The last Lovecraft(ian) film you watched...

[WiseWolf]

It is good. Creepy, but a remake of other movies of the genre like Hills have Eyes.

By the way, I just watched Black Death, I picked it from this forum, gets another vote.

[CsabTheHun]

Another big-time vote for the Kill List. The entire movie has this disturbing feeling of dread that slowly creeps on you while watching it. The last part is just damn scary. I say it is a must for Delta Green fans - alongside the very excellent The Veteran which is not a horror movie per se, but depicts tradecraft, weapon handling and the slow descent into madness that is so common among DG agents perfectly.

Also, Left Bank (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0940723/), one of the best Lovecraftian movies I've seen in a long time. Great actors and very disturbing movie. Also, it's Belgian, so if you are learning Dutch (as do I), it's doubly great (although they speak Flemish in this one, not pure Dutch but still a good learning experience)

[WiseWolf]

Have you seen this short? "A Lovecraft Dream". Really good.

[reberclark]

Just watched The New Daughter with Kevin Costner (of all people). Really creepy and very Lovecraftian. Also saw Del Toro's Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - good work! Also, if you will pardon the shameless self-promotion, my movie Lovecraft Paragraphs is now up on YouTube in its entirety at http://youtu.be/XzVbfSsdMRw.

[Roger]

Shelter (2010), Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Starts off a bit slow for my tastes but it picks up Mythos speed as it progresses. Don't want to give away too much.

The plot could fairly easily be bent into a modern-day or Delta Green scenario. A number of the characters would fit right in, too.

Anyway, overall, I recommend it.



Cheers,
Roger

[Fort Grizzly]

Just saw Dagon (2001) this morning while recovering from a mild case of the flu. Talk about insanity...the head-huncho of the village is named Cambarro. A play on the actual town in Spain founded by my family, Combarro. That was awesome.

Fort Grizzly

[Roger]

I totally forgot to mention Pontypool! It's a fine movie and has Mythos written all over it.

I also see that possibly maybe a sequel, Pontypool Changes, might be coming out at some point in the future.



Cheers,
Roger

[Nvision]

Pontypool's a great movie, using a kind of "War of the Worlds" broadcast style. The book is excellent as well, though a little challenging at times, and both are about my hometown of Pontypool, Ontario! No real radio station there, but it can be rather creepy. There's a fair bit of old, abandoned buildings there, and it's especially eerie when the entire village gets socked in with dense fog, ala Silent Hill.

[Morthrai]

For the UK contingent, The Last Lovecraft is now available on DVD from Poundland - definitely a bargain methinks

[reberclark]

Watched Absentia last week. Low budget and good creepiness.

[JessGulbranson]

Well, this isn't 100% recent, but since I'm new here I figured I'd share. My daughter (about 2 years old here) was playing while I was watching a silent film you might recognize, and decided that it needed some vocal accompaniment...

[Kooris]

The last Lovecraftian film I watched was The Ressurected (1992 straight-to-video modern adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward) about a month ago. The HP Podcraft guys mentioned it a few times so after a while I gave in, googled it and found it on youtube.

I'd give it 7/10 stars, the effort was there to get a faithful adaptation but they fudged a few parts to make it more accessible (which I'm always on the fence about) but changed the ending from the one from the one in the original story (which is a shame because I love the way the story ends). I'm not a big fan of some of the characters they added in, but I can understand why they had to change things to suit the modern day setting. It's worth a watch so just search it on youtube (if it hasn't been taken down yet).

[nickedwards]

I can also recommend Kill List (tip, don't be watching this in a bar on your iPad when the guy gets his hammer out...)

I liked lots about it but the fight in the tunnel was especially good...I intend to borrow the claustrophobia and 'you can't fire your shotgun fast enough' for my next game

Kill List

Don't think anyone else has mentioned this low budget British horror/crime hybrid: A pair of ex-soldiers working in the shadier side of the “contracting” industry take a job to knock off a trio of individuals who turn out to be members of a cult. Things go pear shaped big style, with The Wicker Man and Race With The Devil being obvious cinematic influences.

The primary Lovecraftian theme to me seemed to be the idea of something deeply horrible lurking under the everyday. The main narrative thread of being slowly corrupted by the very thing that you're fighting against strikes me as consistent with some of the more modern iterations of the mythos (e.g. Delta Green). I also thought there were similarities to the stuff Ramsey Campbell was doing in the 1970s, specifically the short stories Cold Print and Potential where unpleasant and/or alienated characters are pulled into something a lot bigger and badder than they are. The existence of a very nasty modern day cult seemed reminiscent of his novels The Parasite and The Nameless.

[vulpine]

Was a Lovecraftian weekend, watching 'The Whisperer in Darkness' for the second time with some friends who hadn't seen it. Then watched 'Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown' later that night by myself.

[AnaWE]

Evil Words (Sur le seuil) a French-Canadian movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380732/

Not bad, but the novel was better, a lot creepier. On the first few pages you get this unsettling feeling that something just isn't right and that feel keeps growing and growing the more you read.

The movie was a good adaptation though. Not great, but good.