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Offline anevilgiraffe

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #45 on: May 25, 2008, 09:43:59 PM »
Warlords of Atlantis has some lovecraftian elements as I think about it.... cursed idol, monsters from the deep/another world, deep one hybrid types....

Offline Demoriel

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #46 on: July 14, 2008, 06:48:49 PM »
I have attended the HP Lovecraft Film Festival in Portland Oregon several times in the past few years. My 2 short films, "The Vessel" and "Room for Error" were screened there. Always a good crop of indie Lovecraft inspired films, and adaptations. I have seen many versions of Cool Air, Statement of Randolph Carter, From Beyond, The Tomb. A really good short film was "Binding Silence" which won the 2006 award for best short.

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Offline tomcat51

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #47 on: December 16, 2014, 07:29:05 PM »
I'm 6 years late jumping on this one, but you guys forgot Alien. Its part Lovecraftian Horror, part gothic horror. The Nostromo looks like a big gothic mansion, and an unknowable horror waiting in deep space, with no regard for human life? Pure Lovecraft.
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Offline ShortscaleDave

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #48 on: December 16, 2014, 09:42:19 PM »
Recent films I've seen on Netflix with a Lovecraftian feel:

YellowBrickRoad (loved it)
The Corridor
Absentia
Jugface
The Shrine
Phantoms
House of the Devil
Resolution

Offline Bob Murch

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #49 on: December 25, 2014, 01:12:53 AM »

Offline redshadows

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #50 on: December 25, 2014, 10:25:44 AM »
SyFy horror film Sea Beast.

Not very good, but has Deep ones attacking fishermen ;)

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Offline The Hooded Claw

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #51 on: June 08, 2017, 01:24:13 AM »
A few new ones...

The Void (madness, transformations, slimy monsters, cultists, far realms)
Deep in the Darkness (Cowboys vs Tcho-Tcho)
Event Horizon (Scifi + Dimensional Evil)
AM 1200 (Film Short - Madness, Elder Evil)
Blood Glacier (ancient horror, transformation)
John Dies at the End (drug-induced awareness of things beyond understanding)
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Offline Gardensnake

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #52 on: June 08, 2017, 04:28:35 AM »
I was also going to mention Event Horizon and also add The Relic. Both of these films I felt were very "Lovecraftian".

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Offline Elk101

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #53 on: June 08, 2017, 06:52:29 AM »
There's The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu which is distinctly tongue in cheek but worth a watch. It was available in one of the UK poundshops for, as might be expected,  £1.

Offline tomcat51

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #54 on: June 08, 2017, 09:39:56 AM »
A few new ones...

The Void (madness, transformations, slimy monsters, cultists, far realms)
Deep in the Darkness (Cowboys vs Tcho-Tcho)
Event Horizon (Scifi + Dimensional Evil)
AM 1200 (Film Short - Madness, Elder Evil)
Blood Glacier (ancient horror, transformation)
John Dies at the End (drug-induced awareness of things beyond understanding)

Three very good recommendations there. Event Horizon and John Dies at the End are tow of my favourite films, the book of JDatE is also fantastic. The Void was basically everything I love rolled into one movie. Those triangle hoods are getting painted onto my cultists, without a doubt.

Offline Cherno

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #55 on: June 08, 2017, 11:26:30 AM »
This is what Wikipedia lists as films influenced by H.P. Lovecraft. Some have already been mentioned.

The Haunted Palace (1963)
Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
The Shuttered Room (1967)
The Dunwich Horror (1970)
Re-Animator (1985)
From Beyond (1986)
The Curse (1987)
The Unnamable (1988)
Dark Heritage (1989)
Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
The Resurrected (1992)
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Necronomicon (1994)
The Lurking Fear (1994)
Witch Hunt (1994)
Castle Freak (1995)
Bleeders (1997)
Out of Mind: The Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (1998)
Cool Air (1999) Cthulhu (2000)
Dagon (2001)
Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House (2005)
Cthulhu (2007) The Tomb (2007)
Chill (2007) In Search of Lovecraft (2008)
The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009)
The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) Innsmouth (2011)
Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)

Offline Voogla

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #56 on: June 08, 2017, 11:31:33 AM »
"Call Girl of Cthulhu" ?!? lol lol lol
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Offline tomcat51

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #57 on: June 08, 2017, 12:50:39 PM »
This is what Wikipedia lists as films influenced by H.P. Lovecraft. Some have already been mentioned.

The Haunted Palace (1963)
Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
The Shuttered Room (1967)
The Dunwich Horror (1970)
Re-Animator (1985)
From Beyond (1986)
The Curse (1987)
The Unnamable (1988)
Dark Heritage (1989)
Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
The Resurrected (1992)
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Necronomicon (1994)
The Lurking Fear (1994)
Witch Hunt (1994)
Castle Freak (1995)
Bleeders (1997)
Out of Mind: The Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (1998)
Cool Air (1999) Cthulhu (2000)
Dagon (2001)
Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House (2005)
Cthulhu (2007) The Tomb (2007)
Chill (2007) In Search of Lovecraft (2008)
The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009)
The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) Innsmouth (2011)
Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)

I think the list of films influenced by Lovecraft is a lot bigger than this. These appear to be films that are based on Lovecraft's work or directly reference the man himself or elements from his Mythos. His influence is evident in hundreds more films. Well, maybe not hundreds, but a lot more than on that list. Cast a Deadly Spell is one of the best of those listed above, it's a lot of fun and really inventive. Worth tracking down.

Offline Ballardian

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #58 on: June 08, 2017, 05:34:35 PM »
 The Void was pretty enjoyable, an old school physical effects film (no shortage of sprayed Kensington Gore). As an aside, 'The Resurrected' sometimes turns up as 'Shatterbrain' (a terrble title).

Offline Dezmond

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Re: Lovecraftian Flicks
« Reply #59 on: June 08, 2017, 05:37:54 PM »
I quite liked The Objective

https://youtu.be/GhZZsuOMOi4

It's very Delta Green

 

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