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Miniatures Adventure => Call of Cthulhu => Topic started by: abhorsen950 on August 30, 2010, 08:14:47 PM
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I know theres been a couple and theres been alot of fan movies I was just wondering if somebody could point me in the direction of really good ones.
Cheers guys
Steve
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Thats a difficult one as we all have different takes on Cthulhu, the following is a list of ones I have.
Call of Cthulhu Fan made Black and white, Enjoyable but not fantastic
Cthulhu- some good bits but its really a version of Shadow over innsmouth
Dagon- again some good bits another version of shadow over innsmouth
Hp lovecraft collection 1- Cool Air good adaptation other bits are fun
Hp lovecraft collection 2-Rough Magik-Really enjoyed this one but modern setting
Hp lovecraft collection 3-Out of Mind some cool bits
Hp lovecraft collection 5- Thing on the doorstep low budget but suprisingly good
Castle Freak-not lovecraft but uses some ideas from him
The Lurking Fear- straight to video a couple of visual bits
Bleeders- Trys hard but not up to Lovecraft
Re animator series some ideas but barking mad
Dunwich Horror- Mad stuff, very 60s Psychedelic ;)
The Shunned house- badly done italian film actually music of eric zann and dreams of witch house
to be continued
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yet more
Masters of Horror Dreams in the witch House- Okay adapt
Evil Dead series not really pure but first are good at creating horror in the woods
Cast a deadly spell/Witch hunt- really hard to find but great rifts on Hp Lovecraft
The Beyond- Mad bloody italian gore
From Beyond- okay
Necromonicon- some good bits but only for the completist
The Unnamable 1/2 beer and pizza movies not much more
Not strictly HP lovecraft but gets the feeling of his stories
Alien- Ghost story in space
The Thing- Its the Mountains of Madness if you squint
The Ninth gate- Book dealer that goes on a search for a cursed book
Masters of Horror-Cigerrette burns- search for a rare film breaks down veils of sanity
Lord of illusions- Clive Barker shows evil of cult
In the mouth of Madness- Really like this one just to get references
Hellboy 1/2 Really cool and so many references look out for the elder ones in the troll market
Event Horizon-some cool ideas good for Sci fi cthulhu
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Even More ;D
The Mist- Good film very Lovecraft including ending
The Devils backbone- Great film and why I think Mountains of Madness will rock
Society- cool shoggoth ideas
Movies to avoid like the plague
Cthulhu mansion- why oh why did I watch this
Alone in the dark- I spent money on this ::)
My top 5 would be
In the mouth of madness
Rough Magik
Thing on the doorstep
Devils Backbone
The Thing
I know that only 1 is based on a H P Lovecraft story, but the others get the tone better.
I hope this essay is of some help, my advice is keep an eye on ebay and don't pay a lot for any of them, be warned some are almost impossible to get (Cast a deadly spell/Witch hunt )
Ben ;D
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Cheers fellas, where could I get some of these from? Ebay? Amazon?
Cheers for the quick response.
Steve
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I know a good few of the less campy ones are posted on Youtube in parts.
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Film Festival: http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/
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Hi,
Yes Ebay, Amazon or Play is where we get them from mainly!
Jo
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Nice one, cheers guys!!
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You might want to check out the HP Lovecraft Historical Society's website (http://www.cthulhulives.org/toc.html (http://www.cthulhulives.org/toc.html)). They're the guys and gals who created the silent "Call of Cthulhu" movie. They're working on an adaptation of "The Whisperer in the Dark" which I am really looking forward to because the Mi-Go are one of the best creation of HPL in my humble opinion. There's a trailer available on the website. It's also on YouTube.
Yours truly,
Sir Dryden
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You forgot "H.P. Lovecraft's The Tomb" that came out a few years ago...
Well worth NOT seeing...
And don't forget "The Unnamable II" -- But it was more like the "The Statement of Randolph Carter". But its got a nekkid chick through most of the movie... ;)
Both were better than than "Cthulhu" (Innsmouth rip off). Worst Lovecraft flick ever made.
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Cheers guys, you've given me plenty to go on the look for. Ill be searching
Thanks again
Steve
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A few more:
The Resurrected - A fairly entertaining update to the 90's of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. (One of my faves, mostly thanks to the dour atmosphere and the scenes of the discovery of Curwen's experiments and of the exploration of Curwen's underground lair.)
Die, Monster, Die! - Karloff meets The Colour Out of Space. A fun 60's movie, IMHO, in the spirit of the old Vincent Price/Roger Corman Poe flicks.
The Haunted Palace - Speaking of Price/Corman, here they give us their own take on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (despite the title of the film and the intro, both of which are taken from the Poe poem). It's like Lovecraft meets Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum or The Masque of the Red Death. Another fun movie, full of Corman's typically brooding atmosphere - and did I mention that it stars Vincent Price?!
Here's another good place to look: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/forums/41-Unfilmable (http://www.yog-sothoth.com/forums/41-Unfilmable)
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Cast a deadly spell rocks!
And there's the Dunwich Horror when Armatige gives the Necro to a student and says here take this back to the libre=ary will you? And of course you call Yog-Sothoth chant and hand signal (a bit like Ta-Ton-Ka in Dances with wolves)
Show try the Shadow too, not Lovecraft but great fun
On an aside also try Zorro the Gay Blade and The Roller Blade Seven with FRANK Stallone
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The Scifi channel (do you brits get that?) made a Dunwich horror.
Stay away from it if you value anything that resembles sanity.
I couldn't stomach the first five minutes of it.
"are you sure you aren't A 1000 YEAR OLD DEMON FROM SPACE!? " lol
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Right nice one guys, I know what to look for.
Cheers for the help
Steve
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There's also been a film fest movie called "the last Lovecraft".
Looks hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOWtgLneeNE
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Hp lovecraft collection 1- Cool Air good adaptation other bits are fun
Hp lovecraft collection 2-Rough Magik-Really enjoyed this one but modern setting
Hp lovecraft collection 3-Out of Mind some cool bits
Hp lovecraft collection 5- Thing on the doorstep low budget but suprisingly good
what happened to number 4?
Alone in the dark- I spent money on this ::)
even more horrific is that they made an Alone in the Dark 2 and Christian Slater was recast as Korean
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I haven't got round to getting it yet, Jo is very good, but she has said more DvDs or sculpts this month, I went for sculpts :D
Oh I did watch the first few minutes of alone in the dark 2, and boy was I glad I didn't buy it.
I like crappy films but it was too much for even me ;D
Ben
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as it's just started on ITV4 I'm reminded that Conan the Destroyer had quite a good mythos type god manifesting at the end... pity the film is so wet...
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A few others:
John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness - A Catholic priest discovers an ancient canister of swirling eldrich fluid enshrined in the basement of an abandoned church, and calls on an old physics professor friend of his to investigate.
Chronos - Guillermo Del Toro's first feature film. A kindly old antiques dealer finds a clockwork medallion housing an insect who's sting causes vampirism, and must then struggle to shield his family from the consequences.
Mimic - Guillermo Del Toro's first Hollywood film. Plucky scientist gal discovers that a bio-engineered pest control insect she created years ago has since evolved to prey on humans in the city's back allies and subway tunnels. Not as good as Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth, or Chronos, mostly due to executive meddling, but still decent (the ending falls flat, but the first two thirds are solid and creepy).
The Resurrected - Stuart Gordan's whack at adapting Charles Dexter Ward. Despite some rather bad acting and editing, you can really tell the filmmakers genuinely loved the source material. Worth seeing for the scenes of Curwen's underground secret lab alone.
Dark Waters - A young woman travels to an island monastery in eastern Europe after receiving a letter from her sister, who was one of the nuns there, and discovers the monastery is being corrupted from the inside by a lovecraftian cult.
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Dark Waters - A young woman travels to an island monastery in eastern Europe after receiving a letter from her sister, who was one of the nuns there, and discovers the monastery is being corrupted from the inside by a lovecraftian cult.
I was about to add that to my rental queue... then saw Lorenzo Lamas was in it... lol
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He isn't. You must have been looking at a different "Dark Waters". IIRC there are two or three other movies with very similar titles. This is the one you want:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109550/
Unless that was a joke reference that I didn't get or something.
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Thanks everyone, I forgot about this thread...
Steve
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Has anyone mentioned the Thing? that's Cthulhu, Mountains of Madness
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Yep. The Thing is actually based on an old John W. Campbell story called Who Goes There? (and it's a rather good adaptation too), but John Carpenter also drew heavily on ATMoM for inspiration while making the film, and boy howdy does it show!
Another movie to look for (if you can find it) is The Keep- A small Nazi garrison is assigned to guard a pass in the Romanian alps using a bizarre ancient stone fortification as a base, and end up accidentally freeing the Ancient EvilTM imprisoned inside. Technically more of a fantasy/Gothic horror crossbreed (especially in the book it's based on), but the movie is plenty strange and cyclopean enough to serve as Cthulhu Mythos inspiration. The titular keep is one of the most visually creepy structures ever put on film IMO. You couldn't pay me so sleep in that place even if it wasn't haunted.
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Unless that was a joke reference that I didn't get or something.
sums up Lamas' career really...
nope, Blockbuster don't have that one - the asian horror, the US remake and Lamas...
http://www.blockbuster.co.uk/searchandbrowse/productsearchresults.aspx?type=4&basic=dark%20waters
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Altitude film
At
http://extratorrent.com/torrent/2310899/Altitude+2010+DVDRiP+XViD-NoGRP.html
Being a torrent website i`m pinting you too, i hope i`m not in trouble, if so i`m very sorry
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What Waits Below might fit as mythos-y
Robert Powell as a stereotypical 80's action hero mercenary sperlunker called Wolf Wulfsen... lost civilisation of giant albinos, references to Lemuria and giant snake things in the walls... glorious...