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Are there any good lovecraftian films?
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Are there any good lovecraftian films?
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>>67889118
In the mouth of madness
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>>67889130
This. Also, Prince Of Darkness
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Alien
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the whole point of lovecraft shit is that its superhumanly scary
cgi cant do that
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>>67890038
And yet, nothing he's written is ever frightening.
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>>67889118
No you racist shitlord
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>>67890038
what fucking planet are you from that you need to see the fucking monster?
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The Mist
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>>67889118
as the one of the fathers of modern horror , all movies that deal in bizarre horror relate to his works in one way or another, a better question is "can anyone adapt his work to the silver screen"
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Resolution
>>67890165
i agree with everything except calling it the silver screen.
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>>67890084
:^)
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>>67889118
no, but there's a trend among Lovecraft fans to dub anything they like "Lovecraftian". To them, Old Boy is Lovecraftian because there's a tentacle scene.
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Go the Peter Weir double feature of pic related and PaHR
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The Thing. More gore than his writing but the concept is perfect.
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>>67890038

Except for the fact he explains his fucking monsters in great detail in quite a few of his stories. Try reading some.
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>>67890370
i know
but my point is that they are supposed to be scary above what we can comprehend
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