AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I'm going insane One of the most famous characters ever and it's in what? one Kristen Stewart movie and he's not even a proper cthulhu with the insanity and tentacles and shit?Why??? The Mist is the closest we get to cosmic horror kino and it's wasted on fucking spiders and people turning on each other.I WANNA SEE TENTACLE MONSTERS.
What are some actually Lovecraftian films? Probably the most accurate one is Messiah of Evil.
>>224116372I guess color out of space? Never actually read that story though
>>224116284Because nobody knows how to make shit anymore.plus they'll all bitch about how he was racist or some faggy nonsense
>>224116372i've seen so many disparate movies called "lovecraftian" on this board it honestly doesn't even mean anything anymore..
>>224116284>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I'm going insaneLovecraft's work here is done.
>>224116284Cthulhu is a kaiju okay. We all have to get past that. His most accurate depiction was on South Park.
>>224116284Is that a buff mind flayer with wings!? AHHHH SAVE ME NIGGERMAN
dagon
>>224116372The Mothman Prophecies
>>224116714>"SAVE ME NIGGERMAN!"You had one job.
>>224116372literally this one. and Dagon and Re-Animator
>>224116372
Correct answer It's on Prime
>>224116284Got deported.
>>224117076Also re-animator
>>224116284This one for like 1-2 minutes
The Void is excellent
I THAT A FREAKING SQUID?!GET THE FUCK OVER HERE NIGGERMAN
>>224116284the stars ain't right
Lovecraftian doesn't just mean tentaclesWatch OculusThat shit will fuck you up
>try to look up Lovecraft movie>get all these AIslop image generations of an AI reading of the novels videosWhat the fuck is going on?
>>224116372The Empty ManIt's literally about Nyarlathotep
>>224117819same thing in the endless
>>224116284The person who owns the movies rights to Cthulhu refuses to let studios make their film
>>224117837That shit happened to me after I read Dreams in the witches house and wanted to see if anyone adapted it. Turns out the answer is yes but not well. AIslop everywhere now
>>224116284Probably because of his cat.
>The best Shadow Over Innsmouth adaptation we have still is from a 20 year old video game
>>224116905The Mothman Prophecies is more Lynchian than Lovecraftian. Or I guess "Frostian" or whatever the fuck, given that the book influenced Frost's world-building on Twin Peaks.>>224116711The truth is that Lovecraft was never actually all that consistent in his writing for there to be something distinctly "Lovecraftian" that isn't just "related to an idea that Lovecraft penned." At The Mountains of Madness, Call of Cthulhu, Pickman's Model, The Color Out of Space, (etc.) are all pretty distinct from one another. Any real connections between them were forced by Derleth after Lovecraft's death. You'd have better luck making movies out of the works of authors that wrote after him like Ramsay Campbell, Michael Shea, or Laird Barron, who all have more cohesive visions.
>>224117990the first half was good, but the second you go around guns blazing, it looses it`s appeal.It`s weird with lovecraft games, they have good themes and spooky ideas, but the execution is always clunky and amateurish.The new sinking city was always good til the halfpoint, then it became janky and tedious
>>224116284Lovecraft doesn’t really work well in a visual medium like film.
This ones pretty cosmic horrory
>>224116284Lovecraft, unfortunately, has been classified as a racist. Hollywood won't touch his work now, unless it's to shit on his legacy.
we got some video games
>>224116284Because Lovecraftian stuff is based on NOT showing and NOT explaining, which is the opposite of what dogshit mainstream media do
>>224118592Cool. Everyone associates Lovecraft with tentacles, but he wrote about ape-men also. Good to see the games focusing on that lore.
The Whisperer on Darkness is kino.
>>224119911*in
>>224116284south park and the mist are as good as we get.don't watch that shit ass Dagon movie 1 anon pushes, it's a trash C movie
>>224118536>a shudder originali shan't be watching
>>224117681void is high kino.asian nurse a cute
>>224118934Nah, that's pretty dogshit in itself. It encouraged the retards like JJ Abrams and Lindelof to make mystery boxes which are all empty. They know they can lazily contrive anything because idiots like you don't care about the answer or it making sense, you just want to soi face about le mystery, how spooky it is and how the answer must be so epic even though you definitely don't want to know it (even though there never was one). This dumb shit has ruined movies for the last two decades.
Cloverfield kinda counts right? Shame what they did with the "sequels"
>>224116372The Void (2016) is pretty cool
>seeing a giant octopus man somehow makes you go crazy
>>224118934>Because Lovecraftian stuff is based on NOT showing and NOT explaining,See this shit is always said but it’s in fact, completely wrong. I think it started when Lovecraft stories became popular in tabletop RPG and the way to make them a bit more original was to add a sanity mechanic that’s based on how much weird stuff the characters were exposed to. But in the actual stories themselves? It’s described extensively. Of course there's some unexplained mysteries (the end of Mountains of Madness for example) or things that just can’t be properly described (the titular color from outer space or non-euclidian angles), but on the whole Lovecraft loved to describe what he imagined. That was how he could properly convey the body horror and weirdness of his creatures. In fact part of the reason his popularity remained high was that he had described his stuff so extensively it was easy to emulate his style, which eventually led to the Cthulhu Mythos being written by collaborative effort.
>>224118583>Lovecraft, unfortunately, has been classified as a racist.JK Rowling is a transphobe and they keep adapting her work
Why is there so much ai slop for Lovecraft stories?
never mind me, just posting the best lovecraftian kino that you've never seen
>>224116372Annihilation, the one with Natalie Portman is a not-adaption of Colour out of Space but better than the actual adaptations.Event HorizonThe Endless
>>224116284"The Call of Cthulhu" (2005) is true to its source material.
>>224120270Isn't that the one in which she has a brown husband and cheats on him with a black man?
>>224120333Other stuff happens in the movie too
>>224120373I couldn't bother paying attention the rest of the move is all foid garbage. Literal female ghostbusters.
>>224120430Anon, it's been a decade. Let it go.
>>224120333she's jewish so who fucking cares
>>224119829jej>>224120333sounds epic
>>224120145The point is more that you cannot properly visualise what Lovecraft’s characters describe in his stories. The whole point is that Lovecraft’s characters themself fail to describe what they saw, they fully realise that themselves. They cannot describe it because it’s indescribable. Words will always fail it because it’s beyond human comprehension.
I just want a cute animated kid's movie about Lovecraft's cat going on adventures attacking tentacle mice.
>>224120208She’s not a transphobe though. That’s a label that’s been put on her by extremists.Lovecraft was an actual racist.
>>224120500>so it basically looks like a dude with dragon's wings and the head of a squid>indescribable
>>224116372Pic rel, duh
>>224120517> JK Rowling has a MALE TROLL infiltrate the women's bathrooms and attack a woman> JK Rowling has a dog named TRANNYMAN > JK Rowling said incels who jerk off to malfoid are tranny fuckersSHE'S NOT TRANSPHOBIC GUYSSSS
>>224120323Based
>>224120573An approximate representation that a human being can try and wrap their head around is not the same as a proper full description. Any visual representation of a cosmic horror is going to fall so fucking short and is not a good way to showcase Lovecraft is my point. The reason Lovecraft’s stories work at least in my opinion is that you realise that these horrors cannot be truly understood by us puny humans so all you’re left with is the dread and your mind going wild thinking about it.
>>224120500>They cannot describe it because it’s indescribable.I think it's more that the human psyche cannot take the shock and starts going insane just by looking at them.These things should not be.
>>224120517> Lovecraft was an actual racist.It’s called pattern recognition, chud
>EARTH SHATTERING FART NOISE
>>224120500Read literally any Lovecraft novel retard, his characters spend their times describing what they see.
>>224116284natty?
>>224120333The real cosmic horror is miscegenation
>>224120813Lovecraft pilled and /thread >also that was a really shitty movie that tried to be deep but failed
>>224120500I read The Call of Cthulhu. He gets defeated when a tiny boat rams into his knee.
>>224117681I somehow remember absolutely nothing about this I remember enjoying and watching it twice and once with my gf
>>224120917meanwhile Dagon takes at least 5 rounds of 5 inch guns to the face to go down
>>224120716AAHHHHHH HELP ME NIGGERMAN ELDRITCH POWERS BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION ARE CRASHING THIS PLANE WITH NO SURVIVORS
>>224117681This shit sucked so hard. 90 minutes of decent visuals that lead absolutely nowhere.
>>224118536Underrated as fuck.
The Mound is delightfully chilling in a way where you sort of step back and think like, oh shit that's actually horrifying as fuck.
>>224118004>The Mothman Prophecies is more Lynchian than Lovecraftian.It really doesn't bear a similar nature specifically to either Lynch or Lovecraft, but it's definitely cosmic horror. Lovecraft didn't invent cosmic horror, it isn't synonymous with Lovecraftian. >>224120573>>so it basically looks like a dude with dragon's wings and the head of a squid>>indescribablething about Lovecraft monsters is that these are just the closest matching ways to describe it. not that it's simply a normal squid head. there's room for variation in individual, imaginative interpretations of his entities. but in general Lovecraft still had a keen eye for lurid descriptions of all kinds of elements in his stories, especially settings. now take Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo, for example. a classic cosmic horror veering, supernatural terror tale. the setting is luridly pictured, so are the mental states of each character. but he barely describes the Wendigo. it's presence is felt, even smelled, this incomprehensible, malevolent preternatural spirit that you just sense is watching you, but far as a direct description goes, all you get is that it would be one of the most unpleasant things you'd ever see, if i recall. lovely story. The Willows by Blackwood, another masterpiece, arguably superior to the Wendigo, that which further dips into cosmic horror.
>>224120712talk about being ahead of the curve. he didn't even have webms to go off>>224120797How are you guys not getting the point? They give a vague approximation, but the point is the monsters and horrors are 'impossible', they violate our laws of what we think of as possible and can only be vaguely gestured at
>>224116284From your retarded post, I assume you want a kaiju movie.
>>224122127>The Mound is delightfully chilling in a way where you sort of step back and think like, oh shit that's actually horrifying as fuck.one of my faves. it has such a wide scope. lots of world-building.
>>224122127Ive only read the story. Is there a film/series about it?
>tfw no faithful film adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness
>>224117173noo not THAT kind of lovecraftian there's no tentacles and cosmic insanity!!
>>224122250Wasn't Del Toro supposed to do one but it got canceled because Prometheus was deemed too similar by retarded producers?
>>224122249Well there's a video game. Haven't played it yet though.
>>224122184>How are you guys not getting the point? They give a vague approximation, but the point is the monsters and horrors are 'impossible', they violate our laws of what we think of as possible and can only be vaguely gestured atyeah even down to the non-euclidean geometry. when part of that stone city arises out of the ocean in Call of Cthulhu, it's somewhat akin to being in an MC Escher setting. doesn't adhere to our sense of understanding. the veil of what we assume is reality is pulled back. you'd only be lucky to find your way out.
>>224122250
>>224122184>vage approximationHis descriptions are giga autistic. Read how he describes the first monster they find in Mountains of Madness, it's spread over an entire page.
>>224116372Every "weird shit falls from space in a rural area and wreaks havoc" movie descends from The Colour Out Of Space.The BlobNight of the CreepsThe Lonely Death of Jody Verrill CrittersSlitheretc.
>>224116372The VoidThe EndlessThe CureEvent HorizonUnderwaterDagon
>>224116284well, first of all because, despite what people may think, Lovecraft stuff entered the public domain pretty recently. Blame Disney and their quest to keep adding years to not lose the mouse
>>224122250source of that image?
>>224116284Re-AnimatorFrom BeyondThe Beyond (the Italian one)In the Mouth of MadnessThe Colour Out of SpaceMarebito
>>224116372Do the right thing.
>>224116284>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I'm going insaneThe problem in this age is that everyone's minds are so poisoned by irony and media that most people don't take reality seriously at all. Back then, there was an objective real world, that people knew 100% was how things worked, then seeing it suddenly stop being trustworthy and the impossible occuring would be what breaks their brains and drives them insane. Objective reality suddenly becomes a dream world full of impossible things they can't reconcile. Right now, people could see a cartoon character appear right in front of them, hang out all day talking with them, and they wouldn't think it was too strange at all. Reality is just headcanon to them and can be whatever they want. They can't identify with the characters who take reality so seriously. If a giant squid monster appeared, sure it would be scary, but like an escaped tiger is scary since it'll eat you. The impossibility of it doesn't even register since anything is possible to them. There's lots of people that believe if they think really hard they can manifest whatever good/bad events they want to occur.
>>224117990The Virtual Boy game?
The thought of an ancient giant squid monster man living in ancient ruins in the middle of the ocean is actually scary to me and I think if I saw that shit I would unironically go insane and ask niggerman to save me
>>224122402There’s a reason the attempt at describing it is “giga autistic” and there’s a reason it still is not going to be an accurate description. Christ you guys say you read Lovecraft yet you don’t even seem to grasp the basic concept of what the cosmic horror ans what it’s supposed to represent. The literal point of his stories.
>>224122954*what the cosmic horror is and what it’s supposed to represent.
>>224116284I'd like a Delta Green showOr a Dreamlands movie both would be awesome
>>224117990what game?
>>224116372Ghostbusters (1984)
>>224119932fuck you dagon rules. i’m not even that anon.
>>224122985>>224122939
>>224123071ah i’ve had this on my gog wishlist for years.
>>224123140happy birthday thenhttps://freegogpcgames.com/2221/call-of-cthulhu-dark-corners-of-the-earth/it's not that worth paying for, the intro is alright but then the rest of the game and it's awkward shooting and punishing health system kind of lose the atmosphere even if it goes deep into the areas like devil reef and y'nth lei or however it's spelled which we only heard of in the story but didn't actually see or read about
>>224123229I don't know if they've patched this bug, but last time I played that game I couldn't actually finish it because the very last sequence is somehow tied to the clock frequency of your CPU so because processors now have several times higher clock frequencies you can't actually finish it before the timer runs out. Thankfully it's not an important part of the gameplay, just a tunnel where you have to run for your life while avoiding obstacles, but still kind of a bummer. Ended up having to watch the ending cutscene on youtube.
>>224120712>>224120891Chuds are now making up quotes about Lovecraft after realizing Tolkien was a leftoid.Lovecraft was just a casual racist(pretty common in his time). He was nothing like you wannabe nazi-chuds.He actually had appreciation for primitive and non-white cultures.
>>224123401Same thing almost happened to me. I think the frame thing was fucking me too but eventually by just taking the most optimal paths possible or as best I could I was able to barely make it and that was such a relief. If that still an issue and it's proving impossible, there is the unofficial patch that you could try
>>224120573Yes, in the extremely progressive times of the 1910s-30s. Where everyone was racist.
>>224123071You're telling me that in over 100 years they couldn't adapt this into a movie?
>>224116284>filming a fella expressly described as indescribable ???
>>224123896There are two lengthy descriptions of Cthulhu's idols in The Call of Cthulhu that paint a very clear picture of what you're dealing with. Lovecraft even drew it himself.>If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.>It represented a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopuslike head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind. This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal covered with undecipherable characters. The tips of the wings touched the back edge of the block, the seat occupied the center, whilst the long, curved claws of the doubled-up, crouching hind legs gripped the front edge and extended a quarter of the way down toward the bottom of the pedestal. The cephalopod head was bent forward, so that the ends of the facial feelers brushed the backs of huge forepaws which clasped the croucher's elevated knees.Then the sailor's first hand testimony repeats the same basic details, except now it's real instead of just a statue.>It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway>A mountain walked or stumbled.>Three men were swept up by the flabby claws before anybody turned.>Then, bolder than the storied Cyclops, great Cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency.>The awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but Johansen drove on relentlessly.
>>224117514>UnderwaterThis is such an underrated movie i swear.
>>224121187I think you just have shit taste my friend.
>>224117514You might want to read the OP
>>224116372You guys won't like this answer but Jurassic Park is pretty high on the list. It hits all of the right story beats and themes, and the only reason we don't see Dinosaurs as Lovecraftian is we've become desensitized to them(partially by this movie). It's a story about a bunch of scholars getting in over their heads by awakening ancient monstrosities that they don't understand and miserably fail to control, and finding themselves in a new natural order that is alien and uncaring towards them.
>>224116284Nolan's next project
>>224116372The Manitou. The dark whatever she doing jazz hands at at the end? That's Cthulhu.
>>224124361>paint a very clear picture of what you're dealing withNo it doesn’t. Because in both instances it is also mentioned very clearly that there is no way to properly describe it. There is no proper language for it. So what you have are attempts at describing it and representing it by human beings. And Lovecraft makes very clear time and time again in his writing that these attempts do not come even close at doing it justice.
>>224116284The Lovecraft Historical Society already made "The Call of Cthulhu" in 2005, and it's phenomenal kino.
>>224120712based pattern recognizer
>>224119964>asian nurse a cuteiirc its knives from scott pilgrim
>>224125370That kino huh? Okay I'll check it out.
>>224116284There actually was one, I think it was part of a trilogy too? It had actual Cthulu for the climax, only he was defeated by an Outer God because the filmmakers remembered he's not the top dog in the universe.I cannot for the life of me remember what that fucking name was. It was based around a society trying to ressurect lovecraft creatures.
>>224124361It's le indescribable is a meme from people who never even bothered to read any of his stories. And it's not like this stuff is difficult reading, so they really have no excuse.
>>224125476If you have good taste, you will watch it multiple times before the end of the year, bet.
>>224125596>it’s mentioned in the literal story that its indescribable and that there is no proper language to accurately describe it.>durr it’s a memeWhy not just admit you watched a YouTube video on the top 5 coolest Lovecraft monsters and that’s your knowledge.
I mean the Thing is as lovecraftian as it gets
>>224116284Hard to make and you'd be lucky to break even.
Does The Ritual count?
>>224116284impossible to make a non-woke one today since Leftists hate the author for "being racist" and horror as a genre is one of if not the most woke of all movie genres
>>224126226No it's not. It's Campbellian.
>>224117076kino
Like Stephen King is a pale imitation of Richard Matheson, Lovecraft was a pale imitation of William Hope Hodgson.
Its too close to the truth. Imagine if people knew about the sheer terrifying reality of the Ouroboric Kracken of the Beast Matrix. Its maddening tendrils driving man here and there, from hope to despair to desperation to death.
>>224126798If so that's because they are possessed by demons and horror movies need to invoke the spirit of evil/fear to be made.
>>224116284theres tons of B cthulu movies from the 90s
>>224116404It follows the spirit of the book but not the plot. The book is the surveyer's pov recalling the increasingly bizzare shit he noticed upon each subsequent visit to the main family's house, and his interpretation/realisation of what was happening. The movie covers what is generally implied to have happened during those "in between" moments from the family's perspective. It's actually one of the better Lovecraft stories.
>>224123438This true. I know Lovecraft want many Indian into USA. He know Indian superior to white Timmy and paki!!! Without more Indian USA economy will die!
>>224127194No it's actually because Cthulu mythos is bad
>>224116711most of the subhumans here & elsewhere dont fundamentally understand what themes are
>get told something is lovecraftian>look inside>it's actually derlethian
>>224126226its not at all in fact lol
>>224125039thatd bc star spawn arent fully corporeal so when you look at them youre seeing reality bend
>>224122250they would butcher it, shoggoths dindu nuffin they decolonized dem racist oldies
>>224127556Hence "faithful"
>>224127608tfw no dry water ?
>>224116284Stay away from The Endless. It's lazy fucking dogshit.
>>224117842>The Empty Mankino flick
>>224124768I like your outside the box idea, but ultimately I have to disagree with you. Dinosaurs weren't cosmic. They're too 'earthy'.
>>224127933Is that the one that’s just about some hippies that get stuck in an endless time loop? It was about as meh as it gets.
>>224128227This. Dinosaurs follow basic biological principles, and many look like animals today. Also, lots of the dinosaurs were friendly, not 100% certain, but I don’t think many lovecraftian monsters could be classified as friendly. Ambivalent, sure, but not openly friendly
>>224116372Pic related was pretty good imo
Anyone seen this? Japanese TV movie adaptation.
>>224117514The side chick in this movie was quite possibly the best written strong female character I've ever seen. Or at least the best one I can remember>Terrified literally every step of the way>Pushes through anyway to save her manFucking kino
>>224128387Strays too far from the original and doesn't have the hotel locks chase sequence because well Japanese inns didn't have locks...
I still have a the faintest dim ember of hope that one day in my lifetime, someone competent will adapt AtMoM.
>>224120333>>224120373already sounds like primo Lovecraftian horror kino just from this alone
>>224120640kino
>>224128387They added a woman and girl for no reason.
>>224126226true
>>224120124He's psychic. That's why people have dreams about him in the story. And that's when he's asleep. Still, the main character gets to see him and weird architecture and doesn't go crazy. It' more like crazy people have an easier time dreaming about him. Some people with good imagination are also able to do it when he's putting out more psychic emanations or whatever, and they get 'crazy' for a temporary period because they are like inside his weird mind.>>224120517Lovecracft wans't that racist for the time period. After the bombings American became super duper racist about everyone. Just pick up a newspaper from that time period. It makes Lovecraft look tame.
>>224127403iktfb
>>224127403Um... What does this even mean?
