Lovecraftian Horror Media
I recently went back and read many of the original Lovecraft pulp horror stories, and was wondering if anybody had a starter list of film and TV adaptions, even stuff inspired by Lovecraft's writtings?
I know there have been some movies: The Reanimater films, and some inspired films...such as John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. Anybody think of others?
Thanks,
Beast
There is a really good list on this page here http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LovecraftOnFilm
but some movies, tv shows and games were left out
movies
- Dead Birds ( set during the civil war, demons in a house torture a gang of bank robbers, very twisted ending)
- Beyond the wall of sleep( poorly shot movie, but has the elements of the story and feel of a lovecraft story)
-Call of Cthulu ( silent film based on the story, filmed some time in in the past 9 years)
-castle freek ( basically the outsider story)
-blood drive 2 ( a few good hpl style shorts on that one)
-Silent Hill ( the games and the movies all have strong hpl themes)
-Jacobs Ladder ( part of what inspired Silent Hill, twisted ending, very lovecratian monsters)
- There are a bunch of movies out there such as the King in Yellow, Cool Air, Dreams in the Witch house, and others done by the HPL society.
-Masters of Horror: dreams in the witch house ( stuart gordon) and another one about a girl at the stair way( kinda reminds me of out of the mouth of madness)
TV
-Ghost Busters: collect call for cathulu , russin about
-Digimon: dont know the episode but at the end of the show there is a dark figuire that resembles cthulhu
-The Venture Brothers: one of the new episodes actually has a Cthulhu beast come out of a portal and fights the triad
on the web:
Calls For Cthulhu http://www.callsforcthulhu.com/
unspeakable vault of doom http://www.macguff.fr/goomi/unspeakable/
hope this helps
I seen dead birds on Chiller
Dunwich Horror
Haunted Palace
Die, Monster, Die!
Morning
I found a lot of stuff on demonoid.com , Cthulhu Rarities, Cthulhu Live 3rd Edition - Companion CD-Rom,
Call.of.Cthulhu.Dark.Corners.of.the.Earth
there are alot of dedicated fans.
There was stories, poems, screenplays, games, movies( not a very good movie) all kinds of stuff.
demonoid.com
just search
"Cthulhu "
check it out. very interesting
Good Luck
enjoy!!!
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The Real Ghostbusters Script...
Attachment: The Real Ghostbusters script - The Collect Call of Cthulhu.pdf (60.0KB)
I found a bunch if your interested !
Let me know!
I'll send them out...
Any Lovecraft fans in the Portland OR area be sure to check out The H.P. Lovecraft Film Fesival - the site will give you an idea about it although they haven't updated it for this year's festival yet.
And don't forget the greatest almost-Lovecraft non-Lovecraft movie, John Carpenter's "In The Mouth of Madness"....another Lovecraftian movie is "The Dark" with Anna Paquin....
Also see "The Curse" and "The Curse 2" based on the Color Out of Space.
Dagon
Dunwhich Horror from the 1970's and a new one from 2009.
The Unnamable and the Unnamable 2
Re-animator trilogy.
From Beyond is available at hulu.com right now.
Lovecraft has been the inspiration of thousands of works.
He's also mentioned in the film about Robert E. Howard (Conan author),
"The Whole Wide World". Robert gets a letter of encouragement from Howard,
it sent chills down my spine.
Hello
There have been many, many adaptations of Lovecraft stories over the years.
Some of them have been professional, many of them have been independent.
Some are direct adaptations of HPL stories, others are loosely inspired by.
Quality varies widely on all of them, and is a totally separate quality from whether or not it's Hollywood or indie.
I have made five Lovecraft or Lovecraft-influenced movies, but they are all an hour or less in length.
I helped inspire the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland, Oregon.
I am going to open a franchise of the HPLFF here in Los Angeles (San Pedro, actually). Our first screening will be Saturday, Sept. 11, at the Warner Grand Theater. I'm starting with just one day, and if there's enough interest, I'll expand it next year and subsequent years, as the audience grows.
To get a thorough list of HP Lovecraft movies, I recommend you pick up the book Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to Lovecraftian Cinema, written by HPLFF founder Andrew Migliore and screenwriter/director John Strysik, who suggested Andrew take my movie The Outsider and his own, The Music of Erich Zann, and get Re-Animator and start a festival.
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Hope this helps.
Aaron Vanek
