Has anyone ever successfully captured the essence of Lovecraftian horror on the silver screen? Has anyone come close?
His work is proving quite difficult to translate into the medium of film. How do you feel?
>>70840580
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is good but its a game. And its more lovecraftian in its themes than visually
>>70840643
That's not relevant to this board but thanks for the contribution. I'll recommend it to my little brother.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure and Kairo
The Blair Witch Project
Alien
Carpenter's Trilogy Of Apocalypse
Those are probably the most akin to the Lovecraftian atmosphere I could think of.
His work was hard to translate INTO THE MEDIUM OF WRITING.
I personally think most of his stories are badly told and badly written (not all of them). He just had amazing ideas.
Even though I'm a pleb I think Lars Von Trier would be the man for the job.
He's good at shocking imagery and mood, and in my book if you manage to convey Cosmic Horror as a feeling you will have managed to convey Lovecraft.
>>70840720
>Lars Von Trier
I'm listening.
>if you manage to convey Cosmic Horror as a feeling you will have managed to convey Lovecraft
I'm sold.
Any other directors you'd recommend? I have explored much of his work but I'd imagine Cronenberg or evenJodorowskyperhaps would at least make/have made a worthwhile interpretation, although I'm less convinced about the latter.
>>70840580
Ignore anyone who claims In the Mouth of Madness hit a home run.
It wasn't even close to the subtle and impending dread that Lovecraftian/cosmic horror is supposed to evoke.
True Detective Season 1 came kind of close, but then it pussied out and became just a generic crime drama with Lovecraftian references tacked on for window dressing.
Very few movies capture the feel, but there are a few. They're not strictly Lovecraftian though.
>>70840801
>Very few movies capture the feel, but there are a few. They're not strictly Lovecraftian though.
Name names, as is the point of this thread.
>>70840720
>in my book if you manage to convey Cosmic Horror as a feeling you will have managed to convey Lovecraft.
This. The feeling is absolutely essential.
Basically anything that makes the protagonist feel small and insignificant, or that the walls are closing in even as the universe seems vast and uncaring and that morality is so subjective as to basically be irrelevant.
It's the feeling that things are so strange and there are things beyond our own understanding that are causing great misfortune for us more as an incidental consequence than as the actual goal.
This is the best Lovecraft kino I've ever seen. Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp1CT1h6c
>>70840988
That's pretty difficult to convey without making an art film.
Time to just accept we'll see few Lovecraftian films because it's normie repellent. Well, in the mainstream at least. I'm sure third-year uni students will keep us well stocked with utter trash for years to come.
vidya Lovecraft > film Lovecraft
Bloodborne especially gives me such an overwhelmingly uneasy feeling. The type of fear most people associate with his work.
>>70840678
>The Blair Witch Project
What?
>>70840720
Lars von trier is my top 5 worst directors of all time. After Antichrist I just can't fuck him
>>70841283
how come?
>>70841294
I can't finish his movies. It's a chore trying to get through them
And I'm the type of guy that likes long epics every once in a while
I've always though The Thing was pretty Lovecraftian, if at a small scale.
>>70841326
Do you find them tiring? Obnoxious? Irritating?
Come on anon, at least explain yourself.
>>70840835
You're more likely to find "glimmers" of it in specific scenes than in the entirety of movies.
Like that scene in 10 Cloverfield Lane when MEW sees a spacecraft for the first time and realizes the world actually has been invaded by aliens, or in the Dawn of the Dead remake at the end when the characters are desperately trying to find a place that isn't zombie infested and realize they're basically fucked.
Or in The Road as the characters rummage through a dying world, basically just running out the clock as the human species goes completely extinct. Twilight Zone or Outer Limits episodes occasionally hit the mark. Or The Mist when the dad is about to kill himself. I would say that right before the soldiers show up and save him, the movie was touching on a lot of Lovecraftian notes.
But for me, bad endings are kind of a must. Or not necessarily "bad" but definitely not any ending that uplifts you or makes you feel like the main characters are going to make it out okay. The Aliens movies occasionally captured some of the feel, but only barely.
Also themes involving something ancient awakening that will forever change or transform the world in a way that humans as they exist now just can't cope or adapt, or even really comprehend.
Okay so I swear I saw an episode of a show called Movie Magic when I was a kid. The show featured In The Mouth Of Madness and showed some behind the scenes creation of a vision where a man sees a vision of a writhing ball of human beings like pic related. It wasn't in the movie, and I'm wondering if anyone knows what movie it might have been. I've tried tracking down that specific episode but I've had no luck. Stan Winston may or may not have been mentioned in relation to the effect. Was it a deleted scene maybe?
i liked that one, but its more of a b movie.
>>70841425
Interesting. I'm yet to see 10CL (cheers for the spoiler) but I'm keen to get around to it.
I agree with the rest of what you think, though. You know your stuff.
>>70841440
Couldn't tell you.
>>70841473
>Wil Wheaton
>>70841496
dont be like that, its one of the best lovecraft adaptions there is.
granted, most of the rest are shit.
>>70841532
I'll most likely give it a shot.
There's a Call of Cthulhu movie that was made in 2005, but made to resemble an early 1900s movie. It's black and white, silent, and has simple effects. I think it's free on Youtube, or at least it was.
>>70840678
alien! This!
>>70841641
Was it called Dagon? I remember seeing a really fucking terrible but awesome Dagon movie around 2005ish where the main character basically did the opposite of what people do in horror movies. At one point he somehow ripped a hubcap off a car and used it to slice off the top of one of the fish people's heads like something out of mortal kombat. It also had really terrible CGI and that's about all I remember.
>>70841641
is it any good?
>>70841740
high quality post, thanks for contributing
>>70841749
No, just Call of Cthulhu
>>70841755
It's alright. I didn't actually realize it was a recent movie while I was watching it. It manages to be a bit spooky and even has some impossible geometry.
>>70841800
Coolio. I'll check it.
>>70841496
Look for movies that are weird and unsettling, even frightening but aren't necessarily about "good vs evil."
>>70841834
any recs?
>>70841749
The squid legged woman in Dagon has the most amazing eyes I have ever seen.
>>70841852
Fire in the Sky maybe.
Under the Skin is probably another.
>>70841985
>Under the Skin
I just ordered that on amazon. Bit more inclined to watch it now.
>>70841358
I found them overly pretentious. I think his self indulgence ruins his movies. I sit there the whole time thinking come one get on with it. Or other times just going why Lars why did you even bother. It's just his style IMO. Other directors that experiment I can stomach and enjoy I just can't with Lars
>Ctrl+F
>Boku NoWoodsCabin
>0 results
I'm disappointed.
>>70842118
Fair enough. Different strokes for different folks.
>>70841937
fuck yeah
1/6
>>70842212
wat a fuccn qt
does she do violent things to young boys?
>>70842296
>>70842266
>>70842244
This comic is so fucking good. It's absurdly good. It has all of the charm and none of the cringeworthy attempts at lovecraftian themes.
This comic is not chasing the Lovecraft. It is inhabiting it.
>>70841440
Society
>>70842296
4/6
>>70842393
That's pretty much spot on
it's just so goddamn good, what i love about this comic is that it gives me so many different feelings, it's just that good.
>>70840580
mass audiences aren't open to story lines where humanity and all it's efforts lose and ultimately come to mean nothing
del taco gets kind of close though
>>70840643
>I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
that's harlan ellison tho
>>70842501
and the end. 6/6
Anyone here got anything similar? in form of comics and shit? Since i've read this one i've been craving for more.
>>70842456
Who wrote and drew this, mate ?
>>70842550
I don't really have anything that comes close to this work of genius. But there was an internet cartoon that served as my gateway to weird stuff when I was 13. It's called "Pustota" and it's in youtube.
It's a liiiitle bit similar to that comic.
>>70842570
this guy right here http://plasticbrickautomaton.com/?id=71
don't know if he have anyting similar
>>70840801
>>True Detective Season 1 came kind of close, but then it pussied out and became just a generic crime drama with Lovecraftian references tacked on for window dressing
but that's what made it most effectively lovecraftian. Would have been a complete shitfest if they went full on with it.
>>70842630
Will check it out anon, thanks very very much for the recommendation.
>>70840643
>it's a game
fucking hell dude
>>70842637
thanks !
>>70840643
>its a game
It was a book first, you fucking /v/edditor
>>70840580
True Detective could easily have been if they went the supernatural route.
>>70842767
And the game was made as an expansion of that very story by the author who wrote it, dumbass.
>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.
What did he mean by this?
>>70840580
Hellboy 1's Ogru Jahad scenes as well as the Wyrm that was in Rasputin are both pretty cosmic horror.
>>70841473
>tfw I was unable to eat anything but rice gruel for two months as a child because of that shit.
>>70840660
>le video games are for children meme
Fairly epic.
>>70840580
The Final Destination series is pretty Lovecraftian
>protagonist has terrifying premonitions of impending doom
>no physical villian to fight back against, just the hand of fate/wrath of god
>constant atmosphere of tension, dread and terror instead of outright horror
>absolutely no possibility of a happy ending, eventually you're going to die horribly
>>70840580
That one music video, you know the one I'm talking about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg
>>70842630
>>70842550
>>70842501
>>70842456
>>70842393
>>70842296
>>70842266
>>70842244
It's alright, but really the "time travel" and discovery of the interdimensional world were the most Lovecraftian elements. Transformation is there but it still feels a bit too Kafka-esque. I'm just nitpicking I guess, the dread is sort of missing but it's fine.
>>70842550
I've seen this guy's stuff over many years yet I still don't know his name
>>70843039
What's intriguing is that the guy does humor. He's got a webpage full of humor webcomics and then out of nowhere he draws this one.
It's not the ultimate lovecraftian representation but for a webcomic found on a random place of the internet? It's pretty good. The city of bones thing didn't really click with me that much though. I loved the stone pillars in the white fog
Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave.
>>70842432
Thanks. I'm not sure this is it, it was a ball of people floating in the air. It was indoors--dark--i remember the man standing to the right of the frame with his back facing the camera, and the ball of people was floating in the top left of the frame, and moving towards the man slowly. The shot was only like 5 seconds maybe.
>>70843211
>floating in the air
OK then no idea.
>>70843211
>>70843279
Now that I'm thinking about it I might have seen that Movie Magic thing. Are you sure it wasn't just a behinds the scenes shot of the group of monsters coming down the hall?
>>70842899
It's not a meme you fucking moron
>>70843279
Yeah its also hard because I was a kid at the time. I'm almost positive In the Mouth of Madness was featured in that episode I saw. I can't seem to track down any of the episodes beyond season 1 and its really going to bug me since the movie could be anything, maybe even not a movie.
>>70843358
There were monsters coming down a hall in the movie, but I strongly remember the image of that ball of people floating in the air. The monsters in the hall was dimly lit and green, the scene im thinking of was dark with soft orange/white or both lighting. Maybe red, idk I was a kid. It looked like a smaller version of the Legion or Granfalloon from Castlevania games.
>>70842036
Better watch it at 1.5x speed, holy fuck what a slow movie
>>70843358
Here's a shitty drawing of what I remember. It may be wrong or have details wrong. Big ball of people sort of melted together and writhing around and screaming, maybe slightly see-through or spectral. Some kind of dark interior space with nice wooden walls maybe, and the man standing on the right with the ball moving toward him.
The Relic maybe?
Lair of the White Wyrm, if you can get past the 80s camp. Plus young Hugh Grant was breddi gud for funsies.
>>70843784
Sorry anon. Can think of some similar things but nothing exactly like that right now. Good luck.
John Carpenter.
>>70842864
I liked their "crystal" prison, too. I always sort of imagined it as being more "pinched" space than a physical object.
>>70843422
It is. Video games are not just for children.
>>70844040
It will probably turn out to be something stupid like one of the freddy sequels. Oh well.
>>70840580
A videogame did it successfully, it's not a movie but it's worth playing.
>>70840580
check this out senpai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg
>>70844339
Fuck off, Reddit.
>>70844374
>literally been on 4chins for 13 years.
>get called reddit
NEVER CHANGE
>>70844221
Bloodborne does Lovecraft, sometimes pretty well, but it doesn't really do horror. Being a dude with a gun and a sword that can't die and can basically kill old ones isn't that scary. And although the bosses are cool since it's a game the bosses are just a set of mechanics, not some obscene unspeakable and incomprehensible horror from beyond time.
Bloodborne.
![[Underwater-rori] Haiyore! Nyarlko - 02 [10D16554].mkv_snapshot_05.12_[2014.10.02_01.00.39].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/3lj5YjG.jpg "[Underwater-rori] Haiyore! Nyarlko - 02 [10D16554].mkv_snapshot_05.12_[2014.10.02_01.00.39].jpg")
Leave Cthulhukino to Haiyore! Nyaruko-san. Spooky as heck, just the way Lovecraft would have wanted.
>>70844407
>on 4chan for 13 years
Where did it go so wrong
>>70844436
Eternal Darkness on Gamecube is pure Lovecraft.
>>70840720
>Cosmic horror
A lot of Lovecraft's work didn't employ this at all.
It's weird that he's such a celebrated author, yet gets pigeonholed by seemingly his most loyal fans.
>>70844640
kek
Best Lovecraftian movie here.
>>70844160
You're right, they're also for manchildren.
>>70840580
I feel like you're right. It can't be done.
>>70845923
People always deploy this meme when they cannot argue that something isn't just for children but also don't want to admit it's also for adults.
>>70845752
it was good for what it was but something about it made me feel like i was watching an episode of Outer Limits. it just had a very early 90s tv show vibe
>>70841004
anymore like this?
>>70843422
Regardless of whether it's a true statement or not, you and I both know that most of the people who post that meme are just autists in their late teens or early twenties who greatly exaggerate their own feelings in a sad, edgy attempt to set themselves apart from normies and what they perceive to be the majority of this site. I suppose it could also be based in a shallow desire to feel more mature. It is objectively a meme opinion
>>70842550
Betty good desu
>>70840678
>The Blair Witch Project
wat
Daily reminder that HPL and Robert E Howard were good friends that collaborated and corresponded on the background of HPL and the Great Old Ones. Conan takes place inside of the time frame of the Mythos!
>>70842937
how can anyone have an opinion this wrong?
I think I have just been rused. 10/10
>>70846051
as much as I agree with this, I have to admit that scene AT THAT TIME was seriously inspired. Its been copied and done to death in later movies but that was genuinely freaky shit .
I found "The Mist" creatures very lovecraft like, and the whole atmosphere at the beggining really sold the tension as in, say, "The colour out of space"
>>70848112
that movie ending triggered the fuck out of me when i watched it the first time
but it was a good fucking ending
>>70840643
>Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
It wasn't Lovecraftian at all. Just Sci-fi horror.
>>70845752
What movie?
>>70845923
Can you explain why? I mean seriously, whats the actual reasoning behind this?
Allot of games are too complex for kids to even understand well enough to play, not to mention all the violence, gore and nudity present in modern games. How is this appropriate for children?
>>70843086
Pretty sure it's Legorobot/Plasticbrickautomaton, if not it's someone emulating his style.
>>70840580
From Beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kENuvJ2MIA
>>70845983
I don't want to assume what his thought process is for the sake of having an actual discussion, but I really don't understand it. What constitutes being "for children"? Being simple? Or silly? Whats the criteria?
>>70842937
Ehh, it's way to much like a slasher film.
In fact now that I think about it, isn't Final Destination just a slasher film with an invisible slasher?
Also, I completely disagree when it comes to the outright horror thing, it's really vanilla horror movie status when it comes to that.
>>70848272
You can try to define it more closely if you wish but to me you are getting to specific with genres.
I loved The Mist until the ending. Turned it into a bad comedy bit. I know King prefers it to his short story, but I thought that one had a far more chilling tone.
>>70848552
scifi horror is a general genre
lovecraftian is a niche
one that doesn't coincide in this case
>>70848007
The story about the ancient alien elephant that told Conan a bunch of stuff clued me in there.
>>70848591
Lovecraftian has lost all meaning because people assume it just means OOOOO HORROR BEYOND COMPREHENSION when his subject matter was pretty broad.
>>70842660
This. Lovecraft's stories aren't really super focused on the monsters its about all the fear and dread leading up to them and while his stories certainly strongly suggest that the monsters are real the person telling the story is often said to be mad, so maybe they're just crazy and don't know wtf they're talking about. He always left it a little open to interpretation.
True detective season 1 basically took his formula and tweaked it to "the monsters probably aren't real" instead of "they probably are".
If anything the non Lovecraftian part of it is the ending, Lovecraft would have had it all blow up in Marty and Rust's face at the end. They would have been arrested for the murders instead and lived out their days in prison trying to tell people about the yellow king and no one would believe them.
>>70840580
Event Horizon is Lovecraftian and worth checking out. It has that feeling of uneasiness and dread in spades.
Every time I look myself in the mirror is a literal translation of a lovecraftian horror
People are pussies.
>>70848745
Accidentally left out the image.
>>70848745
>>70848774
>le generic gorefest
confirmed for never reading a Lovecraft story
>>70848678
>he always left it a little bit open to interpretation
But that's not true
>>70848836
>implying Event Horizon is a gorefest
Okay, buddy.
>>70848836
>event horizon
>generic
Confirmed for never having watched Event Horizon.
>>70840580
In the mouth of madness
Dagon
Both close yet imperfect.
>>70848885
So you believe the guy telling the story who says he saw an octopus dragon? No one else in the story does.
As a side note, Steven King does a great job with cosmic horror/Lovecraftian themes.
If you want to scratch that itch, go for it
>>70848933
Not that anon, but within that fictional realm? Absolutely Yes.
There is never ambiguity presented to the reader. By the end of any Mythos Cycle story, we are left with no doubt that real creatures and events were observed. Colour Out of Space and Dunwich Horror are both examples where the protags aren't sent mad. DH has four Arkham lecturers who observe the events and at best are puzzled at the implications, apalled and disgusted too but CERTAIN of its truth.
COOS is told almost entirely in retrospect, by an observer who pieces items together and sees that despite the crazy story, it's true. But he's not sent insane, must unsettled. Even Call of Cthulhu, right up until the end, we have a calculating protag piecing together facts, it's only when he sees the final picture that madness sets in.
It's like you miss the point of Lovecraft, of Cosmic Horror. These aren't tales of mad idiots creating a delusion, it's sane rational men discovering that the truth behind reality is a monstrous horror that lesser men saw only facets of.
>>70848325
Shatterbrain (1991)
The Resurrected (original title)
what is the most lovecraftian meme?
>>70840580
In the Mouth of Madness is really good.
>>70849229
That might be true but I don't think not having overtly super natural elements in True Detective season 1 makes it less Lovecraftian since being supernatural is not necessary to the kind of dread he creates.
That's the point I was trying to make, the happy ending is not very Lovecraft but not being overtly supernatural is a minor thing really.
>>70840720
>Lovecraftian cosmic horror
>Not Guillermo Del Toro
This needs to happen
>>70840801
I never saw true detective, can you tldr what made it lovecraftian?
>>70849803
I have zero input to offer with regard to True Detective having not seen it.
My only point was that in terms of ambiguity in Lovecraft stories in the Mythos Cycle, you are simply wrong.
>>70849839
It was supposed to. Del Taco's Mountains of Madness was put into development hell by a combination of Hobbit and Silent Hills.
>>70849452
>>70849859
No one's going to spoofeed you
>>70849891
Fuck I miss Zalgo.
>>70840580
The Call of Cthulhu silent film was good.
>>70840580
>His work is proving quite difficult to translate into the medium of film
This so much.
Visuals takes away place for imagination.
>>70849891
damn, how could I forget Zalgo?
>>70850053
The one by HPLHS?
Yeah, for a low budget fan film its superb.
>>70843211
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE18Lc9wE9k
>>70849887
The Del Toro movie would've been a fucking mess.
http://www.therobotsvoice.com/2015/01/7_reasons_we_dont_need_guillermo_del_toro_at_the_mountains_of_madness_lovecraft.php
>>70842899
Vidya as a form of media has aged with its fanbase, And The one thing that "Triggers" me about this post is that Horror writing in general
Experienced this kind of stigma back then too, Poor lovecraft never got to see his work become popular.
I'd give him a warm cuddle.
>>70840580
I feel like Prometheus gave me that feeling
>Being around something that accidentally made you
>Thing doesn't give two shits about you
>It would rather completely destroy everything you have for no real reason
Kinda like the mountains of madness
>>70850079
Yes, and yes.
>>70850136
Directed by the same guy who did the Re-Animator.
>>70850172
actually one of the reasons At the Mountains of Madness was canceled was that it was too similar to Prometheus (see link above)
>>70849859
References the yellow king which is a weird fiction book that inspired Lovecraft, one of the main characters experiences visions which may or may be real though most likely no, plot centers around investigating a creepy cult like organization in southern Louisiana.
Nothing is overtly supernatural but to me the defining characteristic of his stories is the hopelessness of it, like you could almost view his monsters as metaphors for how uncaring the universe seems to be about us and how insignificant we are and that is in line with Lovecraft's "cosmic indifferentism" or whatever he called it. Basically the universe is a cold uncaring place and you can no more change that than you can fight Cthulhu. Show deal with those kind of "everything is hopeless/pointless" themes allot.
>>70850196
Goddamn we nearly had movie Kino on our hands
Also i'm putting some audiobooks on my mega if anyone's interested?
they're top quality stuff too
Really good for drinking something warm and getting tucked into bed
>>70850292
I'm interested, anon.
>>70848455
Hitting buttons to make lights and colors.
>>70850304
alright well i'm uploading it now and i got it working this time
>>70850349
My dude!
>>70850405
Bumping with
My fella
>>70850318
Like pressing "play"?
>>70840580
>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!please
>>70850471
>I didnt read any lovecraft story and pretend I know things: the post
>>70850471
Go read the rats in the walls anon. No fish monsters just based nigger-man.
>>70850304
Here you go
https://mega.nz/#!s5J12IRa!goAzpME1tlhB6Q7C7MqUMAO38-ihLBRdQgg3A31ImgE
>>70850471
Made me laugh
![[Final8]Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W - 03 (BD 10-bit 1920x1080 x264 FLAC)[30801C6E].mkv_snapshot_21.52_[2016.04.17_09.34.57].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/llPuUrL.jpg "[Final8]Haiyore! Nyaruko-san W - 03 (BD 10-bit 1920x1080 x264 FLAC)[30801C6E].mkv_snapshot_21.52_[2016.04.17_09.34.57].jpg")
>>70840580
Yes.
>>70840580
Lovecraft is a one-trick-pony hack. A B-Movie adaptation of him like Reanimator is as good as any of his short stories
t. /lit/
>>70850555
>Guy mocks Innsmouth
>Go Read Innsmouth but with cannibals instead of fishmen
>>70850617
I dunno senpai, fish men still sound freaky to me
>>70840643
>I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is good
>but its a game
you disgust me
>>70840580
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEV9zjHiICA
>>70850604
how does it feel to be the only board with worse taste than /mu/
mind you I'm not just talking about your post
>>70850567
Much appreciated.
>>70850567
Fuck yeah.
>>70850053
Yep I came here to post that The Call of Cthulhu (2005) is my favorite pure adaptation. It captured the letter as well as a the spirit of HPL's work. Bravo.
If we're just talking spirit, maybe The Mist.
>>70844423
Dying horribly and brutally, and being resurrected over and over again to fight something that is nearly impossible to kill. And when you succeed you drift further away from humanity.
And thats not horror?
I remember reading one of kings books that was very lovecraft. It was about a mans life from his childhood onwards. I wont spoil it but it gave me a sense of dread and hopelessness.
I think it was called " revival"
I would recommend it. High quality.
>>70851695
Have you read his short story ''Suffer the Little Children''? Does a good job with the 'descent in to madness' idea.
>>70840643
>>70848272
It's Lovecraftian in its ideas and themes. It's a little abstract, it's dark, and there's a sense of dread and the unknown throughout the entire game.
>>70852813
I agree.
Most underrated lovecraftian style horror is AM 1200. Watch blind
>>70842660
>>70848678
thing about true detective is that it grabbed all these horror influences to build something interesting (carcosa, the yellow king, the stick figurines, cohle's worldview, etc) thgen at the end throws them under a bus. they were there just to spice things up because it's easier to take something than invent something. nic pizzolato literally said in an interview he didn't like robert w. chambers nor weird fiction and was baffled as to why people were reading "the king in yellow" at all (for a while it rose to the bestsellers list on amazon while the show was airing). so why the fuck lift stuff from it if you don't like it. oh, right, because "the yellow king" sounds a lot better than "devil worshipping" or whatever
he didn't puss out, he just didn't care from the beginning
>>70848387
>violence, gore and nudity
Show this to children they will find it new and awesome
Show this to adults they will find it boring and silly
>no one mentions Saya no Uta
Heresy
>>70855774
This isn't /a/, /jp/ or /vg/.
>>70855796
By the look of this thread, I'm not sure.
>Nyaruko, Bloodborne, DyE....
At least Saya has more things in common with the Lovecraft then the rest of those mentioned.
>>70855878
Well then, since we're no longer giving a shit. Dorohedoro has a fair bit of Lovecraftian themes to it, such as a character who basically tried to experiment with forces he's not familiar with and it backfired on him. Also, plenty of trippy mindfucks too.
And Go Nagai's Devilman series as well.
Rosemary's Baby and Eyes Wide Shut for the psychological horror, paranoia and isolation. For the fantastic creatures probably The Mist and for the occult aspect Hammer films from the 50's 60's and 70's. Quatermass and the Pit for example - Hugely influenced by Lovecraft themes.
>>70856012
>dorohedoro
mah nigga
In the Mouth of Madness was okay. Could have been better.
>>70850036
>>70850075
>being over 24 and still using 4chan
2001 is the best film in the Cosmic Horror subgenre.
>>70856205
>cosmic horror
>benevolent
Banshee Chapter
>>70840801
It was about the king in yellow, they even said it in the series, The King in Yellow was pretty much the precursor of Lovecraft cosmic terror work.
I'd tap richard stanley. He seems atmospheric enough with his visions to pull off agood lovecraft story. One of the biggest tragedys in recent entertainment history is not getting his island of dr. Moraeu. Plus he's actually a witch irl.
just read the shadow of innsmouth, that whole part about escaping the hotel and sneaking through the town was amazing, wish it would get an adaption
>>70856045
>Quatermass and the Pit
>>70850593
>this is a Japanese Elder God.
>>70854918
Yea Lovecraft would never do the happy ending. I said before he'd have them in jail for the crimes telling the story about the yellow king and no one believes them, or something like that.
![[Pochi.] Ane Narumono_027.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/DsJ69hx.jpg "[Pochi.] Ane Narumono_027.jpg")
>>70857039
This is japanese Cthulhu
>>70857059
>true detective
>happy ending
wew lad
>>70840580
Bloodborne for PS4
/thread
>people think True Detective was Lovecraftian or even cosmic Horror
I really, REALLY wish this meme would end.
>>70841440
I recall something like that for the movie Hideaway.
https://youtu.be/qz4t4MG3N8U?t=1m3s
DoesPenny Dreadfulhave anything along those lines? I'm only just a few episodes in and there's been some mentions of some weird shit in the background. Just wondering if it amounts to anything.
>>70855774
This was really good but not /tv/ related
>>70857697
50% of this thread is not /tv/ relatedincluding OP's post
>>70841641
I made this video like 10 years ago when I was in highschool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_5GbTXGhd0
Is that what you mean?
>>70857192
Literally how was it not a happy ending? I didn't say bad, I thought it was great but it was absolutely happy.
>Marty's family comes to see him in hospital showing they still love him.
>Rust has a moment of real human connection talking about his daughter and how he loves/misses her rather than another "it doesn't matter" speech
>they got their killer and get to walk away from it
>"one time there was only dark, I'd say the light's winning."
>>70840580
That one Masters of Horror episode that did "Dreams in the Witch House" perhaps. I saw it years ago though so it might actually be shit.
lovecraft is literally the most overrated writer in the horror genre.
>>70858618
Name a good one that isn't overrated then.
>>70858618
delete this
>>70858618
found the nigger
>>70841440
>Okay so I swear I saw an episode of a show called Movie Magic when I was a kid.
I can confirm this is the episode. What you are remembering is the behind the scenes footage of the movie where the monsters tear out of the book and chase dr. Grant down a hallway.
>>70842036
Im pretty sure its free to stream on prime.
>>70840580
>>70840801
>Ignore anyone who claims In the Mouth of Madness hit a home run.
ignore anyone who claims In the Mouth of Madness isn't amazing
I haven't read any Lovecraft, only listened to an audiobook that I had to turn off because it was written so badly, as in, the things the character saw was described as "unfathomably horrendous" and "otherworldly". I like the idea of what Lovecraft wrote about but like many already has said in the thread, its very hard to describe the things Lovecraft wrote about.
Anyway. To me, "Lovecraftian" means being dropped into a otherworldly scenario that you have almost no control over and having Interdimensional beings reaching for your feet as you try to crawl away. The Sphere gave me that.
>>70840720
I bet Trier could understand Lovecraft.
>>70859159
>I haven't read any Lovecraft, only listened to an audiobook
stopped reading there
I know its 4chan but do people like...consider how fucking dumb they look before posting? christ
>>70844640
Don't forget... You're here forever.
>>70859245
Well yeah I couldn't bother finding a book and I'm not reading off a computer screen if that is what you want.
>>70848614
Which one is that? I love elephants and ayy lmaos, so a combination of both sounds right up my alley
>>70844787
I guess because it's the most influential aspect of his work, or at least the most recognisable to people who haven't read anything he wrote.
Some of the imagery in both The Devil's advocate and Event Horizon evoked Lovecraft for me.
>>70859307
>go to search engine
>type in conan elephant
>???
>profit
>>70857332
I think that might actually be it. Thanks anon.
>>70857039
>>70857157
>you will never have a lovecraftian horror as a girlfriend
Feels bad, man.
>>70857497
Nothing about Penny Dreadful is what I would really call Lovecraftian. It's about werewolves and Draculas and Frankensteins and being possessed by Egyptian gods and the odd magically immortal individuals.
Good show tho.
>>70840580
Whoever the fuck made Jacob's Ladder.
Carpenter's The Thing, obviously. True Detective season 1
How about Tarkovsky's Stalker?
Anyone here like The Night Land?
I think it's far more suitable for a film/series adaptation than most stuff that Lovecraft wrote.
>>70858107
Speaking of which, I also watched Nightmares & Dreamscapes around the same time and remember one episode having sort of a similar feeling. That whole series was based on King, though.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouch_End_(short_story)
>>70841834
>>70841852
I would say Babadook perfectly fits that description...however, I would not at all describe it as lovecraftian. Although the unsettling psychological terror aspect is very well done
Not film but I think some of Beksiński paintings has a Lovecraftian vibe to them
>>70851194
It's horror but not the Lovecraftian kind.
It starts of with two people screaming at each other and being over emotionally for around 40 minutes
Borderlands was pretty Lovecraftian desu famalams
>>70863139
Before anyone complains found footage was just a way for them to tell a story on a budget
>>70863139
>Borderlands
The game? I can't find any movie by that name.
>>70863336
sorry, *The Borderlands, or Final Prayer in American
>>70840643
That's not even Lovecraft. The only game that has really done Lovecraftian horror justice is The Lurking Horror.
As for movies, there's obviously In the Mouth of Madness, but that's about it for adaptations that really feel like Lovecraft. Re-Animator and From Beyond are also good, but don't emulate their sources' atmosphere well. Some other movies evoke similar feels though, like The Church, Videodrome, and Altered States.
>>70848890
>implying it's not
OH BUT IT HAS SPOOKY SCENES WITH FLASHING
Fuck off.
>>70850172
>I feel like Prometheus gave me that feeling
No.
>>70840678
>Carpenter's Trilogy Of Apocalypse
I like these.
this has a pretty lovecraftian feel desu
>>70851695
Is that the one where the Devil says to a little boy at a lake(?) he's going to kill him, and this makes him paranoid until he's an old man?
>>70864476
Your feelings are wrong
>>70864476
Every year I forget that I need to watch this movie, and this since it got released to vhs. fuck I really need to.
>>70840678
>The Blair Witch Project
>Successfully captured the essence of Lovecraftian horror
pick one
>>70864476
i could tell from the hairline in the thumbnail it was jude law
>>70841749
>Dagon
Fun movie alright
