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viktorbc Special user Baltimore 648 Posts |
HP Lovecraft was a master of the weird and horrific. The rightful heir to EA Poe. You may not even be aware of the influences he has made. From the Evil Dead movies to Stephen King, Hellboy and many, many others, Lovecraft has left a mark deeper than the most fathomless grave.
Paranormalist Vince Wilson has always been a huge Lovecraft fan and has been waiting for the right moment to release his popular Ode to Lovecraft Seance onto the world! In Wilson’s original tale, Lovecraft is presented as an early 20th Century paranormal researcher who was trying to present the “reality” of his writings as fiction! The host of the seance will stop at nothing to prove this theory, even if it means doom for all! In this script, Vince Wilson reveals: - Performing the perfect seance! - Freeing up a hand during a seance in the dark! - How to artificially age documents to look decades old! - Learn techniques and illusions you can use over and over! http://magic.wvhypnosis.com/digital-downloads/
VINCE WILSON
Bizarrist, Hypnotist and Paranormalist Profile and more: www.vincewilsonmagic.com www.poesmagic.com |
Brynmore14 Inner circle The Séance Chamber 1815 Posts |
Could you please tell us how much overlap there is or isn't between this and the Gloomy Sunday Seance please Vince?
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viktorbc Special user Baltimore 648 Posts |
The only overlap there is exists because they are both seances. If you did not read Gloomy Sunday, you will still have the basics about seances and hypnotic suggestion. However, the story, effects, art and everything else are completely different.
VINCE WILSON
Bizarrist, Hypnotist and Paranormalist Profile and more: www.vincewilsonmagic.com www.poesmagic.com |
Brynmore14 Inner circle The Séance Chamber 1815 Posts |
Thanks for the reply Vince. Gloomy Sunday was great, and I'm sure this is too. Hell it' s Lovecraft afterall.
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viktorbc Special user Baltimore 648 Posts |
When you get it Brynmore, please write a nice review about it!
Vince
VINCE WILSON
Bizarrist, Hypnotist and Paranormalist Profile and more: www.vincewilsonmagic.com www.poesmagic.com |
viktorbc Special user Baltimore 648 Posts |
The new script also comes in full color with printable images and advice on making props!
VINCE WILSON
Bizarrist, Hypnotist and Paranormalist Profile and more: www.vincewilsonmagic.com www.poesmagic.com |
viktorbc Special user Baltimore 648 Posts |
A few have PM's me about the price on the site. For a limited time, I have reduced the price to only $10!
VINCE WILSON
Bizarrist, Hypnotist and Paranormalist Profile and more: www.vincewilsonmagic.com www.poesmagic.com |
Poveglia Loyal user Orlando, FL 240 Posts |
Just bought this. Looks like I'll have reading material tonight!
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Brynmore14 Inner circle The Séance Chamber 1815 Posts |
Poveglia,
If you could share you thoughts on this once you've had a chance to digest it, that would be appreciated. |
Poveglia Loyal user Orlando, FL 240 Posts |
No problem, I'll give a review today
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weepinwil Inner circle USA 3828 Posts |
I, and the cadavers, posted the following review on the section below: (seems some of the cadavers knew Lovecraft and told some funny stories about him after our seance.)
I liked the previous production, Gloomy Sunday, but think I like Vince's Lovecraft Seance a little better. It starts out the same as the previous Seance, giving instruction and background information for the new purchaser. The reproducible pages and thoughts on building a small idol were interesting and caused me to imagine other uses for them. The seance is short and sweet, with a total blackout portion and a final shock reveal. If seance is your cup of tea, you will like the Lovecraft seance. If not, you will still enjoy the prop ideas and story line.
"Til Death us do part!" - Weepin Willie
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Poveglia Loyal user Orlando, FL 240 Posts |
I agree with weepinwil.
To be honest though, I feel I can give a better review after I perform it. Everything is straight forward, and I love the making your own props instructions. But to me, it seems a bit over the top if I was in the seance crowd. But to be 100% truthful, that's not a fair assessment due to my magic and seance background. I'll have an informal evening where I present this, and I'll give a more in depth review of crowd reaction (which is what we really want). If I had my Outlaw Dark board, I bet I could really kill with this one! I'll keep you informed. I'm interested in Vikbc has performed this one. If he has, I'd love to hear reactions. I just don't know if the common person is that aware of the works of HP Lovecraft. I could be wrong though. I still recommend buying this at the discounted price (I did). If anything, it can be a very valuable guide book for future seances. |
Godzilla Inner circle Tied & Untied Witches on 5316 Posts |
Willie/Poveglia, Thanks for the review & FYI !
~G
"If you watch Godzilla backwards, it's about a big ass lizard who helps rebuild a half burnt-down city, then moonwalks back into the ocean"
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Brynmore14 Inner circle The Séance Chamber 1815 Posts |
Yeah, thanks gents.
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viktorbc Special user Baltimore 648 Posts |
All my released scripts are based on seances I have performed. When done with just the right amount of bravado, the Lovecraft seance is very entertaining, especially to Lovecraft fans. You will almost always get people lingering afterward asking for more information! What really happened? How much was real? Where can I read more? The seance never goes as scripted because of curious questions people will ask. Such as, "Do you believe the Necronomicon is real?" I have received many positive reactions to this seance and it is one of my favorites.
VINCE WILSON
Bizarrist, Hypnotist and Paranormalist Profile and more: www.vincewilsonmagic.com www.poesmagic.com |
viktorbc Special user Baltimore 648 Posts |
BTW... Is is a good idea to be well versed in Lovecraft when doing this seances for those who no little of him. Reference some of the movies and even Hellboy and Evil Dead. It might be nice to have a "bio sheet" printed out for each of your guests.
VINCE WILSON
Bizarrist, Hypnotist and Paranormalist Profile and more: www.vincewilsonmagic.com www.poesmagic.com |
Brynmore14 Inner circle The Séance Chamber 1815 Posts |
For anyone wanting to brush up on there Lovecraft facts, check out the following resources:
Hppodcraft.com cthulhulives.org hplovecraft.com dagonbytes.com also check youtube for Fear of the unknown, a documentary on Lovecraft. Actually a youtube search on Lovecraft with yield lots of material, some great, some not so. The HP Lovecraft Literary Podcast has some nice round table discussions on youtube too, well worth checking out. In regards to movies, Stuart Gordon's films are the most well known - Dagon, From Beyond, Re-Animator. Call of Cthulhu, The whisper in darkness and Cool Air have all been made into films by the HP Lovecraft Historical Society, these are some of my favourites. There are also a whole lot of films which are not Lovecraft stories, but are Lovecraftian in tone or theme. The Thing, Mouth of Madness and many others. Google search Lovecraftian films, the top ten results all yield good lists. |
Brynmore14 Inner circle The Séance Chamber 1815 Posts |
Oh yeah, for really scholarly literary analysis and biographical works, check out the books of S. T Joshi.
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viktorbc Special user Baltimore 648 Posts |
An excerpt from my script:
I have been a fan of Lovecraft since before liking Lovecraft was cool. I actually 1st came across his works in a bookstore in Baltimore. In the area known as Fells Point (considered by many as the most haunted area of Baltimore City) there used to be a bookstore I often visited before the new Barnes and Noble store opened downtown. It wasn’t in business very long. The cost of having space in a prime local as Fells Point and the advent of the internet were detrimental to the store’s business. Anyway… Shortly before my discovery of an HP Lovecraft written work, I had just seen the Re-Animator on home video. On the video box it read “…HP Lovecraft’s classic tale of horror - The Re-Animator …It will scare you to pieces.” The film genuinely scared me in 1987 (it came out in ‘85), although not to pieces. Of course when I went to the horror section looking for some new Stephen King I was pleasantly surprised by the book by the person whose work inspired such a refreshingly frightening film. The book was around $12 and I bought despite the fact that was all I had. Lunch could wait! It was thusly that my love for Lovecraft began. I had never read anything so weird and creepy. It satiated my cravings for both high science fiction and horror. It was the first book I read over and over and over again. I kept picking up little details I missed with each consecutive reading. In the years to follow, I would devour all things “Lovecraftian”. I watched every movie I could get based on his works. I rented movies by 1960s B-filmmaker Roger Corman such as Die, Monster, Die! (1965) being very loosely based on The Colour Out of Space, and The Haunted Palace (1963) – a film supposedly based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem, but in truth based on Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Dark Intruder (1965) was another good film from the 60s that had some Cthulhu references in it! The best Lovecraft film of the 70s, and one of the best overall, was The Dunwich Horror (1970). The 1980s was a Lovecraft Renaissance! The Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead Trilogy were Lovecraftian at heart and of course featured the infamous Necronomicon! John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) and even 1984’s Ghostbusters had elements straight out of a Lovecraft story. The S&M laced From Beyond (1986) was loosely based on the Lovecraft story of the same name. I could go on and on with dozens of films, comic books and TV shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hellboy and Cabin in the Woods which owe their best elements to the master of weird horror, but I suppose I should get on with it… When I got into Bizarre Magic after years obsessed with the paranormal, the supernatural and horror, I came across Docc Hollford’s masterfully written At the Mountains of Madness. Hillford’s script was based on the story by Lovecraft of the same name. In the séance script, Hillford very cleverly utilized Lovecraftian elements to allow for the Yoggoths and Elder Things to come right into the séance room! It was also a very budget friendly script as well. Now I like my Elder Things, Yoggoths, Mi-Gos and Yog-Sothoths just as much as the next guy, but I have always been a Cthulhu man. I used Docc Hillford’s script quite a few times very effectively. But I was missing the things I liked most out of Lovecraft which were, for me, Cthulhu and the Necronomicon. Suffice to say, when I decided to write my own script, I decided to keep true to Lovecraft and try to differentiate my script from Hillford’s as much as possible. I also wanted to incorporate aspects of my knowledge of hypnosis and mentalism. Some recent Lovecraft-based fiction has taken the meta-fiction route that the Necronomicon and indeed, the Cthulhu mythos themselves were based on a secret, and actual, reality. I liked that idea a lot. Many people do believe there once was an actual Necronomicon! In fact…
VINCE WILSON
Bizarrist, Hypnotist and Paranormalist Profile and more: www.vincewilsonmagic.com www.poesmagic.com |
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