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I wish they would make a film about HPL being a repo man.

BTW, if you want a cheap laugh, see if you can find a copy of the job application letters he was sending out when he was in New York looking for work.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Fingers crossed that there will be a good Lovecraft film made in my lifetime.

― The GZeus (The GZeus), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

racist rant about the degenerate races infesting New York
see: "the horror at red hook"

― bell labs (bell_labs), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I wish they would make a film about HPL being a repo man.

"A repo man's life is always...squamous."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

"What about our relationship?"

"I do not know of this 'relationship' you speak of."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

i dunno, my favorite story that i don't think has been mentioned yet is "the dream in the witch house" ...it has it all. rat-like creature with an alarmingly human face, shocking ending AFTER the climax where his stories usually just taper off, baby sacrifice, IT HAS EVERYTHING.

― bell labs (bell_labs), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Fingers crossed that there will be a good Lovecraft film made in my lifetime.

I can answer this one. There were three just in the last year or two:

(1) Some guys in L.A. made an excellent period adaption of CoC. Silent, B&W.

http://www.cthulhulives.org/store/images/CoCDVDfront.gif

(2) Also, a short film called Experiment 17. A fake docu about what happened when the Wehrmacht found a copy of the Necromicon after they raided the Bibliotheque Nationale.

(3) Late Bloomer, a short based on Clay McLoed Chapman's monologue where a 7th grade sex-ed class goes insane after learning forbidden knowledge.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, they're trying to get Del Toro to come to the HPL Film Festival in portland next year, but his schedule is insane and he probably won't make it.

However, John Carpenter and Peter Straub are already confirmed, so this is gunna be fun.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link

There's this one coming out as well:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478126/

It has Tori Spelling in it.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Mother, May I Sleep With Yog-Sothoth?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I watched the silent CoC last night, and it is indeed great.

Unless The GZeus is younger than 5, it's almost certain that Stuart Gordon's Dagon came out in his lifetime as well. Bryan Moore's take on Cool Air is pretty damn good, as is Christian Matzke's Nyarlathotep (and his Imperfect Solution).

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

And Re-Animator.

There's a festival every year in portland about this:

http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/

I've volunteered there this year & last. The guy who run it also operates Lurker Films, which specializes in HPL adaptations and other weird stories.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Christian Matzke is a really nice guy, too. He & his fiancee make all their films in Maine where they live.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

"Molded by the dead brain of a hybrid nightmare" = ILX

not so un-nameable after all!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I'll really need to get to Portland one year. Or even spend some time following the links to the shorts - I take the easy way out and wait for Lurker to do the selection for me.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

Yeah, the filmmakers brought footage of the Cthulhu flick in progress to the festival last night. I think they're still working on it in Astoria.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Mother, May I Sleep With Yog-Sothoth?

ha ha

they had an adaptation of "Dream of the Witch House" in that Masters of terror thing. It was OK

― Mark Co (Markco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I got to meet Stuart Gordon(the direct of that Witch House thing) last year. As with most of these folks, he's a really nice guy. They worked out a deal with Showtime where they could show the film a few weeks before it debuted on the air.

I kinda wish that more of thoes Master of Horror thing had a standalone appeal, like the "Homecoming" ep(zombie vets from Iraq return to vote).

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link

thought that series was v hit and miss - the zombie one was a bit too obvious and preachy for my taste, even though i totally agreed with its aims.

― Mark Co (Markco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link

also, i got to meet Patti Smith at last year's HPLFF:

http://myspace-358.vo.llnwd.net/00280/85/36/280096358_l.jpg

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link

There was an entertaining adaptation of "TEH SHADOWE OVER TEH INNSMOUTH" a year or two back, set in Spain for no good reason. The best bit is when the locals are shambling to the hotel the protagonist is holed up in.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Any given afternoon in Spain, then.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

the silent COC is a treat.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Excelsior syndrome again, S.?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

DV, that's the Stuart Gordon Dagon flick I mentioned, unless I'm very much mistaken.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link

hahah ned.

seriously though... i liked it a lot, it's really in the spirit of hpl.

i'm enjoying this luc sante article! it made me LOL!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, the Sante article is a good one, finally got around to it last night.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link

here we go: Experiment 17: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI0M4xRwbs8

and Ryleh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYrQRcy45RQ

an animated short from france

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

RIDICULOUSLY LOVECRAFTIAN PHOTO ALERT:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/sci_nat_enl_1161188217/img/1.jpg

Full story here.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:18 (eighteen years ago) link

holy shit

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:19 (eighteen years ago) link

best photo ever

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:21 (eighteen years ago) link

it has begun

― Mr. Vas Djifrens (byzantum), Friday, 20 October 2006 06:28 (eighteen years ago) link

the Spice must flow

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, saw that the other day -- great, great photo.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Arrggh, that octopus has the face of a walrus. Scary shit.

― chap who would dare to welcome our new stingray masters (chap), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link

who among us does not eat clams in like fashion

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Non-Euclidean clam eating.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Oddest euphemism yet

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

His name always reads first as LP Hovercraft.

― paizuri-san (davidcorp), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:27 (eighteen years ago) link

new band name!

― latebloomer: now with 15 extra steamy minutes! (latebloomer), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, the best part is the early creepy part, but Dagon quickly devolves into crap.

Ironically, Re-animator, which is about 80% black comedy, is the best Lovecraft adapt so far.

― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link

I thought Cast A Deadly Spell was fucking rad when I caught it on TV one night, though nota bene I was like twelve.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

They screened that last year at the HPLFF. I only caught abotu 10 mins, unfortunately.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

His name always reads first as LP Hovercraft.

Lucky you. I keep seeing this thread as "HP Lovesauce".

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember "Cast a deadly spell" as good nerdy fun, and better than you had any right to expect from a TV movie. The ultimate non-HPL Lovecraftian movie for me is Peter Weir's "The Last Wave". Echoes of HPL, Machen and Shiel throughout. The silent CoC is incredible though.

― Soukesian (Soukesian), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, the Last Wave was screen at the HPLFF two years ago. Nice & creepy, but there was more going on with the "tribal law" bits than this american could fully get.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

let's see if this loads:

http://static.flickr.com/23/40492213_9650d24cf4.jpg?v=0

and go here if it doesn't.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

CLASSIC

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

The best Lovecraftian But Not movie I've seen is John Crapenter's In the Mouth of Madness

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

John Crapenter's

Now there's a Freudian slip...

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

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