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my favorite is Dagon (2001)
CGI has aged poorly and acting is shit but atmosphere, music and ending are pretty good
+ the girl has amazing eyes and we get to see her boobs, I had to make fap breaks
>dagon
>is actually the shadow over innsmouth
not bad tho
This. But yes it's the best one and they really nailed HP's tone.
Any other movies where a whole town or region is out to kill you?
your life.
Go to hell, butthole
Night of the Seagulls
Wicker Man
Both vaguely connected to some Lovecraftian aspects despite not being Lovecraftian movies strictly speaking
In the mouth of madness
Hot Fuzz
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
these three are my top picks
It’s overall very good despite its flaws.
fpbp
I worship Dagon for she.
The Mist (you’re welcome)
Dagon is near the top of my list too.
But at the top is the 2005 silent film, Call of Cthulhu. It's perfect. Check it out, OP
This anon speaks the truth.
The HPL historical society did the right choice by filming it like a German expressionist silent movie.
I remember they also did the Whisperer in the Darkness in the style of 30's Universal Monsters horror.
Yeah, those two adaptations were good.
This anon has it figured out
The black and white silent film is highly comfy
You should become a movie critic, you told me all I needed to know
Dagon is goat.
Midnight Meat Train. gyrxk4
So that's where I was typing the captcha, kek.
I Did not see that fricking twist ending coming. Didn't know it was Lovecraft . Makes sense i guess
I haven't watched the movie but on a quick google search, it is not lovecraft.
>it is not lovecraft.
It actually is.
No it isn't. Its a story by Clive Barker.
Oh, nevermind, I thought you were referring to the style and theming of it. Yea, it's not actually written by him.
The style and theming isn't Lovecraft either.
The style and theming is Clive Barker.
Midnight Meat Train is a Clive Barker story
honestly would've been better if it wasn't Lovecraft.
I like the idea that just people could set all that up. It might even happen to you on your next subway trip.
That was not Lovecraft. It was a short story from Clive Barker.
In the mouth of madness
Its The Thing, its always been The Thing, it never stopped being The Thing, it will always remain The Thing
Honorable mention
You couldn't be more wrong, my ignorant friend.
The Thing is taken whole sale from the John Cambell novella Who goes there? Published in 1938 and likely written a good while earlier.
It uses just about every scene in the book and then adds some stuff on top of it. Well worth reading if you love The Thing.
>The Thing is based on Who Goes There? By John Campbell
At The Mountains of Madness (with its ancient alien cities and fearsome shapeshifters frozen in Antarctica) was published in Astounding Science Fiction just before Campbell became the editor.
He would very likely have read it, and wrote Who Goes There? shortly afterwards, so it isn't crazy to say that there is a visible influence
Both The Thing (book included) and Alien (the first one, and the unfortunate Prometheus) are a "At The Mountains of Madness" story. Alien/Prom even more.
I can only imagine that you have read neither Who goes there, or At the mountains of madness.
The Thing is more of a Color out of Space story.
Object falls from sky, there is something alien inside, the alien contaminates the human world.
What the object is, what the alien means, and what is contamination (and its extent) vary in base of the story.
I would also add Annihilation to that.
Alien and Prometheus are kinda of a Mountain of Madness story because humans find frozen alien (see above) things and discover the universe is old and other shit was there. Prometheus also re-elaborates the role of the aliens in the creation of human life, albeit change the extent of the control.
It is a big stretch. There is very, VERY little to compare between them. Who goes there and AtMoM are incredibly disparate. The setting and isolation are about the only things you can draw together, and to say that those elements are Lovecraftian is a joke.
Get a load of this fricking moron, Who Goes There is unabashed plagiarism
>cepahalopods = lovecraft
Reminder Lovecraft wasn't talking about literal tentacles.
Reminder that your headcanon is moronic and so are you
what is the octopus movie in op pic?
also besides the ones mentioned the nic cage Color out of Space is great. And despite being based on a different authors book I feel like The Ninth Gate is incredibly Lovecraft esque.
>what is the octopus movie in op pic?
Warlords of Atlantis
The Lighthouse
Lovecraft never emphasized gore or monsters.
The focus was the unknown and the forbidden.
Good choice
>lovecraft never emphasized gore or monsters
bafflingly incorrect.
>herbert west: reanimator
people are chopped up and reanimated willy nilly. a decapitated head is preserved. climaxes with a gestalt corpse monster
>the dunwich horror
a humungous monster the size of a bus messily devours people and animals. when its true form is revealed for an instant it is such a scary monster a dude's hair turns white
>short story i'm forgetting the name of
a guy gets chased out of a crypt by monsters, there are actually two short stories with this exact premise but on the 2nd try they're lizard people
yeah really unknowable these beasties that get pulverized by boats and perforated with small arms
Give me a single line that describes gore in a remotely disturbing way from any one of his stories.
>His interest became a hellish and perverse addiction to the repellently and fiendishly abnormal; he gloated calmly over artificial monstrosities which would make most healthy men drop dead from fright and disgust; he became, behind his pallid intellectuality, a fastidious Baudelaire of physical experiment—a languid Elagabalus of the tombs.
let me dumb this down further for you because you're illiterate. In this paragraph, cadavers are being taken apart and put back together in disgusting ways. illiterate ESL homosexual
That’s not remotely gory.
You’ve got to be joking right now.
>a fastidious Baudelaire of physical experiment—a languid Elagabalus of the tombs.
You could at least quote The Lurking Fear.
He hated Reanimator and wished he'd never written it, everything else you said was wrong as well
They were just drunk on turpentine.
DUDE WHERES MY LIGHTBULB LMAO
Lovecraft only works on the page. You can make facsimiles of his work but the prose style and slow build are something that are only captured shallowly on screen. Thats why everybody goes beig tentacles=lovecraft. Audiobooks are also a bad way of reading him.
True.
this one was cool
my numero uno too
love the necronomicon with jeffrey combs tho.
I just watched this, first time and it is fricking KINO lovecraft shit.
I love the Void. It's pretty neat and spooky
Cinemaphile shat on this when it was first released but I enjoyed it
It's a neat monsterflick. Won't say it's good horror, though.
This is just more gorey remake of John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.
This was such a fricking shit and I'll literally watch anything that is inspired by Lovecrat Mythos.
I found it to be underrated with an amazing third act monster twist out of nowhere.
the special effects of the movie are really good, but unfortunately the story is really barebones.
This was neat. I do feel like the unknowable nature of lovecraft horror got shafted in the third act, as awesome as it looked. Once they get in the basement with all the tentacle monsters, there isnt anything thats really "beyond human comprehension", you know you're definitely dealing with slimey tentacle monsters. The nic cage color out of space gets that aspect of lovecraft right, I think.
For me it's a bit like Event Horizon. Riddled with issue but heavy recommended anyway for the experience.
Annihilation
From Beyond. such a comfy mobie
2nded. Dagon was alright.
Great movie
Best Lovecraft movie, even if the entirety of the story it was based on was told before the opening credits even started.
>From Beyond > Reanimator
certainly not this piece of shit
>this piece of shit
PLEB
That was cagecraft KINO
True Detective S1
it was good without muh yellow king bullshit though
Re-Animator
You can’t really adapt eldritch horror to the screen. I mean you could, but I don’t think there is a director currently alive smart enough to do it (I obviously could).
A recurring theme in Lovecraft’s stories are that the entities are inter-dimensional, nearly impossible to describe, and drive the human characters to insanity. That’s just too difficult for NuDirectors to do (even though it could be done cheaply). The audience for such a film has also dwindled as the national/western IQ hands dwindled.
Werner Herzog could have done Lovecraft justice as an example as he understands atmosphere.
A Lovecraft movie also must take place in the 1910/20/30s for maximum effectiveness.
Here is the actual correct answer. This was the easiest story to adapt and they did it with unbelievable comedic style while still presenting a serious picture. One of my favorite horror movies.
Literally the worst adaptation of Lovecraft possible. Completely subverts the Lovecraftian angle to go for a simple, stupid, "LE RACISM WAS THE REAL EVIL ALL ALONG".
For all of TV’s worthy engagements with Black Lives Matter – the Fox miniseries Shots Fired, episodes of The Good Wife and Scandal – this show, which isn’t even addressing the movement directly, seems to speak to it most meaningfully. It’s no coincidence that Lovecraft Country is also the most entertaining series to grace our screens for months.
It's dogshit and it's stupid, just like the book it was based on.
...Just throwing hooks in the water at this point, huh?
>It's not enough to have no respect for the source material. I must actively disrespect it.
t. Jordan Peele, probably
Bros, what would be the most rational response Lovecraft would have if he saw this ?
Not sure, but it would most assuredly include the gamer word.
I'd like to say it would be what he's doing in this image (sorry I don't have a larger version) but honestly I think he'd write several scathing articles he'd self-publish in his magazine, then he'd write a chilling story about parasitic cosmic entities who stole, warp and corrupted the creativity and intelligence of humans with abundantly obvious what event inspired it, though his prose would leave the people who made that show sounding like the scummiest, most depraved and subhuman of creatures.
>here, kitty
>Bros, what would be the most rational response Lovecraft would have if he saw this ?
you just know he would be shitposting here nonstop like a regular anon while being banned on any other platform
honestly he'd probably feel pretty vindicated in a way, since it's confirming for him that Black folk can only pervert the image of white man
here you go
Man you know he jus playn, dont you know dat man best friend be a homie?
That was a steaming turd if I ever did see one.
The best part of the series was in episode one with the sundown law police stalking. Everything past that was shit.
True Detective S1
Patrician and objectively correct.
Frick no I hope not. 'Pulp Cthulhu' genre is a fricking eldritch abomination in and of itself.
The Borderlands (2013)
Probably The Thing. If you want a more *UNIQUE* answer, Annihilation.
this, i think The Thing is the only that really carried what i think to be cosmic terror
Have you seen in the mouth of madness? Its part of carpenters apocalypse trilogy that includes the thing and is all about lovecraft shit. That movie rules.
Will we ever get to see this?
death love and robots - "In Vaulted Halls Entombed" is a pretty good delta green-esqe short.
It's in the Dark Corners game.
Too many "Hwhite" people
what? no hellboy?
The comic, yes. The movies are more about nazi/rasputin/thule society shit or del toro's weird underground elf head canon. Providence is a must read for lovecraft comic enthusiasts. Nameless, too.
Sauce?
Peak "it has tentacles, so Lovecraft" opinion.
Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
Pickman's Model was probably the worst Lovecraft adaptation I have ever seen. What a horrible piece of shit, which is a shame because based Crispin was excellent in it.
I liked it bc it was
100% ESG-free
Made for adult viewers (nudity, gore)
Stick more or less to the story
>100% ESG-free
Was it, though?
>Made for adult viewers (nudity, gore)
YEAH BRO NUDITY AND GORE MATURE THEMES FOR MATURE ADULTS LIKE ME YEAH BRO BABY COOKING SO SHOCKING AND ADULT
I bet you also watched GoT because it had tiddies
>Stick more or less to the story
"or less", true
Not one of your counterarguments actually says anything
>Pickman's Model
Pickman's Model had an adaptation?
I only know Pickman's Muse
Also Night Gallery which also did Cool Air.
there was one redeeming factor in Pickman's Model and that was my large-hatted tiny-tittied wife
>Black personflix
No thank you
What moopie?
See
Half those moves aren't lovecraftian at all.
Which ones? Be specific. Most of them are direct adaptations.
You're not seriously trying to argue that a story Lovecraft actually wrote isn't Lovecraftian, are you?
>The Ritual
An elder god running a cult in the woods isn't lovecraftian? Have you ever heard of shub-niggurath?
>Event Horizon
A space ship accidentally opening a portal to a hell-like dimension and bringing it back and driving everyone who interacts with it insane... isn't lovecraftian to you?
Evil Dead 2 is not lovecraftian at all.
Neither is Noroi.
Event Horizon is also not lovecraftian.
Midnight Meat Train is not lovecraftian.
Not that guy btw.
>Evil Dead 2
The book used to summon the Deadites is the Necronomicon. Y-you know the book Lovecraft came up with?
>Event Horizon
You don't see any parallels to From Beyond?
>Midnight Meat Train
I have to spoil the ending for this one, The guy killing people on the subway is doing so in order to take them to an underground society of reptilians to feed them. That's like every third Lovecraft story ever.
>It mentions the Necronomicon! IT'S BASICALLY A DIRECTLY ADAPTATION!!!
>You don't see any parallels to From Beyond
No. No, I literally do not.
>Even third Lovecraft story is about a society of underground lizard men!
Name ONE other than The Nameless City
What's Lovecraftian about Herbert West: Re-Animator? It's a campy version of Frankenstein.
It was also one of his earlier stories and pre-Cthulhu Mythos. So yes, it's not what anyone would consider to be a standard 'Lovecraftian' story.
I also said the Ritual is somewhat Lovecraftian.
Even Horizon isn't. There is nothing unknown.
It's just schlock and gore.
Lovecrat literally wrote Herbert West–Reanimator, the movie is adaptation of it. His original short story is very campy too, probably the campiest thing he ever wrote.
I literally said that in my post.
>It was also one of his earlier stories and pre-Cthulhu Mythos
Lovecraftian is a broad concept that encompasses several plot devices, themes etc. It's not just cosmic horror
Lovecraftian horror, sometimes used interchangeably with "cosmic horror",[2] is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible[3] more than gore or other elements of shock.[4]
>sometimes
>emphasizes 1 aspect MORE than another
There's no contradiction. Re-Animator fully belongs to HPL's canon and worldview. As does, for instance, The Music of Erich Zann.
One of the most obvious aspects of the "Lovecraftian" adjective is: created by HPL. It doesn't has to feature a cameo by a creature from the Cthulhu Mythos, it isn't like the MCU or Star Wars
If he wrote a romance would it be Lovecraftian?
Is Old Bugs Lovecraftian?
What about Sweet Ermengarde?
>If he wrote a romance would it be Lovecraftian?
100%, in the same way that The Straight Story is Lynchian for instance
How is Sweet Ermengarde a horror story?
It doesn't have to be. The conflation of Lovecraftian with (cosmic) horror coexists w/ the otherwise obvious definition of "created by HPL"
Did you completely miss the part where we were discussing Lovecraftian HORROR?
Re-Animator is a horror story, hence it falls into one of the categories that define Lovecraftian. You were the one who brought up Ermengarde (which still falls under the broad definition of Lovecraftian)
How about all the lovecraft horror stories that are distillations of his fear of degeneracy?
>One of the most obvious aspects of the "Lovecraftian" adjective is: created by HPL.
No it isn't, moron. It should be obvious why if you think about it for half a second.
Kek, are you autistic? It's literally what defines any adjective pertaining to an author. The fact that said author is usually linked to a genre doesn't expunge his other works from his output/authorship.
Stop seething dummy
You disqualify everything not literally made by Lovecraft by defining Lovecraftian, even in part, as "created by HPL", which is antithetical to the term's existence--its only use being not to describe things actually written by Lovecraft but themes and imagery reminiscent of what is typically associated with his works. You're that annoying kid in elementary school that tells everyone that they're using "decimate" wrong.
>The Ritual is an elder god
but it wasn't, the monster was a Jotunn (giant) named Moder that forced people to worship in exchange for immortality. Moder is a bastard daughter of Loki
Re-Animator is the least Lovecraftian thing Lovecraft wrote. It was an increasingly campy serial.
Event Horizon isn't Lovecraftian, it's just a gore film.
The Ritual is in a way.
The is the most Reddit post I have come across today.
It's also his most influential work. Funny how that works.
>Re-Animator is Lovecraft's most influential work
Ha ha - no
cold skin should be on this list noroi should not be
I have it downloaded but haven't gotten around to watching it yet.
Noroi though is about a psychically created man-made god who realizes it's going to stop being worshipped and so takes a host and begins a ritual involving human sacrifice and psychic worms to give birth to itself.
Even Underwater is more Lovecraftian than at least half of these.
Yep
Midwit cringe is back on the menu, boys!
The Lovecraft investigations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lovecraft_Investigations
Definitely in the "inspired" category though, they are about as accurate to the original stories as Sherlock was to ACD's stories. I really enjoyed listening to them, its rare anything "Lovecraftian" works at all and I think they do.
Yes. Brilliantly done. I don't care much for the BBC, but they always seem to do audio/radio dramas very well and this one is fantastic.
I actually just finished listening to this series like a week ago so it's funny seeing it mentioned here. It was really enjoyable but it's a shame the real world COVID shit needed to leak in to the last season and it clearly fricked things up for the production. Was still an enjoyable run though.
>DUUUUUUDEE, WHAT IF GIANT OCTOPUSES.... BUT IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE
"lovecraftian" horror is cringe af
Lovecraftian horror is supposed to be about the fear of the unknown and unknowable, because Lovecraft was a sperg who was terrified of everything at the turn of the century.
Dude thought air conditioning was weird and unnatural.
>Lovecraftian horror is supposed to be about the fear of the unknown and unknowable
I know. But somehow it's ALWAYS down to giant space octopuses.
Dude, Lovecraft literally wrote a story that's just "I went into a stranger's house and waited in his parlor. There was a book on the table. I started flipping through the pages and ooooh! It was all spooky torture, murder and death! ...And then HE CAME BACK AND PUT AN AXE IN MY FACE AND OH NO I'M DEAD!!!"
He takes a while to get up to speed, admittedly. His early stuff wouldn't scare anyone except other hypochondriac New England aristocrats.
I know this is hard to understand for those of us who have been on sites like Cinemaphile for a long time, but the vast majority of people are really freaked out by gore. A lot of people would literally cry and be traumatised if they saw an ISIS video. People pissed and shat themselves over The Exorcist.
Now imagine you're a sheltered warly 20th century upper class gentleman. Those kinds of images, and even words, would shit you up.
Is gore really that bad? I've gotten to the point where I feel nothing when I watch those kinds of videos. Actually, I don't think they ever really bothered me, even when I was younger. Like that video that gets posted a lot where a dude gets his head blown off by a shotgun, it doesn't even phase me anymore.
>Is gore really that bad?
For the vast majority of people, yes. Those of us who are desensitized are the weird ones. There used to be this series called Faces of Death or something and it was marketed and spoken about as the biggest taboo video ever because you saw some shitty black and white photos of guys who'd been shot. That black metal album cover with the suicide photo was a huge deal. A lot of people on other blue boards can't even handle a rekt thread without having a meltdown.
In college some kind of specialist mortician for cartel killings gave a presentation with graphic photos (of autopsies and bloated, sunbaked corpses, not cartel crime scenes, admittedly) and detailed explanations. No one left the room or had much of any reaction until a corpse dick appeared on camera and a few people looked away.
Were you studying a field related to dead bodies? That kind of lecture would select for people who are okay with seeing gore and stuff.
Oh I'm not saying it's bad, I mean I was disappointed when I read it not by the bit of gore, but just that there was no twist. It's just "I'm in a creepy hillbilly's house and he killed me." At least make him part gorilla or something. It's like if I went to see my favorite stand up comic and instead of his routine he just threw pies at people in the audience.
This. The psychological horror aspect of it is probably what works best in the modern medium
Air conditioning is weird and unnatural.
>Dude thought air conditioning was weird and unnatural.
How fat are you, Uncle Sam?
leviathan
Ever the contrarian the Dream Cycle are my favourite Lovecraft stories.
Are any dream cycle sort of kinos?
Some animated version of dream quest of unknown Kadath was made, never seen it.
The zerba is looking at you like
>You have NO IDEA about the shit you are goign to get into
Unrionically if I had the money I'd adapt call of cthulhu into a big budget hollywood shitfet, I would black the shit out of it, make it star tom cruise, have him kill hundreds of cultists, multiple car, plane and boat chase scene ending with him being the guy that rams the boat into cthulhu's face where it would KILL cthulhu FRICKING DEAD and I would MAKE TOM CRUISE SAY Black person so many FRICKING times
Based. Someone give this guy a few million bucks to get a screenplay written and marketed.
the thing I guess
Lovecraft movie: Dagon
Lovecraft-inspired: The Beach House (2019)
>Beach House
Fricking atrocious, and the lazy rip-off of Color out of Space doesn't make it "Lovecraftian". It's a fricking global warming tract.
Pic related. Also watch after hours with a sinister lense, makes it feel lovecraftian (im just saying that because it reminded me of the chase in Shadow over Innsmouth).
anihilation is not lovecraftian. It barely even achieves being a competent stalker ripoff.
I really enjoyed the first book, absolute paperkino. The second one is pretty ok too but goddamn it is dry as frick. The third shits the bed quite heavily but most definitely leans hardest into lovecraft of the three.
It's literally an elaboration of the Color out of Space.
the prologue of The Empty Man
didn't like the movie as a whole, though
but damn did it start strong
True detective S1 is the best lovecraft influenced work and it isnt even fricking close. I doubt anything will ever top it.
I watched that and it didn't seem remotely lovecraftian or even supernatural to me. A big guy who makes snuff films and pretends to be moronic but actually has a fairly high IQ fingers a moronic woman would making her recall and describe a time she was raped. Yeah, no cosmic horror here.
Grabbers…
The Block Island Sound
Galaxy of Terror. One good monster-on-hot-screaming-blond scene and it became a cult classic loved all these decades later. You want to create Lovecraftian kino, make an R-rated version of the The Shadow Over Innesmouth with virginal maidens getting fricked by horny fish chads. Guaranteed instant hit, especially if you include the director's cut on Blu-Ray with extended/more graphic monster fricking.
>Galaxy of Terror.
based. I like how she turned into a bawd halfway through the monster rape.
>here's your femcel deep one hybrid half-sister/gf, bro
Woulda been hotter without the incest, personal opinion.
Also his human gf was hotter. Kinda feel bad she got tentacle raped by the squid.
Where do I get one of those? She is top tier qt.
stop it penis
She was either caked in makeup, or this was before what must be a massive drug problem.
oh no haha how awful nooo lol
saved
“But naow I’ll shew ye the best un—over here nigh the middle—” The old man’s speech grew a trifle thicker and his eyes assumed a brighter glow; but his fumbling hands, though seemingly clumsier than before, were entirely adequate to their mission. The book fell open, almost of its own accord and as if from frequent consultation at this place, to the repellent twelfth plate shewing a butcher’s shop amongst the Anzique cannibals. My sense of restlessness returned, though I did not exhibit it. The especially bizarre thing was that the artist had made his Africans look like white men—the limbs and quarters hanging about the walls of the shop were ghastly, while the butcher with his axe was hideously incongruous. But my host seemed to relish the view as much as I disliked it.
“What d’ye think o’ this—ain’t never see the like hereabouts, eh? When I see this I telled Eb Holt, ‘That’s suthin’ ta stir ye up an’ make yer blood tickle!’ When I read in Scripter about slayin’—like them Midianites was slew—I kinder think things, but I ain’t got no picter of it. Here a body kin see all they is to it—I s’pose ’tis sinful, but ain’t we all born an’ livin’ in sin?—Thet feller bein’ chopped up gives me a tickle every time I look at ’im—I hev ta keep lookin’ at ’im—see whar the butcher cut off his feet? Thar’s his head on thet bench, with one arm side of it, an’ t’other arm’s on the graound side o’ the meat block.”
As the man mumbled on in his shocking ecstasy the expression on his hairy, spectacled face became indescribable, but his voice sank rather than mounted. My own sensations can scarcely be recorded. All the terror I had dimly felt before rushed upon me actively and vividly, and I knew that I loathed the ancient and abhorrent creature so near me with an infinite intensity. His madness, or at least his partial perversion, seemed beyond dispute.
He was almost whispering now, with a huskiness more terrible than a scream, and I trembled as I listened.
“As I says, ’tis queer haow picters sets ye thinkin’. D’ye know, young Sir, I’m right sot on this un here. Arter I got the book off Eb I uster look at it a lot, especial when I’d heerd Passon Clark rant o’ Sundays in his big wig. Onct I tried suthin’ funny—here, young Sir, don’t git skeert—all I done was ter look at the picter afore I kilt the sheep for market—killin’ sheep was kinder more fun arter lookin’ at it—” The tone of the old man now sank very low, sometimes becoming so faint that his words were hardly audible. I listened to the rain, and to the rattling of the bleared, small-paned windows, and marked a rumbling of approaching thunder quite unusual for the season. Once a terrific flash and peal shook the frail house to its foundations, but the whisperer seemed not to notice it.
“Killin’ sheep was kinder more fun—but d’ye know, ’twan’t quite satisfyin’. Queer haow a cravin’ gits a holt on ye— As ye love the Almighty, young man, don’t tell nobody, but I swar ter Gawd thet picter begun ta make me hungry fer victuals I couldn’t raise nor buy—here, set still, what’s ailin’ ye?—I didn’t do nothin’, only I wondered haow ’twud be ef I did— They say meat makes blood an’ flesh, an’ gives ye new life, so I wondered ef ’twudn’t make a man live longer an’ longer ef ’twas more the same—” But the whisperer never continued. The interruption was not produced by my fright, nor by the rapidly increasing storm amidst whose fury I was presently to open my eyes on a smoky solitude of blackened ruins. It was produced by a very simple though somewhat unusual happening.
The open book lay flat between us, with the picture staring repulsively upward. As the old man whispered the words “more the same” a tiny spattering impact was heard, and something shewed on the yellowed paper of the upturned volume. I thought of the rain and of a leaky roof, but rain is not red. On the butcher’s shop of the Anzique cannibals a small red spattering glistened picturesquely, lending vividness to the horror of the engraving. The old man saw it, and stopped whispering even before my expression of horror made it necessary; saw it and glanced quickly toward the floor of the room he had left an hour before. I followed his glance, and beheld just above us on the loose plaster of the ancient ceiling a large irregular spot of wet crimson which seemed to spread even as I viewed it. I did not shriek or move, but merely shut my eyes. A moment later came the titanic thunderbolt of thunderbolts; blasting that accursed house of unutterable secrets and bringing the oblivion which alone saved my mind.
That's the good stuff
I remember reading this short-story as a kid, about a guy in the hospital who signed away the rights to his brain to some scientists after he died. His wife was mad about it, long story short they put his brain and eyes etc., in a tank and just have it floating in there, assuming he's not conscious anymore.
Then his wife comes by to look at it in the lab, and she's smoking, which always pissed the guy off, and as she looks into the tank, with the smoke in her mouth, she sees the pupil of his eye dilate, and realizes that this was an anger response to seeing her smoke, and that he's still fully conscious in there.
And then it just ends.
That kind of horror was always spookier to me than just big monster come eat you. The knowledge of something horrible happening, the helplessness, the inability to communicate it to others, the madness that follows. I think all that was ultimately what Lovecraft was *aiming* towards, even as he did use a lot of monsters. It's not exactly C'thulu himself, coming out of the sea to get rammed by a boat, that's scary. It's knowing that he's still down there, and he's coming back, that there's nothing you can do to stop him when the stars finally do align. And nobody will ever believe you.
Have you read Johnny's got his gun?
One of the versions of hell that we can experience while still alive. You might even have it done to you by well-meaning people, which makes it all that much worse. Fricking horrible story, genuine nightmare fuel.
>In his introduction to a 1959 reprinting, Trumbo describes receiving letters from right-wing isolationists requesting copies of the book when it was out of print. Trumbo contacted the FBI and turned these letters over to them. Trumbo regretted this decision, which he later called "foolish," after two FBI agents showed up at his home and it became clear that "their interest lay not in the letters but in me."
That's scummy on multiple levels. Impressive.
That's a short Roald Dahl story. It's not horror in the sense you mentiom, because the guy willingly signs up for it and fully expects to be conscious. The twist is he's been a tyrant with his wife and she, upon recognizing the spark of anger in his remaining eye, brings the eye home to torture him. Her last act before the story ends is blowing smoke on the furious pupil. So it's horror but you also are expected to side with her in a sense.
warlords of Atlantis was okay but the lead reminded me too much of will ferrel
Lea Brodie was pretty cute tho
The Undying
There are actually like five or six different film adaptions of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and most of them are pretty good.
Huan Vu's The Color out of Space
Pickmans Muse
The X-Files Season 3 Episode 14
inb4 that lame new meme
gem
Trailer gave me a "Jacob's Ladder gurney scene" vibe.
Am I correct, or misled?
>Lovecraft had moved to New York to marry Sonia Greene a year earlier, in 1924; his initial infatuation with New York soon soured (an experience fictionalized in his short story "He"), in large part due to Lovecraft's xenophobic attitudes. "Whenever we found ourselves in the racially mixed crowds which characterize New York, Howard would become livid with rage," Greene later wrote. "He seemed almost to lose his mind."
original ding ding ding man
>Lovecraft writes a long winded story about the infernal chiming of that maddening bell
Spring and that movie with Kirsten Stewart LITERALLY has Cthulhu in it
Dagon
Dagon
In the Mouth of Madness
John Carpenter's The Thing
Oh, and In the Mouth of Madness is a classic. Check it, OP.
>No lovecraftian dream cycle adaptation
Would be the highest fantasy kino. Fricking why Hollywood?
This would be much easier to do than getting the tone of traditional Lovecraft right which I think is virtually impossible.
would be better as a game
Soon.
soon
Dreams in the Witch House from the first season of Masters of Horror. Stuart Gordon directs and Ezra Godden is in the lead too.
Quatermass and the Pit, really.
Quatermass 2/Enemy from Space was also quite Lovecraftian with the things in the domes, now you come to mention it.
>You will never enjoy a Lovecraft/Poe crossover with Quatermass and the Pit and the Pendulum, with Vincent Price as guest star
YellowBrickRoad is extremely underrated and it's got no tenticles.
TAKE YOUR SEAT SIR!
Kino of the highest order, first time I've seen it mentioned in on Cinemaphile
"Are you like retahded hikahs or something, cause you're in a movie theater"
absolutel turd is what I hear every time someone takes up your shitty rec and reports back.
The Resurrected (1991).
True Detective S1
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Not this one but arguably the second one has elements with that idol becoming you know what.
The second conan movie is totally rock solid. At least a 7/10. Its a bit more campy, but it does everything it needs to do. Much more of a d&d campaign than the personal revenge odyssey that the first one is.
Underwater, and just because it has kstew running around in her underwear for most of the film
She did look good in this. Movie is pretty meh though. Not much plot or character substance. It has a few moments of deep sea claustrophobia that are pretty tense. Cool giga homie cthulu at the end too.
do people play this stupid language game about "Tolkienesque" fiction too? Do I just not see it or did he not create anything as memetically monolithic and marketable as the cthulu mythos?
Even the stephen king discourse isn't this AIDs
People like the vibe and ask for media that has some of that vibe.
That's it. Don't overthink it anon.
You dont see tolkienesque, because tolkien invented the fantasy genre in literature. Lord of the rings was inspired by Ring, but that was more of an operatic mythological fiction. Tolkien was the first author to invent a fantasy setting for his own narrative fiction. The first to do so that caught on with the mainstream, anyway. "Tolkienesque" is just fantasy.
right that's what I thought too. It feels like casuals do the same with HPL as a moniker which becomes a hyperreal construct in the imaginary cultural consciousness hence why it drives me schizo seeing it commodified as aesthetic and funko pops. Even the "true readers" are so numerous to be their own fandom subculture. The zeitgeist is so saturated with it in all media forms the memetic satiation becomes intolerable but you can't tune it out, it's like miasmic air
This has slipped under the radar apparently. I've heard people say it's your typical Lovecraft influenced film that doesn't really do anything new. It's free to watch on Tubi.
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did lovecraft basically just copy baldurs gate 3?
that thing looks exactly like the illithid