Why haven’t there been any good movies based on Lovecraft’s stories?
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Why havent there been any good movies based on Lovecrafts stories?
Why haven’t there been any good movies based on Lovecraft’s stories?
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Maybe his stories aren't that good? They all end with
>ahhh I'm dead
or
>ahh I'm going insane
>>ahhh I'm dead
>or
>>ahh I'm going insane
Kino
How many stories did you read?
all of them.
fpbp
>one of the most influential horror writers
>deathly afraid of an a/c unit
Like I get that’s impressive he was able to write a story inspired by that on the fly, but at the same time I can’t help but wonder if maybe he was off his rocker.
>I can't help but wonder if he maybe was off his rocker
What gave it away? The years at a time where he would sustain himself on nothing but canned beans and autism?
>The years at a time where he would sustain himself on nothing but canned beans and autism
I feel spiritually connected to him. Miss that lil homie like you wouldnt believe
>Tried coffee ice cream because of Lovecraft's preference for it
It's not really my thing.
Coffee ice cream can be a real crapshoot depending on who makes it.
The fear of fish people isn't an inspired burst of creativity, he literally was afraid and disgusted by seafood.
>"There's a place called Jake's on the waterfront that offers great portions of viands for a modest charge," {Lovecraft} suggested ... I ordered something I had never had - swordfish steak. When it arrived I noticed a curious aversion in Lovecraft's face, an expression of disgust so strong that I remarked on it.
>"I can not tolerate seafood in any form ... the very sight and smell of it nauseate me. Don't let it disturb you - by all means consume the horrible stuff. Yunger and stronger constitutions than that of the old man can absorb such punishment. But one mouthful would manke me actually and violently ill.
>"I have hated fish and feared the sea and everything connected with it since I was two years old ... but I can not recall what earlier experience gave me such a profound and lasting aversion to the sea and seafood."
>For himself he had Boston baked beans with bacon, apple pie with ice cream, and heavily sugared coffee.
YWNBAW
>literally creates a genre and here we are talking about it on a mongolian basket weaving seminar 100 years later
I think the problem is the stories require a three digit IQ and that's just not common enough.
No one's complaining about the genre, mr high IQ. The complaint was about HPL as a writer and even his fan base has to admit he had limitations. And he didn't "create" a genre, he stole from Alice Bailey, Dunsay, Blackwood, Poe, etc.
Foul welsh lies
garbage post. nothing you said means anything.
It filters midwits, true.
yeah, but the overmind tells me that he
named his cat the no-no word, and that makes him
an evil bad man and his stories are bad now!
The overmind compels me to meme now.
>ahh I'm going insane
His longest story/novella The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath ends witht he protagonist waking up in his cozy Massachusetts home. One of his most famous stories Mountains of Madness has a more-or-less happy ending for the protagonist.
There are a few good movies such as Re-animator and television episodes like the Night Gallery version of Pickman's Model.
I think one thing that might be tricky to work around is the fact that most of his stories take place in the past tense and rely on a strong narrator as a wrapper.
You have to be careful when you take that apart and start to pick-and-choose what stays and what goes in terms of content. Take out too much of the hard to film mental/abstract elements and you lose the flavor and thread of the stories: leave too much in and manage it poorly and you will have a real mess on your hands.
It can be done, but it takes skill and restraint to execute correctly.
found-footage would be unironically the right way to adapt it. subjective pov, camera can't really capture the full eldritch horrors, the recording remains as a testament of what the
Nice
>tfw Black personman is dead by now
He lives forever in Ulthar
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Color Out of Space was good, I’m not sure why people are so down on it. So was Re-Animator and From Beyond.
There’s also the silent Lovecraft movies the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society makes.
That’s not to mention the movies inspired by his works, like From the Mouth of Madness and The Void.
Yeah Re-Animator was excellent. From Beyond and Dagon weren't bad at all imo.
His prose is difficult to adapt to a screenplay
The Call of Cthulhu
The Whisperer in Darkness
Die Farbe
Because they are better with your own imagination.
There are some
wheres my horror at redhook film that shouldnt be hard to make now days.
here
What are his best stories? Ive read some but found them repetitive. My favorites are At The Mountains of Madness and The Colours Out of Space.
For me it’s Charles Dexter Ward and it’s not even close. But I tell people to start with The Rats in the Walls.
>tell people to start with Rats In The Walls
>He named his cat WHAT, anon?
Ishygddt
It came to him with the name.
Good taste. The Haunter of the Dark is number 2 for me. Stay out of the Italian district.
Other than Mountains of Madness and Innsmouth, some of the dream ones where Carter is traveling to fantastic cities in dreams. Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath was really cool to read after most of the other ones.
the dunwich horror, here is an excellent audio of it
Like everyone said Re-animator is good. Looking at wikipedia, they mention Evil Dead, John Carpenter films, Annihilation, and Dunwich horror as having lovecraftian elementd
Also, despite not sticking the landing for both anime and manga as well as containing minor elements I thought Soul Eater was cool.
we got cloverfield
OP said good movies
Clever girl.
for homosexual normies there are no good horror movies, I bet your favorite horror movie is rated a 6 or a 7 out of 10 on imdb. The higher you go the more shit for horror fans it becomes and less horror it is.
>it has a black character named after lovecraft
Based.
this was so fricking weird but also really enjoyable
Haunted Palace (1963)
based and Cormanpilled
Most of them are around 20 pages long, you'd need full moron levels of padding and stretching to turn them into feature-length films. There are obvious concerns about gory/terrifying visuals with the MPAA rating, too, as we've seen with Guillermo Del Toro's issues getting At The Mountains Of Madness made. It isn't that I think they aren't adaptable, I just think a 2 hour movie is the wrong format for it. An anthology series would knock it out of the park.
>concerns about gory/terrifying visuals with the MPAA rating, too, as we've seen with Guillermo Del Toro's issues getting At The Mountains Of Madness
qrd? I thought he said it would basically be the same as Prometheus so why bother?
It was around the time he dropped out of working on The Hobbit movies with Peter Jackson, he was actually close enough to getting At The Mountains Of Madness made to have Tom Cruise attached and a script written. The hang-up was that Universal refused to finance it unless he could write it into a PG-13 film for wider audiences, which he refused to do considering the body horror and creature designs that would have to go into making a faithful Lovecraft adaptation.
>we could've had Del Taco and Cruisekino but Universal got too israelitey about it
I'm still mad.
Maybe writers could do their job and since they are given kino material they could write a fricking 1.5 hour half decent movie with fleshing out and polishing the idea.
>fleshing out
We don't need an origin story for random turn of the century detective #3, anon. Shadow Over Innsmouth and At The Mountains Of Madness are the only two that should even be considered because you can spend time on the setpieces and chase sequences.
Never said origin story and we don't need chase sequences. More than a few lovecraft movies have been good and 1.5 hours long.
>more than a few Lovecraft movies have been good and over 1.5 hours long
Name one besides Re-Animator and The Color Out Of Space.
The Resurrected, Dagon, From Beyond are all decent adaptations no worse than color out of space. Re animator is special it's not only kino lovecraft/horror it's just kino in general almost a 10/10 so not even going to bother comparing it to anything else.
We could easily get a bigger budget kino Cthulhu, personally I would want a Shadow out of time movie, could be very possible to do.
>Why haven’t there been any good movies based on Lovecraft’s stories?
Because all the talent of old Hollywood has been replaced by socialist diversity hires and Marxist advocates. No one is hired on merit because society has decreased to the point of it nlnot being a valued quality today.
Because the source material is shit.
You’re shit.
Some of his best works would require a heft budget, the type that is typically not afforded to horror. There's a whole 'cinematic universe' ready to be adapted from his mythology, and it could pay off well like the capeshit. They'd have to knock it out of the park with the first installment whether a series or movie. However there are many effective Lovecraft stories that don't need a big budget. What they could do is a series that adapts those Lovecraft stories, separate episodes, modestly budgeted and effective. Then with enough profits devote more to a couple of big movies. And yeah as someone mentioned, found footage would be a great delivery system. Trying to make everything a period-piece is not the way to go. Some could be set in a modern context and it wouldn't really detract. Mountains of Madness I'd prefer to be a period piece for sure. I just hope Del Toro never manages to get around to adapting any stories because he'll ruin it with moronic racist woke-isms.
It would be awful if it wasn't period piece. His settings are as much of the story as the content, characters and vibe. Imagine reanimating a cadaver in a modern hospitabl instead of a 1920s.
>Maybe his stories aren't that good? They all end with
>>ahhh I'm dead
>or
>>ahh I'm going insane
What is wrong with that reoccurring theme
No film will ever top Bloodborne
From did some kosmicly good work
Anon…?
Fromsoft made Bloodborne. Lots of people just call it "From". In Bloodborne there is an entity named Kos some call Kosm. It's just a pun
True. I don't even have a PlayStation and after playing it for a few hours on my friend's console, I went and watched a full Let's Play of it just for the story and atmosphere. Fricking fantastic.
troonyborne
Ah kos some say kosim, grant us holes grant us holes. Holes! All over the body!
>No film will ever top Bloodborne
If you were going to make a bloodborne movie that wasn't a straight rip of game story, what would you do with it?
NTA but I'd make it a short film about a dirty driftng drunk who stumbles upon Yarnahm. He heard about the towns famous blood wienertail and just had to have a taste. He's unchaven, dirty appearance the townsfolk mistake him for one of thier own. The drunk keeps asking around for the wienertail but only gets strange answers
>"Lousy drunk, away with ye!"
>"Aaaaaaarrrrggh!"
>"Oh gods! Help me!"
>"This towns finished"
>"Have you heard of the high elves?"
Finally he stumbles upon some old bloke's two story house and finds one bottle just sitting there in a clear cabinet. The drunk can hardly believe his luck as he's licking his lips in anticipation.
He pops the cork off, swirls the liquid around with wide eyes, and slowly pours the blood red drink slightly above his mouth.
The next scene is a zoomed-in slow motion shot of the first few drops as they miss the drunks mouth entirely and end up hitting the floor. A crashing of glass is heard as the slow motion is set aside, follow by a loud thud. The next shot is the drunks body with a bloody hole in his back and stranger walking away. Credits
The Haunted Palace
Adapting Lovecraft's shlocky stories would be kinda pointless. On the other hand, adapting his GOOD stories would require some things that are unusual in filmmaking; 1) subtlety, 2) slow pacing and tons of well-executed atmosphere, 3) absolutely zero romance subplot. But for many of them you'd also need pretty good visual effects, so it would be probably be kinda hard to do on an indie budget.
>Adapting Lovecraft's shlocky stories would be kinda pointless
Reanimator was the shlockiest story he wrote, and arguably is his only really great adaptation. I love his shlock. Most of them would be perfect for an anthology tv series akin to masters of horror.
Sutter Kane's movies are pretty good, but they can be hard to get ahold of
The Empty Man was bretty gud.
This was inspired by beksinski
>Re-animator
>Color out of Space
Lovecrafts contribution to the horror genre is greater than his own works. Without Lovecraft, modern classics like "IT" and "The Thing" wouldn't exist. If you're in the mood for Lovecraftian horror, check out THE VOID and ANNHILATION. They both tick all the right boxes for me. THE VOID in particular has become mandatory yearly Halloween viewing for me
He also contributed to Conan as him and Conan’s author were pen pals. Lovecraft’s horror is only that of a civilized man, a brute like Conan doesn’t know enough to be terrified so just bashes them with an axe.
It ties into their degenerating civilization they both were fixated on.
There is a scene in a Conan novel where he encounters a Lovecraft creature his axe can't harm so he runs away in terror while hearing its whispers in his mind
same reason there aren't any good films based on Vonnegut stories.
Conan the Barbarian says hi
Watched The Dunwich Horror a few days ago, it was delightful. Not really "Lovecraftian" in tone, but fun 70s schlock.
You know why anon, no studio will touch it because of his "problematic" opinions. Which is a fricking shame because if they'd been given the budget they could have been great.
He ended up marrying a israelite once he left his /misc/ writing circle
means nothing i love israeli girls but i still think the holocaust never happened
Dark Intruder
Event horizon and the ritual have lovecraftian elements. For me, it’s John carpenters the thing
First, it's hard to do cosmic horror when you need a visual medium. Either almost impossible or very hard to do (since visuals it needs to follow some logic whether you like it or not, you cannot do non-euclidean and other shit without some serious talent, at least i do not know any case).
Second, literally any adaptation of Lovecraft's work will be tainted and molested by modern SJW bullshit since he was le raycis so they will try to shove brave strong nignogs everywhere.
Because morons expect "tentacles lol". I'm positive you can make a good movie or even miniseries using The Dreams in the Witch House and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Also The Shunned House could be a great movie.
But there is though.
who is this qt
didn't look but I'm guessing it's the fishwife from dagon, an excellent movie with some slighlty goofy moments but still great
You are correct.
>Re-Animator
red hook got the vibe right for a game in uh...i forget its name. darkest dungeon. if you could get that in a movie that would be perfect.
Wasn't that called Crusaders?
The Ressurected
Yeah thats the one I was trying to think of that gets closer to Lovecraft than most. one of the few. Empty Man partially as well
>I took leave of my father's decrepit farmhouse in my modest Guatemalan automobile, making reasonable pace across a landscape bereft of anything resembling what I had come to know as modernity. I eventually reached the general store, a flimsy wooden structure that emitted a dark cloud of smoke from a narrow chimney. Two locals sat outside in the midday sun, accomplishing nothing and seemingly content in their doing so. Their bestial stupidity, likely the result of generations of inbreeding and race-mixing, was apparent in both their appearance and vocabulary.
>My eyes were immediately drawn towards the words emblazoned above the door. These words perplexed me in such a manner that defy ordinary description, I shall not repeat them here, for I fear that anyone who stumbles upon this tome will meet the same fate as I should they read them.
>I have not slept in weeks, as I have tried in increasing desperation to decipher the true meaning of that inscription. I fear that it is pointless. The fate of this city slicker is sealed.
>And the cursed, infernal inscription?
>"Margaritaville: Open until 2AM!"
You ever have the Volcano Nachos?
Very well done.
>Iä! Iä! Chuck's Formerly!
The problems lies in two camps. He writes antiquated pulp cosmic horror but what happens is
a) everyone that directly adapts his works focus too much on the pulp and neglect the horror
B) everyone that merely borrows his influence only focus on the cosmic horror and neglect the antiquated pulp.
Hp looks like a grown up Adam Lanza
Why do reddit onions types seem to love Lovecraft, but then constantly go on about how le problematic he is? His opinions and life informed his work, you can't seperate the two
Because racism is original sin. And to flaunt your sin so? Forever may he be cursed.
there aren't any hot women in his stories all his characters are weird loners
The Thing on The Doorstep is literally about a guy getting his life ruined by Innsmouth arthoe pussy (male)
that would be like a making a movie about warhammer 40k. kinda hard to translate to film
>2023
>still no mountains of madness kino
shameful
Unironically because filmmakers are uneducated and illiterate. It’s the same reason why there is no Epic of Gilgamesh movie, no Iliad or Odyssey movie, or movies about great American presidents. Most in the entertainment industry laughed their way through school, didn’t learn anything, and are mouthpieces for political movements.
>That story where the plot of the literal commie israelites is foiled because the spirits of the old houses become disgusted with their new occupants and collapse on them just as their plan is about to be carried out.
Soul
>No Lovecraft dream cycle fantasy kino
>No Conan series of him going on adventures and becoming king of aquilonia
It hurts bros.
his stories only work because they're not a visual medium. The whole idea is that the people in the stories don't even have the biological apparatus to comprehend what is happening, how do you convey that to an audience? Maybe some clever cgi like those meme stroke images but that's all I can think of. Also no writer is going to even touch on the more philosophical ideas of his work, instead they'll turn it into a monster flick like all the games that attempted.
Completely unfilmable
what about cartoons
>W