"Parts.... I've never TRIED... PARTS..."

Stuart Gordon's film HERBERT WEST: RE-ANIMATOR was probably the earliest post CALL OF CTHULHU RPG Lovecraft movies that actually acknowledged HPL as the source material and tried to convey a sense of humour along with its macabre goings-on. This is interesting in and of itself because it's very much the way a LOT of us actually PLAY Lovecraft.

This would be the first of MANY official Lovecraft adaptations 
that recognized it's sources and probably one of the very best.

I'll be adding a fair number of movie reviews on this site over time and adding some notes as to how one can take elements from the pictures being reviewed for use in our games. I'll even be re-examining RE-ANIMATOR, but, for now, here's a sample of some of the mayhem the movie brought to it's audience.

The original Red-Band trailer for the 1985 release

Jeffery Combs is wonderful as West - this second clip is a good example of him in top form.

"Don't expect it to tango - its got a broken back..."

Who Is This, Where Does This Come From, and What Is A "Midnight Train To Arkham"?

Hello there. Despite the pseudonymous G+ moniker, my name is Joe Kilmartin. After about 10 years of false-starts and frustrations - despite many good intentions - I finally got a new group of people together to play tabletop role-playing games. For our first few months of sessions, we played an OSR D&D homebrew that I called MURDERHOBOES - a mashup of  Lamentations Of The Flame Princess, the original B/X D&D, some original material and some great stuff that I found on the OSR blogs online. That mini-campaign informed this blog, and will be mentioned from time to time, as will the players who played in it and are now playing in our new game.

Here are some of the players from the the OSR B/X D&D Mashup.
Most of these people, and a few new ones, will be coming back for Call of Cthulhu.

"Midnight Train To Arkham" is the name of my new ongoing Call of Cthulhu campaign -- a game I've wanted to get back to since the 1990s when I was last playing it with another regular group of players. "Midnight Train To Arkham: The Blog" is where I'll share new game materials I come up with for that campaign. I expect to post session reports, new house rules, adaptations of characters from popular media, and other things related to our weekly game and Call of Cthulhu in general..  I also will be posting movie and book reviews that relate to Lovecraftian themes and the period between the two World Wars.  Let's see what I can come up with.