Which is the best film adaptation of a Lovecraft story and why?
>>219413230The Colour Out of Space. It has some nice practical effects and it's one of the few recent movies where Nic Cage felt like he was doing more than just reading from a script.
Annihilation because of my wife Natalie
The Banshee Chapter and The Void.Also American History X
>>219413230Dagon. It's pacy, outlandish and doesn’t hold back
Lovecraft's stories were hokey, awful schlock, so take your pick from any of the nonsense put out in the 40s and 50s.
For me it's The Resurrected.
>>219413326>Lovecraft adaptation >Cast of white peasants, a mix of ignorant and grotesque >The voice of reason is a BLACK
>watch dad die horribly from syphilis and go insane>Get depressed>Write some schlock as a young man>Live with mom and keep writing schlock while she begs you to get a real job>Marry some jewess>Get fat>Die>Everyone who liked your work finds out you were a huge racist and now nobody is allowed to like your work
>>219414208>Everyone who liked your work finds out you were a huge racist and now nobody is allowed to like your workThis will happen to all of us some day.
>>219413230True Detective S1
>>219413230The Ghost Writer. Isn't a direct adaptation but the bleak island theme with the writer investigating a strange disappearance is about as Lovecraft as it gets. At its heart most Lovecraft books aredetective stories with supernatural elements but the horror is more like a pay-off after which the story ends. Just swap out the political intrigue with some weird dagon cult and whatnot and you're almost there.
"Nope"Event Horizon
>>219414634Wow I actually love that. I read it strictly as a CIA-induced paranoia fever dream but you’re right that strikes a Lovecraftian chord as well, especially given that most of the film takes place on an island and is entrenched within a secret society of the rich and powerful, heavily structured around pairing/breeding.
The untitled Guillermo del Toro project (2028)
>>219414742You even got the grizzled old local reluctantly talking about what's really going on and how his neighbor fell down the stairs after sharing too much with the wrong people. She's been in a coma ever since.
>>219414149I really like CDW, is this actually good?
>>219415090Yeah, pretty accurate adaptation. Also one of my favorite Lovecraft stories.
>>219414208>Everyone who liked your work finds out you were a huge racist and now nobody is allowed to like your workNo one actually cares about this.
>>219413230The silent B&W Call of Cthulhu was faithful and comfy.From Beyond is also high level kino.
>>219414634I'll be moving soon, so I'm downloading a few movies while I don't get a new fiber connection, and now I'm downloading that one, too. Don't disappoint me with that rec, anon.
>>219415299I also got Prince of Darkness, which apparently kind of fits the thread, so there's that, too
>>219414208Most authors born before 1950 were considered huge racists and homophobes. Especially by today’s standards. We may as well stop teaching all literature written before the 21st century because the author didn’t believe women could have penises.
>>219415299Don't expect too much, but I like the amosphere. That an the Ninth Gate.
You could also try To Cast a Deadly Spell which is a slightly more goofy riff on Lovecraft stuff and even features a necronomicon.
>>219415481I like the Ninth Gate. It's comfy, and has the 90s aura that feels somewhat simple and slow. I guess I'll enjoy it. Thanks.
>>219415182Isn't that one of the things preventing it from being canonized as high literature? We supposedly already know there was a thicker, deeper layer of meaning than previously thought, but since that layer is linked to racism, people avoid discussing it and prefer to categorize him as a great creator of monsters.
>>219413230Nyaruko-chan unironically. the /tv/ series and the OVAs. RIP flame-chan.>https://myanimelist.net/character/31418/Nyaruko>watch all 8 of them.
>>219415651>Isn't that one of the things preventing it from being canonized as high literature?No. What prevents it is his actual writing. Lovecraft was a great ideas guy but as an actual author his prose was incredibly dry.
>>219413230Conan the Barbarian Solomon Kane was pretty good too
>>219415651Imo it's the opposite. Arm chair Freudian leftists interpret his writings as rooted in racism to conform to their narrative that it is born of fear and ignorance. He was only cancelled for a little bit but now not even they care about it, since I think they realized they could champion his racism as a product of the dark age of a bygone era, which we are cured of now.In reality, he was deeply disturbed. Both his parents went insane and died in psych hospitals. His grandfather read him horror stories and then him too died. He had constant nightmares and nervous breakdowns in his teenage years. There are conflicting reports on his mother, she was either doting or an overbearing Joker's mom archetype, both equally damaging. He was probably only happy during the time he married the rich jewess (who wouldn't). His mythology is probably born out of seeing insanity first hand in his life and his obsession with science, since he was a proto scientism nerd of the time.I've written a kino biopic on him but studios would never let me direct it.
>>219415651Not only monsters, but mysticism, the occult etc. I agree with this anon, though: >>219415888. World-building-wise, he was legit, but my God buying Cthulhu And Other Works and reading it for the first time when I was a teenager was a fucking letdown. His prose is too archaic and I never got used to. Having said this, I can't imagine reading him any other way. Gotta get used to.
>>219414166Reverse this and you have his point.
>>219415449You realise we are mid-conversation and that (you) can find reasons why these authors still matter in the 21st century right? You would need an education first though Cletus.
>>219413230Cage is great, hilarious and scary.
>>219415888He suffers from the Poe problem even worse than Poe - more words conveying less emotion. At least in Poe’s case, it almost comes off as an obsession with grammar, seeing how far he can carry a single sentence without breaking any of the rules, as if it were a private game he was enjoying, but Lovecraft has a bad habit of making sentences that are branching tangents carrying the reader ever farther afield from what the sentence was talking about in the first place, which, while serving as an excellent means of ushering the reader into a realm of occult mystery and vaguely delineated hierarchies of cosmic malignancy as well as conveying the crumbling sanity of the narrator, nevertheless diminishes the emotional impact the stories’ events have on the reader.
>>219417144squamous
>>219413230The Thing at several removes from Mountains of Madness, Dagon from Shadow Over Insmouth.The best Lovecraft kino is all inspired by him rather than adaptations. True Detective, In The Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon
>>219414208Stop hanging around with faggots you faggot
Dagon, The Unnamable 1 & 2, Re-Animator
>>2194142080 people care about him being racist>right wingers can’t make artMeanwhile leftoids piggy back on his mythos too make their “omg I’m going le heckin insane” horror games
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The color out of space is pretty good but they F'd up the ending imo and instead of the narration coming from the families neighbor is a cringy black "scientist" from arkham
>>219414634Wait, is The Wicker Man a Lovecraftian movie?
>>219413230The absolute best adaption ever is Re-Animator.Why? Amazing effects, there's tits in it, Jeffery Combs is the perfect Herbert West, and the ending, for the most part, is almost 1:1 from the novel but instead of taking place in a cemetary tomb it's a hospital morgue.
>>219413864His best stories present imaginative and dreamlike ideas, but even his best ones have those hokey schlocky endings, because he had to meet the demands of his publishers. They wanted these pulp stories to end with a cliched twist-in-the-tale, and Lovecraft provided. But if you can look past the limitations of his chosen medium, there is some good stuff in there.
>>219419004Plus it seems to be setting up a sequel that will never happen. I want some Miskatonic University kino.
>>219419004>>219419620there was gonna be a follow up, i think they wanted to do "The Dunwich Horror" but pic related is why there hasnt been a follow up
you just know they want him cancelled for saying "mongrels" and giving his cat an unfortunate name just so they don't pay attention to other things he wrote like>it is not so much that the country is flooded directly with Jewish authors, as that Jewish publishers determine just which of our Aryan writers shall achieve print and position. … Taste is insidiously molded along non-Aryan lines—so that, no matter how good the resulting body of literature may be, it is a special, rootless literature which does not represent us.
>>219419799you quote that but he married a jewish woman and basically had a heel turn at the end of his life. But yes, early on, Lovecraft was like the ultimate elitist and thought anyone that wasnt college educated was low IQ and this included white people.
>>219419905Lol, what? He wasn't college educated himself, although academia did appeal to him.
>>219414208I like his work more for being a huge racist
>>219419799>giving his cat an unfortunate nameHe included the cat as a character in one of his stories. In The Rats in the Walls, the narrator has a black cat called Niggerman who sleeps between his legs at night, just as the real-life Niggerman did with Lovecraft.
>>219420203It's pronounced nigyur
>>219419066Kind of, I’d say. In the same sense that Children of the Corn is, only He Who Walks Behind the Rows never actually shows up.
>>219417767Kek
>>219414208>>Everyone who liked your work finds out you were a huge racist and now nobody is allowed to like your workThat's not even true. You're a loser who lives his entire life on the internet. A sad little shell of a retard. Everyone still loves him in the real world. Literally go touch grass.
>>219421288Bring up Lovecraft around some lefty friends and they will immediately go to "yeah well but he was actually a huge racist kinda so I don't want to talk about him".
