as Repairman

Crew

Michael Bratkowski, Director of Photography

Production notes

Cool Air was filmed on location in Glendale, California, USA over several weekends, using a CP-16R regular 16mm camera package owned by DP Michael Bratkowski. The film was shot on Ilford Black and White regular 16mm film stock, a great filmstock, though prone to film dust and shavings when transferred using a Telecine Flying Spot Scanner, otherwise known as a Rank.

References

↑ "Return of the Lurkers: Bryan Moore's Cool Air & The Shadow Over Innsmouth preview". Cthulhucon. cthulhucon.com. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
↑ "Cool Air". KinoPoisk (in Russian). kinopoisk.ru. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
↑ West, Peter (10 May 2009). "The H.P. Lovecraft Collection Volume 1: Cool Air DVD Review". Horrortalk. horrortalk.com. Retrieved 29 December 2015.

External links

Media based or influenced 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) The Call of Cthulhu (2005) H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House (2005) Cthulhu (2007) The Tomb (2007) Chill (2007) In Search of Lovecraft (2008) The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009) The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) Innsmouth (2011) Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)

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) Arkham Horror: The Card Game (2016)

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) 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) Eldritch (2013) 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) Move Under Ground (2004) Dark Adventure Radio Theatre (2006–2015) Demonbane (2006) Haiyore! Nyaruko-san (2009–2014) Neonomicon (2010) Re-Animator: The Musical (2011) Providence (2015-2016)

See also: Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture

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