Any suggestion?
>>17893182
A lot of Carpenter's horror movies are at least influenced by Lovecraft.
for example
In The Mouth Of Madness
The Thing
>>17893182
The Thing
Re-Animator
From Beyond
Dagon
And the Evil Dead films.
>>17893207
Stay away from Dagon, tho. That's a pretty bad movie, and not even in a funny way.
Try also anything with Cronenberg's name on it
Absentia and Banshee Chapter are two pretty decent horror films that have a lot of Lovecraftian elements to them.
>>17893182
hit and miss, mostly
>>17893447
>banshee chapter
>lovecraftian elements
>>17893500
Having watched, and enjoyed, AM1200 today ( may even buy a physical copy), I have to wonder [spoiler]was the 'protagonist' meant to be the next sacrifice or just the next killer.[/spoiler]
>>17893361
If you have the itch and nothing else to scratch it then Dagon is fine.
The tentacle leg lady has the greatest eyes I have ever seen.
>>17894728
I think a mixture of both, he was just a tool for the creature.
It's always good to see Ray Wise too.
>>17895086
>>17893361
Plebs.
Dagon is great.
>We Are Still Here
>The Blair Witch
>Whisperer in the Darkness
A lot of other stuff, but mainly it's because I think I see Lovecraft's idea of horror as unknowable at play rather than stuff directly referencing his works.
>>17895802
>>The Blair Witch
how the fuck is that lovecraftian? you dont even see who or what it is and its just people doing drugs innawoods
>>17893361
Fuck you it's great I TELL YOU TRUE
>>17895086
>The tentacle leg lady has the greatest eyes I have ever seen.
Right. And a pretty decent set to match.
As for the movie, it's good made. Fun to watch.
>>17895807
>Lovecraft's idea of horror as unknowable
>you don't even see who or what it is
Yeah that's kind of the point - IT's something utterly removed from your sensibility, something alien you cannot interface with and thus cannot know; you can maybe see and understand its effects (ie, dead people, warped geography, naturally occurring geometries) but those aren't the thing itself, merely its emanations that we interpret with our categories. Lovecraftian entities operate via inhuman (Negarestani dubs them Cthulhoid) logic and ethics that can't be perfectly overlaid to ours, they have a life of their own in the most complete sense - so does the Witch, since its "logic" is just a humanocentric superimposition made by the bumbling fucktards in the movie. They create a map and stick to it regardless of its (impossible?) actual adherence to the territory.
>>17895836
No you dumb bitch we want tentacle monsters with lots of eyes and limbs and shit, fuck outta here with your psychology Sigmund Freud horseshit
>Hellboy
>>17895086
>>17895578
Which Dagon are you talking about? I found multiple movies with that name
>>17896265
Hey guys look, a retard!
>>17896265
Yes, I can see you're Lovecraft's true heir and you got exactly what's it all about.
[spoiler]You're bating, right mate?[/spoiler]
Still, I recommend you watch the 2005 Call of Cthulhu movie and the above mentioned Whisperer in the Dark, you may genuinely enjoy them.
>>17896265
Thats a parody of the typical retard who misuses "lovecraftian" all the time, right? right?!
>>17896265
>tentacle monsters with lots of eyes and limbs and shit
>Lovecraftian
Remove yourself
This right here. An actual Lovecraft adaptation instead of influence.
>>17893182
I'll suggest two adaptations of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
"Edgar Allan Poe's The Haunted Palace" (1963). What in the fuck were they thinking to give it this name? And, of course, "The Resurrected" (1991)
The first has Vincent Price as Curwen (what else could you want?), and the second is probably the best Lovecraftian movie. Watch both.
>>17893182
If you are looking for actual adaptations of his work, these are the finest and most faithful movies you'll find:
The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHuY2wXTd0o
The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd5gWGfnK5M
Die Farbe, "The Color" (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t-MxVyublk
Stuart Gordon's movie "adaptations" are extremely cheesy and campy, and deviate a lot from the original stories.
Then there are several indie short films that manage to capture the essence H.P.L.'s work better than any Hollywood production:
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
>>17896399
Gordon's take on Witchhouse was legit though. Nothing like most of his work.
>>17896430
Didn't know he directed that one. I'll check it out.
Pontypool "language is a virus from outer space"
>>17895807
Fuck this guy
>>17895807
No Anon, you are mixing up films, that was one called Shrooms.
>>17895802
>>17896449
How old are you? Just curious as anyone who is old enough to have seen Blair Witch in theaters knows how shitty that movie really is.
Not to mention it birthed the shittiest horror sub-genre of all time, found footage.
>>17896463
I'm not that guy, but I'm 40 years old and I thought it was very, very weak. The woman pulling the fly out of the TV and then getting a nosebleed in The Ring, American Version, scared me much, much more than the whole Blair Witch Project thing. I think the second BWP movie was way better.
And I also think Thunderdome was the best of the original Mad Max trilogy. Deal with it.
>>17896478
The second BWP had that sexy goth chick so points scored. As well as the easter egg hunt.
Thunderdome better than Road Warrior?
I will spare your life if you just walk away.
>>17896486
I have an amateur background in anthropology and folklore. The movie is wonderful, and so are Fury Road and Interstellar, for the same reasons.
Notice that nowhere I said Road Warrior was bad.
>>17896463
21, and I've defended my point here
>>17895836
I'm not used to insult when I can argument instead.
>>17896275
The one directed by Stuart Gordon.
>>17896284
See little Jimmy? This is why you should stay in school. Come along now and mommy will buy you some ice cream.
>>17896298
No, I'm afraid in pop culture yes, Lovecraftian is synonym with tentacled horrors.
>>17896265
However, this is not how Lovecraftian is being used here, unless you are the OP. In this case, I suggest looking for a movie that fits that category and look up from there.
>>17893361
Dagon is fuckin awesome, especially compared to all the other dreck people call lovecraftian
>>17893523
It has very obvious HPL elements.
I don't care for it myself, because the Hunter Thompson impersonation breaks my suspension of disbelief, but it's as Lovecraftian as any movie gets.
>>17895802
>We Are Still Here
Does this get good? I tried watching it for like twenty minutes or so and it was so boring I almost fell asleep.
Solaris is good. I don't know if it really qualifies as horror though. Stanislaw Lem is what Lovecraft would read like if he could actually write.
>>17893361
Dagon was great, you're fucking retarded.
>>17894728
>AM1200
So, so good.
Forever Evil
>>17896478
The second BWP was an absolute torrent of pure shit. Much like the first one.
>>17901606
Yes, it does. It has a fairly slow start, I'll give you that, but it's not so devoid of substance as to be unwatchable. Go further, it's a ninety minutes movie, you haven't got much to lose.
>>17893207
>Re-Animator
While Herbert West was indeed written by Lovecraft I don't think it shared many of the same themes as his other books, meaning it wouldn't really qualify as Lovecraftian.
Would you say Asimov's one romance novel was Asimovian?
It's still good though and I'd recommend it.
>>17902254
It can't be slower to start than The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Dragging Book. I didn't watch this movie, but indeed, give it a try.
>>17896291
I'd second this, they're kitschy, but worth a watch also The Color Out of Space.
I really want to see a big budget adaption, ideally MoM. I think Ben Wheatley could handle it if not GDT.
>>17902280
>MoM
You do know about the Guillermo del Toro's adaptation that will never be, because the visuals he wanted to use went to Prometheus and Toro dropped it because it would look line a clone, RIGHT?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>17902284
Yeah, but I still would have happily watched it/still think he could've done something 8-9/10.
Jacob's Ladder has a good Lovecraftian atmosphere. Lose 3d4 sanity points etc
>>17902284
>the Guillermo del Toro's adaptation that will never be
Thank god. Have you read his script? It's just terrible.
>>17902306
Sincerely, no. Could you link it?
>>17902310
There you go:
https://lovecraftzine.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/at-the-mountain-of-madness.pdf
If you don't feel like reading the whole thing, check this out:
http://www.therobotsvoice.com/2015/01/7_reasons_we_dont_need_guillermo_del_toro_at_the_mountains_of_madness_lovecraft.php
http://templeofghoul.blogspot.com.es/2010/08/at-mountains-of-madness-script-review.html
I respect Del Toro, and really enjoy his work, but I don't think he 'gets' Lovecraft at all.
>>17902353
i read this. it reads like indiana jones meets kaiju big battle. kinda glad it didnt happen but it would be great to see a big budget lovecraft film.
>>17903517
edit: steam punk indiana jones/ guy ritchie sherlock holms meets kaiju big battle/ cloverfield.
hmm. actually that makes it sound more interesting than it really is.
>>17893182
Don't go for adaptations of his works, go for things that are clearly inspired by him instead.
>>17903547
Such as?
>>17900939
Oh shit, never thought of Possession in an HPL context, great point.
Also Sam Neill
>>17902306
>>17902353
Ditto, Del Toro is a fucking ponce and ruins anything he gets his sausage fingers on.
>>17893182
that monster looks gay
>>17904794
Oi, I loved Pan's Labyrinth, but then, I'm away from the political controversy regarding the movie.
>>17904815
Pan's Labyrinth was fine but that fat fuck has struggled to put anything decent out since.
>>17893447
I enjoyed Banshee chapter mildly, but no, 0 lovecraftian anything.
Also absentia didn't have any either. It's possible you don't know what lovecraftian means.
You guys are a bunch of complete faggots who don't know anything about Lovecraft or films. Your opinions on Lovecraft's work and on which films best represent his ideas are juvenile, pathetic, and generally laughable turdburglar-tier drivel. You have, as a group, with few exceptions, only the most limited comprehension of Lovecraft's writing and clearly, zero point zero understanding of "cosmic horror". I would recommend that you all kill yourselves but, for something so inherently pointless (your miserable lives), that would be an unnecessary expenditure of cosmic energy. You'd be better off spending a weekend trapped inside the dank and black root cellar of old man Whately's abandoned farm on top of Sentinel Hill. Then, maybe you'd finally get a glimmer, an albeit tenuous and fleeting grasp on the subject about which you so glibly purport to have any knowledge of, or sophistication about, whatsoever.
>>17907131
>tfw a lovecraft fag tries to school you even though lovecraft was a mediocre writer at best that is only popular for the cthulhu fangirls you assume you're insulting
come on man, I have his entire collection and even I think you're a twat. go read some algernon or chambers.
>>17900878
>Lovecraftian is synonym with tentacled horrors
it isnt. Only by people who misuse the word for memes and shitposting like you
>>17907131
>le tentacles lmao! Am I true cuthulzu fan nao?
>>17907131
Wow, autism is really kicking in.
>>17907131
LMFAO. This is genuine authentic autism. As soon as there's a perceived slight against the GREAT MASTER you can be sure the hyper sperglords will come out of the woodwork.
>>17908020
Literally every fan of every media ever produced will feel offended by ignorant shithead spewing wrong crap about it. Autism is not having the social cognizance necessary to understand how to get offended in the first place. Learn the signs and symptoms and stop shitposting with words that you don't understand.
>Being a fan
>Not autistic
>>17907131
>abandoned farm on top of sentinel hill
kys retard
His farm was NEAR sentinel hill
the giant stones were on top it
If you wanna play big man you're gonna have to know what the fuck you're talking about
>>17908167
i'm pretty sure the guy was trolling.
>>17908064
Every time you post you continue to prove their point
>>17908991
I wasn't that anon. White knight here.
On a side note, apparently there is a point in the ocean halfway between New Zealand and the tip of South America where the crash land all the space debris since 1970. It's called Point Nemo. It also happens to be the mythological place known as R'lyeh, where Cthulhu sleeps...
http://www.groundzeromedia.org/2016/06/27/627-rlyeh-rising/
>>17893361
shut your whore mouth, Dagon is the most true adaptation of a Lovecraft story to date.
1. del Toro should be constrained to work only on visual designs for movies. costumes, monsters, sets. he should under no circumstances be allowed to write dialogue or plots.
2. arguing about how much cooler anonymous douche X is than anonymous douche Y because of age differences really kind of undermines your point. some people liked blair witch. some people didn't. opinions differ about things. big fucking deal. i'm 40 and i thought it was something fun i hadn't seen before. i can't say it felt particularly Lovecraftian.
AM1200 is fucking aces and if you haven't seen it you're doing yourself a disservice.
>>17911537
>he should under no circumstances be allowed to write dialogue or plots.
>durrf i haven't seen devil's backbone: the post
>>17912425
>t. del toro fanboi
go back to /tv/ faggot
>>17896442
They never say outer space or anything like that, they never even clarify what the fuck is going on in that movie other than some how language is infected. But still a really really good movie
>>17896461
Fuck "Shrooms"! The description made it sound like there would be some horrors from Celtic mythology, but it was just a shitty slasher movie with a "twist".
>Lovecraft adaptations
Re-Animator (1985)
Cool Air (1999)
From Beyond (1986)
Dagon (2001)
Shatterbrain (1991) [The Case of Charles Dexter Ward]
Call of Cthulhu (2005)
The Unnameable (1988)
Castle Freak (1995) [The Outsider]
>Films involving Lovecraft
Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
>Films IMO with Lovecraft themes
Event Horizon (1997)
Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Dark City (1998)
Prince of Darkness (1997)
The Mist (2007)
The Thing (1982)
Rawhead Rex (1986)
>>17896265
yeah, lovecraft's main theme was pyschological horror. the fear of the unknown and what was unknowable. yeah, tentacle monsters were involed now and again but not everything was that. some of it was just people learning dark secrets and the implications being too much.
>>17896399
someone did an adaptation of the color from space? excellent.
>>17896442
that's more Burroughs than Lovecraft
great move though
Not so much a movie, but True Detective season 1. The whole series is a lovecraftian horror disguised as a noise
I'd like to see an adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter ward that is true to the source material.
>>17914074
I can't talk about the king in yellow without somebody mentioning that show.
>>17896265
Holy shit this was me drunk like a week ago lmao wasn't even serious
This thread gave me aids. Dogmatic HPL fanboys make Bronies look alpha.
p.s. you're all wrong
>>17907611
This a million times, emotional as fuck too
>>17896478
I've never met anyone else who found BWP2 superior to the first too. I don't remember much about it, just that at the time it held my interest throughout. It wasn't by any means great. It's very forgettable. The only reason it stands out in my mind as much as it does is because of it's association with what I consider one of the most boring, and shitty horror movies I've ever seen: BWP. They could have literally filmed the actors all taking a shit on copies of the original, and it would have still been a superior film.
>>17896486
Thunderdome was better made. The Road Warrior has a special place in my heart though. It's one of the first movies I can remember ever watching. Airplane is the other. I don't remember which I saw first, but both are still magical to me, to this very day. No matter how many times I see them, I never get tired of them.
>>17913337
Wait...is that faggot using a Mac? I hope he did kill himself.
>>17916975
>>17917713
Just watched it last night. Didn't expect to get hit in the feels.
>>17895807
I hadn't thought of it, but it's perhaps the most Lovecraftian one. The closest you come to it is seeing that guy in the corner without any physical wounds, so you know that whatever it is just seeing it was enough to drive him completely insane. Lovecraft always tried to convey a sort of indescribable unseen terror, and that's what The Blair Witch project tried to do.
>>17917861
I can see his point for sure, it's just that the movie sucks. And perhaps that makes it even more Lovecraftian. Lovecraft just doesn't translate well to the screen. Most horror doesn't really. The last time a movie truly scared me, was when I was 6 and watched my very first Friday the 13th movie, the much despised part 3--you know, the one with the very lame 3d gimmick, and a religious fanatic starlet who did everything she could behind the scenes to sabotage the entire movie.
BWP would have probably worked really well as a novel actually, now that I think about it.
>>17917919
I'm not really defending BWP, I wasn't a big fan, but I think the unshown evil thing did work. The main reason I don't like it is because shaky cam really isn't all that great especially when it's done to hell these days and just dates the film. Not to mention most of the film is fairly boring. Either way though, I definitely think it's more Lovecraftian than most.
>>17893523
>>17905011
You're both just being retarded because you didn't like the movie. Anybody with the slightest familiarity with Lovecraft can see how big of an influence his work had on that movie.
It's one of my favorite recent horror films for exactly that reason.
Just because you didn't like it, that doesn't make it a bad film.
>>17907131
I know you are but what am I
>>17895802
>I see Lovecraft's idea of horror as unknowable at play rather than stuff directly referencing his works.
Fucking this.
>>17914541
this. it's a crazy fucking story.
>>17907131
that was so cringy to read I bet you were typing furiously weren't you
>>17918172
it's actually pretty good tho.
>>17916975
Lol
>>17918172
>>17918214
I feel like this is something the ghost of H.P. Lovecraft would say.
>>17918811
somebody needs to make a pic of an enraged lovecraft on a computer typing that screencap like pic related
>anything says or implies it's inspired by Lovecraft
>is tolerant of niggers
>only thing vaguely lovecraftian is there are tentacles or some garbage
>mispronunciations of Cthulhu
>any mention of the hack fuck who shat our Lovecraft fanfiction that normalfags think is genuine
Normalfaggots fuck OFF
>>17918934
>anything says or implies it's inspired by Lovecraft
>is tolerant of niggers
>mispronunciations of Cthulhu
You're trying too hard.
>>17918825
Hot off the press.
>>17919102
top notch
>>17919102
this is /x/ gold right here
>>17896395
> What in the fuck were they thinking to give it this name?
According to Roger Corman, the studio gave it a Poe name because it would get more attention that way.
Corridor is pretty good. It especially changed me and my friends opinions about going insane in a Lovecraft setting. We used to think going insane in such settings wouldn't be so bad, because all it was in our view was enlightenment toward cosmic truths. [spoiler]After Corridor we realized that insanity isn't about being enlightened as much as it is being about nailing your best friends to the wall and scalping each other.[/spoiler]
Sorry for being out of topic, but I've just watched this new Korean horror movie guys. And the twist was just awesome.
In a simple term this movie is 'The VVitch' + 'Memories of Murder'.
>>17919102
omg. my sad rant is now immortalized as an epic meme. thank you based anons.
