IT'S FUCKING HAPPENING

Looks breddy gud. I'd pay to see it.

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Cosmic horror is such a neglected genre, I'm hyped to see how this turns out.

Damn looks great, nothing like Stranger Things at all

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>>79701163
>ywn eat her ass through her leggings

Yay another 80's revivalism film.

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>Finally a true Lovecraftian horror film

>>79700948
>>79701025
fuck off marketer

also
>its the mist in a hospital

>>79701290
>>79701317
?

>>79701419
>hey guys this film looks great
>OMFG GTFO SHILL!!!!!

?

>>79700948
ILLUMINATTTI CONFIRMED

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>>79701370
FARTPOSTERS NEED TO FUCKING DIE

why is /v/eddit so obsessed with Lovecraft

Whats the sound they use in every dramatic trailer?
>scary!-fangoria
(Bwaaaa)

>>79701553
Don't know, but if you want a honest to god Cosmic Horror track look no further friend.

https://youtu.be/k4Pd527GN48

>>79701551
>admitting to going on /v/

>>79700948
looks kinda interesting desu.

>>79700948
It got pretty dismal reviews on IMDB 5 out of 10 is pretty shit.

>>79700948
looks fucking AWESOME

>>79701736
dont trust imdb ratings son

>>79701736
plebs gonna pleb

how come lovecraft fags always use every opportunity they can get to remind me that they are a lovecraft fag

>>79701736
Horror movies are difficult for must critics to review, they're usually at least 2 standard deviations higher than the imdb rating.
NOT ALWAYS but USUALLY

>>79700948
Saw it at Toronto After Dark.
It was pretty good. Nice practical effects.

>>79701876
undertumblr tier fanbase that saw a rylai speak meme and pretended it was a masterpiece to fit in

Cosmic horror you say?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW_ocVo16k0

Serious question: Has Lovecraft ever been done well in a film setting?
Off the top of my head I can think of a few "lovecraft-inspired" films but none of them really struck out as really good.

>Dagon
Contrived, stupid ass ending

>Reanimator
Some plot-holes, decent overall but it aged poorly

>Call of Cthulhu
kill me now

>>79701551
I thought they hated him because he was a racist or something?

>>79702019
End of Evangelion

>>79702019
Mouth of Madness is dripping with Lovecraft.

>>79702016
fucking shit posted the wrong video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uba0EjsPFTg

>>79701963

Ellen plays qt student nurse.
Saw her at Scott Pilgrim premiere.

>>79700948
>Lovecraftian
>>modern-day setting

why

>>79701736
>shit ratings
>people on /tv/ pretend to like it just to be contrarian
erry time

>>79700948
eh, I'll watch it. Not like I got anything better to do

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Will be added to the list

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>>79702160
Almost like IMDB ratings are meaningless

Will this be like Dawn of the Dead? A small group of people trying to survive in one place?

my favorite kind of comfy desu

Also go watch In the Mouth of Madness from Carpenter

>>79702201
What's the Japanese movie next to Cube Zero?

>>79702237


Yes.
A Hospital.
It's an open Emergency room in a Hospital that is relocating after a fire.

saying nothing more.

>>79702272
As the Gods Will

It's generic but hilariously weird

>>79702077
Okay this works but it's not a film. Good one though, anon.

>>79702089
Strongly considering watching it now based on the audience RT score. Is it worth?

>>79702077
End of Evangelion really isn't Lovecraftian. It's much more Arthur C. Clarke.

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>>79700948
lmao this looks like utter shit
you plebs will never learn

>>79702436
>It's much more Arthur C. Clarke.
Eh, Clarke plots are more on the Hard Sci-fi side of things with a couple of truly sci-fi elements. But the context is always kind of rooted in reality.

>>79702201
like 4/5 of this is literal trash my man

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Quick question.

Would this be considered Cosmic Horror?

https://youtu.be/6QFwo57WKwg

The ending makes me feel funny

>>79700948
I like that poster

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

>>79702201
>fma

Are you serious? Cosmic Core?

>m-muh truth! muh door!

Whoa they're finally making a movies about your mum's pus?

>>79702629
>Meeting God/the meaning of existence
>Not cosmicy

>>79702404

I'm probably the worst person to ask but I didn't like it the first time. I *did* the 2nd and the third.

>>79702788
>I didn't like it the first time. I *did* the 2nd and the third.
How come? And can other anons else chime in on whether "Mouth of Madness" is good?

>>79702884
I liked it but haven't seen it in years. Not Sam Neils best, and the effects prob have not held up for shit, but I'd say give it a run anon

>>79701325
His Mouth of Madness film is pretty comfy Lovecraftian too

>>79702958
Starting it now. Hoping it holds up after 20 years

This re-scored trailer looks nice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6QiQqiMK6E

>>79702884
Most horror is a passion thing. I love horror as it is what got me into movies. Unfortunately most horror is rated low. As most people think horror needs to be campy in order to be viable. As a fan I think that I cant really be scared by it anymore. Unless is something like Green room which is more based in reality. So look at it as a dark fantasy rather then horror and you will get more enjoyment out of it. Naturally Lovecraft shit falls in this category. More Sam Neill horror would be event horizon. Side question, is this Paul w.s. Anderson's best film? Also just my opinion: any horror above a 6 on imdb is "worth" a watch. Assuming you are a fan of horror.

>>79701325
The Thing's not really Lovecraft. It's understandable and it can be stopped.

>>79702884

The first time I wasn't into it and the second I actually gave it a shot.
As said here not Sam Neils best but it's a pretty good film.
I kinda agree with this guy.
>>79703185

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>mfw it's an anthology

>>79702201
>interstellar
>cabin in the woods
>lucy
>transcendence
>FMA

wew lad

>>79701163
BROOOOP

>>79702201

You're missing Beyond the Black Rainbow which is probably better than most of that list.

>>79702404
mouth of madness is good stuff

>>79701736
imdb ratings are more pleb-tier than netflix ratings ffs

>>79703509

Nope.

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>>79704382
???

>>79700948
>Not True Detective

>>79702201
Delete this image from your hard drive and proceed to hang yourself

>>79704446
They got the description mixed up with some other movie called The Void coming out the same year.

Can anyone rec me movies like this? I would say I'm looking for Event Horizon, but, like, not shit

Reminder that the makers of The Void, also made these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mISUM0qvFTQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3Fg_K08YIA

>>79704508
Ah what a relief.

>>79702108
>>79702586
Fuck this is awesome!

7/10 trailer, will watch, dubs

>>79703247
>I've never read a lovecraft book in my life
ftfy

>>79704547
Thanks for the new waifu faggot

True Detective season 1 is the only thing ive seen that feels really Lovecraft through and through. Its not about the gore and the tentacles and the effects.

>>79704547
oh...

Can someone define "cosmic horror" or "lovecraftian horror"?

I hear these buzzwords thrown around a lot.

Is it something like, horror based on a plane of reality that can't be comprehended by the human mind? Like a 4th dimension?

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I'm this anon
>>79702019
>>79702884
>>79702993

Done.
>>79702089
>>79702958
>>79703185
>>79703456
Just finished "In the Mouth of Madness." I thoroughly enjoyed it. Solid 8/10 movie.

>>79702586
Cosmic as fuck

>>79704684
That's one way to describe it.

great trailer

but im tired of the BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaahhh

and the little violin chord they actually used inbetween BWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHs

it works though.

>>79704547
Well shit... now I'm fucking hyped

Stealth sequel to Autopsy of Jane Doe

>>79704547
>my name is manborg
>whole flick is terrible greenscreen
>looks like uwe boll makes mortal kombat
>I'd rather be dead
lmao

>>79704446
>>79704508

Yes. This sort of follows a cop and is (as I said) centred around a limited group in a semi-functioning hospital. (as I said above)

>>79704667
this

this is body horror, not cosmic horror

>>79701633
That video is fucking horrifying

>>79704547
Well ... Now I'm super hyped for it. Father's Day was great.

>>79701633
>white male privilege

>all these pseuds using the adjective "lovecraftian" unironically
just stop.

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>>79700948
looks pretty good so far
I just hope they release this in my country

>>79704547
>cheeky shitposting aussie sidekick

FUCKING YES

>Antiquarian writing style. Even when dealing with up-to-date technology, Lovecraft tended to use anachronisms as well as old-fashioned words when dealing with such things. For example, he used the term "man of science" rather than the modern word, "scientist" and often spelled "show" as "shew" and "lantern" as "lanthorne."

sounds like a fucking fedora-wearing faggot to me

>>79704776
Manborg is a terrific good bad movie.
I wish that somehow they sold copies on a VHS tape. It even has a "I can't read!" scene.
I honestly love it. I saw it first the same night as this review and 2 midnight shows and a DVD later. (I've been to every After Dark but the first one and saw most of the films listed. Also have gone to the last 3 or 4 years of Blood on the Snow. (Canadian Horror feast) )
It *feels* more authentic than Turbo Kid which I felt sort of tries for the same vibe but falls short. Here's the review. http://tmakworld.com/2011/10/manborg-movie-review-toronto-after-dark.html

>>79700948
Didn't like the triangle face guys but the rest looks really good.

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Why isn't From Beyond getting any love?

The effects were pretty damn great.

>>79704978

They actually don't play a HUGE part Annon

>>79702404
In the Mouth of Madness is a classic waiting to happen

>>79701633
I don't ever want to hear about some millennial's "Self-diagnosed PTSD" again

I'd like to see it but i can already tell the acting is going to be shit.
Does it really matter, probably not.

>>79705003
Have you seen this? Is it like Prince of Darkness? Looks kind of like Prince of Darkness to me.

>>79704885
Eh, most people in the thread have used it correctly

>>79704547
>the apocalypse had an apocalypse

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>>79700948
>We'll never get a movie of Alan Moore's run of Swamp Thing

Why even live?

>>79704986
I like it more than Re-Animator desu

>>79700948
>that trailer
>that use of practical effects
>that clear hearkening back to The Thing
>that cultist quality centered on one insignia: a black triangle representing constant change

I haven't been this hyped for a film in a long time.

>>79705076
point 1 (ONE) out who used it correctly.
you cant.

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>>79702019
Not to KINO levels.

Video games on the other hand...

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>>79705141
I actually liked it more than In The Mouth of Madness but I'm a complete sucker for visuals.

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Here's a shorter but more insightful trailer

https://youtu.be/DTYhFeX7pM4

>that ending

Looks like they weren't kidding when they said "Cosmic Horror"

Hype levels are through the roof

>>79704684
Dread.

Sheer existential dread that is so unknowable trying to know it causes instant insanity.

It is based on the principles that the human mind cannot comprehend such complexities as the ancient sentience that beings in an early universe could hold.

It is based on the core of all fears: ignorance in the face of a greater reality, and the extreme gut-wrenching discomfort that brings.

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>>79702586
I totally forgot about this, thanks dude
53 million views? Damn I remember when it was only a couple thousand

>>79705069
I mentioned above I saw it last October.
I liked it quite a bit. I'm not sure about the ending but it was pretty good.
I honestly don't want to talk more about it that I have above. Either I'll be accused of shilling (due to the fact that I liked it) or will probably give away too much.

>>79705451
Pretty much this.

The best example would be watching a large intergalactic worm swallow the entire planet whole, while you watch in horror on a small moon base with limited resources.

>>79705371
its not fair to compare anything to bloodbourne

>>79704483

this is what true detective should have been

>>79701419
It's gonna be It Follows and VITCH all over again. fuck sake mods pls.

>>79701876
steampunk is where its at bruh

>>79704776
It's ironic

Really though, Astron 6 deserves more recognition. The Editor is a spot on giallo parody.

>>79700948
color me interested

and black

>>79705489
How off base is my Prince of Darkness comparison? I see people trapped in a building, weirdos gathering outside, people changing inside, and some weird religious or cult like stuff.

>>79701317
Do you think that is what's driving the influx of everything using the green/pink color scheme?

>>79700948
i thought this was supposed to be an astron-6 anthology film? anyway from what i heard it isn't actually lovecraftian at all, though i can see why some people might think that

>>79701633
lame

>>79702019
>Has Lovecraft ever been done well in a film setting?

no. true detective season 1 is the closest to the anti-antropocentric worldview of hpl/ligotti, but the ending is too pleasant to fit

>>79702139
ah, the old "lovecraftian fiction can only take place in the 1930s" canard

>>79706012
Common mistake to make, anon. Robert Chambers and the work of Thomas Ligotti are what True Detective season 1 is closest to (Lovecraft borrowed ideas from Chambers). Still decent though

>>79702201
wow that's a lot of trash

>>79702019
Alien is an essentially lovecraftian film. It's not just a slahser in space. The atmospherics, the setting, the cinematography all really conspire to let you know that you're encountering something ineffable, amoral and (mostly) unstoppable.

>>79702586
it's just apocalyptic tentacle horror

cosmic horror is personal, about the individual realization of the meaninglessness of human existence in the face of the enormity of the cosmos

>>79706012
It's not like Lovecraft never had "good" endings. Charles Dexter Ward, Reanimator, Dreams in the Witch House, Colour Out of Space, and Dunwich Horror all had "good" endings.
They're similar to TD in the way that while the immediate threat has been stopped, the forces behind it are practically unfazed and their plans continue, and the protagonists know and are unable to stop them in the long run.

Is there a torrent of this? its been out since last year

>>79702990
>Mouth of Madness film is pretty comfy Lovecraftian too

>comfy
>Lovecraftian

choose1

>>79704646
nah, you haven't

>>79704667
>>79704787
amen

>>79702539
I think anon is referring to Childhood's End, which is about mankind evolving into the stars in a similar fashion to NGE's instrumentality.

>>79704684
It's distinguished from other horror in my mind in that the horror is ambient rather than discrete. So rather than having a monster or antagonist that is evil or hostile, it's really the entire world that's evil and hostile. The end result is that you tend to feel small and overwhelmed and insignificant in the face of a kind of cosmic maleficence.

>>79706045
note i mentioned ligotti, and if you weren't an ignoramus you'd know that chambers' king in yellow has little to do with the Chaosium RPG version of Hastur/KiY that was drawn on for TD

>>79706220
>Is there a torrent of this? its been out since last year
it screened a couple of times last year. it isn't really out until april

A lot of people are clearly under the impression that "Lovecraftian" means cults + tentacles.

>>79706427
gotcha, looking forward to it then

>>79705567
So, the ending of Dead Space 3?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWZlnXz17XI

>>79705737
I got the DVD of their shorts.

Them kids is weird.

>>79705846
Everything you say is correct.
There is a mixture of the *something* coming form *somewhere* and body horror/ mutation but it's not Prince of Darkness. Just see it and have fun. There were some monster chiller horror strobe-ing in in that I didn't like - but I get migraines.

>>79706494

No, the beginning of Transformers: The Movie.

>>79706183
Nigga, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the genre, maybe even fiction in general. Seeing humans reduced to organic material and an incomprehensible extraterestrial being of infinite power is how it shows we are meaningless in context of the cosmos.

>>79706183
You're so fucking wrong it hurts

>>79706632
I'm looking forward to it

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Dagon is comfy and the fish chick is hot

>>79706494
YES

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ITT: Plebs jerking it over an /r9k/ user and his NEET-tier writings from the 1920s

>>79706364
So like Silent Hill?

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>>79701736
>using IMDB after they banned message boards

>>79700948
I watched this last halloween at a mini horror fest in Manchester, kind of a mix of elements, very John Carpenter, very Lovecraft, a bit Hellraiser and has a touch of Phantasm about it. You can tell in places it's been pulled in on a really tight budget but all the actors are pretty good, some great, and the pacing is tense. I'd give it like an 8 if your into weird shit like this. Which I am.

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>>79707037
Bullshit! but I believe it

>>79707037
They were still cutting a WEEK before After Dark and got the thing to the Festival 2 days before the showing. But that's cools shit.
Like the other year American Mary got a distribution deal 15 minutes before the show.

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DUUUDE LE OCCVLT WITCHHOUSE TRIANGLES LMAOO SO SPOOPY

2010 called they want their subcultural trend back

>>79707082
>>79707088

It was on at Home cinema in Manchester on Oct 30th last year, here's the listing
https://homemcr.org/film/bfi-london-film-festival-cult-presents-preview-the-void/

Don't know if it's been recut since but it's a tight little film.

>>79707171
i can see your umbilical cord, it's bigger than your dick friendo

>>79707200
>a ‘slice of retro terror…drawing upon the cool aesthetics of early John Carpenter and the gloopy practical effects of vintage Stuart Gordon
my expectations are getting dangerously high

>>79707247
if you like fucked up and inventive then this'll cheer you right up

>>79704684
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6I-l06gqLQ
heres a good explaination

>>79707200
So it had been in the can for a week longer when you saw it. I seriously doubt they re-cut anything. Black Fawn also had two films there as well. - not as good but still enjoyable.

>>79707400
Sweet, I guessed after dark would be around that time-ish. Getting the cut in 2 days before? Damn, I bet that's sphincter tightening

>>79702019
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu

>>79700948

FOR NOW I'LL PRETEND IT MIGHT BE GOOD

>>79707589
ok

>>79707644
NOBODY DOES LOVECRAFT RIGHT ITS GONNA SUCK

JUST FYI

>>79704128
second this, one of the best surprise of last decade

>>79705853
Candy corporations?

>>79707577
>The Whisperer in Darkness
Budget was too low for me to take it seriously.

>>79706364
this is the best description imo

>>79707671
it's not Lovecraft, it's influenced by it but it is ...other... *face peels open, a screaming cat bursts from the pitch black inside, vomits knives all over you*

>>79704817
Fucking triggered

>>79701325
>implying the thing isn't the most overrated piece of fucking shit ever to exist

>>79707837
triggered
triggered
triggered

Fuck you and this stupid fucking term. Fucking grow up you shit head.

>>79707878
uber triggered

>>79702201
Many of the movies on that picture are average at best and trash at worst.
Is this some kind of advanced ruse?

>>79707864
Wow you're so contrarian, what's your twitter so I can follow you

>>79707864
HA! you won't get me with your lies THIS time pazuzu, i can smell your tricksy bait a mile off you bat eared fuck

>>79701541
SSSSHHHLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOORPPPPPPPPPP

>>79700948
This is going to be a real piece of shit.

>>79707937
@urmomgivesgoodhead

>>79700948
How the fuck is this lovecraftian or cosmic horror? Cosmic horror doesn't just mean something comes from space and grows out of people. Alien isn't fucking cosmic horror either. I fucking hate people, fuck.

That aside, will there ever be a true cosmic horror film? Is such a thing even achievable?

>>79707971
your mothers a biology teacher in cheshire

>>79707989
t. plebian

>>79702201
>Adjustment Bureau but no Dark City
Transcendence was shitty and a lot of those movies are questionable.

>>79707558
It honestly seems that a lot of stuff comes in under the wire and I have really enjoyed going to the Festivals. For the past couple of years I got an all access pass and my girlfriend would either buy a couple of tickets for reduced price or use my pas when I thought the movie was going to be "meh" but she was interested. This year she got the pass. I also enjoyed the hell out of War on Everyone, Under the Shadow (really good) The Lure and most of the others.

>implying Horror Hotel isn't
>implying Bava doesn't
>implying it's not literally Fulci's schtick

>>79707989
this film has elements of lovecraft cosmic horror in it bub, it isn't "THINGS FROM SPACE AND SHIT", just give it a watch then hate on it if you wanna

>>79707989
Lifeforce

>>79707807
What a good description.
Without giving it away what did you think of the ending.
At first I was "Well...." Then I thought it was just the right mixture of aloneness vrs the Vast and that late 80's early 90's slap sending.

>>79708085
I like the original title better...
Space Vampires.

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>>79706269

>>79708126
Fuck yeah.

>>79708098
initially iI was a bit pissed off by the very ending, like it was cheap sequel baiting, but 10 minutes after I thought it was great. if it is successful I kinda hope they don't do another one, like I don't want those final questions answered in case the answers bore me. Maybe they have an even bigger idea, plot scope wise, we'll see I guess.

>>79700948
testing

>>79702990
mmm, yes

>>79708223
I actually put this in better words than I.
But you hit it exactly on the head.

>>79708283
We are of an accord.

Event Horizon
From Beyond

Two that come to mind

>>79708414
oo from beyond, thats a pretty cosmic horrorey

>>79708242
test harder

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>>79700948
Great thread.

A new film to GET HYPE too.

>>79703185
>>79704547
Further cause to watch MoM and Manborg is now on my list.

Cant think of the last time a thread was so helpful.

>>79707309

>If you see some space tentacles you'll go ahegao retarded

this has been the dumbest trope of cosmic horror.

>>79708822
true but it is honest, we all think we're top shit because we watch some fucked up movies or read some fucked up books, but if giant space tentacles were visibly winding down to earth peoples brains would melt in terror, our whole reality: fucked. If we were still about after, sure we'd get over it eventually, but that initial horror would be cosmic. as fuck.

>>79700948
>finally
The Borderlands, Banshee Chapter, YellowBrickRoad and AM1200 are some other good examples from this century. There are more.

>>79702201
>Martyrs
I thought this was a joke. Apparently not.
Also 90% of those movies have either nothing to do with "cosmic", or aren't cosmic horror. kys out of this thread pls.

>>79707989
Xtro
Xtro2

Is this "comsmic horror"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02k126v3Zu4

>>79706210
>Dreams
It ended pretty badly for the protagonist tho.
>Colour
Time for you to re-read the story.

>>79708890
Actually death is not really a strata of Lovecraftian horror. The man himself didn't exactly write what is, in the end, merely a story of prey being eaten by predator (I guess the decades separating him and us really did a good job in indoctrinating everyone to a supposedly Darwinian worldview, huh). So much "cosmic horror" or stuf trying to be cosmic horror has been about that in those past decades. But Lovecraft was more concerned with human self-delusion, mainly that we think we are very intelligent, that we have a grand manifest destiny, that ultimately everything will necessarily work out for us, and that we have control and understanding of a lot of things, among others. Tentacles are merely aesthetics for Lovecraft, a means to an end and not the end itself.

>>79709107
No, just drugs.

>>79708890
>>79709330
yup

>>79708622
Srap in.
Enjoy the hell out of Manborg.
Watch with like-minded friends if you can. Make popcorn.

I may get slammed for this but
getting high is very much an option (or not)

>>79708890
Nah, if giant space tentacles came out of the sky people would be taking selfies with them and writing blogs about how we can't assume the gender of eldritch creatures

>>79709472
did you just assume they have genders?

>>79708922
>Banshee Chapter

I kinda loved it's Fear and Loathing

>>79708964
Only if what she said in the last 5 minutes was the worst possible thing you could ever imagine. Otherwise not. I hope we are talking about the real version?

>>79709330

Being alone.
really alone and be extremely aware of the fact.

>>79709494
Well, Shub-niggurath kinda sounds like a girl's name, and she's a mother, so...

>>79701317
>horror films existed in the 80s
>they also do now
>it's revivalism

>>79709472

Wasn't the "the Battle for L.A." or that other movie that was syphoning people in to ships sort of like that?

Also, and I know I'm going to get shit on for this but - The Arrival.
I mean they could have gone some very creepy places using pretty much the same story.

>>79706818
You'll never have sex with your half sister in the Kingdom of the Old Ones. Sad.

>>79709543
yeeeeah, I guess

>>79702019
Alien is literally Mountains of Madness in space instead of Antarctica.

>>79706012
What is with this "True Detective is Lovecraftian" meme. It's absolute bollocks.

>>79704684
As another anon eluded to, it's not the fact that a monster is trying to kill you that makes it scary. It's the idea that you are so insignificant to said monster and the universe that it literally doesn't give a shit about you.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xtro

The plot synopses is some focked op shi maing

>>79709495
Still a very flimsy excuse though, as we don't know what she said. She might have said something str8 outta scripture like "god will burn you in hell lmao", which is really terrible for the cultists, but we wouldn't care.

>>79709631
I'd say Prometheus is that really. Alien is more akin to the part about Shoggoths.

>>79704684
Other anons have given some good explanations, and your guess describes part of it as well. What it isn't is merely DUDE CULTS and DUDE TENTACLES.
I would recommend reading the stories of the man himself. They're all available legally and for free on hplovecraft.com; recommend starting with Dagon.

>>79706364
>really the entire world that's evil and hostile
fun fact: this is also how robert anton wilson described autism.

>>79702019
There was this one Australian movie I watched last year that was really good, but I can't remember the name...

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>>79710428
The babadook

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>>79705462
>Damn I remember when it was only a couple thousand

>>79701736
This is the same website that loves the boondock saints, their opinion is shit

>>79704965
I'm curious, how does After Darks secret screenings work?

>>79701541
brap

>>79707989
>How the fuck is this lovecraftian or cosmic horror? Cosmic horror doesn't just mean something comes from space and grows out of people. Alien isn't fucking cosmic horror either. I fucking hate people, fuck.

people mistake tons of supernatural/alien/body horror flicks with cosmic horror because all they know of lovecraft is cults & tentacles

>>79708135
"no"

>>79708922
none of those are lovecraftian though

>>79709709
seven-nine-seven-oh-nine-seven-oh-nine

and you don't know what the word means if you dispute it

>>79709709
It's closer to Ligotti (who Pizzalatto admits to having ripped off). But there's more to Lovecraft than tentacle monsters, anon.

>>79700948
This thread has me hyped now.

>>79712396
>seven-nine-seven-oh-nine-seven-oh-nine
what
explain

>>79700948
nope, looks poorly made

>>79700948
Eh, looks like it might be halfway decent. That tagline is a heaping pile of shit, though.

>>79701296
eating pussy through leggings is fucking annoying tho I'd imagine eating ass even more so

someone spoil this for me

>>79703247
>The Thing's not really Lovecraft. It's understandable and it can be stopped.

There are plenty of low-level creatures in Lovecraft's works that are both. The Thing basically is an uglier Shoggoth.

>>79713080
the protagonists don't get a satisfying ending 9 times out of 10

Doesn't The Mist count as cosmic horror? It even has the requisite bad end and the hero going mad.

>>79713240
>cosmic horror
>takes place in a supermarket
nope

>people always talk about The Thing and In the Mout of Madness
>but never mention Prince of Darkness

This triggers me to no end. The movie may suffer from the low budget, but conceptually is the coolest out of those three films.

>>79704684
The opening paragraph of The Call of Cthulu sums it up well:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."

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Fuck

The poster evokes Beyond The Black Rainbow and other good stuff and it starts out so good but just winds up being some body horror/DUDE TENTACLES faggotry

Ya blew it

>>79712381
Nice arguments there son.

>>79713240
>>79713262
Wrong, it is considered cosmic horror.

The military opened up a rift to another dimension and all this alien fauna spilled over. The protagonists have no say in the matter and the monsters aren't particularly after the them, they're just adapting to earths environment.

Looks interesting, hopefully they have a lot of good practical effects

>>79713240
It ends with the US MUHLITARRY OORAAAAH killing the creatures and the mist starting to die down.
The creatures are just animals. LITERALLY. The big tentacle thing is basically space elephant.
The only link to anything cosmic is "there are other dimensions ayylmao", which isn't something Lovecraft invented. If you want to see how Lovecraft uses things from other dimensions in his stories, read From Beyond, Colour Out of Space and Whisperer in Darkness, among others.
It's also a shit movie.

>>79704701
i just dl'd in the mouth of madness and am watching it now. Not great imo classic 90's schlock horror. why is this praised, its just like a bad stephen king/lovecraft fanfiction

>>79713735
You have shit taste.

>>79713678
On the other hand, as somebody else mentioned in the thread, not every story Lovecraft wrote was about incomprehensible/omnipotent/invinceble space gods that will make you eat your own liver upon seeing them. For example The Whisperer in Darkness is about very physical (if weird) alien invaders, The Beast in the Cave has a creature that dies from a stone hitting its head, and even the Cthulhu is basically a powerful alien sorcerer that is WAY below those space deities.

>>79713956
>The Whisperer in Darkness is about very physical (if weird) alien invaders
They're not invaders (they just want to extract a bunch of minerals humans have no use for and are doing this in secret) and they're not "entirely" physical as we understand it. The Mi-Go are among the most "sympathetic" Lovecraftian aliens, of course, even though they might decide that you're worthy enough to accompany them in space trips from now on and turn you into a brain in a jar without asking for your opinion. They're still incomprehensible and they would also be immune to rifle shots if the fusion of military culture and sci-fi was big in Lovecraft's day.
>Beast in the Cave
HPL wrote that when he was 13. It has nothing to do with cosmic horror, it's a "devolution" story.
>Cthulhu
>powerful alien sorcerer that is WAY below those space deities.
Wrong. The only comparison of "power" ever established between Cthulhu and other similar beings (specifically only Yog-Sothoth is namedropped) is that he is the "cousin" of a particular group of Old Ones, and can "spy them dimly" or something (t. Abdul Alhazred). Even this shouldn't be believed as objective fact, because it's entirely possible that Alhazred got the information he has about the "mythos" from sources who were hyping that group of Old Ones for reasons.

>>79713896
hahahah ok buddy

>>79713896
out of curiosity, what did you think was good about this movie?

>>79714329
Pretty much everything. The End coming through fiction, or rather through assimilation into fiction was a very good concept. It has all the solidity of a good Carpenter movie, the acting is great (Styles' is bad on purpose), the creatures are nice, and the atmosphere can jump from familiar Stephen King-esque to what the fuck is even happening.
It does Lovecraft justice because at its core it's about insignificance, it just delivers the theme in a very flashy and playful manner.

>>79714154
>>79714154
The Cthulhu and his spawn were fought to a standstill by the Elder Things, which were an advanced alien civilization with no outright supernatural means. No way that could be possible if big ol' squidhead was so high in the Great Old Ones' hiearachy.

Also, if you consider that genealogy thing Lovecraft made as canon (and granted, that's a big "if"), then he is indeed just a cousin to the real top guys.

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Book suggestion: the House on the Borderland

Lovecraft cited it as one of his influences, a short,weird fun read.

I'd watch a movie based on this one

http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/ws.aspx

>>79714662
Cthulhu's race was fought to a standstill by the Elder Things, not Cthulhu himself. And it wasn't exactly a standstill either because IIRC the Elder Things were then forced to abandon terrestrial settlements and go underwater. We have no idea whatsoever about how those battles were fought either, maybe "Cthulhu's race" meant that there were like 5 Star-spawn in the entire Earth. Also don't forget that the Great Race of Yith was annihilated by some "flying polyps" despite being a race so technologically advanced that they could see and interact with time.
Supernatural is an ambiguous area with Lovecraft. Sometimes outright magic is there (or something that masquerades as magic as we understand it), other times it's much more subtle like Cthulhu's global telepathy. Especially in his later years his stories started to be less about "it's magic I ain't gonna explain shit" and more about very advanced science. Powerlevel arguments about the Mythos are pointless because HPL never thought that one day people would yell at each other things like NYARLATHOTHEP CAN BEAT UP HASTUR.
According to the genealogy Lovecraft exists as a character in his own fictional universe and is a descendent of eldritch entities, kek. I don't have anything bad to say to people who actually use it as canon for their writing though, it might be a neat idea sometimes.

>>79714724
The other book/story written by Hodgson (forgot the name) was also praised by Lovecraft due to how imaginative it is.

>>79700948
>dude gore lmao

how is this cosmic horror? lovecraft?

I agree with:

>>79707989

>>79714884
>Lovecraft exists as a character in his own fictional universe

Well yeah, he's self inserting in stories like innsmouth, the tomb, and the alchemist.

>and is a descendent of eldritch entities
i'll need a sauce on this, I never thought he went full tumblr

>>79715224
Man, The Tomb is such a cocktease

>>79715170
cults in service to some evil god, unless the god is actually SATAN, are pretty lovecraftian.

>>79707989
>hasn't seen Cube

>>79715245
you mean if the protagonist is insane or not? his name written on the coffin clearly implies some supernatural stuff.

>>79700948
they got cheap aaron paul (aaron poole)

>>79700948
Nice Pink Floyd ripoff poster

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>>79715248
Well yeah, but what the trailer showed was just hurr durr gore, blood is kool!11

No eldritch stuf..., no actual cosmic horrors... and by actual I mean unspeakable creatures/forms, out of this universe

the trailer showed a skull spider and spooky ghost

But I do agree on the cult part tho
it mite work as the thing revival or something, but in no way its gonna work as pure cosmic horror

>>79715170
Seems that some guy went to weird cult for the knowledge to save somebody from dying, the method is something unearthly that wasn't meant for humans to know, and it brings something really bad to this planet. All very common elements to Lovecraftian fiction.

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What are some good movies which incorporate something of the lovecraftian literature into them?

>>79715316
My bad, I was thinking of another story.

The Statement of Randolph Carter

>>79715387
Read the fucking thread you spoon-fed faggot

>>79715224
>source
It's right there on the genealogy. The genealogy itself was drawn in one of his letter by the way and was accompanied by joking comments.

>>79715387
You might directly taking mythos elements?

>>79715327
>HURRR THEY DIDN'T SHOW US THE MAIN ATTRACTION OF THE HORROR MOVIE
u r dum

>>79715365
I see your point, buts its not enough for me, I want the full deal with Lovecraft/Cosmic Horrors

I don't want some influence, I want it all.

Granted that actual cosmic horror in movies is hard because the very nature of it, Lovecraft had a pretty fucky imagination

>>79715437
>main attraction of the horror movie

its not hard to guess, gore, shocking stuff in general

I expect mind fuckery with Lovecraft related stuff, not just gore

>>79715327
>unspeakable creatures/forms, out of this universe

you're right it looks more the thing than anything else and i've never been a huge fan of carpenter. >>79703171 posted a re-scored version that paints it more "forbidden science" so I'll give it a viewing.

As a side note, i just finished watching the borderlands because it was suggested in this thread, it was garbo.

>>79715502
I don't get it, you want them to spill all the beans and show every creature in the trailers? Fuck that.

>>79702201
>those two movies that are only in moonrunes
how is an american supposed to make use of the list?

>>79715413
thats one of my faves, and it is indeed a cocktease.

>>79715437
>the genealogy
oh thats fine, the family tree goes from nyarlethotep to some roman family named after vegetation and I dont think ghoth the burrower actually has a story outside of the genealogy and a few ** saying the union was space rape.

>>79715627
No, I didn't mean that, its not the trailer itself, its the whole movie

it has some lovecraft influences but its just the thing 2.0

as I said, I was expecting mind fuckery, but I understand that its hard to make.

>>79715502
If the movie has Lovecraftian mindfuckery then they're not going to show it in the trailer if they're smart. In fact they won't even show anything of it other than mere glimpses, if even that.
No offense but you sound like you actually don't know anything about Lovecraft's fiction other than things you heard internet people say about it.

>>79715526
>i don't like carpenter
>i didn't like the borderlands
A pleb doesn't like a good movie? WOW.
Let me guess, you got butthurt about the found footage angle even though it made perfect sense in the movie, and you got butthurt because they didn't explain what the fuck happened exactly. (bonus: you got butthurt because "nothing happened" until the finale)

>>79715685
だるまさんが殺した。 神さまの言うとおり and Occult

>>79701325
Not Lovecraftian, unless we're expanding the definition to include every single alium movie.

>>79715729
At the Mountains of Madness and Whisperer in Darkness aren't Lovecraftian either, right

>don't use the word lovecraftian
>thread has half as many replies and a tenth as many shitposts
just saying

>>79715728
well yeah, you are right about that, maybe its the main thing

and yeah, my main gripe is how the trailers makes the creatures too important, but again, its a horror movie.

I know the basics of Lovecraft, I really really want to actually read some of his books, but my local library don't have any of it and Im too autistic to bother for a .pdf, so I kinda read the wikia from time to time

>>79715694
Have you actually watched the movie?

>>79715889
Lad all of Lovecraft's stories are available FOR FREE 2 clicks away. See >>79710136. If you want an epub google for "lovecraft cthulhuchick".
It's surprising that your local library doesn't have any Lovecraft. Are you outside of merrika?

>>79715907
wut? I thought the first release was on the 7th of april?? google gives me nothing more

>>79715995
thanks, I'll check it out, and nah, I live in yurop and on a village on top of that.

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>tentacle monsters and spooky cultists mean it's Lovecraftian!

>>79715785
>pure cosmic dread

It's a step away from it and you know it.

>>79702108
i enjoyed that
cheers anon

>>79716140
It was screened last year during a film festival, the fact that you are throwing an opinion about the "whole movie" (your words) made me think that perhaps you were there.

So, why do you seem to have such strong opinion on the move based on two short teaser trailers that show very liitle?

>>79716306
little late to the party spurdo

>>79702019
Watch The West Records. It's the Lovecraft version of Marble Hornets.

>>79704986
That dick on the right and vulva on the head...
Edward bernays much"?

I think it's easier to make spoogy triangles and faceless people scary than not scary and yet they nailed it. As someone who get scared by all kinds of mild things this looked ridiculous to me. The whole movie may end up being great but after this trailer i will never know.

>>79706012
True Detective is Lovecraftian in tone but not in content. There's horrific shit that makes people go mad and an evil too powerful to properly stop, but it's all the product of human beings, not eldritch gods or aliens.

>>79702019
John Carpenter's The Thing gets the feeling pretty good. The true nature of the Thing sends Wilford Brimley mad, that's something people always seem to forget.

>>79717452
i think it was diabeetus tho.

>>79700948
Ive been looking forward to it for a few months, from what i can tell it at the very least looks ok, the idea is interesting and its a cult movie where the cultists are right about something which is always fun as fuck.

Just wish i could fucking find somewhere to watch the damned thing.

>>79717452
How is The Thing lovecraftian at all?

>>79709787
Whoever wrote that synopsis should be ashamed.

>>79713317
Prince of Darkness is straight up awesome. I think it's one of those movies that gets better each time you watch it.

>>79711965
I actually don't know about any secret screenings. Although I think know they do some press screenings.