films inspired in HP Lovecraft

[tereydavi]

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

[Cat]

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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[Gremio_77]

 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...

[Blackwolf]

Interesting,and well thought out list,cheers

[Cat]

Honourable mention for TV episode: The Night Gallery, Pickman's Model (S2, E11).

[tereydavi]

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!

[MHoxie]

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...

[Cherno]

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.

[diehard]

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.)

[MHoxie]

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!

[Drdjangomango]

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!

[AzSteven]

My two favorite Lovecraft-style films are not Lovecrft stories:  In the Mouth of Madness, and Event Horizon.

[tereydavi]

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!

[thebinmann]

Don't forget Cast a Deadly Spell and Lovecraft Country

[abbot_amaury]

Sorry for being a little late to the party - and actually this is not a film but a TV series:
'Archive 81' on Netflix. Not directly based on Lovecraft but imho felt quite lovecrafty...