From pet shoggoths to basement-dwelling ghosts, HBO s
Lovecraft Country doesn t skimp on delivering quality supernatural monsters. In an exclusive, behind-the-scenes glimpse at the Season 1 home release (on sale tomorrow), you can find out how the visual effects crew incorporated the CGI beasties into the live-action series that blends the dark underbelly of American history with madness-inducing cosmic terrors of H.P. Lovecraft. The genre-bending aspect of the show is one of the things that the crew are most excited about, director of photography Robert McLachlan explains in SYFY WIRE s clip from the never-before-seen Compendium Of Horrors featurette. For me, as a cinematographer, it comes back to what it is we re photographing and how I can engage the audiences as fully as possible.