Back in the ancient times of December 16th 2005 a show called Masters of Horror aired its 8th episode; John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns.
Kirby Sweetman (played by Norman Reedus) is hired to track down a print of a film said to have caused the viewers of its only showing into frenzied fits of violence. The story is pretty simple but it progresses quickly, has great subtle scenes of breaking sanity and has a series of clues followed by the protagonist, I think it would make for a perfect CoC scenario. The problem is there's not much to work with, it would be very linier and a straight forward investigation.
Is there any advice out there of which areas to flesh out to make it a little more open ended? My immediate thought would be to ad new scenes between the shows that involve researching clues that would lead them to the clues the character finds in the show off hand.
Side note: MoH's 2nd episode is a pretty good adaptation of Dreams in the Witch house directed by the Lovecraft adaption master Stuart Gordan
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