Creature from the Faeces Lagoon (2007)

With the Creature from the Faeces Lagoon (original Danish title: UHYRET FRA DEN BRUNE LAGUNE), a major change was made in the efforts of FOKING FILMS, as director Hans Bruntt took the production to new heights, spontaneously converting a disastrous set at the rain-slicked ROSKILDE FESTIVAL 2007, into the staging ground for what was to become the most twisted and deranged vision of H.P.Lovecraft’s Cthulhu-mythos ever made.

…And the foundations of the world shall tremble!

Sickeningly up front and brutally close in its visceral, mud-spattering impact upon the audience, yet subtle in its ominous – and ultimately tragic – love story, the movie became a cult-phenomena almost the second it hit the streets. For the first time, FOKING FILMS made full use of special effects, as Bo Jørgensen joined the team and astonished everyone with his euphoric vision of a world reduced to flatulent browns and fading greens.

The voice of Clausen: A horror from the empty gulfs of space

Further swelled by guest-narrator Jacob Clausen whose voice-over is a seismic rumble that can be measured on the Richter-scale – as well as the impeccable work by guest-soundmixer Simon Dohn, head of Angry Ape sound production, the movie is brought to the audience in a never-seen before high quality of full zombie power vision and brown surround sound. With the addition of a commentary track by the new arrived and elusive Dr.Mindstripper – who would continue to do likewise on both ‘Sex and The Zombie’ and ‘Onde Jakob’ – the psycho-analytic interpretations of the movie brought it to the attention of the higher echelons of the art industry, who duly recognized its potential as a rival to the predictions of Samuel Huntington.

Following the heart-stopping intro that pays dual homage to the insidious horror of Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’, as well as the both claustrophobic and agoraphobic terrors of Kubrick’s ’2001 – a Space Odessey’, the movie opens up at the final outcome of an ancient prophecy, as the bloated horror from beyond the stars crashes through the earth’s atmosphere, polluting everything around it in a sickening miasma of pestilence. As incipient madness overtakes the minds of the people of the world, genocidal wars extinguish 99% of the population, until only a brown wasteland remains, filled with rotting corpses, and populated by degenerated cannibals, Amish people and the dark worshippers of ancient, forgotten gods. Now, 512 years after the apocalypse, the witch-priests of Shub-Niggurath pause in their sacrifice of the innocent, as they sense the awakening of an ancient horror from disturbing movements in the mud. Breaking free from the bonds of untold eons, the unnamable thing that should not be rises from its prison of mud in an obscene birth that sent many among the audience of the Sundance Film Festival screaming from the theatre.

Death in the mud

Laying waste to the cult of Shub-Niggurath in a series of sanity-breaking and mudfilled deaths, the newly spawned, horned horror screams the heretical un-words of its destiny to the heavens as it spreads the corruption of brown power around it like a fatal virus. Never before in movie history has death been so terrifyingly up close in the face of the audience, like a cloying mud-stinking ooze, a monstrous and utterly undescribable blob of eternal foulness that slowly presses itself into the nostrils, mouth and down the throat of every person watching the movie, overwhelming them with the gagging rot of innumerable civilizations, until it reaches the heart and drowns it in aeons-old filth (hundreds of fatal heart-attacks as well as examples of spontaneous human combustion was observed during the initial screenings of the film). No one will ever forget the horrible images of broken cultists, their faces stomped mercilessly into the stinking mud, their bodies torn apart with dissolving spays of brown acid. The insane cameos by Ole Munk and Rasmus Skat Andersen tells the story of a hard-won movie production, and an aftermath that left many among the staff with severe emotional scars (some got real ones, as well). With a hideous roar, the Thing from the frozen abyss engages the might of the Black Goat From The Forest With A Thousand Young in close combat, each clash levelling mountain chains and shifting tectonic plates, crushing what remains of the earth’s civilization in gigantic mudslides of filth. At the end of this battle of titanic proportions, the cosmic terror tears apart its foe, and rampages across the earth, consuming everything in its path, leaving only an empty, brown husk behind. Adopting a new host, the thing then swims the world between worlds, and enters the mind of a love-longing bimbo from a parallel dimension, once again beginning the cycle of corruption and decay – and sealing the doom of yet another world. Ia!

The text above is part of an unfinished manuscript that was intended to be submitted to The English Journal of Psychoanalysis by Dr. Mindstripper in May 2008.

Reviews

‘I must confess to be pleasantly surprised at the cyclopean effort made by FOKING FILMS to bring my hard-won tales of the Cthulhu-mythos to life. Just like the tales of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings, I once thought it nigh on impossible, yes… impossible – to turn the dark feelings of an ancient menace, clawing itself from the precipice of the cold abyss so far flung from the World of Man, as to be beyond the veil of time itself, and turn its aeons-old gaze upon us with an eternal hunger born from madness and despair – into a real-life movie experience that would hold the audience in its dessicating grasp’. – Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Weird Tales, 2009

‘Pis og lort’ – Eva Braun, Das Unheimliche Zeitung, 2008

‘SE-rious-LYYY, that man is a HUNK, I say, showing his muscle and tackle like that! Such a tease for all us men on the field of flesh out here. I AL-most forgive him that he made a better film than us, cause he’s sooooo cute, and I feel, I feel, I feel, like, oh, like, like….. as IF, oooh you. It’s like…. but not really…. and (more inane gay talk)’ – Daniel Gildark, Spelling Productions Review, 2008

‘Esse der Scheisse! JAAAAAH!!!’. – Leopold von Sader-Masoch, Psychopathia Sexualis (updated), 2008

‘FTAGN! CTHULHU FTAGN! OGTHROD AI’F GEB’L – EE’H YOG-SOTHOTH ‘NGAH’NG AI’Y ZHRO! CTHULHU FTAGN! IA!! IA!!!’. – F. Dagon (junior), The Cthulhu Daily, 2008

The director’s uncut version

This is the uncut version of the film that was never meant to be released:

Creature from the Faeces Lagoon production photos