Do you think that modern Lovecraftian horror isn't scary anymore? Is it due to overexposure or the fact that people of 2020s don't find tentacles as scary as the people of the 1900s did?
What do you think is the problem with modern Lovecraftian horror and how would you fix it?
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The only thing scary about Lovecraft is his rscidm.
Most leftists are already nihilist atheists that think the Earth is doomed
No need for spooky fish people or cults
I think you'd almost have to make an inversion of Lovecraft's themes to arrive at a similar effect in the current generation, where the ultimate horror the protagonist discovers is that the world isn't meaningless and directionless, but rather that man has an objectively real, divinely ordained purpose that he is failing to fulfill.
This is the problem. People keep looking into too deep meaning that it becomes unscary.
Define scary
Lovecraft was never scary he is literally a moron offshoot Hapsburg homosexual that wrote gay little novels meant to appeal to 1880s pseuds for a living that guy was an actual schizo
His horrors came true, america is a dysgenic wasteland of brown half human golems who worship non christian gods.
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How does one feel fear reading text on a page? Like just close the book and walk away homie hahahahaha
Transposing "go crazy by looking at it" to a visual medium is a fairly difficult task.
Lovecraftian horror isn't actually about tentacles, but its true themes are next to impossible to put on the screen. Anyways read Thomas Ligotti for modern "Lovecraftian" horror
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Not really. The biggest theme in his cosmic horror works is the powerlessness of humanity/the protagonist in the face of entities beyond their comprehension, which often make them go insane/kill them. Something which had been done well enough in several films, e.g The Thing, The Shining.
Why not just don't comprehend them then? Genuises
You don't get it, it's the idea that some things are too STRANGE and OTHERWORLDLY for humans eyes. Merely looking at symbols and drawings is enough to make you go crazy. Lovecraft is stupid honestly. I know people here act like he was based for being a racist and whatever but he's just not a very good writer.
the more we know, the less unknown there is to be afraid of
unironically, THAT alien picture that got us shut down for a few days which made most of the people who looked at it feel ill is all the evidence I need that lovecraft was right.
Any programmable system which takes input can be broken, I don't see why the human brain is any different (optical illusions are even evidence of this, especially the ones that make normal things look fluid after you look away)
if you post blacked, the jannies will go insane, too
>THAT alien picture that got us shut down for a few days
that shit happens every few months, it's old hat
true, but usually it's because a troony makes a vague threat or visual manifestation of the chud meme carries out a school shooting
I don't even care for any of the fake ayy pics, hell they presented an "alien" body in the mexican congress and nobody went mad from the revelation
>made most of the people who looked at it feel ill
it doesn't take much to make people feel sick
True.
>that image
One time I was reading and a hornet landed on my face (I was 12 at the time).
I didn't want to get stung, so I basically froze and waited for it to go away.
>it slowly walks across my face over five minutes
>eventually gets right up to my eye, staring me directly in the pupil
>terrified at this point
>it walks ontop of my open eye and just sits there, for over a minute, rubbings it's little front legs together
>walks off onto my forehead, sits there for a few more minutes, then fricks off
Most willpower I have ever exercised in my life. Didn't blink once. Didn't open any windows in my room for over a year after that.
that pic is a fish hook. the black arrow is where it's entering the eye
I read the image title 🙂
Lovecraft was always more about the creepy factor over the horror. It never really crosses the line into the latter genre. At least that's the case with the Cinemaphile Lovecraft. Truthfully, dont think you'd need the horror elements to make a good Lovecraft film. The best parts/stories are the characters descending slowly into madness/ realizing that not is all that it appears (The Music of Eric Zahnn, the Call of Cthulhu and Dagon are good examples).
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Just give it a chance! FRICK.
there's nobody making lovecraftian horror, so no.
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Lovecraftian """"horror"""" is about as scary as Goosebumps.
>omg guise i saw strange stuff and now i live in constant paranoia but i cant describe what i saw otherwise you will go mad too!
fear of the unknown is pretty much obsolete
Problem is it's not unknown anymore.
I'm gonna say it
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Never has been scary except in the early 20th century.
Was it related to the fear of the sea since they sailed so much back then?
it's just the fear of being insignificant in an uncaring and massive world
you can get the same effect by zooming really fast through space engine