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Moonshoe
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Have there been any truly worthy films based on or inspired by love craft ?
I feel like it's high time for a Netflix original / HBO game of thrones level Cthulhu mythos tv series , or at least a high budget blockbuster horror film.
Imagine the badass CGI Cthulhu scenes they could do now !
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Re: H.P. Lovecraft Book Club [Re: Moonshoe]
#23586962 - 08/28/16 01:25 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Why can't we comment in the discussion right now? Why wait till midnight?
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Re: H.P. Lovecraft Book Club [Re: Patlal]
#23587012 - 08/28/16 01:49 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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I want in! Holy fuck, do I want in!
I love (lel) his works. Might I recommend to anyone and everyone even remotely interested in Lovecraft and audiobooks, to listen to Mike Bennett's renditions of a few of his short stories? He does a phenomenal job.
I even put one of his readings to music inspired by Lovecraft: giant sounding, scary and dark, monumental, ominous, brooding.. Tried to emulate washing up of waves as well. Also loud. Really damned loud. Be warned, it's not for everyone.
http://www83.zippyshare.com/v/5IQxpJyH/file.html
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Re: H.P. Lovecraft Book Club [Re: Moonshoe]
#23587014 - 08/28/16 01:50 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Moonshoe said: Have there been any truly worthy films based on or inspired by love craft ?
I feel like it's high time for a Netflix original / HBO game of thrones level Cthulhu mythos tv series , or at least a high budget blockbuster horror film.
Imagine the badass CGI Cthulhu scenes they could do now !
Am not certain I can picture it working as a CGI Cthulhu sort of thing. A lot of where Lovecraft's work succeeds is on building of suspense, and efforts to build a sense of connection to characters struggling with the unknown. Things start to feel creepy because they go unseen, rather than based out of the reveal. Remember once watching a video on why Cthulhu fails in videogames, it made a good point that the terrifying effect of Cthulhu is more about the presence and concept, rather than the creature.
A lot of The Call of Cthulhu sells itself with how weird the lead-up is -- know personally the idea of R'lyeh with it's non-euclidian geometry struck me more than the description of Cthulhu's size and design. I actually had a cat I named R'lyeh because of it.
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musiclover420 said: ... I second The Color Out Of Space, also what is the story about the winged aliens? I only vaguely remember it but it starts as letters back and forth from two people that slowly get stranger and more alarming til one travels to go check in on the other. Don't want to give away the crazy twist I vaguely remember but that is a eerie story! ...
Took me a while to recall/check this, but pretty sure you were referring to The Whisperer in Darkness which was creepy in its execution.
It also brings up a point about why I feel his stories have had such a staying power -- there is something about the way the journal entries and letters are written that provides almost a sense of authenticity to the stories, despite how fantastical they feel. The brief glimmer of a moment where I have to remind myself that it's a story, not a documentation.
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Re: H.P. Lovecraft Book Club [Re: Tantrika] 1
#23587046 - 08/28/16 02:01 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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SweetLeafSamadhi said:
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Moonshoe said: Have there been any truly worthy films based on or inspired by love craft ?
I feel like it's high time for a Netflix original / HBO game of thrones level Cthulhu mythos tv series , or at least a high budget blockbuster horror film.
Imagine the badass CGI Cthulhu scenes they could do now !
Am not certain I can picture it working as a CGI Cthulhu sort of thing. A lot of where Lovecraft's work succeeds is on building of suspense, and efforts to build a sense of connection to characters struggling with the unknown. Things start to feel creepy because they go unseen, rather than based out of the reveal. Remember once watching a video on why Cthulhu fails in videogames, it made a good point that the terrifying effect of Cthulhu is more about the presence and concept, rather than the creature.
A lot of The Call of Cthulhu sells itself with how weird the lead-up is -- know personally the idea of R'lyeh with it's non-euclidian geometry struck me more than the description of Cthulhu's size and design. I actually had a cat I named R'lyeh because of it. 
Exactly!
The horror of Lovecraft lies not in the creepiness of the monsters, creatures and gods. I mean, they're there, obviously. But the ugliness and cruelty of the creatures aren't the source of the horror. It's the possibility of them being there and of them being so 'out of reach' and way above our simple human understanding that our puny minds would be driven insane. The horror described in Lovecraft's work is of mankind wanting to learn too much and then learning something that's better left unknown for our own sakes. Of the horrors always being here, but that there bliss in our ignorance.
"From Beyond" is a perfect example of this: a scientist invents a machine that allows him to see a different dimension, only to discover that this different dimension, in which we exist as well, is inhabited by (malicious) creatures. It's not the creatures that drives him mad, but the realization that they are always present, wherever he turns. Even when he turns of this machine, they are there. It is knowing that they are present that ultimately drives him mad.
I think that's a very difficult idea to translate onto a moviescreen. It's possible, but it's contrary to everything the average (horror) moviegoer expects. It's sure to fail, commercially speaking.
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Re: H.P. Lovecraft Book Club [Re: Moonshoe]
#23587065 - 08/28/16 02:07 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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There's a movie in production called 'The Void' that's based on several premises of HP Lovecraft stories. The trailer doesn't reveal really any of the actual story, but it looks like they're putting in some real work. There's very little CGI in this one, nearly all effects are done in practicality. Here's the proof of concept vid:
I know I'm probably in the minority, but I liked another movie that was a hodgepodge of Lovecraft ideas called 'In the Mouth of Madness'. I might not have seen it since the 90s though, so I could feel differently about it now. Stars Sam Neill.
The best screen adaptation of the Cthulhu Mythos was the one South Park did in those 3 part "Coon" episodes.
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The Void looks good.
'In the Mouth of Madness' was fun. JC!
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Re: H.P. Lovecraft Book Club [Re: California]
#23587114 - 08/28/16 02:24 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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Now I really want to watch it again, but revisiting movies I liked as a kid/teen is a mixed bag. Some I like the same, like 'Event Horizon', a rare few I like more ('Dark City'), and a ton I'm like "WTF I liked this?" Lol. But I remember thinking 'In the Mouth of Madness' was a good story; if I was only impressed by the effects, I probably wouldn't try.
And yeah, I'm looking forward to The Void. The production team has a ton of experience, and the producers seem really dedicated to releasing a well crafted movie. I'm pulling for them. The art they've revealed for it so far is fantastic.
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Yet another Sam Neil vehicle, but I disliked Event Horizon. ItMoM was a good story.
The Void had me at the bloody axe.
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Re: H.P. Lovecraft Book Club [Re: California]
#23587205 - 08/28/16 02:53 PM (7 years, 5 months ago) |
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The theatrical release of Event Horizon was shit but the versions floating around with the removed footage are a more interesting movie, at least as far as special effects and set design go. It's still a boring ass movie.
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The Syfy channel made a movie called Dagon, which was sorta based off the story "The Shadow over Innsmouth."
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Burke Dennings
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Sometimes, I have terrible taste in movies. Can't help it. I tend to not watch movies as a whole, I like to look at all the little components. So if there's something I really enjoy in an otherwise awful movie, I'll walk away from it liking the film. And I try to look for at least one thing I like in every movie, even if it's 'Stealth' starring Jamie Foxx.
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Moonshoe
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Burke Dennings said: Sometimes, I have terrible taste in movies. Can't help it.
I am glad you recognize and admit that, but it's funny to me because you got so butthurt when I said the exact same thing (that some of the movies you recommended to me were terrible)
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Re: H.P. Lovecraft Book Club [Re: Moonshoe]
#23589955 - 08/29/16 12:52 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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