Lovecraftian Film

[Rob]

I always thought Jacobs Ladder was quite Lovecraftian in parts (though I've not seen it for a few years)

For more direct adaptions don't forget The Dunwich Horror with Dean Stockwell (and psychdelic shoggoth!)

[Genus Unknown]

It occured to me today that Mimic has aspects of Whisperer in it (insectoid creatures posing as humans)!

The one problem I have with that (apart from the plot) is that THOSE insectoids are ENTIRELY humanity's fault.  It was our engineering that caused them to begin mutating.  Lovecraft never put that much capability into human hands (well, maybe Herbert West.)

If it makes you feel better about it, I'm pretty sure humanity didn't have anything to do with creating the bugs in the short story it's based on.

[JulieH]

So weird - I could have sworn I'd read Mimic, but thinking back, I read the original screenplay - which was MUCH better than the movie (but still human error). 

How about "The Relic"

[Kaelestes]

Yes, "The Relic" is a good one! And the book it was based on is even better. I believe it was written by Douglas Preston. There are several other books in his lineup that feature the same FBI agent, but I haven't yet taken the time to make my way through them.

I don't know how to designate potential spoilers on this forum, so I'm using a strikethrough to do so up ahead.
I'm throwing "Event Horizon" into the Quite-Possibly-Inspired-by-Lovecraft film pot. At the time of its release I can remember thinking it was one of the scariest movies I had ever seen, and that its portrayal of an unknown antagonistic presence, what is later described as a literal piece of hell that returned to our reality as a part of the ship, was brilliant. Besides being responsible for a number of singularly unpleasant nightmares I experienced at a reasonably impressionable age, "Event Horizon" also contains my favorite horror quote: "Where we're going, we won't need eyes to see." -Dr. Weir.

[Danial]

The one problem I have with that (apart from the plot) is that THOSE insectoids are ENTIRELY humanity's fault.  It was our engineering that caused them to begin mutating.  Lovecraft never put that much capability into human hands (well, maybe Herbert West.)

I wasn't suggesting that Mimic was Lovecraftian in any way, just that it popped into my head that the creatures therein had a touch of the Mi-Go about their disguisings

[JulieH]

I love Event Horizon!

The one problem with the Relic, and Preston & Child's series character Agent Pendergast, is that the movie completely left him out...
How sad is that? 

[fishy]

I love Event Horizon!

ME TOO !!!!!!!   

[Rob]

Has anyone seen this movie yet - Cthulhu?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXtrRybOnU

It's been on my rental list for months now, but is still showing as not released

[Danial]

I've seen it. I bought it off Amazon a while back. It's not amazing, but is worth watching I think.

[Kaelestes]

Has anyone seen this movie yet - Cthulhu?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzXtrRybOnU

It's been on my rental list for months now, but is still showing as not released

I actually own that one (so yes, it's been out for a while). Though it has some serious cinematic issues, of which the fledgling film makers themselves will be the first to tell you about, I thought it really captured the Lovecraft feel of lurking horror just under the surface. They imply a lot more than they show you which allows your imagination to fill in the blanks. The film was also fairly well acted by most of the cast and on a visual scale is often stunning. My only real complaint about the film is the title. It is my dearest dream that some day someone will make a quality 'Shadow over Innsmouth' adaptation without changing the name unnecessarily.

[Bulbatron]

I really like the film Dagon.  It has its faults, but to me it does at least feel a little bit Lovecraftian, which not many adaptations do, in my opinion.  The best adaptation I've seen is of course, the HPLHS 'The Call of Cthulhu' film.

I've still yet to see the film 'Cthulhu', though I would like to see it at some point.  I would love to see an authentic film adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, but that will probably never happen for the same reason that 'At the Mountains of Madness' will probably never happen.

Recently, I watched 'Necronomicon'.  It's quite a - 'gooey' - film, isn't it?  I was a bit gutted when it didn't retain the 20s setting all the way through.

[Joyce N.A]

UZUMAKI manga by Junji Ito was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft mythos.

Manga: http://www.onemanga.com/Uzumaki/
Film: http://www.asian-horror-movies.com/uzumaki.php

Both are really good! But the manga is much terrifying!

[reberclark]

I posted this in another section of the forum as well...I saw today where Del Toro is not directing The Hobbit anymore (he's advising but not the director), any chance he'll move to AtMoM?

[Cacodaemoniacal]

UZUMAKI manga by Junji Ito was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft mythos.

I loved that movie. The image of the girl who wanted attention walking down the hall with her hair streaming in dark spirals is so weirdly beautiful.

[helios1014]

In the Mouth of Madness. I am watching it now and I seems like John Carpenter created an author who is the bastard son of Stephen King and Lovecraft. The book titles of some of the fictonal Sutter Cane are: Hobb's End Horror, In the Mouth of Madness, and The Whisperer in the Dark. There is also the Pickman Hotel and a church that was once the cneter of a mystrious cult founded by timeless beings from underground.