Is there a movie that has successfully captured Lovecraft horror?

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Is that a giant squid man monster, oh my goooooood I simply can't comprehend such a thing I'm going craaaaaazy ahhhhhhh.

why do people like this lovecraftian trash again?

Downfall (2004)

How are these? This thread is neat, thanks guys.

I really liked the empty man. The first half of in the mouth of madness is also pretty good but it drags on too much.

kino

I'll watch both ty anon and anons

I remember seeing this when it came out in 2007 and not understanding it. Is it worth the watch?

this looks interesting, was it slept on when it came out? I don't remember anything about it.

It literally has nothing to do with Lovecraft at all. Probably the most blatant false advertising in all of film

This one really feels like a lovecraft short story I don't think it really captures the dread but it is pretty good

Dagon has some of the worst CGI I've ever seen in my life, but I really like the set and it's not that bad.

I've read nearly everything Lovecraft has written. You're not gonna accept my answer, but it's the correct one.

Good answer desu.

i like the story where the incest mole people bite a dude's face off and no one notices until morning

aliens but scary

The thing

Qrd?

What is lovecraftian anyways, something incomprehensible?

May I ask you to elaborate?

that one scene in Solo with the ginormous space monster

Kys

I finally watched this after so many recommendations, its so bad and corny, shit sucks. Fuck you.

I can see why you say this but I still dont like it

Color isnt cosmic horror (ie lovecraftian horror) its just an alien horror story lovecraft wrote to be demonstrate alienness.

NTA but I guess, when you think about it, Jurassic Park and At the Mountains of Madness have the same plot. I.e. resurrecting fossils of crazy dangerous monsters from tens of millions of years ago

Dinos on an island. Its basically dino chaos with some t-rex madness in the mix. Newman is in it too. It was directed a dino and they used real dinos to play the dinos. One of the stupid dinos ate the camera and film almost got shut down so the humans got together and said "youre out of here, dino" and that was that. I'm not autistic

Lovecraftian themes:

apocalyptic shit

occultism; insanity

existential crises

aliens and demons being interchangeable

monsters are either shapeless masses with lots of eyes, teeth, and tentacles, or anthro squid people

arrogant scientists tampering with science they don't fully understand summon ancient monsters from an era completely alien to them and find themselves outmatched and at the bottom of a new food chain

Dinosaurs have just become mundane to us due to overexposure so they don't seem very alien anymore, but it has tons of the same themes and story beats that lots of lovecraft stories have, its not all just "le spooky tentacles im going insane!"
On another note is the From Beyond movie good and a good adaptation or at the very least just a good movie? I don't think I'd recommend Re-Animator even with how amazing Combs is

Good points.

Resolution
Spring
The Endless

all from this guy: imdb.com/name/nm1918140/?ref_=tt_ov_wr_1

The crux of mountains is what happened to them not the elder ones themselves who are pretty chill

Primordial monsters brought back to the world through reckless pursuit of scientific advancement? Is that what you mean?

Jurassic park is more like animal control. Like its closer to cujo or a bear getting loose in the suburbs than a primordial monsters

He's written an absolutely ridiculous amount so you can't really narrow it down to specific things but generally

extra dimensions

human insignificance/eventual doom

unknowable alien beings

spooky alien civilizations

characters being permanently changed by knowledge they wish they hadn't learned (the muh insanity meme is mostly peddled either by people with terrible reading comprehension or people who haven't read his works at all. The insanity isnt just being a blathering schizo its usually more like ptsd or extreme despair)

Maybe something like Annihilation gets closest. Although the book is better.

The Mist

The Mothman Prophecies

and the ass is kino

fuck off capfag, this one is kino

and the ass is kino

the ass

O.o

Is cthulhu described explicitly? I always thought it was just written as a mix of man, dragon and octopus. Could be a man's head, a dragon's arms and octopus legs

ummmm ackshoooally this story written by hp lovecraft isn't lovecraftian hmmkay?

What an utterly retarded take this is.

authors are allowed to write in more than one genre?!

im losing my miiiiind

human insignificance

human hubris

inherited guilt and curses

cutting edge science

fascination with the utterly incomprehensible

Some of his best stories have nothing to do with 'eldritch horror'.

The Temple is mostly Lovecraft making fun of Prussian Germans, and is extremely darkly funny.
Till a' the Seas feels like something written 50 years before its time, dealing with a barren Earth that is slowly being swallowed by the Sun.
In the Walls of Eryx is another unique one dealing with a pulpy adventure on Venus fighting lizardmen going wrong in one of the worst way possible.

Not as retarded as you sub literate spics who cant differentiate a name from an abstract concept

The Color Out of Space is really just his best work of pure sci-fi because its probably the first significant science horror story written about radiation poisoning at a time where it was barely understood to exist.

Lovecraft drew a picture of him

What part is rad posioning?

Sex and the city

Ah, ok that makes sense why every depiction is the same then

Hpl wrote an essay on it heres the summary of points:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovecraftian_horror#Themes

why is this so cute

iirc its a doodle he sent to robert howard probly tongue in cheek

how did you watch it if it's in theaters October? it's barely June.

He looks sad

Lovecraft's cat had a funny name

Unironically The Thing, Alien (1979), and Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me.

Also Red Rooms is the definite forbidden knowledge movie of 21st century. Anyone who makes it into a squidverse is missing the point.

cutethulu

based

Technically correct but Lovecraft is not dealing with man-made horrors at all. Lovecraft's stories present inscrutable Universe and we should not "venture far." The culmination of each Lovecraft story is the revelation, however partial, because it is impossible to endure the horror. Plus Jurrasic Park is an action movie, intent to produce dread is only its partial focus.

science is magic

The Color, being this mystical type of element we're just discovering that decays away extremely quickly when measured, and how it spreads through the farm, rotting the soil, then mutating the fruits and leaving them cancerous, then warping and poisoning the animals, then the people, before finally leaving the area a contaminated wasteland.
It is a complete pattern of a hypothetical radiation contamination.
Right around this time the Radium Girls, who worked in factories painting with radium paint that cave them a particularly brutal type of cancer, was just breaking in the news. And it likely influenced Lovecraft heavily to write with radiation in mind.

one is from 2020 and the other is like 30 years old?

anyone who enjoys Nic Cage kino was right on top of it

That's what I thought of too

I'm late to the kino train truth be told

Lovecraft is not dealing with man-made horrors at all

At the Mountains of Madness is. It's the humans who awoke the shoggoths

"UNDERWATER" - Literally features Cuthulu as the end-boss Monster. The entire movie is a dark, deep-sea horror film. Why isn't anyone noting this?

Shoggoths are not man-made. The sole exception in his work is the novelette about Charles Dexter Ward because it unironically presents the use of magick. This stands in contrast to all of his other stories which are pure sci-fi (all Lovecraft's gods and demons are alien entities).

Dinosaurs aren't man-made either

Lovecraft is not dealing with manmade horrors at all

Just off the top of my head:
Re Animator
Cool Air
The Alchemist

we should not "venture far."

A fundamental part of this in his works is science going too far and unleashing horrible things we don't understand
You have read zero Lovecraft and it shows

Lovecraft has stories dealing with man-made horrors, the Reanimator and Cool Air for example.

Shout out to the 70s occult subgenre of horror in general. Stuff like Simon King of the Witches and The Devil Rides Out.

Some others not mentioned in the thread

The Void (2016)

Low budget Canadian but the acting is alright and the practical effects are very good.

Event Horizon (1997)

Sci-fi so misses a lot of the backwater, Innsmouthian feels of Lovecraft, but has a very solidly Lovecraftian core concept to it.

They are creatures of this Earth.

In Lovecraft's work there are no inventions, scientist stumble upon premade stuff. They are men of science but they are more like explorers (which is why The Thing is the best Lovecraft movie).

You got me there but I was focused on the Mythos (too much) which are the defining feature of his work.

It's literally Shadow Over Innsmouth.

Oh thats interesting

>monsters are either shapeless masses with lots of eyes, teeth, and tentacles, or anthro squid people

t. has never actually read Lovecraft

Shoggoths are creatures of this Earth too. They were made by aliens, yes, but so were humans

Reanimator was written as a frankenstein parody. Your guys' debate is being confused by the author vs genre issue. Reanimator is not cosmic horror

Where does Lovecraft say that his gods made humanity?

shoggoths, Cthulhu, Starspawn, and star vampires aren't Lovecraft

I love it when posers out themselves

Resolution (2012)

which is why The Thing is the best Lovecraft movie

I am genuinely shocked by how uncultured some of you motherfuckers are. And we're talking about stories printed in pulp magazines here, so the culture bar is pretty fucking low.

You really need to read At the Mountains of Madness. It's pretty much the Silmarillion of the Lovecraft mythos. The whole cosmic horror twist at the end that AHHHH SAVE ME NIGGERMAN makes the protagonist go insane is when he realizes that humans were genetically engineered by the Elder Things, making them siblings to the shoggoths

the lurking fear, is a good one yea

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No one has post the real answer

I knew you guys were faggots but yeesh

The empty man is the real answer plebbitor

Both amazing and horrible acting. Intro was rough, yet id hive it a 8/10.

The Void sucks shit, retards

Do you want to know how I know you can't read?

I watched The Wicker Man recently and they really mastered horror as a genre in the 70s.
Honestly I think we're still behind what they were doing back then.

His stories are full of all kinds of random monsters and shit, not just le tentacles and fish people you braindead redditor.

No u

things that are people

flying cucumbers

things that aren't people

the mixed race

no harm in that
Nic is prolific and honestly has done more than his fair share of stinkers

the story called "The Unnameable" ends with a guy going "IT WAS THE UNNAMEABLE!"

and there's another story I just read today (and already forgot which), wherein which he spends four whole paragraphs talking about how indescribably horrible things are horribly indescribable while describing something horrible and indescribable.

Most of his work he did not intend to be available for the public tbf. When he died his jew wife or whoever released all his shit to profit hence the varying quality.

Lovecraft obviously feared the ocean and weird ass alien-looking sealife above all else though. It was the most consistent visual motif throughout the majority of his monster designs. You are literally such a pathetic faggot, delusionally thinking the world is you vs. the reddit normie bogeyman. You're not special, you faggoty contrarian

The Unnamable was just a shitpost he wrote as a joke after an argument with his friend, that's the joke.

The Mound is the best HP Niggerman story, hands down.

For me, it's the stories where the monsters are minorities.

The fish people were metaphors for blacks and jeets not literal anthropomorphic squid.

this

Batman the doom that came to gotham

The fishy motif in shadows for example is just to translate and analogize his disgust at race mixing

H.R. Giger is known for his psychosexual biomechanical monster designs

"erm, actually xenomorphs are based on wasps. checkmate, redditor"

If only these two facts could coexist or something. Oh well

Think i turned this crap off halfway

In Lovecraft's work there are no inventions, scientist stumble upon premade stuff

This is just false. Read more.

cringe pseud

I don't think it fits the thread exactly, but doesn't Dark City have some themes that could be seen as similar to Lovecraft? Or am I being a retard?

Name one thing that humans have invented during Mythos stories. Let's hear it.

Dark city is the one with the amnesia ppl that are on an alien shipmat the end and ppl have telekinesis right? Hard no for me

Someone is making a 4 player co-op game based on that where you play conquistadors hunting for treasure and fighting off Indians and monsters. They've just shown a jungle area so I don't know if you actually go down into the underground kingdom later on or not.

The Endless did a pretty good job, but it's a lower budget indie thing.

Ramming boats into cthulu?

Cthulu got some thick thighs ngl...

co-op "horror"

Instantly discarded. It's trend-chasing garbage wearing a Lovecraft paintjob

They invented ramming boats?

GYATT

Been a while since i read all his stuff but once again just off the top of my head

Re Animation serum in re animator

The scientists immortality stuff in cool air, and similar in the alchemist

the device to see transdimensional creatures in from beyond

No retard cthulu isnt a boat

hmmm

cthulu isn't a boat

that's been debunked

Source

because its a shit movie and the acting sucks.

my dad worked at lovecraft

Honestly didn't scare me one bit.

This is unironically the best Lovecraftian horror there is. I can't believe it's not a cult classic at this point.

:(

Dinosaurs have just become mundane to us due to overexposure so they don't seem very alien anymore, but it has tons of the same themes and story beats that lots of lovecraft stories have, its not all just "le spooky tentacles im going insane!"

Jesus, nigga. Give it a rest. There's nothing madness inducing about an Utahraptor, you can kill one with a couple of buckshot rounds. You can down a T-Rex with a 50 BMG rifle.

nigga

worse budget, worse antagonist, worse sets, better movie

From Beyond is the best Lovecraft adaptation.

The US military killed/captured all of Innsmouth and bombed devil reef. Elder Things can be killed with simple brute force, same with ghouls, Mi Go and their followers are killed by gunshots and dogs, Wilbur Whateley was killed by an angry dog, Herbert Wests reanimated monsters were killed by shooting, shut the fuck up NIGGER. Lovecraft stories are not just immortal indescribable squid monsters that make you go insane from a glance.

Sick of you retards operating solely on stereotypes and memes when discussing lovecraft. If you don't havent read his works and don't know shit about them you can always just not participate in the conversation

youtube.com/watch?v=DQPsUP1hNyc

If you don't havent read

The US military killed/captured all of Innsmouth and bombed devil reef

Wasnt this rrom a fanfic story

All of these can induce madness on people. Oversized lizards cannot.

that man is brown

Yes, Im American, what of it?

So that jurrassic park poster was just ironically mocking the retards whovsay everything id lovecraftian right? I did that to immsim threads for a bit on Anon Babble

i made a typo because im legitimately seething and im not afraid to admit it. Its fucking impossible to discuss lovecraft's works anywhere without meeting retards who only know about him from memes and youtube video essays but still feel the need to join in on every discussion

I liked Spring a lot.

In the Mouth of Madness really is horrifying for its scope

What the fuck do you even do if you suddenly discover God is absolutely real and is a massive psychotic cunt and has personally picked a fight with (you)
And you're not even one of those Shonen/JRPG characters that can kill Him with a Super Friendship Punch, you're just some schlubby fuckin' office jockey

Colour out of space it the epitome of cosmic horror what are you talking about. I bet you'll argue against me but you wont if I said spiral was cosmic horror even though it's almost literally the same thing

I feel like that sometimes when I get off work.

it's easier to bait people that have a genuine interest in what they're discussing, sorry just how it is
you should know better than try with this board

Wrong
I saw a komodo dragon at the zoo and started posting on Anon Babble the next day

ew quit shittin up my board, jeetpooster

He's just a silly little guy

Go through the theme link i posted earlier point by point and prove it im too tired to explain things

Dagon is weird because it's a great and genuinely creepy horror movie, but it's also super comfy and makes me want to visit the village where it was filmed.

I see what your trying to say but jurrasic park is science gone wrong not lovecraft/cosmic horror. Dinosaurs attack on the other hand...

mad scientists are just the modern equivalent of evil sorcerers

Dagon's horror premise basically falls apart because of the reveal that no matter how fucked up she is, Uxia's love is genuine and heartfelt
A shitload of murders and a human sacrifice cult and a self-immolation and freaky fish incest all sorta seem like small prices to pay for eternal unconditional love, there's a hell of a fucking carrot on that stick

I thought the main character of Innsmouth said the military didn't wipe them out. Seemed like the overall point isn't that any of the old ones aren't unharmable by man, but man's attempts at control are still ultimately futile.

How would you kill a Hound of Tindalos?

Theres another story where they burn the shit out of innsmouth and torpedo the fishguys with subs etc. But i cant remember if hpl actually wrote it or not. Old ones arent full corporeal so they legit cant be killed

haha just use plaster to remove all corners and sharp angles from your home that should work haha

I marathoned In the Mouth of Madness. Ending was a little abrupt, and the tone was all over the place, but I enjoyed it. Great effects! 7/10

It is literally the opening of the fucking story where it talks about the military rounding up all the fish faggots and sticking them in concentration camps and shooting torpedoes into the harbor beyond Devil's Reef. It's public domain and you can find and read it in 30 seconds so there's no excuse to be this god damn ignorant.

How's this one on the scare-o-meter? Good mind fuck? More creepy less BOO scary?

The book is also worth reading, while being very different from the film.

It's too bad Garland changed the story too radically for a sequel to work. The second book is the Control movie I always wanted.

Does War of the Worlds count?

Has a brown, no thanks

TRVE Lovecraftian horror

It's very difficult to covey the mind warping madness and terror of seeing something the human mind can't grasp in a film. It usually comes off in movies as extreme fear of some nasty monster. But Lovecraft's stories are very clear: once you see these things, your mind breaks.

Blue.

yes From Beyond is a mindfuck

The Resurrected is an underrated Lovecraft film.

I saw this, it sucked.

One of the komodo dragons at the SD Zoo killed itself because it charged its reflection in the glass and broke its neck

Depends on what you mean by Lovecraft.

Literally (Lovecraft Adaptations)

Reanimator
Shatterbrain

Spiritually (Cosmic horror)

The Empty Man
Event Horizon
In the Mouth of Madness
Annihilation

Superficially (Tentacles and Elder Gods)

Hellboy
The Void
The Thing
Prometheus
Underwater
The Mist

Most of those movies are pretty good, even when they're only superficially Lovecraft. Actual Lovecraft adaptations tend to do a much worse job of capturing those stories than the films that were simply inspired by them. Reanimator is the best Lovecraft adaptation and it's already the least Lovecraft of his own stories, very loosely adapted.

Both of these are fucking kino

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The Mist and Cloverfield did well until it revealed the monsters and all that

This. Never reveal the monsters, or at least ALL of what they're like.

But Lovecraft revealed monsters all the time.

But Lovecraft revealed monsters all the time.

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He did a film reveal? No.

Let the imagination run riot in film.

Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore. This tendency, too, is naturally enhanced by the fact that uncertainty and danger are always closely allied; thus making any kind of an unknown world a world of peril and evil possibilities. When to this sense of fear and evil the inevitable fascination of wonder and curiosity is superadded, there is born a composite body of keen emotion and imaginative provocation whose vitality must of necessity endure as long as the human race itself. Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

I look like this and I do this

Thought it was decent enough for a low budget found footage film