Wednesday 11 July 2007

Ethan Haas Was Right Or Wrong (Or Neither)


This wildly weird and wackily wonderful website game was mentioned in Chris PerridasZoetrope Forum as follows:

“…google ‘Ethan Haas’. There are two new viral sites for the new JJ Abrams project, and some of the names thrown around on the sites, including Mezin, Alhazred, and references to a ‘Mad’ prophet lead me (and several bloggers) to believe this project has something to do with Lovecraft’s Old Ones. (JJ Abrams is responsible for, amongst other work, the TV series, ‘Lost’ (this fansite is ironically called Lost-TV).

The trailers put out on YouTube have been removed due to a Paramount Pictures problem. These trailers were originally shown with Paramount’s and DreamWorksTransformers: The Movie.

Play the frustrating game on one of the viral sites here:
and http://www.1-18-08.com/ which has two photographs from the future (taken on 18th January 2008, the release date of the movie)

The game may or may not be connected to an as yet unnamed unreleased movie (codenamed Cloverfield). This report suggests that the two are connected and that they and other stuff are part of an ongoing viral marketing campaign. Everything in the known universe about Cloverfield needs to be explored (via warp drive or foldspace). But this blog states that the game and movie are unconnected.

***If you have trouble seeing the symbols, right-click and choose Zoom In.

Check out a review and help, http://ethanhaas.livejournal.com/ mentions petting Cthulhu and asks what happens to us on 1st August, then there’s 54312 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (but theinsanecultist’s photos are mainly of cats), the MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/ethanhaaswasright, there’s scifighter, http://ethanhaas.org/, the e-mail address, the countdown on parasitemovie.com (a.k.a. cloverfield) plus stuff on blog the internet dot com.

The Mezin referred to may or may not be connected to this site. Project Serpo (and its connections to Roswell) would also appear to be linked to the movie, its codename and maybe the alternate reality game – but certainly to Cthulhu. Check out ‘Who is Ethan Haas, And What Is Cloverfield?
There is more to come.
The end of something or other is nigh.
Watch this space!


But whatever you do, you MUST visit the Red Interactive Agency for its take on the story, your chance to create an avatar (from many possibilities)and explore the weirdest chatroom in the metaverse).

1 comment:

Unknown said...

you can check out cloverfieldnews.com for tons of information regarding the viral marketing behind this movie.