Sadly, I can only ever claim to have seen Dagon which I found entertaining. I was in SE-Asia working for 8 years so have much catching up to do.
Sadly, I can only ever claim to have seen Dagon which I found entertaining. I was in SE-Asia working for 8 years so have much catching up to do.
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Just watched what best can be described as a contact from a mythos god - connecting through a beacon and by using the minds of its objects to do its bidding. Man, like a moth drawn to the light of knowledge - is consumed by greed. Pair that with an asylum and hints towards The Shining and One flew…
The Corridor (2010)
Plot: Five friends go out to a cabin in the winter, to mend their friendships. Key themes: portal / gate, insanity / psych ward.
Cheers!
/Dave
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Little surprised its not been added here before, but Ninth Gate By Polanski and starring Johnny depp is an awesome piece of Lovecraftian film making.
"Dean Corso, a rare book dealer, is appointed by a renowned book collector, Balkan, to verify the authenticity of one of his books. According to sources, only three copies of that book exist, and in three different places. After losing his friend who has been killed for that book, he leaves on the mission. He wants to verify Balkan's book but finds something else! During his dramatic travels through Paris and Madrid, too many things beyond his expectations are revealed!" imdb
It may be about the devil but in tone it is totally Lovecraft and as it involves an investigator travelling around chasing clues I keep telling my new players to watch it to get an idea of what an investigator would be like....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaKkbgtlmZQ
Also saw this new French horror movie which is looking totally cthulhu, check out the tentacles: http://www.deadshadows.com/
It probably says so somewhere in the notes, but I would think "The Ninth Gate" was very much an inspiration for Bookhounds of London. It is *exactly* that little sub-genre and seedy world.
Incidentally, one of my favorite things about the film and the book it is based on (The Club Dumas, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte) is that the scary book in the novel and movie is very blatantly and clearly based on an actual book, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Dreams of Poliphilus). It's a truly fascinating work. I've had the luck to have worked at a special collection that had a copy of it, and spent several hours poring over it. Really cool.
Just joined the forum and must say I'm loving the recommendations. Check this one out: -
The Thaw (2009)
A research expedition to the Arctic discovers that a melting polar ice cap has released a deadly prehistoric parasite.
http://www.imdb.com/rg/em_share/rt_i...itle/tt1235448
It has a deliciously dark end-of-days vibe and the effects were surprisingly good!
Love that movie! It's in my all time top ten horror flicks. Watched "Bride Of Re-Animator" yesterday for the first time in a decade. Lot's of fond memories.Originally Posted by colindunlop
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
this indie flick is presented as a prequel of sorts to the famous decent-into-madness short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman...superb acting by the old maid sister (Dale Dickey from "Winter's Bone") and a cool pair of bookend cameos from Michael Moriarty (the dad in 70's monster baby flick "It's Alive!")...
creepy tension builds throughout, which gets tiresome, but results in a satisfying supernatural payoff by the third act...there's more to this story than Gilman's crazed woman scratching at ugly wallpaper, folks...there's something else scratching this time, from behind the wallpapered walls...and it wants out!
(oooooh, my turn again!)
ok, so I was bouncing around Vimeo and came across what I can only describe as a Lovecraftian music video...because that's how I wanna describe it!:
"Corporate Occult" - Huoratron (2010)
https://vimeo.com/11986796
it feels more like a short horror film than an electro house music video...this is prolly due to all of the tentacled awesomeness that goes down during the climactic final minute or so...also, don't look away or else you might miss another highlight: a quick homage to the memorable birthing scene from Takashi Miike's "Gozu"!
why can't all music videos be this kick ass?
Watched Lommel's "The Tomb" on Netflix. Awful. It wasn't even in a tomb. It looked like a warehouse. Before that, I had watched "The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu" which was hilarious! Very well done.
On Friday, Aug. 30, the Cleveland Museum of Art screened CoC and The Whisperer in Darkness in their theater. CoC was wonderful, of course, but I thought Whisperer got a little cheesy, especially near the end. It seemed too much like a '50s monster movie, though I will say that they sunk a lot more money into it. Overall quite good.
At British film called http://www.kill-list.com/Kill List, a pair of ex-squadies, who have turned to killers for hire find the latest 'job' a little cultish.
Great film, low budget, well acted, and with a twist your not ready for. It has a little bit of Wicker Man about it, worth a watch.
The static in my mind, leaves me hollow and unkind.
I have just watched 'The Cabin in the Woods ' . I won't say why it is Cthulhu as that would spoil it. You just have to watch it and you'll see.
I recently rewatched 1987's kids horror film The Gate, and had forgotten how Lovecraftian the setup is. The Kids learn all about it by listening to the record of Heavy Metal band who learnt forbidden knowledge of the old gods who used to trule the earth and who are just waiting for a way to come back. Very fun little film, with some decently creepy imagry (The Dog bit is very odd)
Darn, its been almost a decade since I saw The Gate!
The very excellent Die Fabre - very, very atmospheric
Take Care,
CEARLAN
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