Okay this isn't meant to be a meme thread I am serious...

Okay this isn't meant to be a meme thread I am serious. Please give me a detailed description on all Lovecraftian film adaptations.

I really like this genre and only seen In the Mouth of Madness, The Thing, It

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Event Horizon

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re-animator is a direct adaption.
hellboy has elements of Lovecraft

But you retard, The Thing is not a Loecraftian movie.

Shrek 2

Alien is very simillar to Mountains of Madness

>direct adaption
in name and character only the story and tone is completely different and worse gore is funny

From Beyond.

true but it has strong elements of cosmic horror

There are no Lovecraft adaptations. Only Lovecraft inspired movies.

It's never going to happen because the few living filmmakers working today that could pull off a legit adaptation won't.

Instead it's going to end up in the hands of "muh monsters" filmmakers

Honestly the closest so far has been True Detective Season 1 and I'm still not even sure if that was intentional or not.

Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth.

Great game. I reccomend playing it if you like Lovecraft.

Stephen King goes Lovecraftian.

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In what way is it like Mountains of Madness?? If anything, The Thing is way more like it.

I dont think you have ever read that book

>There are no Lovecraft adaptations.

Die Farbe, The call of Cthulu, The Whisperer in the Darkness, Reanimator, From Beyond and The resurrected are ALL adaptions.

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OK do you guys mean adaptions or adaptations?

Just play bloodborne

Like after Prometheus came out and del Toro said he won't be able to make ATMOM now.

Does he even read Lovecraft?

You know what I mean.

No one has yet to make an actual "Lovecraft" film that captures his writing and the atmosphere and universe he built up.

The closest has been Kill List and TD S1.

That is the most retarded thing I have ever heard.

wrong

re-animator yes
hellboy wrong

wrong

wrong

wrong

game - probably not lovecraftian at all

game - aliens =/= lovecraftian. so stop.

I didn't say it. Toro did.

Posted it on his own fansite forum.

So you like video games and not reading?

Yes, I understand what you fucking said. Didn't know I had to be specific in calling the retard in question by his name. Jesus christ people here are thick

Are you retarded? How do you consider reanimator a lovecraft adaption but From beyond not?

Damn. Did I just fuck up a potential friendship between us

This is the most retarded thing I've ever read.

send me nudes and we might be able to salvage something

Characters find ruins of once great civilization and then they are hunted monsters left behind by said civilization. Basic premise is very similar.

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Just read the stories faggot.
Then you will actually KNOW what Lovecraftian means instead of going by what wikipedia tells you.

>Characters find ruins of once great civilization

IT WAS A FUCKING STAR SHIP. YOU KNOW, LIKE ONE THAT THEY THEMSELVES USED

No, its not a similar premise. The fucking Mummy is more like Mountains than alien

if civilization was so great then why would they leave behind monsters. WHY?

it was a ship. the ship from the opening credits

fuck off back to plebbit fedora-craftian

Dagon

WHAT'S THE FUCKING DEAL WITH ALL OF THESE LOVERCRAFTIAN THREADS SUDDENLY IN THIS FUCKING PLACE? MAKE A CHART WITH THE MOVIE AND GO FUCK YOURSELVES YOU FUCKING MONGRELS

when something like this happens it's usually just 1 autist behind it

kill yourself

newfags. the "lovecraftian in everything" meme has been sputed since true detective 1 (which unironically DID have eldritch influences).

If you think Bloodborne isn't Lovecraftian horror then you clearly aren't a fan of Lovecraft

DUDE ALYUMS

kill yourself weeb

Nigga the mi-go come from a moon around saturn or Jupiter

>game - probably not lovecraftian at all
>probably

Then exercise those fat fingers and research whether it is or isn't before expressing an opinion.

there's no aliens in bloodborne
they're demons

theres really no need. anything as limiting as a videogame narative can only be reductive in its interpretaion of lovecraft - even if it was directly adapting a lovecraft story

>DUDE ONE OF LOAVECRAFTS STORIES HAD A CAT
>DUDE ALL MOVIES WITH CATS ARE LOAVECRAFTIAN
this is what you sound like, tardlips

is The Mist lovecraftian?

No. Its Silent Hillian

Lovecraft had demons in plenty of his stories

>aliens =/= lovecraftian. so stop
Why do you pretend to know Lovecraft when you say stupid shit like this that's obviously fake to even surface-level fans?

Except every monster in lovecraft is alien to earth DUUUUHHHHHHHHHH

>E.T is lovecraftian
wow really made me thing

>le semantics
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>I'm a massive ignorant cunt: the post

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No it doesn't. Do you even know what cosmic horror is? Just because the enemy is an alien doesn't make it cosmic horror.

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We will never have good lovecraft discussion on Sup Forums because no one has actually read the stories. Ive only read like 6 of them.

Why is the "art" the only thing ever spooky or intriguing about this genre? The movies are absolute shit.

>Elder Things and Mi-Go are not aliens
Seriously nigger?

>reading comprehension is HARD!
aww poor you

Do you? The Thing is a creature beyond our understanding, easily capable of wiping out all life on earth.

You can't even really describe the things real form because it's just a writhing mass of body parts and creatures. It even does well to capture the paranoia and isolation of the characters in the story. Denying The Thing is inspired by Lovecraft just shows you don't even understand or have even read any of his stories.

Fuck off cuck.

Isn't the thing just some dangerous parasite-assimilation creature that has unknown, but not incomprehensible, motivations?

>beyond our understanding
They literally figure it out mid way through the movie.

>easily capable of wiping out all life on earth
And yet couldnt even wipe out a small science team.

I like Dagon&Shatterbrain personally.

They're cheesy as fuck, but they're very entertaining and both have some great concepts/practical effects.

>tfw no Uxia sister gf

Which ones? I thought The Temple and Shadow over Innsmouth were elder-god tier.

ITT: niggers don't know what lovecraftian means.

There are two main elements that make a work lovecraftian: themes regarding "otherness" and themes regarding the idea of human irrelevance on the cosmic scale. A lovecraftian character is alien enough that it short circuits the human mind and powerful enough that it's doesn't even acknowledge humanity. It's a very agoraphobic kind of horror. So Pennywise for example is not a lovecraftian character because it obviously cares about it's prey enough that it turns into a clown to scare them.

They don't literally figure it out. They figure out it can assimilate organisms, beyond that they know nothing about it. They don't know what it actually is, what it wants, where it came from. It's purely alien.

And correct, it didn't succeed. But neither did anything else in Lovecrafts stories. Even Cthulu got hit by a boat and went back to sleep.

When did Lovecraft posting became to autistic and retarded?
>dude cosmic horror is lieeekk... cosmic, duude...
>hurr durr, ayyliums are not lovecraft! reeeeeeee!
>b-but youre all wrong! nothing you say is lovecraftian, you have never read any lovecraft!!
>Lovecraftian

For the record, the non-meme term "Lovecraftian" refers to a term of uncertainty and fear coming from something horrible and unknown. This IS applicable to the first Alien because mystery ship bearing unknown horror.
Among other things that are "Lovecraftian" there is, ancient (elder) things, extra-dimensional things and unfathomable alien civilizations. The common denominator is that (You), the reader, do not entirely understand what these things are all about and it scares the shit out the characters. Doesn't necessarily mean you don't known anything about them, you can know, but there is always more and it's always beyond your reach. Alternatively, "Lovecraftian" is also an aesthetic element which has influences various other aesthetic styles, such as body horror, necro things like HR Giger, tentacled monsters that are not hentai, and amorphous creatures with lots of eyes, reminder that they can "see" more than you ever will.

But I'm sure my attempt at shedding some light to the matter will be received with autism, so I'm just writing for the rational people here. As for the rest, bring on your reeeing, give me (You)s, or don't. Couldn't care less. By all means, continue this shitposting and spoil the entire Lovecraft current with this shitty meme. You'll know it was your fault that we never got any good Lovecraft adaptations after this meme storm is over.

Inspired by cosmic horror, sure. But it's not an example of it.

Give an example then.

This

>redditors who've never actually read Lovecraft pulling out arbitrary rules about what Lovecraftian is

Really? None of the creatures in Lovecraft succeeded? Dear Lord man, read some of his fucking stories before you come spouting your bullshit on here.

Lovecraft virgin here.
Which Lovecraft story has The Yellow King in it?

Not trying to (You) farm but I am genuinely curious how the fuck you people can read this Lovecraft shit. The prose is awful and they are pretty much just boring pulp-fiction stories about le scary space aliens.

Name one that destroyed the world.

I appreciate what you're trying to do here, but actual logic is a fart in the wind at this point. Once something starts devolving in to shitposting even just a little, the descent is unstoppable. Either Sup Forums will get bored of it or it will reach the level of baneposting, there is no third option.

the king in yellow

The Void

Cloverfield

That's not the point of Lovecraft, moron.

>its not even lovecraft
Wow True Detective threads lied to me

Then why the fuck would you try and bring up the fact the thing failed to wipe out a small science team as if it actually mattered? You complete moron.

lovecraft was a fan of the story and made references to it in his works

I didn't. That was someone else.

>Uxia will never sacrifice you to her eldritch god

>you will never fuck your QT mutated sister

Friendly reminder that Lovecraft was a crazy racist (even for that era's standards) and that "eldritch abominations" is just a metaphor for niggers.

he was madly in love with a jewish woman

Funny thing is that his true fanbase out there, actually forgives him for it. He was a scared man, a son of his time, and if it hadn't been for his issues and fear, he would've never written his stuff. They separate the man from his work, and they are quite open minded folk, in the words of someone I cant remember but was related to the tourist pit stops from Lovecraft's life.

>he also married a 40 year old single mother roastie who paid his bills
Sup Forums alright.

>Films involving H.P Lovecraft as a character
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)

>H.P Lovecraft adaptations
The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
From Beyond (1986)
Re-Animator (1985)
The Unnamable (1988)
Dagon (2001)
The Curse (1987) [The Colour Out of Space]
Castle Freak (1995) [The Outsider]
The Resurrected (1991) [The Case of Charles Dexter Ward]

>Films imo that contain Lovecraft themes (sort of)
Dark City (1998)
The Mist (2007)
Event Horizon (1997)
The Borderlands (2013)
AM1200 (2008)
The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

Why reddit loves him? Someone explain please, I find it all so boring

would you really though?