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Miniatures Adventure => Call of Cthulhu => Topic started by: tereydavi on November 12, 2021, 07:52:57 PM
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As a Fear of the Dark player I love horror movies...
That feeling when you turn off the light and seat in the couch waiting for the film to begin is something I love...
We love to be scared by horror films, to suffer with the characters as they walk towards death... We like fear itself.
There are a lot of horror movies inspired in H.P. Lovecraft´s works, some of them not clearly, other are obviously based on them. Lovecraft works didn´t go unnoticed to film directors and producers, and many of them have been adaptated or were the basis for films.
In the blog I want to make a list of the movies that are based on his works or that they deserve to be seen as a Fear of the Dark player or a Call of Cthulhu GM.
https://fearofthedarkskirmishwargame.blogspot.com/2021/11/movies-inspired-in-hp-lovecraft-works.html
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Nice list!
One of my all time favourite movies with complete Lovecraftian feel is based on Bram Stoker's The Jewel of the Seven Stars — Hammer Studios' Blood From the Mummy's Tomb (1971).
The stars are in alignment. The horror is awakening. The insanity is spreading.
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Nice idea!! However, I feel that if Dagon is included, the two parts of "la herencia de Valdemar" would fit in this list. I enjoyed these three films, but I must recognize that not everyone shall do it... lol
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Interesting,and well thought out list,cheers 8)
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Honourable mention for TV episode: The Night Gallery, Pickman's Model (S2, E11).
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There are sooooooooo many films based upon HPL stories that It would be imposible to make an exhaustive list.
I just made a list with films that I liked for some reasons, and that I think that are good enough as to include them.in the list.
Thanks for your ideas!
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Don't forget Quatermass and the Pit / Five Million Years to Earth.
Not HPL, but definitely has the flavor. Night Gallery also did an adaptation of Cool Air that could have been worse...
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I like Dagon. The CGI effects are lackluster, but otherwise I think it's a decent adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth transferred into modern Spain.
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Maybe it's a nostalgia thing because I haven't watched it in a long time (and I do have a copy) but I always had a soft spot for The Dunwich Horror (with Dean Stockwell I believe.)
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Maybe it's a nostalgia thing because I haven't watched it in a long time (and I do have a copy) but I always had a soft spot for The Dunwich Horror (with Dean Stockwell I believe.)
And Sandra Dee!
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John carpenters “trilogy” of lovecraft inspired films. In the mouth of madness is my favourite of the 3 with Sam Neil’s character slowly losing his sanity…. Or is it the rest of the world that has gone mad?
I have fear of the dark and it would be interesting having a scenario inspired by scenes from the film. Insurance investigator visits horror authors village and encounters crazed villagers, possessed author and eldritch horrors!
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My two favorite Lovecraft-style films are not Lovecrft stories: In the Mouth of Madness, and Event Horizon.
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Many people has pointed out Event Horizon, and I agree that is a lovecraftian film, but as It is a scifi film I left It aside, my bad...
I have fear of the dark and it would be interesting having a scenario inspired by scenes from the film. Insurance investigator visits horror authors village and encounters crazed villagers, possessed author and eldritch horrors!
When I first saw in the mouth of Madness I turned it into a Call of Cthulhu scenario and played It toba couple of Friends, and I have to say that It was a blast!
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Don't forget Cast a Deadly Spell and Lovecraft Country
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Sorry for being a little late to the party - and actually this is not a film but a TV series:
'Archive 81 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13365348/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1)' on Netflix. Not directly based on Lovecraft but imho felt quite lovecrafty...
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'Archive 81'
Started watching it today and got the same vibe.
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Sorry for being a little late to the party - and actually this is not a film but a TV series:
'Archive 81 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13365348/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1)' on Netflix. Not directly based on Lovecraft but imho felt quite lovecrafty...
I want to estch It as I have been told that It has a lovecraftian Style that I'm going to enjoy.
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'Archive 81 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13365348/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1)' on Netflix. Not directly based on Lovecraft but imho felt quite lovecrafty...
Yeah, most odd and intriguing ... I'm not sure how I feel about it - very uneasy certainly - but it's definitely got me hooked so far.
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Spoiler alert - Archive 81
I wish they had wrapped it up in one season.
I see Netflix trying to stretch it out and then losing interest and never finishing it properly.
Shame.
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I see you've got "the Endless" on your list, I'd recommend "Spring" by the same guys, it's more Romance than Horror, almost your typical Boy meets Girls story, but against a HP lovecraft inspired backdrop.
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Nice to see Mr Tough Guy talkin' love and romance!
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In the TV field, try ‘True Detective’ season 1. It’s Lovecraft influence is subtle and low key but genuinely ‘real world’ creepy.
Don’t bother with season 2 - it changed for the worse into a standard police procedural.
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'Love, Death + Robots' on Netflix has a few episodes with a Lovecraftian flavour, with 'The Tall Grass' clearly including an unnamed Lovecraft himself as the main character!
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I found 'Love, Death + Robots' to be an unexpected gem. I'm not a fan of animation but this series provided a mix of animation and top notch cgi, I also liked that each episode was a self contained story with none of the usual 'dragging it out to 4 seasons' nonsense. I thought it was really good.
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Love, death and robots is in my "to do" list as It has been strongly recomended.
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Love, death and robots is in my "to do" list as It has been strongly recomended.
I only found it last week and have burned through almost all the episodes - each is about 10 to 15mins (give or take a few mins) and as the Moose said, is a self-contained tale. Some are funny, some are action, some are horror, but each seems to be a little gem with a unique flavour. It reminds me somewhat of Black Mirror in its feel, if not its execution. There's also a great Lovecraftian flavoured 'Weird WW2' episode with Russian monster-hunters ... one of my faves.
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'Cabinet of Curiosities' on Netflix - not just Lovecraftian in flavour, it actually has 'Pickman's Model' and 'Dreams in the Witch House' as two of its 45min standalone episodes! Netflix are really getting it right with these little bite-size tasty treats.
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Great film not listed yet: Roger Corman's The Haunted Palace, 1963.
Allegedly part of Corman's Poe Cycle, this film begins and ends with Vincent Price reciting a few lines of the Poe poem by this name. Then everything in between is The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Price does a bang up job as Ward!
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"Annihilation" does Colour out of Space better than any movie I've seen. Some of the horror might stay with you though.
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'Cabinet of Curiosities' on Netflix - not just Lovecraftian in flavour, it actually has 'Pickman's Model' and 'Dreams in the Witch House' as two of its 45min standalone episodes! Netflix are really getting it right with these little bite-size tasty treats.
I have watched two episodes and I have to say that It's great!! I'm looking It a lot!!
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I just watched Pickman’s Model on Cabinet of Curiousities. Well done and very creepy. I can’t say how closely it followed the original story though. Been ages since I read it.
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Haven’t seen it yet; but “Autopsy “ was seriously Lovecraftian in an RPG adventure way. And pretty damn creepy as well
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'Cabinet of Curiosities' on Netflix - not just Lovecraftian in flavour, it actually has 'Pickman's Model' and 'Dreams in the Witch House' as two of its 45min standalone episodes! Netflix are really getting it right with these little bite-size tasty treats.
Totally agree, I really enjoyed the series. Hope the feedback inspires them to make more.
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Anyone else seen Glorious?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esqxTzc3lgM
Well worth a watch.
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At the end "Guillermo del Toro's cabinet of curiosities" was really disappointing. Except for a couple episodes the rest are not worthy (its my personal opinión, of course).
The seventh episode "the viewing" is a complete loose of time.
At the beggining it was really promising but...
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I’ll recommend the series “1899” that just came out. Very weird and lovecraftian.
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At the end "Guillermo del Toro's cabinet of curiosities" was really disappointing. Except for a couple episodes the rest are not worthy (its my personal opinión, of course).
The seventh episode "the viewing" is a complete loose of time.
At the beggining it was really promising but...
I agree with you. It remembers me some creepy tales inspired of Stefen King. I found these nice but it was in 1980's...
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At the end "Guillermo del Toro's cabinet of curiosities" was really disappointing. Except for a couple episodes the rest are not worthy (its my personal opinión, of course).
Yeah, same. I was all excited about them but the series definitely tailed off.