What are some movies that have Lovecraftian style horror? Goreporn is shitty and jump scares are plebian...

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Watchin the Void now. Thanks

Of course he did. You have to know horror to write it.

Just cause he said he didn't like niggers doesn't make him any less reddit.

What define him as Leddit?

He married a Jew that he launched into anti-semitic rants at.

Virtually unknown in his day, H. P. Lovecraft is now considered one of the greatest early gothic horror writers. His best known character, the dark god Cthulhu, has grown to practically be a household name. One character, Herbert West, Re-Animator, got a cheesy movie in the eighties. An evil tome, the Necronomicon, another of his creations, has become a popular part of our cultural legends.

The problem with H. P. Lovecraft? He was a racist.

We could take the easy way out. He’s dead. His works are all in the public domain, which means no one benefits from his writing. (In fact, if you paid for his writing, you got duped. Several fans have released complete collections online for free.) A quick look at his biography shows that he wrote many racist diatribes to friends, but did little to publically support his racism, mostly due to his poverty rather than a lack of desire to act on his racism.

But we aren’t taking the easy way out on this one, so let’s press on. Was he merely a productive of his time? Apologist would like us to think so. But it’s a real stretch. Mark Twain used the N word, because that was the common word in his days. Despite this, he portrays Nigger Jim is a relatively positive light. Over a generation later, H. P. Lovecraft’s racism is far more apparent, more so than almost any contemporary writer. Reading his works today, it regularly smacks you in the face. In the Re-animator he describes Herbert West’s second experiment on a black boxer in the most offensive terms of being “gorilla-like” after his re-animation. Xenophobia permeates one of his most famous works, the Shadow over Innsmouth. What makes the inhabitants of Innsmouth so scary is their foreignness.

It would be easy to try to divorce Lovecraft the man from Lovecraft the writer, or to minimize the racism of his work by arguing it was the times, or a small part of the work, but none of these answers satisfies. Or we could simply reject Lovecraft altogether, let his works fade into obscurity.

But Lovecraft’s flaws and his contributions are intertwined. Lovecraft’s xenophobia informs his works in much the same way that Edgar Allen Poe’s depression and drug abuse permeate his works.

Horror works because it touches on primal fears. Drug abuse, depression, madness, fear and anger, a good horror writer explores them all, in ways that makes us uncomfortable but ultimately enlightens us. Racism is cultural, something that must be learned. But Xenophobia is not, it’s inherent in all of us, like it or not. We fear the unknown, fear people who are too different from us.

Lovecraft shines a light on the xenophobia of the mind, he plays on it. The Shoggothi’s architecture itself inspires terror simply because it doesn’t follow the rules of Euclidean geometry. It feels alien. The people of Innsmouth don’t look right, and it triggers subconscious alarms for casual observer.

This where I start to get conflicted. He himself seems to have been unmoved by his own works. As much as I would love to see his works as some attempt to force us to confront our own bias, it’s not. He really thought that way.

It would be akin to discovering that Ken Kesey supported lobotomies and meant One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest to be read in that light. Or that Nabokov was pedophile. Or that Orson Scott Card is actually the warmongering colonel of Ender’s game, not the hero. (Wait, that last one might be true.)

In the end, I think of Lovecraft as a cautionary tale, like an addict that never recovers. We can see his descent into xenophobia, be moved by it, but hopefully be moved to avoid our own. Or maybe I am just fooling myself. Since his works are in the public domain, you can read them yourself and come to your own conclusions.

I love how leftists are so fucking assmad Lovecraft and his creations remain popular despite the wrongthink sin of telling the truth about niggers.

They're so petty they removed his bust as a literary award. Holla Forums should be gassed.

I have a book that is collection of almost every single one of his stories, but just can't bring myself to focus on reading for longer than 15 minutes :/

Atheist fiction with Kindom Hearts audience, i don't think so.

you are literally retarded

Someone has a hateboner for Lovecraft, shame too.

Yeah, as others in the thread have already alluded to, 'John Carpenter' is really the best one out there, at least that I am aware of.

This

There's a good reason to be xenophobic, for the unknown is the harbinger of death.

Or they come in, attempt to outbreed you while your cucked government gives them handouts, disrespect all local culture, bring in drug crimes, bring in a religion that advocates killing those who don't submit and more "diversity".
What the fuck France you fucking cucks you voted for a man who wants to bring in even more shitskins into France why do you keep killing yourself you fucking retards

As I stated, it is the harbinger of death.

I had to let off a bit of steam about France. They are cucking their nation to death

Reddit would hate him if they knew anything about him beyond Cthulhu memes. Half of his stories are about dastardly foreigners and the horrors of race mixing.

Pure ideology

conservatives are always so very very afraid of literally everything, i cant imagine being so scared all the time.
he wrote some great stories, dont see why its so hard to just ignore the unfortunate racism which was the product of his times. do people think shakespeare or george washington were not racists? of course they were, most people just go with the prevailing attitude of their times, thoughtlessly. its not a big fucking deal.

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I liked the ending, it was kind of a bad ending though so that doesnt sit well with a lot of people. They finally got the murderer but the actual sick fucks and the orginization were long gone by then. Fuck, that huge pile of childrens clothes.

The election was fixed, they basically admitted it. I'm convinced Le Pen would have won otherwise.

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Just part of their culture, now let that death cult in.

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Fucking kill yourselves.