Looking for horror movies about eldritch abominations and stuff like that. Something like "Dagon", but not necessarily...

Looking for horror movies about eldritch abominations and stuff like that. Something like "Dagon", but not necessarily. Doesn't have to be great either, just watchable
What would you recommend?

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>The Mist
>Cloverfield
>The Thing

In the Mouth of Madness. Lovecraft in all but name
From Beyond
Possesion has some eldritch weirdness

Does Cloverfield's found footage style distract from the movie, or not?

Thanks! Saw Mouth, but not the last two

I have no problem with first person or shaky cam and I enjoyed the film.

>hurr durr tentacles
let's not dumb down lovecraft gents

That's literally 90% of the creatures lovecraft talks about Autist. Almost every single creature has atleast SOME kind of tentacle

Borderlands.

Uh, maybe in the fanart. In the fanart, everything is mouths, eyes, and tentacles.

But except for Cthulu, I don't remember anything else explicitly being described as having tentacles. And even Cthulu is described as "octopoid." Not sure the word tentacles is even used.

Was Cloverfield supposed to be Eldritch? I didn't get that vibe watching it, but I can kind of see it looking back.

The problem with a movie is that you shouldn't really show the monster. It's not about the monster, it's about the place of humanity in respect to the monster, its insignificance. I'm alone, but I'd like to see anthology series based on Lovecraft's work, for just Dream Quest since the gods play smaller roles and it's about that journey.

In some forms, Nyarlathotep is a writhing mass of tentacles. There are also beings with cone-shaped heads that taper into a single tentacle. There's quite a few, actually. The fan artists didn't just make it up out of nothing. Maybe not as ubiquitous as all that, but it's certainly there in the texts.

confirmed for illiteracy

[to whoever types the posts for that illiterate buffon: strangle him]

The Whisperer in the darkness
Call of cthulu the silent film made in 05
Event horizon
The taking of Deborah Logan

Fuck off loser

nah.

mi-go, moon-beasts, gugs, nightgaunts, byakhees, deep ones, etc; zero tentacles

cthulhu is never actually described as having them

your description of nyarlathotep is nothing from lovecraft's actual writing. nyarly is just an egyptian man in a poem based on a nightmare.

even shoggoths are amorphous, though often depicted as tentacled.

Story and page number.

>Yith

Two arms are crab claws, the other is three suckers in a trumpet shape. There are little wavy antennae on their heads, but calling them tentacles is a bit of a stretch.

[triggered]

yithians have wiggly arms but they arent tentacles

What's with the brackets autist

>never actually described

Maybe not in Call of Cthulhu, but HPL described him in letters, and even drew this shitty picture.

It's probably why there's a "canon" form for Cthulhu but shit like Yog Sothoth is anybody's guess.

some examples:

From DQoUK:
From the motions of their tentacles Carter could see that the blunt-snouted moon-beasts were enjoying the spectacle hugely...

From AtMoM:
Those in shallow water had continued the fullest use of the eyes at the ends of their five main head tentacles, and had practiced the arts of sculpture and of writing in quite the usual way—the writing accomplished with a stylus on waterproof waxen surfaces.

From DH:
The skin was thickly covered with coarse black fur, and from the abdomen a score of long greenish-grey tentacles with red sucking mouths protruded limply.

From THitM:
Most of the body was covered with what at first appeared to be fur, but which on closer examination proved to be a dense growth of dark, slender tentacles or sucking filaments, each tipped with a mouth suggesting the head of an asp.

The cone-headed thing was from a letter about a dream, not a story.

>cthulhu is never actually described as having them(tentacles)
Come on now, Cthulhu's head is likened to both a squid and a cuttlefish in Call of Cthulhu.

Dagon

Seconding The Mist since King's Prim monsters and Todash concepts felt heavily inspire by Lovecraft.

This is why The Possession works so well. It takes the "the characters and audience go insane together" idea from the Shining but turns it up to 11. It does show the monster, but the reveal only works because of the biting hysteria surrounding it.

King has admitted a deep admiration of Lovecraft's work.

The fact is that Lovecraft's themes have become pretty commonplace in horror fiction over the last fifty years, and Stephen King's been a big part of that.

Monsters (2010)

I'm not sure how effective the gay themes in this are, but I found its portrayal of the seaside town and cult pretty chilling. Felt very isolated and brooding. Throughout the film is a very focused sense of impending doom. The ending sequences of chaos and pandemonium are also pretty on point.

Besides that, another sleeper title that you may or may not enjoy is Vanishing on 7th Street. The acting and writing in it is the definition of mediocre, but the concept is fun enough for a lazy watch. McDonalds-level Lovecraft.

I wouldn't say this, despite the giant tentacle aliens. The film brokers a distinct sense of natural beauty, and shows that big parts of the infected areas are living in more or less peace with the monsters. It all feels too hopeful to be a Lovecraftian movie.

Cloverfield's style is really hit or miss. I personally liked it, but if it's annoying you by 20 minutes in or so don't bother with the rest of the movie.

Since we're on the topic of horror movies, is Frankenstein's army any good?

You watch it for the monster designs.

Good is kinda subjective, but the designs and execution are amazing. I was in awe a few times but I don't know if I would call it good.

That one Gargoyles episode where they had to hack into his brother's brain or something.
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Pure kid kino

Highly recommend a short film called AM1200.

>I have never read any Lovecraft