Reviews from the pages of The Unspeakable Oath.
Directed by Gareth Edwards Distributed by Magnet Releasing (U.S.) and Vertigo Films (U.K.) Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons If you’ve heard about this little movie at all, then you probably heard that it was made for a pittance but looks…
By Chris Pramas, Robert J. Toth And William Simoni Published By Green Ronin Publishing, $27.95 Reviewed By Matthew Pook When is a Call of Cthulhu scenario not a Call of Cthulhu scenario? When it is a Freeport scenario from Green…
By Harley Stroh Published by Goodman Games; $12.95 Review by Matthew Pook Death in Luxor is the first Age of Cthulhu scenario from Goodman Games, a publisher better known for its Dungeons & Dragons adventures. Set in Egypt in 1926,…
By John Carnahan, John Scott Clegg, Ed Gore, Marc Hutchison, Randy McCall, Sandy Petersen and Ted Shelton with Lynn Willis, Jeff Carey and Don Coatar Published by Chaosium, Inc.; $23.95 Review by Matthew Pook The importance of Shadows of Yog-Sothoth…
The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu Directed by Henry Saine Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons Did you ever wonder what it would be like if Kevin Smith of Clerks fame directed a Lovecraft movie? Yeah, me neither. But someone did,…
The Freeport Trilogy: Five Year Anniversary Edition By Chris Pramas, Robert J. Toth and William Simoni Published by Green Ronin Publishing, $27.95 Reviewed by Matthew Pook When is a Call of Cthulhu scenario not a Call of Cthulhu scenario? When…
[Our review column returned in TUO4 with one negative review. — John Scott Tynes, 1994] Horror on the Orient Express A “luxury campaign” for Call of Cthulhu Chaosium, Inc. $39.95 Review ©1991 John Tynes Orient Express is certainly one of…
By Les Dean and John Tynes, © 1994 [The debut of our review column. I think the review of “Return to Dunwich” set the standard I was looking for in TUO reviews, since it considered the item in question not…
Cthulhu Saves the World Zeboyd Games, $3.00 (zeboyd.com) Reviewed by Brian M. Sammons Remember the classic 8-bit RPGs like Final Fantasy, Fantasy Star, and pretty much anything else with “Fantasy” in the title? Do you find yourself often wistfully saying,…
Lovecraftian Tales from the Table 8-gigabyte DVD By Paul Maclean Published by Yog-Sothoth.com, $6.95 Reviewed by Matthew Pook What if you played through two of the hobby’s most highly regarded campaigns and recorded every single session of both? This is…
