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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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen 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 (eighteen years ago)

No Mark E. Smith!

― Tom D., Monday, 11 June 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

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

Amazing! (I meant more that Campbell still lives/works in the UK, is all.) But Dadaismus is right most of all; MES on HPL could be endlessly listened to.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 June 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

I recall his cameo as being one of the more amusing bits of the Planetary/Authority crossover.

― The Real Dirty Vicar, Monday, 11 June 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.livescience.com/environment/070723_antarctic_mountains.html

The Plateau of Leng! They've found it!

― kingfish, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

i have the library of america edition of his TALES. i need to read that, then my harlan ellison omnibus.

― poortheatre, Friday, 27 July 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/current/schedule/img/2007poster.jpg

HPL film fest going on this weekend in portland! wooooo!

― kingfish, Saturday, 6 October 2007 09:26 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, some great looking stuff in there. Let's hope for an early Lurker release of some of the best of it.

― aldo, Saturday, 6 October 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

suffice it to say that this one is probably my fave from this year:

http://www.9livesofmara.com/maraposter_final.jpg

in terms of weirdness and foul-mouthed children and actual decent filmmaking & acting

http://www.9livesofmara.com/

― kingfish, Saturday, 6 October 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lolthulhu.com/

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 7 October 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

The HPL Historical Society, who did the silent 'Call of Cthulhu' , have a trailer for their new production, 'Whisperer in Darkness' up at their site. Release is slated for 2008.

― Soukesian, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

glad to see 'The Thing' is getting it's due as a Lovecraft film. matches At The Mountains of Madness closer than In the Mouth of Madness.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 18 October 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/cthulhu/

haha

― caek, Friday, 8 August 2008 10:36 (seventeen years ago)

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