Stalker (1979 film) of the "Time Out Film Guide" has compared "Stalker" to Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", also released in 1979, and argued that "as a journey to the heart of darkness" "Stalker" looks "a good deal more persuasive than Coppola's." As well, "Slant Magazine" reviewer Nick Schager has praised the film as an "endlessly pliable allegory about human consciousness". In Schager's view "Stalker" shows "something akin to the essence of what man is made of: a tangled knot of memories, fears, fantasies, nightmares, paradoxical impulses, and a yearning for something that's simultaneously beyond our reach and yet intrinsic to every one
The Whisperer in Darkness (film) Rotten Tomatoes. On the Internet Movie Database it has 6.7 out of 10 stars. John J. Puccio of "Movie Metropolis" said "The atmospherics are in place, and the filmmakers catch the essence of Lovecraft's expansive horror with efficiency. The film is entertaining without attaining greatness." Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com said "'Whisperer in Darkness' has a chiller-diller conclusion and some moments of real terror." "The Whisperer in Darkness" was nominated at Oaxaca Film Fest. The Whisperer in Darkness (film) The Whisperer in Darkness is a 2011 independent film based on the H. P. Lovecraft short story of the same name, directed