| | FastAsUcan | Jun 18, 2006 1:25pm | I just saw that there is a new movie based on "Beyond the Wall of Sleep", but I read some reviews and most of them said it's pure crap!
So what is your favorite Lovecraft Movie?
Mine are "Re-Animator" and "From beyond"... |
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 |  202713 | Jun 18, 2006 1:46pm | Dagon is quite good.
haven't watched all mythos movies so i can't say that is the best one. |
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| | yu-huang | Jul 21, 2006 12:49pm | | The best lovecraftian movie (not actually based in any of his stories, but more faithful to his vision - only different in that the movie has quite a hopeful, uplifting ending, something which Lovecraft probably wouldn't go for) is "2001: A Space Odyssey"; really. |
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Sponsor |  m4bwav | Jul 21, 2006 1:33pm | I could maybe see some Lovecraft in that movie, a little bit.
But lovecraft was more fantasy than sci-fi, I think the real credit should go to the creators Arthur C. Clarke and Stanly Kubrick. Clarke may or may not have read lovecraft, but I don't think you could really say the movie was inspired by lovecraft's works. The film has many of the elements that Clarke and Kubrick defined their career with. |
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Sponsor | | noel | Jul 21, 2006 1:37pm | | I loved re-animator. Also there was a movie..which wasnt so good and I cant for the life of me remember what exactly it was about, there were scientists and they could see these cells or something all around us in the air. I was 13 so it coulda been a crap movie. :P |
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Sponsor | | strictlychemical | Jul 21, 2006 9:20pm | That'd be From Beyond I reckon.
I saw it at about the same age, and I too have a vague feeling it might have been a bit crap... |
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Sponsor | | pattenicus | Jul 23, 2006 2:33am | | Out of Mind...Best Lovecraft Ever... |
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| | CaptHowdy666 | Jul 23, 2006 2:28pm | Hmm, it's been a while since I have seen From Beyond. Out of Mind? Never heard of it.
I didn't mind Castle Freak...the Outsider is probably my fave Lovecraft story...so since it's based off of that (although LOOOSLY mind you).
Re-Animator of course will always be a classic though.
I liked the atmosphere in Carpenter's In The Mouth of Madness... although that was about it... nothing else much Lovecraftian about it. |
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| | yu-huang | Jul 24, 2006 8:27am | | Re: the 2001 bit: Yeah, Clarke cited Lovecraft as an influence in his book on Making 2001: A Space Odyssey. The pervasive idea that the ultimate reality is beyond human comprehension is right there throughout the movie (keep an eye for frozen shots of the astronaut as he crosses the StarGate - he's clearly gone insane from all he's seen), which translates very well the mood of "cosmic horror/awe" from Lovecraft's stories, that sense that we are tiny tiny fleas on a huge alien body. Also pay attention to Gyorgy Ligeti's soundtrack whenever the movie shows deep space, or the monolith. Those chants of disembodied voices are downright creepy, and promptly bring to my mind those description of insane chanting that's supposed to be heard in Azathot's chambers (Yog-Sothoth? I always mix up my deities). Etc etc. |
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Sponsor | | m4bwav | Jul 24, 2006 8:39am | I think where it varies greatly is that in 2001 the sci-fi elements are created by an alien force that is largely benevolent in it's intentions, ie to speed or carry out evolution.
Where as in lovecraft, almost always the fantasy elements are usually destructive and/or down right evil. |
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