At the Mountains of Madness

If this story were to get a cinema adaptation, who would you want to see direct it Sup Forums?

Personally I'd be down with a Guillermo Del Toro take on it

I don't think it would work. It ruins your personal idea of what the creatures look like if they depict them on screen. they're supposed to be things that humans can't properly understand when looked at

Meh.

I'm fine with The Thing being the closest we'll get to a AtMoM movie.

Yeah. For this reason I think Carpenter or Lynch. They do well with setting a horrifying mood rather than
>muh scary monster in a CGI, rubber suit

I always hate that approach.
Personally I find my imagination to be really predictable and whatever I come up with is consistently underwhelming. I really appreciate other peoples takes on monsters and unseen horrors.

to be fair you don't really SEE them
in the story the protagonists see drawings of them

yes they do. They see elder creatures that were killed in a fight, they see shoggoth who they run from and danforth looks back at the plateau when they are escaping and he sees something that makes him go insane

Cronenberg or 80's Carpenter.

honestly I thought the pacing and story of the thing to be better

If it were made tomorrow, Denis Villeneuve. Enemy and Prisoners both capture the kind of dread, terror and obsession combined with insanity that is necessary for true Lovecraftian horror. Polanski and Lynch at certain points in their career could be excellent, not sure how they'd do today.

Del Toro and Cronenberg are a bit too literal, love both of them but it both would focus more on showing us horrific images rather than the idea of madness, but would be likely much more visually fantastic, at least on the surface.

terry gilliam, jean-pierre jeunet, or tarsem singh are the only real options imo

>I don't think it would work. It ruins your personal idea of what the creatures look like if they depict them on screen. they're supposed to be things that humans can't properly understand when looked at
That is a really interesting concept of seeing a creature

I'd like to see someone tackle this in such a way that plays with the medium of film. Imagine each frame being glitched and warped but the actors and things around them appearing unchanged. Make it seem like the camera or projector is failing. If the human mind can't comprehend these entities, who is to say a camera or video file can?

you're an innovator
hey why dont you write a novel in second-person

Honestly I'd just want to see del toros depiction of the cyclopian ruins/hyroglyphs I feel that he would set the atmosphere properly, cus the scariest parts of the story to me are really the atmosphere not so much the elder things

This would be neato

He's had one in development hell going on ten years now.

He decided to drop it when Prometheus came out, since they'd be too "similar".

Get a better imagination, idiot

Damn I had no idea, might be something to look forward to in the next decade

Werner Herzog

Came here to post this

Perfect.

rene laloux but he ded