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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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Mother, May I Sleep With Yog-Sothoth?

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

"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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

Any given afternoon in Spain, then.

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

the silent COC is a treat.

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

Excelsior syndrome again, S.?

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit

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

best photo ever

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

it has begun

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

the Spice must flow

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

who among us does not eat clams in like fashion

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

Non-Euclidean clam eating.

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

Oddest euphemism yet

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

His name always reads first as LP Hovercraft.

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

new band name!

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

CLASSIC

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

John Crapenter's

Now there's a Freudian slip...

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

http://www.geocities.com/tribhis/14.jpg

― latebloomer: Winner of the Congressional Medal of....UGLY (latebloomer), Saturday, 28 October 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/tribhis/cthulhutract.html

― latebloomer: Winner of the Congressional Medal of....UGLY (latebloomer), Saturday, 28 October 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

The Tiger Lillies are doing a semi-Lovecraftian thing at St. Ann's in Brooklyn this week:

http://www.giantstep.net/events/676

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y191/CygnusDarius/sleeper-ice-cream.jpg?t=1163978049

― It's the lazy and immoral way to become super hip. (Austin, Still), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

BBC Radio 3 did a bio thing on HPL, available for this week

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/sundayfeature/pip/96knh/

Weird Tales: The Strange Life of HP Lovecraft
Listen to this episode for up to 7 days after broadcast

Sunday 10 June 2007 20:00-20:45 (Radio 3)

Geoff Ward examines the strange life and terrifying world of the man hailed as America's greatest horror writer since Poe.

During his life, Lovecraft's work was confined to lurid pulp magazines and he died in penury in 1937. Today, however, his writings are considered modern classics and published in prestigious editions. How did such a weird, wild and ungodly writer get canonised? Among the writers considering his legacy are Neil Gaiman, ST Joshi, Kelly Link, Peter Straub and China Mieville.
Duration:

45 minutes

― kingfish, Monday, 11 June 2007 03:21 (nineteen years ago)

Good cast of usual suspects (unfamiliar with Link, though) -- no Clive Barker? Then again Ramsay Campbell would be even more appropriate for a UK-based documentary.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 June 2007 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

> no Clive Barker? Then again Ramsay Campbell would be even more appropriate for a UK-based documentary.

this is an odd thing to say given that both barker and campbell were born in the same town 8)

was surprised to see campbell is still writing - haven't seen anything of his on bookshelves for years (haven't been looking that hard tbh). last thing i read of his was Dark Feasts ('87) (ditto Barker and Cabal in '88)

― koogs, Monday, 11 June 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

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