What are some good Lovecraftian movies?
There are none. Read the stories.
Essential Lovecraft:
>In the Mouth of Madness
>From Beyond
>Re-Animator
>Dagon
>Necronomicon
Those are the good ones
>>63112104
I am.
Why are there none?
What are good movies with lovecraftian themes then?
>>63112094
In the mouth of madness.
Event Horizon.
>>63112142
His stuff doesn't translate well to screen. Nobody competent has seriously to adapt his work. It's kind of a niche. In the Mouth of Madness.
stuart gordon's films are great, but they really aren't at all like his work
in the mouth of madness is a bit closer but the effect of lovecraft's writing is just not replicable in another medium
Mountains of Madness would be a great film imo
>>63112094
Re-animator is top tier
>>63112248
That´s a shame, I think that his stories could work really well with modern cinema.
>>63112213
>Event Horizon
explain this m8
>>63112129
Literally three movies with based Combs.
Sea gf general?
>>63112312
>best lovecraft adaptation is some horror schlock he churned out when he needed cash
kek
The first Hellboy had somewhat lovcraftian elder gods.
Also Rasputins final form.
Dagon isn't bad. I always thought shadow over innsmouth was one of the few lovecraft stories with real tension
>>63112129
you forgot The Resurrected
>>63112336
source?
>>63112142
Lovecraft's main theme is that humans turn out to be totally insignificant. Movie suggestions:
No Country For Old Men
Andrei Rublev
Aguirre, Wrath of God
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Koyaanisqatsi
For a nice "cosmic horror" movie, check out John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness.
>>63112333
Yeah, he's a great actor and I love most of his movies that I've seen. He has a very large filmography and television shows which he has acted in, there's plenty I haven't seen.
>>63112142
Sadly most people seem to think lovecraft=tentacles. While a lot of his stories deals more about the horror of the unknown and are fairly reminiscent of more classic Gothic tales.
David Bowie - Blackstar
>>63112313
>something so awful he doesnt even try to describe it, often making that the point of the text using loose terms like "otherworldly" or "the mere sight drove him mad"
>film adaptation
The only thing that could work some small scale cult with some small time priest. Trying to touch the elder gods or other famous entities is simply not possible in a visual media because of the method used in the writing.
Fuck cosmic horror
I want a dream cycle movie
>>63112517
Check out The Dark Crystal
>>63112142
>Why are there none?
would you want to watch a movie about a guy shuffling through newspaper clippings and interviewing sailors, where the climax is that he learned something horrible already happened
>>63112291
I think(hope) we will live to see a mountains of madness film. It was planned and canned a few years ago.
>>63112484
I think you could do it if you were clever enough to use the "dont show the monster" technique which always makes for the better horror film.
Just build suspense like a mother fucker. When you finally show the monster, make it an actual puppet in really shitty lighting, dont even show the whole thing for a half-second. Dont just do a CGI hamfest
This, kinda.
>>63112528
Never seen it, I'll give it a shot
>>63112559
It's such a great setting and more of an adventure/Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider type story than horror.
I can imagine great scenes of them bumbling around in a 1920s piece of shit airplane flying around Antartica, seeing the crazy green mountains. Introduce a few minor charactors. Told in 1st person narration like the book, heavy musical pieces especially as they describe the history of the ayy lmaos
It would be like Disney's Atlantis for grown men. Absolutely based.
>>63112559
The director of such terror-inducing films as Pacific Rim and Hellboy II was set to direct a butchered adaptation.
http://www.therobotsvoice.com/2015/01/7_reasons_we_dont_need_guillermo_del_toro_at_the_mountains_of_madness_lovecraft.php
>>63112651
fuck. No thank you.
I'd ask for Ridley Scott but honestly, his past few movies miss the mark so much.
It's like he gets the atmosphere but everything after that is full potato
Get the guy who filmed Under the Skin
>>63112596
this, or make the scenes first person, seen thru the main characters eyes, and whenever he tries to glance at it, his vision blurrs, his ears start to ring etc.
You only get to see minor details of the abominations
![Horse-Beast-until-we-get-an-official-name-that-s-what-we-re-callign-it-bloodborne-38867107-1280-720[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/U8Z73LH.jpg "Horse-Beast-until-we-get-an-official-name-that-s-what-we-re-callign-it-bloodborne-38867107-1280-720[1].jpg")
Bloodborne.
>>63112411
It's in the filename
>>63112618
What a great found footage movie that was
Dreams in the Witch House is a pretty good Masters of Horror episode based on his story "Rats in the Walls".
>>63112129
>>63112213
>>63112248
>In the Mouth of Madness
Get out.
>>63112720
That kind of filming only works for vidya and FOUND FOOTAGE movies, which this story predates.
You could still do that though if you were filming 3rd person. Just show the character's reactions and still do the special effects so the audience knows their heads are getting fucked up
>>63112094
the octopus porn i made with your mother
well this may be more /co/ related but I'm downloading the new issue of Providence as I write this.
Supposedly the Herbert West issue.
I'm going in
>>63112747
What the hell?
That's like making a film called Batman that is based on the Superman comics. Why would they take the title of one of his other books while basing it on another?
>>63113022
Dagon did the same thing
Isn't Final Fantasy TSW considered Lovecraftian?
>>63113216
In what way?
am1200
sauna
Absentia
>>63113235
Deep space and fear of the unknown are Lovecraftian elements
>>63113263
put your cock in a blender for being so stupid
What are some good Kafkaesque movies
>>63113307
Brazil
Naked Lunch
Barton Fink
THX 1138
>>63113263
That's like saying Thor is Lovecraftian because it's about deep space and fear of the unknown
>>63112315
Movie has extra-dimensional horrors that get off on pain and torture.
Is The Mist Lovecraftian?
>>63113499
Not really.
>>63113481
>get off on pain and torture
not lovecraftian.
lovecraftian creatures don't give a fuck about humanity, except maybe as food or cannon fodder. why bother torturing something that's already gone mad from looking at you?
>>63112094
Sure is pleb in here. The only two patrician choices are Dagon and the hidden gem Dark Waters (1993).
>>63113499
For the most part, no.
I found it dumb in that movie that in other dimensions they just had spiders, mosquitos flies and crabs.
The tentacle monster and the huge ones in the mist were cool, though.
![cabin-in-the-woods-poster[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/pHi0MJ8.jpg "cabin-in-the-woods-poster[1].jpg")
Cabin In The Woods is Lovecraftian even though it's also a comedy.It's Kafkaesque too. fight me.
>>63113561
>Cabin In The Woods
Pure comedy crap flick. No sense of dread, the uncanny, etc. A HP film should never, ever have comedy in it. That's why re-animator and beyond are shit, too. Crappy B films that don't take the source material seriously.
Begotten
>>63113599
I think you're taking Lovecraft too seriously.
>muh cyclopean unnamable horror
>>63113637
Do you watch horror films to laugh? LEL. Stick to American Pie.
I feel there should be way more contemporary lovcaftian movies. It's such a rich field.
![Dagonmmm.2001.1080p.BRRip Ita Eng x265-M.mkv_snapshot_01.22.17_[2015.03.26_19.55.05].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qXSHvtc.jpg "Dagonmmm.2001.1080p.BRRip Ita Eng x265-M.mkv_snapshot_01.22.17_[2015.03.26_19.55.05].jpg")
>>63112336
Fuck, why can't I have an Uxia of my own?
Midnight Meat Train
The Ring
Hitchcock's Birds
Spring
they could take place in HPL's universe
>>63113599
Not even Lovecraft took Re-animator seriously.
It's also not even part of his cosmic horror stories either so I don't see why would insist on it being humorless
>>63113616
edgy pleb tier film
>>63113713
Imma gonna watch this
Dogura Magura is the best I've seen. Good luck finding it though.
Banshee Chapter
It's heavily influenced by From Beyond. It's not the best movie ever, but I got some good spooks out of it.
>ctrl + f
>Evil Dead
>0 results
They might not be 100% serious horror, but they have the Lovecraftian influences. There's even Necronomicon in them.
>>63112517
That resembles the Eastern Roman Empire more than a little bit.
Masters of Horror, S01E02, Dreams in the Witch House
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTZi8YJP8Xk
Masters of Horror is a anthology horror series where every episode is an independent horror story. There are some really shitty episodes, but then there's gold nuggets like this.
And just for the heck of it, two of my favorite episodes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnEGDV2GK_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bol67krXCEg
>>63112094
The ThingI liked Prometheus
What are some good Edgar Allan Poe-ian movies?
>>63112463
>Black
Holy Moley! I didn't know, so I just spent the last ten minutes to watch that and do some research. I guess they edited it down to 9:57 because iTunes won't let you go over 10 to post.
It it very Dream Quest-like... more so than anything else I've seen recently. That girl with the tail was hot and creepy!
Reminds me of what Bauhaus would try to do if they were as cool.
>pic unrelated
>>63114091
The Crow
>>63114091
look up Vincent Price
>ctrl f
>The Call of Cthulhu
ZERO FUCKING RESULTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHuY2wXTd0o
plebs
>>63114162
The HPL Society also made a Whisperer In Darkness movie
>>63114173
as good as TCoC?
Carpenter's Apocalypse trilogy is Lovecraft made flesh
>The Thing is At the Mountains of Madness, quite literally
>Prince of Darkness is as The Color out of Space(I may be wrong on this one)
>In the Mouth of Madness is meta-Lovecraft
>>63114211
your basically wrong on all accounts
The Mist
>>63114236
Explain how, faggot
>>63114274
you know nothing about lovecrafts work
>>63114326
Oh, it's all clear now
the resurrected is a good adaptation of the case of charles dexter ward, which is one of his best stories IMO
someone mentioned hellboy. while there are significant lovecraftian elements (adapted from the comics), the movies are very lighthearted adventures at the same time, more of a MIB meets lovecraft kind of thing.
for the real deal, I recommend the comics. they are much much darker, the art style is breathtaking, and it's the closest thing to genuine lovecraft i've seen outside of lovecraft.
>>63114199
yeah, it really is very good. check it out
>>63114343
nothing personal
>>63114383
Leddit made flesh. Fuck off
>>63114236
Mouth of Madness was Stephen King/Robert Bloch, not Lovecraft.
Could American Horror Story: Insmouth work? They could pull elements from other stories and not just Shadow Over Insmouth.
>>63114405
>that newfriend who tries to fit in by making "leddit bogeymen" accusations when his fee-fees get hurt
cute
>>63114345
if you are gonna talk comics, one should check out Alan Moore's THE COURTYARD. You can tell he was in a very bad mood while writing that. It's original Moore and it's strictly based on Lovecraft and has his stuff directly incorporated into it.
But this isn't a comic forum, this is /tv/, so...
>>63114345
I love CDW. The resurrected was a pretty good adaptation. A less schlocky Stuart Gordon-esque kind of movie.
>>63114462
No. AHS has become random scenes with no narrative structure to hold them together.
Always felt Peter Jacksons King Kong wouldve been a great Cthulu movie if King Kong was replaced with Cthulu (and the Ann Darrow/romance plot was removed entirely).
Just a team of filmmakers exploring a mysterious island with strange creatures and tribal cults
>>63114479
CDW is fucking great. Lovecraft spent time developing the backstory, the tension builds at a great pace and the chapter where he investigates the farmhouse is chilling.
>>63114475
>cats of ulthar
BASED
thanks for the recommendation
>In the Mouth of Madness
>>63112094
The original Alien is mildly Lovecraftian.
>dat alien spaceship that's never explained
>"I admire its purity. A survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality."
>>63114526
>(and the Ann Darrow/romance plot was removed entirely)
No way, I want to see which sentiment would win over nerds between rage over the butchering of Big C's "character", and joy over seeing implied tentacle porn in a mainstream movie.
>>63114584
Are you implying that because some faggot brony likes it you're wrong for liking it?
>>63114469
You must be one of those 4chin tough guys I've heard people talking about. C-can you help me senpai? Can you teach me your ways? I don't want to go back to reddit.
>>63114664
it has zero lovecraftian merits. read the fucking books pleb
>>63114720
cute
>>63114730
>the books
>lovecraft wrote BOOKS
>BOOKS
Holy shit m8. Is that what you tell people when you talk about Shakespeare adaptations, read DA BUKS?
>>63114758
I knew we'd get along. Now, post nude pics of your sister.
>>63112333
Literally three repeating threes.
>Lovecraft
it was garbage then and it's garbage now
>>63114787
cute
>>63114810
mignon
>>63112094
>>63112557
This. Or a movie where the major events being witnessed or investigated by your main characters are completely out of those characters' control and/or understanding?
Great in a horrific concept for the back of the brain to chew on but not at all cinematic.
>le fallacy face
>>63114887
Sounds like Chinatown
>>63115021
>Forget it Jake, it's Sarnath.
That shit could work nigger.
>>63115021
Yeah.
Or Ninth Gate. Sucky movie but kinda fun. I do think it's a tad underrated.
Or ANGEL HEART. There ya go!
Now that I think about it... New Orleans... Robert de Niro as maybe the devil... young Mickey Rourke.... and young Lisa Bonet getting all weird and naked with the chicken blood and more nakedness.... Mmmmfph! Shit got her kicked off the Cosby show.
>pic related: The Man
>>63115248
There's something very wrong about the way you wrote all that down anon.
>>63112517
Mein Neger
>dem dream cycle stories
>>63115306
Yeah, you're right.
Not autistic, just extremely drunk (my bad). I guess I should probably get off of here right about now. Cool thread, though.
>at least I can spell "you're" correctly whilst drunk
>and apparently verify captcha
>>63115495
fucking lel at whoever thought it was a good idea to build a house in that spot in the first place "yeah that'll hold"
>>63114162
dagon was posted?
>>63113713
Underrated gem
>>63115535
the guy that lives there in the story is basically immortal
If anyone is interested, there is a full lovecraft audiobook on /t/:
>>>/t/640965
Prometheus is quite literally a Lovecraftian movie, namely At the Mountains of Madness.
Engineers = Elder Things
Black goo = Shoggoths
>>63114440
It was a mix of the two, Its basically if Lovecraft was as big and popular as Stephen King commerically. They even directly quote Lovecrafts work
>>63113555
>spiders, Mosquitos, crabs, flies, octopi
So basically every creature that is instinctively terrifying? The Mist is absolutely Lovecraftian-lite.
2010 called, they want their shitty South Park maymay back.
>>63112094
>get this fucking octopi off me you fucking plebeians
>can't you understand the word 'undescribable horror?'
>it's not a fucking octopus
>i treated myself to a tasty octopod each time weird tales sent me an envelope full of dimes
>and tell those whore women that there's nothing cool about wearing an octopus hat
>>63112782
So, you don't like the color blue or something?
>>63112094
john dies at the end
>>63114475
Don't forget Alan Moore's new series Providence which is entirely based off of Lovecraft stories.
>>63122022
>Cyclopean cock
Perfect
>>63113713
bretty gud, nice, short, and to the point
>>63114091
The Haunted Palace, just do it
X: The man with x-ray eyes.
>>63112336
>>63113705
Macarena Gomez
is my waifu
>>63112094
Who has this?
>>63112094
is there any lovecraft stories about bbc? recommend me some of those, i need a spooky bbc experience atm
>tfw you in a few years can't enjoy anything related to Lovecraft anymore because SJW's say he was racist.
>>63119655
hm...yeah....i dont think lovecraft characters are so retarted like the people in that movie...
>>63122477
>not The X From Outer Space
>>63112726
Bloodborne 2bh
>>63112094
You can cover some ground by watching anything starring Jeffrey Combs.
personal recomendation
>The Devil Pass or Daytovs pass
it has all the best elements and done well, and its mountains of madness like, the only problem is a little americanization but they recover from it and ends even better
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFereAwVJ8g
>>63112618
that fuckind ending just terrific m8 but the pacing was slow and theres not really anything that good until the end 7/10
>>63113255
>sauna
this one its really lovecraftian but not horror much less monster-gore
its more like paranormal mistery thriller 6.5-7/10
a little slow for me but nice
>>63113543
fuck this was a great movie the ending was a little unperfect by "the beast" but being an old movie its decent, overal 8.5-9/10 good movie
>>63113893
>Banshee Chapter
a fucking masterpiece loved it all, really god on all aspects
must watch/10
>>63113980
>No Cigarrete Burns
c'mon nigga i know its more like King in yellow tier but still a fucking masterpiece with Norman Redux and the master John Carpenter 9/10 because they fucked the unwinged fist scene
>jenifer
also one of my favorites good damn that was hot thrilling and horrific dude waifu/10
>dreams in the witch house
the only problem is the name but good
>>63114211
also Cigarrete burns, its like a The king in yellow inspired but damn also chambers was pre-lovecraftian so its a must in my books
>>63114272
>The Mist
10/10 and the movie has a better ending than the book insta fav
>>63122545
me.
Wan used a quote from Lovecraft when announcing working on Aquaman. Probably just means he will use giant tentacle monsters for action scenes, rather than creating Lovercraftian atmosphere.
Possession
>>63112094
>>63113255
Sauna is excellent
been meaning to watch Absentia
>>63113616
begotten is more expressionist horror
>>63112248
I would say that it's more because studio execs don't want to gamble on nihilistic stories with depressing endings and no female love interest
if a story doesn't fit a specific formula it doesn't get made
>>63112094
pic related was pretty gud
>>63114211
>No
>No
>No
>>63114326
Mountains of Madness had no shape-changing aliens or anything of the sort. It's about finding weird plant creatures and the city that they built, as well as something horrible beyond the mountain that probably wiped out their entire civilization.
The Color Out of Space was about an alien that looks like a living aurora borealis taking residence in a well, poisoning the water, causing crops to fail, and invading the minds of the farmers who it was feeding off of before it killed them.
In the Mouth of Madness is the closest to Lovecraft you can get. Don't be a fucking retard.
>>63122022
I kekkled.
>>63125656
Jizz everywhere.I'm talking about me, not her.
>>63122545
Got it for my birthday from a lady-friend of mine.
Whenever I need to read before bed, I crack this bad boy out. It's wonderful.
>>63122679
When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove’s fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th’Olympian host conceiv’d a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.
>>63122679
>he doesn't remember that description of the black boxer from Herbert West; Re-Animator
>how he described the dudes' knuckles dragging on the ground
>how he described it as "singularly terrifying"
>not racist
I love Lovecraft but come the fuck on, dude.
>>63122679
He was pretty racist, bro. But thenI guess you knew that, and you're baiting.
>>63122545
>not getting the superior version
>>63113861
I downloaded this from rutracker, but the only audio is a lame ass russian sync, that's why I still haven't seen it
>>63113861
>>63128334
Private tracker master race.
THIS
>>63130150
>avistaz/asiatorrents
>private
that door is wide open like a whores legs most of the time desu.
>>63130926
So what excuse do you have then?
>implying these aren't good stats
>Seeds 227,456
>Leeches 9,180
>>63130991
excuse for ?
>>63112442
this desu
most people just think about Lovecraft stories are good because the monsters in them are ugly, but the real magic in the stories is, as you said, the horror of the unknown, and the insignificance of the humanity
Okay, so Lovecraft is my jam, wrote papers about him in high school, etc. I've seen just about every movie recommended here.
I'll throw out one you'd never suspect: The Violent Kind (2010). It's by the Butcher Brothers, who are pretty hit and miss. The Hamiltons was a hit, the remake of April Fools Day was a miss.
Anyway, it's a film that seems like one thing but turns into something else at the end. DEFINITELY Lovecraftian at the end.
>>63133014
what's the deal with horror movies and cabins?
>>63115495
The guy who directed the German version of The Color Out of Space is currently working on a movie set on the Dreamlands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEiC4a6PLcI
Hope it turns out to be good.
