Is this the closest we'll ever get to Lovecraftian on film?
>it's the most horrible thing you ever seen brah
>dude you'll totally have your mind blown and go crazy when you see it
*Fish man with tentacles for a beard walks in*
>have you gone mad yet? haha you can't even comprehend what you're seeing can you? be
scared!
lovecraft meme needs to die already, he was a talentless hack
>>70996829
It is not lovecraftian at all you utter spastic.
>>70996829
how come nobody has beaten this cgi?
>>70998556
To be fair, it was literature that worked because it made you create your own visions, plus, it was the early 1900's and not a visual medium, so really, people just need to accept that Lovecrafts style will never work like that. Imply and tell, but dont show. Build up that sense of dread. A CGI fest lovecraft movie would be shit no matter what.
>>70996829
Bloodborne is the closest we'll get in any form of media desu.
>>71000373
My fucking nigga
>>70998556
Lovecraft is the favorite author of people who don't read books
>>70998601
How could they?
>>70998601
I saw these flicks recently and honestly the CGI looks better than in movies released a decade later
Digimon Tamers had some Lovecraft in it.
Event Horizon was still the only good one I've seen. I didn't like At The Mouth Of Madness, but Sam Neil is based.
It's hard to take the Davy Jones stuff seriously when the rest of the second and third movies are so farcical. Like the first movie was a lighthearted action-comedy but the next two were just straight up comedy.
Also
>Flying "Dutch"man
>has a Scottish accent
wew
>>71001024
He's the favourite author of people who draw and paint.
>"Do you read Sutter Cane?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agWPEWophEU
>>71001142
You know Jones wasn't the Dutchman right?
>>71001341
Yeah but why would you call your ship the Flying Dutchman if you're Scottish
>>70996829
Actually The Mist is probably the closest we'll ever get.
>>71000323
It can be done.
>>71001792
It's a name. He's not flying.
>>71000373
you haven't even read his work, you faggot. The idea that you can even kill the bosses goes against what Lovecraft was all about.
>>71002747
But anon, you can't Kill them
Unless they're in their own dream
>>70996829
I think I know where you're coming from. Like your pic, this isn't Lovecraftian, but to me it felt like pure Cthulhu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HGMxZEl60k
>>71002913
ok, thanks for clearing that up.
>>70996829
Hellboy 2's Forrest God is some pretty good Lovecraft visualized:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEUwtFg7PeI
>>71001024
He's the favorite author of people with imagination.
>>71003199
what's up with the awful editing
I didn't remember Del Taco being so bad
>ctrl+f from beyond
>phrase not found
You people sicken me. It has every single thing you could possibly want, point-by-point. Every one.
>>70996829
A relatively unknown Lovecraftian gem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSkNYyd_WyI
Why do people always think of tentacles when Lovecraft is mentioned? Is it because no one has read his stories and instead gets their image of him from Cthulu Facebook maymays?
DO YA FEAH DEATH?
>>71003435
Stuart Gordon in general:
Re-Animator
From Beyond
Castle Freak
Dagon
Dreams in the Witch House
He is to Lovecraft what Frank Darabont is to Stephen King.
>>71000373
>not the John Carpenter's Thing or True Detective
>>70998556
just like the raven or birds or psycho.
of course things like that don't creep us out anymore.
i've seen every horror movie from the past years, none of them shocked me and you anymore.
we're just not scared or shocked anymore.
Pacific Rim
>>70998601
Because it's the one movie where it's okay to make all the CGI characters look perpetually wet and like weightless molluscs.
CGI always looks wet-ish, and so things that our brain expects to look dry looks like shit no matter how much better the CGI has become.
>>71003483
I love how he manages to add an extra syllable to Death.
>>71004114
Bloodborne is definitely more fucked up than The Thing, which is essentially just an alien movie. It also has plenty og cosmic horror type stuff littered throughout the game via various bosses, locations, and enemies. Oh and did I mention you turn into a literal squid demi-god at the end of the game? Because that happens to. Bloodborne is seriously fucking weird, and obviously inspired by Lovecraft. It's also a great Souls game to boot.
Richard Stanley is working on a Lovecraft movie right now
>>71004604
>/tv/
>>71004541
>so things that our brain expects
nigga I do not share a brain with you.
the best lovecraftian movie i've seen... it was so scary i am terrified writing this i can not even begin to comprehend what i saw it was way too scary aaahhhh i am writing this from my cave of madness i do not go out anymore due to the lovecraftian movie i saw
>>71005090
Oh no we strayed off topic slightly, because that never fucking happens, right?
>>71005427
>thread about (presumed rare) lovecraft portraying in movies
>butts-in with over representation of lovecraft in VIDEO GAMES
sure, slightly off topic.
>>70998556
it's not the fish-men that drive you mad
it's whatever they are praying to that turned them into fish-men
>>71004604
I'm sorry, I don't give a fuck about terrible uninspired video games. Especially ones that wish they were Dark Souls. Lovecraft is so much more than fucking squid monsters and tentacled horrors you low brow scum. The Thing is the most Lovecraftian thing I have ever seen. I see the irony in that, as the Thing was a tentacled monster. But everything else about the movie, from its beginnings, to the end, to the atmosphere of it. Everything is totally Lovecraftian.
And did I mention that I don't give a fuck about Bloodborne nor have I played it? Those terrible Dark Souls games are way too "lol look how hardcore I am this is totally what makes me a leet epic gaymer now right bros!?!?" for me. Try growing up.
>>71007193
This is some really low quality bait.
>>71004604
>Oh and did I mention you turn into a literal squid demi-god at the end of the game? Because that happens to
Why don't you literally just go kill yourself
"Of the complete biological inferiority of the negro there can be no question he has anatomical features consistently varying from those of other stocks, and always in the direction of the lower primates... Equally inferior and perhaps even more so is the Australian black stock, which differs widely from the real negro. In dealing with these two black races, there is only one sound attitude for any other race (be it white, Indian, Malay, Polynesian, or Mongolian) to take and that is to prevent admixture as completely and determinedly as it can be prevented, through the establishment of a colour line and the rigid forcing of all mixed offspring below that line."
>>71005158
Yes you do. We're now thinking aboutJackie Chan
>>71007495
That wasn't even me, if you've read any of Lovecraft's work and played Bloodborne you'd know why Bloodborne is the most perfect lovenote to Lovecraft. But you'd rather just memespout.
>>70996829
>not having bill nye coming back as his pirate human self, even maybe sailing on the new villains (whose some undead nigga) ship for Dead Men Tell No Tales.
>>70998556
erm, you realize Lovecraftian is dead and didn't direct or write POTC
you are projecting something make believe in your head essentially arguing with yourself, are you okay?
>>71007768
And if you've read any of Lovecraft's work and watched True Detective you'd know why True Detective is a perfect Lovecraftian modernization. But you'd rather talk about fucking meme tier video games. On the television board. Bloodborne is garbage.
>>71007589
So I guess 12 Years a Slave is a Lovecraftian film. Huh.
>>71008025
>talking about an author on a television board
>>71007495
it sounded like bait because:
> Especially ones that wish they were Dark Souls
it's made by the same company
also
>Those terrible Dark Souls games are way too "lol look how hardcore I am this is totally what makes me a leet epic gaymer now right bros!?!?"
is a terrible reason to avoid a game, you're at the level of a redditor yourself for letting preconceived notions about a game's fanbase ruin your image of it
do you also listen to kanye west because redditors bitch about the decline of modern music? kill yourself
more
>>71008353
>cant criticize a game unless you play it religiously and buy every installment and all the dlc on day one
I played Demon Souls and the first Dark Souls ad nauseum, countless hours and NG+'s and characters. After that I've just had enough, shit's fucking boring and mindless. I can't criticize the game after playing the first two? I have to buy and play all of them and every clone in order to have a dissenting opinion? You sound like a brain dead drone.
>>71008291
Are you joking? It's a thread about Lovecraft you shit tier memer, how could one not bring up the author himself?
>>70996829
>tentacles = Lovecraft
You're retarded as shit
>>71000373
>>71004604
/v/tards are so fucking retarded
>>71008568
>discussing literature on /tv/
Here's how ou do a LOVECRAFT movie: all the cgi is done by bottom tier film students, and is then played entirely seriously because it looks unnatural, like Langoliers unnatural.
>>71008580
.... well, insmoth and the dagon stuff is all about people being turned into fish monsters by being in proximity to a god.
>>71008525
Are you retarded? You're literally getting all indignant when your posts sounded like they were written by someone who has never played a Souls game before. Nothing that you wrote gave even the slightest hint that you had.
>After that I've just had enough, shit's fucking boring and mindless
I disagree but you're entitled to your opinion. It's fine if you're bored of the games but it's still sad that you turned on a series you spent so many hours on just because it got popular or because you assume every one who still plays them is some stupid faggot that thinks they're a hardcore gamer
>>71008642
>>discussing video games on /tv/
>he doesn't like my bad meme vidya game so all im gonna do now is be snarky via green text
>>71005677
That's not true either.
You go mad because you realize that because the elder gods exist and are what they are and do what hey do, everything man knows and does is both pointless and false.
Lovecraft's whole idea is that either you "go mad from the revelation" or we panic and plunge the world into a neo-dark age in a fit of sheer denial.
>>71008800
>discussing any type of literature on /tv/
>>70996829
Seeing how In the Mouth of Madness exist
No
>>71008732
Someone hasn't actually read The Innsmouth Horror.
It's about anti-miscegenation. Humans inbreeding and interbreeding with subhuman fish people and producing gross hybrids. Dagon doesn't feature beyond a church in his name.
>>71008771
I didn't stop playing them because they got popular or because people think it makes them hardcore. I stopped playing them because after Demon Souls especially they got casualized as fuck and are basically Call of Duty tier now in that every year or so a sequel gets crapped out and its literally the same thing. I turned my back on soulless sellout cashgrabs, not the games I used to play all the time.
>>71004604
Back to /v/, kiddo
>>71008825
>video games being thought of as if they are on the same level as cinema or literature
>>71009018
>lovecraft
>tv
>discussing lit on tv thinking its any good
>>71008353
>not listening to Kanye West
>>71009087
>so mad that he got told to fuck off with his shitty video games
>>70996829
>liking lovecraft because your english prop tells you to.
>OP has pony tail
>>71009140
>discussing a literary genius on tv
>>71004604
>Lovecraft was about squid gods
holy fucking shit
>>71009174
>discussing a shit vidya gaem on /tv/
>>71009207
>discussing non-tv related literary exemplars on tv
>>71003435
because /tv/ actually doesn't care about films, only pretending to like kino while actually just watching capeshit
>>71008522
STEAM
>>71008918
>Someone hasn't actually read The Innsmouth Horror.
>actually read The Innsmouth Horror.
>The Innsmouth Horror.
You're an absolute fucking shit clown.
>>70996829
>not The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
>>70996829
>Spring (2014)
Lovecraftian manic-pixie monster waifu and feels abound. Give it a watch lads, I liked it.
>Not John Carpenter's The Thing
>>71000323
Oddly enough, there are elements in some of Nolan's films like The Prestige, Inception, and Interstellar that convey a Lovecraft vibe better than most things actually based on HPL's stories.
>>71004657
Whaaaaa? I've been awaiting his return. Thought that Dust Devil was the best horror of the 90's.
>>71004657
It's another adaptation of Color Out of Space. Seems like that story has been done to death.
Still, it will be his first complete film since Dust Devil.
>>71003437
How the hell have I never heard of this?
>>70996829
Tentacles does not make something Lovecraftian.
Lovecraft used monsters (often admittedly tentacley) as a tool to evoke an atmosphere of dread and hopelessness.
If you gave Freddy Kruger tentacles that wouldn't make it Lovecraftian horror.
>>71004604
Jesus Christ
>>71004604
By far the dumbest post I've read all week
>>71011490
Said the same thing a number of years back when I found it. Fucking Jeffery Combs is a ganga smoking mad scientist. After Re-A and FB, it's one of his best roles!.
Here's another one:
Maléfique [Book of Shadows] (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdDcNU53q_8
Here's my favorite scene from Messiah of Evil (very Lovecraftian). It just got the blu-ray treatment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ayfmkeJGc
>>71004604
>>71007193
>>71009185
>>71011815
>>71011861
He sounds retarded but bloodbourne actually is an amazing game for Lovecraft fans
>>71011925
>>71012620
Thanks for the recs! I'll definitely be checking these out.
>>71009273
Now that I've had multiple affirming (Yous), I'll do the boring task of listing off why From Beyond is the "Lovecraftian" kino par excellence: SBOILERS:-tentacle monsters? Check.-quotidian country estate, housing a scientist's experiments? Check.-eerie light lets you know when the Other Plane is near? Check.-corruption of the Eldritch Unknown driving all that it touches to depravity and madness? Check./x/-tier "pineal gland" story element? Check.Direct adaptation of a Lovecraft story which yet escapes latter-day "xD ebin Cthulhu memes" redditry? Check.BDSM cheese tossed in for a little extra "just because" edge? Check.
>>71013331
Such a great movie.
>>71013523
Of course, the above anon >>71011575 is absolutely correct that tentacles do not "Lovecraftian" make. But if you have all your other aesthetics and story elements in line (as in FB) then of course they (the tentacles) are a welcome string of "money shots" as it were.
>>70998556
I have seen this copypasta before. Nice try, lad.
I'm thinking of watching a bunch of older and cheesier horror movies in about a week and a half.
This is what I've gathered so far.
Reanimator
Dagon
Dark City
From Beyond
Galaxy of Terror
Hellraiser 1, 2 and 3
Lifeforce
Prince of Darkness
The KeepKatsuhiro Otomo's Memories
Any other recommendations?
For now I haven't included some I can't be bothered to watch since I've seen them too many times already. In The Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon and The Thing, to mention a few.
I also thought I might stream some if I can figure out how and there is any interest.
>>71004541
>CGI always looks wet-ish,
No it doesn't. In the first Jurassic Park the cg dinos looked overly dry.
>>71013167
No. It isn't. It sucks for Lovecraft fans. It's better for fans of Solomon Kane and Titus Crow.
>>71015156
i honestly recommend wishmaster 1 and 2
>>71015156
Mothman Prophecies an the Last Wave are Lovecraftian.
>>71015630
Neat, thanks. Getting those as well then.
100 YEARS BEFORE THE MAAST
>>71005530
You're post is bad and your a huge fag. On topic enough for you? Fuck you, it's a shit board on a shit site with shit opinions from shit people.
>>70996829
What went so terribly right?
>it's vaguely horrific
>it must be Lovecraftian
>>71015681
Got those as well. Cheers.
>>71015802
fuck off back to /v/eddit nigger, Don't go crying after you got your ass kicked because you invaded a foreign board.
>>70996829
The old sailor voice came in a husky low whisper, and I could hardly decipher it due to the strange pidgin speak that all poor people seem to have in this universe
"Gar! 'nd that's when uh serr it, the skipper of ther Vessel was like nuttin I me eyes had ever seen befer. Like a man but 'alf a squid, er some or kinda sea beast. I tell ye wat I ain't never seen nuttin like it on gods earth yar"
I felt the bolt of immeasurable terror shoot from the base of my skull directly to the tip of my manhood. Sweat poored from my brow in frothy sheets. It was really really really fucking scary
>>71015156
Good list, and I see someone mentioned The Last Wave already.
Here are some others:
My personal fave: The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)
Die Farbe [The Colour] (2010) (it's the best Color Out of Space adaptation that has been done)
稀人 [Marebito] (2004)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
Lovecraft crossed with Poe run through the AI Hammer machine. This marks the first time (at least that I know of) that a Lovecraft story was adapted for the silver screen. Despite carrying the E.A. Poe title, the story is a very close adaptation of "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".
オトシモノ [Ghost Train] (2006)
Another of my faves: Quatermass and the Pit [Five Million Years to Earth] (1967)
The Woods (2006)
Crucial Fulci: The House by the Cemetery & City of the Living Dead
Midnight Meat Train (2008)
Europa Report (2013)
Rawhead Rex (1986)
>>71000373
>sonygger silling even outside /v/
pretty sad desu senpai
>>71016119
Actually managed to find most of those. I've been reluctant to include japanese ghost horror, though, so I'm not too sure about those. I'll check them out nonetheless. Thanks.
>>70996829
no this is
Myriad Colors Phantom World
Cthuuuulhuuuu!
>>71016024
top kek anon
>lovecraftian
Meaningless buzzword now that most people don't even understand
>>70996829
>muh tentacles = lovecraft
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA at you and every lovecraft faggot on the internet
Essential elements of a Lovecraft story
>a general population that lives in blissful ignorance
>an inquisitive hero who stumbles on something strange
>the hero is driven, possibly for reasons he doesn't even understand, to investigate the strange thing
>some people warn him not to dig further or dismiss his investigation as foolish, the hero continues regardless
>hero discovers a vast and terrible conspiracy that he is powerless to stop
>hero is reviled or dismissed as a madman but still feels he has to get the word out and trys to warn others
>in the end none of it matters and the hero laments ever even learning the terrible truth
>actual tentacle monsters - optional
The problem is people think tentacle monsters are essential and try to make it about either fighting them or getting killed by them.
>>70996829
Dagon
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264508/
>>71019916
>>71002747
But in Lovecraft someone defeated Cthulhu by crashing a boat into it.
>>71019019
Pretty much. Actual Lovecraft doesn't play so well these days since howling existential dread is kinda par for the course now.
Gazing upon the abyss of the stars and trying to truly comprehend your existence against the near immeasurable and intricate forces of the universe is more Lovecraft than any CGI tentacle monster is.
>>71020587
He did not defeat him he knocked him back into his prison.
Lovecraft pretty much always portrays the humans as powerless v his crazy monsters. This is partly because he doubted his own ability to write action sequences though, considering the actual confrontation with Cthulhu is the weakest part of call of Cthulhu he might be right.
The chase in shadow over innsmuth is great though so he got better at it over time.
>>71020998
>He did not defeat him he knocked him back into his prison.
What the fuck do you classify as defeat then?
>>71020998
>Can overcome and imprison them
>Powerless
It may be at great personal coat, but nah.
There's literally nothing Lovecraftian about that.
Lovecraft doesn't just equal tentacles you know.
>>70996829
Wow alot of Lovecraft hate on here huh? The whole idea of esoteric knowledge really interests me and his stories read almost more like mysteries than horror. If you don't like him fine but he's popular for a reason. Try Haunter of the Dark...its really good
>>71020998
>humans are powerless v his crazy monsters
>your own example
>West and the others being able to take out the not-zombies until they come back from not-hell because fuck you
I only finished those 2 so far, and even if i sort of felt the atmosphere more in Reanimator than CoC("shit was so fucked up that seeing it would drive you mad and it was all the horrors of the universe and shit-are you scared yet?" or "it was so fucking terrifying that the man could not even try to remember his story to describe the place... except he actually did and conveniently died after writing up everything that happened!").
Maybe it's like that other anon said, we've been so desensitized by horror movies and stuff that just saying how it's so terrifying doesn't really do anything.
>>71001024
pulp > books
>>71020738
Yup. The monsters were just existential dread made flesh basically, they were a reflection of his "cosmic indifferentism" philosophy.
>>71021545
underrated post
>>71021472
I think its probably not right to call his work horror honestly cause its far removed from modern horror stuff. You shouldn't expect to actually be scared they're just... Creepy? They're more like mysteries/thrillers not horror.
Probably the same could be said about Poe. I've read all his stuff and never felt scared once, I enjoyed it and they were kinda creepy but not "horrifying".
>>71021472
I don;t think it's desensitization, it's just that modern people are more aware of concepts of existence, self, consciousness etc. From a young age we are all made aware that we're tiny specks hurling precariously through a near infinite void on a tiny rock whose existence will last for a minuscule fraction of a planet that will last for a miniscule fraction of the universe.
The things that Lovecraft uses to try and scare us aren't so wild anymore, they're things we're either comfortable with or find interesting and silly (dimensional octopus gods).
We're more terrified of superviruses and AI now, times change. I wouldn't call that desensitization, just cultural fears changing with time.
Claim your pirate
>>71019916
The nightmare at the beginning really got me.
>>71008913
Came here to post this.
The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6vTI7aDIHc
The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd5gWGfnK5M
Die Farbe (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t-MxVyublk
Those are the most decent and faithful adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft that have ever been done.
These amateur short films are pretty good, too:
The Shadow Out of Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp1CT1h6c
The Other Gods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AoR6LjJpbk
Nyarlathotep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWijkeEzCb8
The Music of Erich Zann
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFnSOfdsblQ
>>71004604
>>70996829
DUDE TENTACLES LMAO XDDD
fucking off yourselves
>muh tentacles!
>muh Cthulhu Mythos!
>muh Old Ones vs Elder Gods!
>muh black magic!
Lovecraft is probably rolling on his grave right now, while being gnawed on by a ghoul.
Event Horizon is the closest we will ever get to true Lovecraft in a big budget Hollywood movie.
>>71024542
*in
In the Mouth of Madness tries to capture a feeling of going mad instead of just CREATURES /TENTACLES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAAvg3vWAdc
>>71004604
are you literally 14 years old
>>71024591
What? The source of his madness stemmed from monstrous creatures (some of which even had tentacles) which were literally called Old Ones. In the Mouth of Madness is a caricature of Lovecraft's work, which isn't really a bad thing.
>>71012620
Great scene, gonna check it out
>>71021361
I don't think anyone here actually hates lovecraft. they just hate how normies think its nothing but "haha tentacles xDD" and look no deeper than that.
>>71021684
Why are there 3 figures running? Is that a mistake or is there another story about shoggoths besides At the Mountains of Madness?
>>71004114
What makes TD lovecraftian?
>>71024572
Yeah, too bad it sucked
>>71025641
In my experience, normies have never even heard the word Lovecraft. To know who he is, and that tentacles are somehow associated is a pretty large jump forward.
In my last company (apprx 30 people) nobody had ever heard his name...let alone read a book for pleasure.
>>71000373
It's slightly inspired by lovecraft, that doesn't make it lovecraftian
Lovecraft was all about unreliable narrators and villainous entities that couldn't be killed, there's a lot more to lovecraft than just tentacles
>>71025742
Because the artist probably didn't want to remain 100% faithful to the story or he/she actually didn't read it?
Use your fucking brain.
>>70996829
No, we will eventually get tons of movies focused around lovecraftian horrors after marvel shit is done.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_Cthulhu_(film)
It's pretty good
>>71025845
Jesus dude, I was just wondering if thwe was another story about shoggoths
>>71025777
I definitely got a Lovecraftian vibe from TD. It was the fact that something much larger than they originally thought was happening. There was a potential kult that went deep into high society; implying they could not rely on their peers.
>>71025821
He's talking about pop culture sheep or faux nerds.
I'd also include a lot of real nerds and most of Lovecraft's "fanbase" in the list.
>>71025821
by "normies" i mean the pseudo-nerds who buy cthulhu plushies
>>70996829
>lovecraftian
there's that word again.
>>71025948
>I was just wondering if thwe was another story about shoggoths
The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Thing on the Doorstep and various poems. They are only mentioned.
>>70998556
>abuses poetic license to such an extent it becomes a subgenre of literature
>>71026168
Tight, thanks man. For some reason I like those horrifying protoplasmic bubble things.
>>71008353
>not listening to kanye
>>71025844
>Lovecraft was all about unreliable narrators and villainous entities that couldn't be killed
Bloodborne has both of those
Lovecraft invented tentacles
>>71027038
Enough with the bullshit.
>>71027215
Wrong, H. G. Wells did.
![In.the.Mouth.of.Madness.1994.720p.BluRay.x264.YIFY.mp4_snapshot_01.19.04_[2015.03.08_20.49.23].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/WcCDUYb.jpg "In.the.Mouth.of.Madness.1994.720p.BluRay.x264.YIFY.mp4_snapshot_01.19.04_[2015.03.08_20.49.23].jpg")
>>70996829
In the Mouth of Madness
>>71026157
As an elitist, I know that word disgusts you. However, it's hard to deny the sheer influence HPL has had in the horror community. Artists have used him for vast amounts of inspiration. Much of which is not directly associated with HPL's direct work, but does contain certain elements.
You must understand this.
>>71027649
This guy gets it!
Something about a giant squid fighting sailors on a boat that seems adventuresome. Same story written by HPL would be horror.
>>70996829
>since thread was derailed anyway.
And there seems to be some HPL fans here. Anyone play the Arkham Horror? I play Wrath of Ashardalon & Legend of Drizzt, but always here AH was really difficult.
>>71025777
Creepy Louisiana cult, powers (political not super natural but still) beyond their control working against them, the yellow king and carcosa are from a book that inspired HPL, they largely just used the name but I thought its interesting that the book is about a play that drives people insane if they see it and in the show there was the horrible videotape, Rusts existenal musings reflect the deeper themes HPL tried to develop, monsters and super natural powers were mostly just tools he used to drive home the "humans are insignificant" theme and that's what's really supposed to be scary about his stories they're supposed to make you reflect on the fact that you're a speck of dust in a vast universe you barely understand but as this anon pointed out >>71021789 people don't bat an eye at that anymore.
That's really what his stories about though so I'd say TD, despite having nothing overtly super natural, captures the Lovecraft vibe better than most actual adaptations of his work because super natural shit is really secondary to the existential themes and that's what all the movies with actual monsters in them miss.
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>>70998601
Realer than real life faam
