What are some lovecraftian kinos?

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Visually it was incredible – I would not have thought they made this in such a low budget. The effects were masterful and the trailers had me hooked from the start.

I liked it until they go down to the basement/temple/whatever, then I thought it got too rushed.

That's a very long winded way of saying you're gay user. Witch pussy is patrician, sorry.

Dunno. I liked how he brought it into the modern era though, with the student discussing physics and everything. Was neat.

Been meaning to watch but some said it had a B-movie vibe which put me off some.

This seems really neat, how come I've never heard of it before?

It does. The start of it is great though.

Forgot to add: I’m not the only one who was reminded of Lucio Fulci’s ‘The Beyond’, right?

Dunno, I had never heard about it before some user recommended it in the Lovecraft thread over at /tg/. It is IMHO an incredibly underrated gem, and that ending was amazing. Almost gave me goosebumps. Apparently it is S. T. Joshi’s favourite Lovecraftian horror film, and that is very high praise.

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Has he been lynched for not memory holing all of Lovecraft's work due to it being offensive to the (((establishment))) yet?

Agreed. And I love The Last Wave.

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Event Horizon

They can't really touch him because he's not white. If he had been, you can be sure they would have dragged his name thru the mud already and called him a racist.

It is a shame it isn't more well known and revered. I think it was relseased, mainly, under the title Black Rain in the US.

The Descent is probably the best non-adaptation of The Beast in the Cave we'll ever get. The Cave has a similar plot, but is just a straight up action film. It does star Lena Heady though, and the end song by Nightwish is pretty nice.

They from 2002 is an incredibly underrated & mostly unknown (& Lovecraftian IMHO) horror film that favours a moody, eerie atmosphere and psychological trauma over loud jumpscares and gore.
The film deals with Lovecraftian horror themes of madness/isolations, night terrors/nightmares, entities from beyond influencing our dreams & affecting our psyche, and a character driven to suicide. The creatures (only referred to as ‘they’) are very similar to HPL’s nightgaunts, and we never get a full view of them – they are kept in shadow and darkness.

The film boasts a truly gorgeous soundtrack, which reminded me of Mikko Tarmia’s score for Frictional Games’ ‘Penumbra’-series.

Similar to HPL’s ‘The Call of Cthulhu’, one of the affect is an artist, whose work becomes influenced by the night terrors/nightmares. There is another similarity to Lovecraft in an entry from his Commonplace Book, which contains ideas for future horror stories: ‘An odd wound appears on a man’s hand suddenly and without apparent cause. Spreads. Consequences.’

Her right breast looks considerably larger than the left, and it's a shame there's no clear shot where I can see both her face and tits to prove it's not a body double, but overall nice.

I need to see this movie.

Is that Maisie?

Hope you like it. There is an alternate ending as a bonus feature on the DVD as well. I don’t think it has been released on Blu-ray yet sadly.
The film stars Laura Regan (‘My Little Eye’ & ‘Atlas Shrugged: Who Is John Galt?’), Marc Blucas (‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’), Jon Abrahams, Ethan Embry & Dagmara Dominiczyk.

Damn! Even the trailer is stunning.

Kek. I never noticed before, but in that picture she does look kinda like Maisie.

I watched this last year and wasn't that impressed. Solid performances but I found it kind of boring.

This one was pretty cool.

Hated this movie for some reason.

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Pretty good horror movie in general that's sadly overlooked. I get spooked whenever I hear distant, distorted ice cream trucks thanks to this fucking movie.

This one surprised me with the atmosphere and effects earlier on in the movie. As another user said, feels a little rushed toward the end, but overall pretty worthwhile. Definitely has that "a whole other plane of existence that is subsequently fucking with reality" sort of thing going for it.

Loved this one until the last 30 seconds or so, which almost completely killed the movie with how fucking cheesy and terrible the effects were. I'm still mad that it did such a disservice to the otherwise fantastic rest of the movie.

Wrong Sam Neill movie, pic related

Telling someone it's "lovercraftian" rules the entire lovecraft aspect. If you go in knowing it's this level of bullshit then you see it coming. It's better when you think it's some monster movie and OH SHIT.

Lovecraftian stands only for a certain type of aesthetics now. "Psychological elements" at best. True lovecraftian qualities are still a surprise to find.

I think this goes for horror in general - knowing there's something scary lurking around the corner kinda ruins the surprise and shock of seeing it when you're expecting it anyway.

I'd say it's why David Lynch films work so well with regards to psychological horror - unless you already know what's going to happen in the movie, a lot of the spooky shit that happens can and often will catch you off guard (IE: I watched Lost Highway without knowing a single thing about it). Even Twin Peaks had some scary shit - especially because I also went into Twin Peaks not knowing a damn thing about it.

I like the idea of horror being a possible (but not necessary) element of another genre as a whole. Instead of "horror movies", why not group them with "thrillers" or something? You don't always NEED horror in every thriller movie. Instead, you just need lots of tension and thrills, which is more broad and can cover things as mundane as crime dramas to supernatural shenanigans.

Horror isn't a bad genre to have around. Some times you just want to see a cool monster wreck some bitchy cunts. There's no need for a surprize there. The problem is when the big reveal is ruined.

I was going to recommend a movie that involves a time travel looping plot but I realized if I did then I ruin the damn movies reveal.

That's my point - you can still have "monster movie" as its own thing. This actually pretty much WAS the norm, up until around movies like the Exorcist and Alien which showed you could have a successful horror/thriller movie that wasn't a campy monster flick.

Imagine if movies like this were tagged as "Time travel movies", and that was just a genre - so then people receive it as "well, yeah, you KNOW it's gonna have time travel, but like… HOW?". Same shit with horror.

Watch Coherence.

It's a movie about a dinner party. It's good.

How can a hybrid be this pretty?

Holla Forums is… Dare I say it?
BTFO!!!

Watched The Descent while coming off of opiates and psych meds and it fucked with me hardcore.

Hmm is this good? I liked margin call and i see its the same producer will probably give it a chance

Not so sure about that. The mermaid is cute but pretty much everyone else are showcasing the dangers of miscegenation quite well.

YouTuber Arkham Report listed it has his number one Lovecraftian horror film (not based on a HPL story): hooktube.com/watch?v=83TAdpF60qc
I was much less impressed, but Ted Levine’s character made it worth a watch.

Anyone seen The Testimony of Randolph Carter? It is a student film by the guys of the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, shot on VHS tape deck back in 1987. I ordered the DVD (as well as their CoC adaptation) a few days ago.

She probably has a beak in her vag

Is Dagon a good movie? I saw it in a store and was planning on buying it. It looks interesting and the premise is nice but I'm somewhat put off by the protagonist and the acting.

It's pretty good but not fine cinema. It's like a B+ movie.

It's not kino but it's pretty good. Also fairly accurate of what post-migrant invasion Europe is like.

Damn, that would suck. I don't much fancy getting a BJ from her either.

AM1200 is awesome, is it still hard to torrent or more available now?

For such a low budget movie it was great, being a production company more used to comedy really helped. The correlation of timing between horror and comedy being similar is really highlighted by how well they hit the right beats despite some dodgy performances. A really fun movie well worth watching for any fan of the lovecraftian genre. I hope they do more and improve on what they've already done.

It didn't take long to DL the most popular one I found at btdb.to
Couldn't find anything over 450mb though - someone really ought to make a better DVD rip of this one.
Review: web-beta.archive.org/web/20100814155107/http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/reviews/06/22/2010/am1200 (8/10)

Ah well that's better than a few years ago when I tried to download it, took me forever to even find a torrent and that was badly seeded. 452mb is the size I have too but it's a pretty good rip for the size.

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I haven't seen it but their CoC adaption was great.

Given Joshi is a lying faggot who has deliberately misrepresented Lovecraft's letters because few people had access to them until many were digitized in order to push his shitskin-lib evaluation of the man as become less racist over time when in actuality the opposite appears to be the case I don't really care what that loolesspooer thinks.

Why not recommend the superior contemporary movie?

The dialogue and acting isn't as good, but the plot and premise are pretty damn clever.

The Last Wave is unironically kino.

QFT. I found it infinitely more disturbing and eerie than any recent horror film, most of which are riddled with jumpscares and clichés.

OBS! Both videos contain spoilers.
Peter Weir talks about The Last Wave (1977): hooktube.com/watch?v=D_7BYTf95Vc
THE LAST WAVE (1977) - Original Music by Charles Wain: hooktube.com/watch?v=g3pWBS0HmsA

How?

Most of Lovecraft’s stories features protagonists looking up old legends and lore in books, there are several stories that have endings in which the protagonist goes mad, and we only hear about the horrors from the town’s people and the books, other than that we only ever hear the sounds at night, and see the piles of stone, the stickmen and the handprints in the house at the end.

It was pretty good for most of it, but then they fucked up the ending.

Neat

Saw the Last Wave, fuckin love that shit. I still haven't seen AM1200 tho…

From Beyond is one of my all time fav's, once brought it to a movie night with some normie friends, minds were blown.

I was kinda hoping the hooded guys would be revealed as cenobyte monsters underneath the KKK costumes… otherwise it was great until the ending.

Underrated post.

This movie is fantastic, that fucking soundtrack of beeps and scratches really fucks with you.

Agreed, it is rare for a Lovecratian movie to go full-Lovecraft with the unhappy-ending. In 'They' there is NO ESCAPE.

I kinda like the ending of Occult, no matter how cheesy it is. The one issue I have with it is how it distracts from the horror of the scene immediately preceding that scene. The one where the guy is out of prison after 15 years or so, and they are talking about how epidemics have swept the world (implying it was the work of the leech god or whatever).

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AM1200 is actually a short film – it is just 40 mins.
Ray Wise has a small cameo on it too.

Anyone seen ‘Cthulhu’ from 2007? Looks really low budget, but Tori Spelling was in the trailer.

He is an interesting video essay on why people misunderstand Lovecraftian horror and think ‘tentacles’ and ‘Cthulhu’ when they hear HPL’s name: hooktube.com/watch?v=LRv9xBenI0s

Dead Birds from 2004. Written by Simon Barret – the biggest stars are Michael Shannon & Mark Boone Jr.

While there are some very obvious CGI work, there is also some great practical effects, and very subtle CGI work as well. The setting is a very rare one for a horror film, and while there are some jumpscares, the film relies on atmosphere. It is not a HPL adaptation, but it does feature some of the themes – building an eerie atmosphere, magic rituals gone awry, old books with esoteric knowledge, &c.

My major gripe with this film happens early on, when they reach the overgrown corn-field, and they are attacked by this creature that looks like something straight out of a feverish nightmare, and no one seems to give much of a fuck.

Also, The Tunnel, a low-budget (crowd-funded?) Australian found footage film about a news reporter and camera team exploring the massive network of tunnels and rooms under Melbourne, reporting on the disappearance of several people down there and the government appearing to cover it up.

Lovecraft has had so much influence on horror that you could probably shoehorn like 70% of all horror films since the 50s into the "lovecraftian" category. What I want to know is where are my comfy swain-esque or jamesian ghost movies.

Lots of Lovecraft stories end with the main character getting away mostly unharmed and/or the monster getting destroyed. In Shadow Over Innsmouth the villagers blow up the monster with gunpoweder, Cthulhu got his shit rekt by a yacht in the face, the mc nopes the fuck out and survives in Color Out of Space and in Whisperer in the Dark. In sone of his stories, the scary part isn't the threat of death or even of madness; it's living while knowing beyond all doubt that there are greater powers out there, but they're hostile or indifferent to humanity.

Among others I made (including /hnt/ and /tifa/) I did make a relevant board when I first migrated to 8ch years ago, but maintaining them proved to take more time than I had (or have now, honestly) and only /hnt/ ever really developed an independent following, so I let all three lax into other people's ownership and never bothered to get them back. The third board is:

>>>/hpl/

Every once in a while I think about e-mailing for ownership back, and running them again, but my plate is so full right now between work, school, writing, my girlfriend and all these other projects I'm (in theory) working on.

You mean other than the BBC adaptations from the 1960s and 1970s?
Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968): hooktube.com/watch?v=VeIadBJCPxA
The Stalls of Barchester (1971): hooktube.com/watch?v=dFHkSCSrtfY
A Warning to the Curious (1972): hooktube.com/watch?v=JRPgoKqptw4
Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance (1975): hooktube.com/watch?v=6LTvyC_Gh54
Number 13 (2006): hooktube.com/watch?v=B5kJlUsS3Gc
The Haunted Dolls House (short film): hooktube.com/watch?v=7FdFNlDWAPM
Rats (short film, 2011) vimeo.com/29871543
The Tractate Middoth (2013): hooktube.com/watch?v=1tvKBJxd4PI

Better quality versions of the BBC adaptations: btdb.to/torrent/gJGvmKgOPBIxaABXp533IGxp13zVgGc0am.html

Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee – The Stalls of Barchester: hooktube.com/watch?v=Dy5DPLyPUn0
Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee – A Warning to the Curious: hooktube.com/watch?v=hxPnLAVyS4M
Ghost Stories for Christmas with Christopher Lee – The Ash Tree: hooktube.com/watch?v=mzF77YOeE7M

There is also ‘Night of the Demon’ from 1957, an adaptation of ‘Cating the Runes’.

Still, in ‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth’, it is made clear that the torpedoing of the Deep One’s deepsea city hasn’t done anything other than to maybe delay the inevitable. Cthulhu is still down there, waiting for a time when the stars are right again – I also think that the reason why the ship managed to get away and he sunk back down with the city was that he was not yet fully recovered from his deep slumber/the stars were still aligning, possibly leaving him in a weakened state. In ‘The Colour Out of Space’ shit is permanently fucked; the ‘infection’ is still going on, and it will contaminate the drinking water in Arkham.

Yo! You are the BO of /hpl/? I made the first post there, back in 2014. I still check back from time to time.

Wasn't Alien lovecraftian in a sense?

The most Lovecraftian part of it is the discovery of ancient, dead, aliens with incomprehensible technology who created something that destroyed them. So yeah, actually.

Dan O'Bannon's obscure home video The Resurrected is really really good on creating Lovecraftian feeling on the second half of the film and the practical effects are awesome. The first half is on 90s porn movie level

this. I've brought it up a couple times

Thirded. I loved the PI angle on this one - I think HPL tried to sell the story to a magazine publishing mainly detective fiction back in the day.

A real shame they abandoned that in the sequels, and only managed to lessen the impact of the original with each new film.

These are worth a mention when it comes to direct adaptations of HPL’ work. Personally I found TCoC to be the superior film – the shorter run-time, the much closer adherence to the source material and the 1920s silent black & white look made it much more enjoyable than the HPLHS’s adaptation of ‘The Whisperer in Darkness’, where they took too many liberties with the story, going as far as making up a whole new final action-filled act, that felt completely out of place and fell flat.

I question whether or not a lot of filmmakers have actually read any of Lovecraft's works.

Interracial porn is unironically the most Lovecraftian film.

No, HPL is way too problematic for modern filmmakers. They’ll have to rewrite his works and make a whole bunch of SJW politically correct new stories they can adapt instead.

Lovecraft hated black people, not even memeing.
He wrote a poem calling them niggers.
The closest he ever came to interracial was a God impregnating a human woman.

The main character finding out they were of mixed heritage was the twist of good handful of the stories. The man predicted burgerland was already beyond repair due to letting in all sorts of degenerates, like the dutch. 42% is as lovecraftian as it gets.

No shit, Sherlock

I was thinking of Shadow Over Innsmouth

You can see it online: veoh.com/watch/v18876406BZQJmCqn

Space aryans was a neat idea but it shouldn't have been an Alien prequel.

If King really wrote that, how come his novels are always bogged down in explanations?

He's a total hack.

Speaking of eldritch horror, are there any movies that I can watch where the protagonist has a friendly conversation with Yog-Sothoth as his ego is completely shattered beyond repair?

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Have you read shadow of innsmouth?

The original script to alien seemed much more Lovecraftian. The Space Jockey found the eggs in some abandoned temple but they had to change the script due to the budget

King has the right idea in that quote, but he lacks what authors like Lovecraft understood so well: brevity.
Few of Lovecraft's stories were longer than 80 pages while many of King's stretch beyond 1000. Nobody could hold a sense of dread for that long.
When a story is short and concise you don't care much for explanations, when they're drawn out and boring your mind can't help but demand them, it's had time to think over and process everything and now wants to fill in the gaps.

It's not what you're looking for, but The Fountain pretty much fits that bill.

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This.
I love this film. It's probably my favourite modern sci-fi film.

Go back leftypol

Good movie but shit ending

no one mentioned the mist?

Australian version of REC, tbh.

It was a bad story and a worse film.

lol you've obviously never seen Maximum Overdrive you pleb

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If you had any taste, you'd have told me that the original Trucks story was good, and I'd have thought more of you than calling Maximum Overdrive anything beyond a shitfest.

Stephen King is shit. The vast majority of is work is shit, and every the rest is just average and requires the work of others to make it anything more than pulp.

Is this good?
Apparently there's a tv series from Amazon with the same name and slightly different story, so should I watch that as well/instead of the film?

Just watched this. Pretty good, nice aesthetic. The ending was a bit of a letdown though and some parts could have been executed better.

I think the ending would work a lot better had you not had the initial opening scene and starting with Whit and his wife talking about the job.
Also, and more importantly, the alien should only have revived Whit and had him acting crazy while his teleporter counts down for extraction as he pleads with the alien to save the team, then after the teleport he is in shock from seeing them all there acting as normal as they would be.

This. So much this. When it comes to horror fiction nothing can beat the short story. It keeps the reader interested, it can keep the horror and suspense and tension slowly building till the horrifying climax without allowing the reader to feel bored or question the plot too much – the horror, and hopefully the final climax, a short but very effective final shock to scare the reader will be what they remember, followed by the build-up of tension and atmosphere.

In a longer story you simply cannot manage to hold the tension or the reader’s attention throughout the story. M. R. James knew this as well, becoming the originator of the ‘antiquarian ghost story’.

I disagree. While I love [REC], I think it explained the origin of the outbreak, which ruined the mystery. I did like the new, original reason they gave for the outbreak, but it did lessen the mystery of it. The whole scene in the top apartment done in night vision was very effective though, same with the entire build-up to it.

In The Tunnel we aren’t given any answers what the things down in the tunnels are – we sorta see them, and they appear humanoid, but that’s it.

Yeah, there needed to be more tension.

I was interested enough to DL it after seeing the trailer, but I haven’t been able to finish it yet. I don’t find either of the two leads to be interesting or compelling – acting ranges from bland to cringe so far, and the police detective, who is a fat fuck, feels horribly miscast, and might just be the worst actor of them all.

The setting doesn’t work too well either IMHO – it is not easy to make sunny suburbia somewhere in California(?) feel ominous. It’s not complete shit though – some scenes are decent, and isn’t riddled with jumspcares and high school assholes like a lot of modern horror films are.

I think all stories relying on gimmicks are best told if they're short. Science fiction has the same problem, if you stretch it out too much some of the things stop working.

I don’t think I have ever heard anyone mention ‘The Gate’ from 1987 when talking about Lovecraftian horror, but when I just rewatched it I caught several obvious connections: They talk about the Old Gods and a portal/gate that can be opened when the constellations are aligned, and that these entities that come through the portal are older than the Bible.

The film also features some really amazing practical effects, a great score and some really disturbing scenes. A fantastic ’80s horror film that doesn’t get nearly enough praise and attention.

Monster Monday Part 17: The Gate Review (1987) — Full Length Horror Movies - 80shorror.net: archive.is/KfAHI

just watched the cube

what they meant by this?

Autism also won in the end.

That reminds me: I watch embed related every year.

IIRC, The Gate was mentioned as a Lovecraftian movie in Daniel Harms' book, The Necronomicon Files.

Kino tbhqhwyf.
Jokes aside, it's actually an incredibly competent and enjoyable film and I recommend it to everyone that wants a thriller film.

Are the two sequel to Re-Animator worth watching, or are they just cash ins for the name?

Scifi tend to combine at least one other genre/element though - action, horror, thriller, etc.
I think that a story/film that is horror only will only be truly successful if it is a short.

How is Cube Lovecraftian?

It isn't.
If you really wanted to argue for it being Lovecraftian though, you could maybe assume that there was some Eldritch, outside influences affecting some people into constructing the cube(s?). The tone and the characters are anything but though, and there are no hints in the film, as far as I can remember at least, that there are Eldritch horrors pulling the strings.

The original Phantasm always gave off a Lovecraftian vibe to me. The sequels are garbage though.

I always thought of Lord of Illusions as being fairly Lovecraftian, despite being based (really loosely) on a Barker story.

If you like the first one, you'll probably enjoy the sequels.

What the actual fuck did I just watch?
I really like the basic plot of it, but the ‘music’ they’ve added to certain scenes took me out of the film. I think it would have worked a lot better without it, maybe with audiovisual disturbances at key points – sounds/noises that are eerie and unexplained, with the picture glitching up and shapes appearing as the disturbances happen.

One scene in particular, where Eno sees something massive over the city sky immediately made me think of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The shapes we do see are obviously leeches and jellyfish, and that didn’t work at all for me – way too normal to work as Eldritch horrors from beyond.

I was really on edge to see the final scene shot by Eno in the ‘beyond’, but as others have already commented, it was beyond silly. Like something out of ‘Hausu’/‘House’. A real shame since it really affects one’s impression of the film to have that be the ending. I think it would have worked much better if Eno took a taperecorder with him, and at the end the audio he recorded in the ‘beyond’ played over a black screen, followed by the end credits with no music at all playing.

Completely agree. What I thought was weird was how well made the explosion scene was in contrast to the ending.

It was like a scene from a completely different film – a comedy film at that. If you look for images from ‘Hausu’ from 1977, it is very similar.
A lot of wasted potential – with just a few minor changes it would have been a great film – a rare Lovecraftian horror story where we actually get to follow a ‘cultist’.

kill yourself

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Messiah of Evil (1973). Technically a vampire movie, but there is a subtle HP vibe going on. Besides, it's just a really fun and weird fucked up movie.

Yeah, I've seen Hausu. It was quite a tonal clash tbh. If you disregard the ending I think it was excellent though. I even liked the jellyfish.

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Thanks for the recommendation this was great.

It was interesting up until the ending. I get what they were trying to do but I found it laughable.

Interesting perspective. Still I thought the whole thing with Lovecraft was cosmic horror that shows how insignificant we are in the universe. That and his stories have a nihilistic undertone to them.

Never seen that one before. The only Cthulu film I know of is that film by the Lovecraft historical society and had a silent film era vibe to it. And it had a stop motion Cthulu.

You really could've gone far out with the Space Jockeys instead of having them turn out to be 8 foot tall albino humanoids.

Agreed. I liked the Call of Cthulu though i felt the stop motion Cthulu was a bit underwhelming.

I thought that was a stronger Lovecraft movie than in the Mouth of Madness.

Is there a torrent with seeds out there anywhere? 1080 preferably, but 720 will work in a pinch.

I wish a film dared to go full Giger/Beksiński. I suppose it would have been too expensive but there's a craving for surrealist horror I think. That's my big frustration with film, they can't do things that you can easily do in literature and with some effort in video games or comics. I completely understand why George Lucas wanted to push technology forward so much, it's so hard to make films which match the power of your imagination.

My true ambition is to shoot Metro 2033 1:1 with the book because the game left a bad taste in my mouth.

Exactly.

I love Night of the Demon. Great movie though they should've left the demon unseen at the end.

The message from beyond, and the transmission at the end of Prince of Darkness are creepy as hell.

Kill List was kinda neat. Just cults and madness tho

Is the book actually any good?

If you've played the game, you need to understand, it's absolutely shit compared to the book.
Artyom doesn't fight back against the horrors both above and below as much, and certainly not as early. The entire action-plot of the game after 10 minutes was really annoying.
I enjoy the game, but the story is hot trash compared to the source. I was going to drop the game instantly after Artyom goes up to the surface after a fucking single day in the tunnels, but I kept through and it was fun yet annoying due to the changes that turn it from psychological to action/survival.

Then there's Last Light, which is different from Metro 2034, but then the author retcons LL into 2035 somewhat, and it was just a mess.

The entire Metro universe is lots of fun. Society degrades to primitive clans with old fashioned ideologies while they live in underground train station.

I am looking forward to Metro Exodus, though. Looks like fun, but I'm sure M$ will fuck it up.

this was actually very good (considering the budget/cast). It got a ton of bad reviews though. Why are critics so fucking shit at their job

No like?

Didn't they turn that into a full-length film?
Sad that 95% of the shorts in the V/H/S series were unwatchable shit.

While I like the first two games, I heard about the shitty plot twist in the third book and that has prevented me from reading them. I don't want to get invested in something that turns out to be retconned

Best Lovecraft kino here

Thats… actually a good idea.

There are actually quite a few stories by HPL that don’t feature any comsic horrors – The Beast in the Cave, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Cool Air, Herbert West – Reanimator, The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, etc., etc.

Nihilism is undeniable in his stories though – that nothing we do really matters in the grand scheme of things, and that are insignificant and that there can be no escape other than death. Compare the opening and ending of HPL’s ‘Dagon’ with Heather’s teary-eyed last message in ‘The Blair Witch Project’ – both characters have lost all hope and find themselves hunted by unknown forces, and want to leave behind a message of what happened to them.

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Source?

Sorry, user. I think you will have to manage with the DVD/DVD rips, same as the rest of us.

t. pleb that can't google

I never understood why VHS got so much praise.

It didn't.

Really. I guess I watch the wrong people then.

It shat the bed in terms of box office and critic reviews, the only place it got any praise that I know of was Netflix stars.
Sequel was much better honestly

Not always, like the story of Herbert West-Reanimator. It was less cosmic horror, but necromancy.

Keep the weebshit out of the thread.

Nah.

This kills the weeb.

N-no bully!

EVERY DAY UNTIL YOU LIKE IT

Stop!

A few days ago I watched the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society adaptation of The Statement of Randolph Carter, a student film from 1987 shot on VHS tape. The title was changed to ‘The Testimony of Randolph Carter’, and since it was shot on VHS, the audio and quality is what you’d expect from the source. It is very ambitious and expands on the story, so the runtime is 50-something minutes. I think a shorter, more faithful adaptation would have been more effective, and some scenes go on for too long, but overall it is a very interesting take on HPL’s story.

That sums up most of the butthurt, I think. Beyond that, it was a mix of Alien, The Thing and original story, and was incredibly well made. I'm shocked it didn't sell better.
The director, Shane Abbess, also made Gabriel, which is a very good film (not related to this thread at all) on a budget of something to the tune of $150k, and looks amazing. There's quite a good story behind it.
His newest film, Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child, stars Daniel McPherson again, so I have hopes, but I'm sure it's average.
Not too often you see Australian directors doing anything other than dramas, and certainly not SciFi. I'm keeping an eye on his work for sure.

Book 1 and Game 1 are mostly the same, though the book has much better writing and a better overall theme of the afterlife. When you get to the end, you'll be surprised.
Book 2 and Game 2 are completely different, with neither being brilliant, but the book being better. This book follows Hunter from the first book, not Artyom
Book 3 incorporates Game 2 into it, which fucks up the story to me. The plot twist isn't that bad, tbh.

Lovecraft's work is about the futility of humanity to stop it's own destruction, whether that be from other humans reanimating the dead or unthinkable aliens that accidentally kill us with their mere presence.

True, there is a theme of people’s curiosity leading to horrible discoveries and death though, and that fits TBWP quite well. M. R. James’ protagonists and characters are the same, and it is always their curiosity, the need for answers and solving old mysteries that unleashes the horror.

I think Heather in TBWP is a perfect fit for a Lovecraftian protagonist.

Joe Dante was working on an adaptation of Casting the Runes back in 2013: bleedingcool.com/2013/05/07/simon-pegg-and-joe-dante-teaming-up-for-mr-james-ghost-story/
Not sure if it has been canned or if he is still working on it. Not a fan of the updated/present-day take on it tbh.

List of M. R. James adaptations for TV & film: thin-ghost.org/items/browse?collection=1&sort_field=Dublin Core,Date&sortorder=desc

The Blair Witch Project has been mentioned ITT as Lovecraftian, but it could easily be viewed as Jamesian as well. James included witches and magic more often in his stories, and the description of the witch given by Mary Brown early on in the film is quite similar to one of James’ ghosts - especially with the witch's body being covered in hair, and with a weird-looking face. The characters in the film also call down the wrath of the witch for their curiosity and for tresspassing in her woods. Lovecraft also noted that a common theme in James’ stories were that the characters would hear or feel the horror before they actually saw it, which fits perfectly with The Blair Witch Project.