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

[JoeViturbo]

I watched Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" and "The Host" over the weekend. I loved both very much.

[Spiog]

Just seen a film called 'Dead Birds', blood splattered old tomes and gates to other dimensions…
Didn’t quite get the connection between the title of the movie and the movie itself though.
Spiog.
Of course I’m out of my mind
It’s a dark and scary place

[Foreshadow]

I was under the general impression that HPL was not a habitual user of drugs and thus was not writing under such a stupor, but rather that he was plagued (blessed?) with nightmares, phobias, and an extremely bizarre youth and life.

Science fiction book club. Andrew Wheeler. H.P. Lovecrafts' Black Seas of Infinity. This man is an editor at the SFBC.

H.P. Lovecraft 1890-1937. Died from intestinal cancer. Was taking opium for pain, hence the wild dreams and hallucinations. This is something I know is true, but I cannot seem to find the part in the book that explains it all exactly.

An excerpt from the rear flap of the book;
H.P. Lovecraft is the best known and most studied American horror writer of the early 20 th century. His influence on the field is still felt today. more than 60 years after his death. He lived and worked primarily in Providence, Rhode Island, and prided himself on his aristocratic lineage. He was a major force in amateur journalism and a tireless correspondent, whose selected letters equal his published fiction and whose total letters dwarf all else that he wrote. he was, in all his idiosyncratic, crotchety glory, a true American original.

[FJR]

I watched John Carpenter's Prince Of Darkness the other evening (with my love).
Now, he has directed 3 of my most-loved films (The Fog, The Thing, Halloween), but it certainly wasn't in their league. The central idea is quite Lovecraftian - the 'scientising/materialising' of the Christian mythology, and claiming that all this talk of spirits/souls/angels etc. was really guff made up for silly/gullible people, and in fact, the real bad thing is simply some strange, developing, gloopy stuff which wishes us all unwell, something distinctly material (and what that means exactly is of course another question).
It has its moments, and the soundtrack is a nice piece of Carpenter apprehension-building, if not especially memorable.
The commentary on the dvd by Carpenter (and pal) is amusing and occasionally interesting - though he doesn't remember too much about it at times, and doesn't have much more idea of what is going on, or has happened, 'outside the camera frame', so to speak, than you or I. A film set free into the wide open seas of hermeneutics by the author (who we all know is dead anyway, as various scintillating French thinkers informed us in their 60s writings).
Best,
Francis

[Iohannes]

Recently got, have watched repeatedly, and get a huge kick from HPLHS's The Call of Cthulhu. (Ditto listening to their "radio play" At the Mountains of Madness.)

Also still enjoy on re-watching: the Babylon 5 movie Thirdspace, which is Lovecraftian in both plot premise and monster shape -- though it really helps to be familiar with the TV series, as that established the setting and characters. B5 has dipped into the horror genre repeatedly, as in the movies River of Souls and (first half of) The Lost Tales.

Not quite Lovecraftian (except for being horrifying, like Prince of Darkness or the Hellraiser films) is another spacefaring movie, Event Horizon. The concept of another dimension containing hellish perils would be the commonality here.

[Cousteau]

Beyond the walls of sleep (?) - Not perhaps the best movie ever, a bit gory too, but it's so strange and alien that I found it quite scary all the same.

The music of Erich Zann - Great short movie (german or french, can't remember). Very nice atmosphere and follows the original story closely.

Dreams in the witch's house - Awesome! Freakish, scary and close to the original.

The Call of Cthulhu - I liked it, although it's perhaps not too great as a film in itself. Highly recommended though.

Dagon - A bit "Scream" in my opinion, but nice all the same.

[Henrik]

The Dunwich Horror I saw a couple of years back. Very psychedelic. The movie is quite bad and the special effects are mostly poorly done. The intro is quite good though.

[squashua]

Waiting on Netflix to deliver the "Bonus Disc" version of The Mist.

If you have Netflix and have not seen "The Mist" yet, make sure do get the Bonus Disc, not the main movie. The Bonus has the (preferred) black and white Director's cut version of the movie on it.

[Pookie]

Sadly I have a pile of Lovecraftian films to watch, but since they were gifts to my girlfriend and she still has not watched them, I am not in a position to do so.

[CitizenX]

The Thing
The Host - Recently
The Mist (Steven King's) - Recently
The Descent - Less Recently
The War of the Worlds - Less Recently
They - Much Less Recently
In The Mouth of Madness - Recently
Silent Hill - Recently
Cloverfield - Recently

[Nebulous]

The Thing (Carpenter's remake)
Dreams in the Witch House (hour long Masters of Horror)
From Beyond (same director as above, Stuart Gordon)
Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon again)

um...

Oh, someone else mentioned EVENT HORIZON which in many ways was close to being a classic horror film, but sort of drops the ball by the end and falls short. However, if you like horror in space i would still recommend Event Horizon. It deals with otherwordly dimensions.

[squashua]

I've mentioned Event Horizon multiple times.

It's essentially Hellraiser in space.

I've read rumors that it was supposed to be Warhammer 40k the prequel movie.

[squashua]

Any of you crazy kids going to go out and watch "The Ruins"?

Though the commercials make it look like generic schlock horror fare, I hear it's actually garnered some pretty good reviews, so it might have hope.

[Cousteau]

Death Tunnel - Not the best movie perhaps. Maybe even, dare I say, c**p, but it could still give some decent scenario-ideas.

[ThothAmon]

The Host - Notable for the insane reaction of the authorities i.e. drilling the skull of a living subject to look for a non-existent virus, all to keep up the cover story! A highly-recommended monster movie.

Doom - Terrible non-Lovecraftian film but interesting plot device i.e. a retrovirus that can selectively mutate victims depending on whether they are inherently good or evil

Jeepers Creepers 2 - Hackneyed plot with a seasonal twist. Replace the monster with a Byakhee (or the family from The Lurking Fear) and you have a Blood Brothers / Delta Green scenario ready to go...