THE VOID (LOVECRAFTIAN/COSMIC HORROR)

>>79736408
what do you want to talk about it comes out in april. once that happens we will know.

>>79736408
successfully executed*

>should be a movie about inexplicable horrors and unimaginable hellscapes
>instead it's a tentacle slasher
yeah I know why nobody is talking about it

This is just normal Hollywood horror bullshit. I swear to God that half the people who want a "Lovecraftian horror" movie have never read any of his short stories.

>low budget lovecraftian themed horror

there are literally hundreds of those out there, they are mostly all terrible because his work doesn't translate at all to film

>>79736528
never read Lovecraft. what would a Lovecraftian horror movie be like?

>DUDE TENTACLES LMAO I LIKE LOVECRAFT TOO

take this shit to reddit

>>79736408
it'll fail hard just like everything else in this shit genre

>>79736528
this

and also it looks like it doesn't have great production

>>79736569
Check out Malefique(2002), it translates Lovecraftian horror pretty well.
Well more or less, it's occult themed so close enough.

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>>79736408
Reminds me more of Prince of Darkness

>>79736606
Very slow with no real climax. Most of his stories are also told to the main character second hand with large gaps in between.

>>79736630
Is that the one about the dude who finds a book in prison or something?

>>79736659
yes
misses the mark on the setting but does well with the atmosphere I think

>>79736408
how bout the mist?

>>79736705
Don't all the monsters get rekt in the end?

>>79736408
>unimaginable horror
>shows the beast

Into the trash. Fuck off with the visualisation of Lovecraft, Lovecraft is one of the only pieces of writing which will not work in a visual medium, it's about YOUR FUCKING IMAGINATION.

Showing anything visual from the Cthulu mythos past black monoliths and unknown languages is just plain retarded.

It won't work, stop hoping for a fucking Lovecraft movie because the idea of Cthulu excites you, read the fucking books and realise they are nothing like the media has interpreted it to be.

>>79736732
never really says, the mist shows it's clearing don't know if that counts as rekt or them going back to their dimension/where ever. The main protagonist gets very fucking rekt though.

>>79736606
Lovecraft can't translate to film well imo, it's all about the fear of an ancient unknown with your imagination running wild about it and the dread about how humans are completely insignificant. The closest movie to get it right was in the mouth of madness which captured that dread well. Lovecraftian horror is better being in a book or at the most do something small like the local58 vids
https://youtu.be/mw_HKzo9Ync

>>79736732
No, it actually has one of the most horrific endings in film. I think that was considered one of the reasons why the movie received poor reviews.

>>79736801
>>79736785
Doesn't the army come in and all? Or am I thinking of a different film with mist?

>>79736606
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/d.aspx

>>79736794
it's not that it can't translate into film it's that they see it as high risk and would rather go safe and earn millions on capeshit flicks instead

>>79736777
There are a lot of things that Lovecraft describes in detail though, such as the Elder Things

>>79736777
So you haven't read the books?

>>79736843
nope that was it, but the main character fucking murdered everyone he loved

>>79736897
No, he didn't. He described them yes, in detail? No.

Unless of course you think a paragraph description for beings which occupy huge parts of his mythos is descriptive?

>>79736528
reading is fo faggets

>>79736899
>implying majority of his short stories are not written after the fact, or leading up to the fact.
>with the fact never being explained or seen

Kys.

In the original short story The Mist its ambiguous if the mist ever clears up at all. It's told in a "found footage" style way, but in the form of a journal. In the movie the mist is seen to be receding at the end, but it still ends tragically for the characters, more as an unfortunate twist of fate.

I think knowing that in the end it was receding and the aliens were really just more like animals from another world robbed The Mist movie of some of its impact. I guess that's just a critical flaw of the genre though - it's scary to different people for different reasons. To some people things like Lovecraft will always be scary because of body horror or incomprehensibility, while to others it will be scary because of a foreboding sense of smallness - to some still, these will demand heroic assertion of the will and resolute defiance, making it only scary enough to inspire acts of bravery.

Trying to make a film or book that is going to make everyone happy on this is basically impossible. For that reason its better to use interactive mediums that will cater to specific interests, or to publish multiple smaller pieces which emphasize a particular facet.

>>79737006
But the main character most of the time does see it. At least for a second. Only real time I remember he didn't is in call of chthulu and colour out of space which was almost purely second hand.

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>>79736953
Well he drew a picture of one. Is that enough?

>>79736651
Would be cool if they could get a movie together like this with rock solid secondary characters.

>>79736894
I would agree to that sure but I think even if you stayed with the source material it would be quite underwhelming in a visual medium vs reading it where your imagination is already required. Maybe a fringe group of people who know all about lovecraft would appreciate it and find it creepy but it would be underwhelming for most people which goes back to what you said about companies playing it safe.

When Alan Moore wrote watchmen he said how it was an example of what you could do in the comic book medium where film couldn't and I think that also applies to lovecraft. You could take certain aspects of his books and make it work like in the mouth of madness or prince of darkness but even if the studios went all out and let filmmakers take risks I don't think it'll ever do lovecraft's stories complete justice.

>>79736794
Cool video

>>79736408
>no fish to be seen

It's going to be meh

>>79736801
It more likely got ooor reviews because it was just a movie about people arguing in a super market followed by a TWEEEST ending where the guy kills his family to spare them from being eaten and literally ten seconds later the army rolls up and saves the day.

>>79737479
isn't that basically what he said?

>>79737206
hate to break it to you anon. but he just drew a vagina.

>>79737549
He was extremely sexually suppressed. You couldn't be that far off anon.

>>79737479
not gonna lie, that religious lady triggered me greatly.

>>79737613
a women vagina the eldritch horror. Can't be described. men lose their mind over seeing it sometimes. It's only spoken about in hushed whispers and second hand stories.

We are the lovecraft movie anon. Holy shit.

>>79737549
Holly fuck ma what kind of chicks did you date that had vaginas that looked like that

>>79736920
>>79736801
>>79736705
That's not cosmic horror you fucking moron.

That's just comedy.

>>79737663
It all makes sense now. Women are the real Old Ones.

>>79737681
Jews

>>79736408
because it's yesterday news and we already had multiple threads about it

fuck off.

>Thread that hit post limit at the same time yesterday
>'Why we not talking about it?'

Don't be greedy, shill. It is the slow blade that kills, expecting a blistering daily dicussion 24/7 for the next month will kill the movie and have it declared 'reddit'.

Not that it matters, nobody here pays for movies anyway.

Wow the guerilla marketing on this is picking up steam

How can i draw an opinion on if a film might be good if I CANT SEE ANYTHING

Liberals wont allow a good lovecraft film to be made because it would link back to his "racism".

>>79736408
>Pure cosmic horror
> - Slash Film

ok OP

>muh 80s
>muh Carpenter
>muh Lovecraft

Don't get me wrong, I love all those, but fucking plebs are on the verge of ruining it for me. This trailer screams "I want the reddit audience".

>>79738792
Carpenter is trash

>>79736408
Not sure about the acting, but it looks genuinely creepy.

>BZZZZZZZZZZ
>BZZZZZZZ

>BZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Trailers need to stop doing this shit.

>>79736777
I got the necronomicon at home. I feel like some shit might work but definetly not all of it. The Hound for example would work. Music of eric zahn would be a bit harder. Charles Dexter Ward story would be cool

Hype. I thought this thing already came out and ended up watching some shitty $5 budget anthology movie. The first half of it, anyway.

>>79736482
>implying you're supposed to show the unimaginable hellscapes
The greatest strength of Lovecraftian horror is the ability to not show your unimaginable monsters. Otherwise it falls apart. What color is the Color out of Space?

>>79736606
>main character is interested in architecture
>Black people, Indians, other non-white Americans worship ancient devils and they are degenerate thanks to incest, and they all belong to some ancient cults
>a lot of talk about some mysterious unspeakable horror, but the minor monsters usually appear in the stories
>main character goes crazy at the end

In the Mouth of Madness is probably the closest thing to a real Lovecraftian horror.

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>THERE IS A HELL
>THIS IS WORSE
>I've seen where we go when we die.
Well shit, I know the twist now. That is top tier cosmic 'dread' thoigh, I guess.

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>>79739205
>Two scientists are tasked with investigating unnatural animal behaviour on the site of a Manson Family-style cult's compound.
>Stationed together in a module within a hemisphere out in the desert
>Work is scheduled to last for six months; occasional helicopter re-supply.
>The Family is gone now, but there may be something lurking out there still.
and yes, main character goes crazy at the end
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4991112/

>>79738802
bich I will fight u

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Why is nobody mentioning it has a top tier forgotten cutie in it

>>79739155
They could make an entire film a non-scifi story but show alien scene for a second at the end and it would blow minds.
Lovecrafts strength was describing alien vistas and visions not the monsters. The monsters were the invisible thing behind the dusturbing views.

>>79736794
>>79736606
Noroi did an okay job

Honestly I always thought that shilling was just a meme but I'm starting to become convinced.

>>79740241
That's why I heard about this movie years ago. I think Karen Gillan (Amy Pond from Doctor Who) is in this too.

>>79739929
In They Remain's trivia:

>Did you know Devon the German Shepherd was a real search dog before getting a part in the movie. He also was diagnosed with a brain stem tumor, but eight weeks later all Devon's symptoms went away. Then he got the roll in the film.

Spooky.

>>79740716
She's not but I think she would have been good in it.
After Oculus I think she only does big league stuff now, since she got GotG under her belt.

>>79736408
That is one shitty trailer. Movie looks good though.

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I'm annoyed with "Lovecraftian horror" attempts... Can somebody finally try to accurately film some of his extremely timely poetry? This for example...

On the Creation of Niggers (1912)

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Creation_of_Niggers

>>79741185
Lovecraft was LITERALLY /ourguy/

>>79739929
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4991112/
that's all well and good but how are we supposed to watch a movie that appears to only been shown in someones home basement?

>>79736732
The ending is truly terrifying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4nZUEkAsw8

>>79736408
zombies + the thing

.. wait, was that Aaron Paul?

>>79739155
BLUE! ITS BLUE, RIGHT?

ITS BLUE?

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>>79737065
I cannot agree more.

'Nough said.

>>79737681
U're mum lol

>>79740282
>They could make an entire film a non-scifi story but show alien scene for a second at the end and it would blow minds.
basically true detective season one if they have had ended the las episode in the moment cole saw the spiral.

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>>79737206
That's some crazy, shitty handwriting there...

>>79736612

>t. Faggot unfamiliar with horror kinography

>>79740241
does she even look good nowadays? they rarely do after they go through puberty.

>>79737364
Alan Moore's "The Courtyard" and the following comics were all about Lovecraft's works and boy oh boy were those dark...

But they COULD be made into films.

I mean, they've already story-boarded them, after all...

>>79741226
For what it's worth, postproduction was scheduled to end a month ago.
Source material is pretty solid and the director is Europa Report writer.
Current movie whereabouts unkown (looking for distributor?)

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>>79736953
he DREW A PICTURE of cthulhu, only the most well-known monster he ever conceived.

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is this lovercraftian? it has a witch

>>79737628
Me, too. She was a great character in the film... Great actress.
Got me good.

>>79737663
>made me laugh -- thanks

>>79736408
>why no one talk about it?

if it ain't disney or other high profile media pushed commercial pieces of shit, no one cares.

>>79739155
Implying that people know anything from Lovecraft that isnt "HURR DURR CTHULU R'LYEH xDDD".

>>79741471
man what I would give to be a fly on the wall when he finished that scketch. All damn man this dude and his little flipper feet are gonna scare the fuck out of people.

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>>79741551
>mfw knew people not more than two or three years ago that legit thought Cthulhu was an actual deity

>>79741486
thnks fdor5 the spoledd faggt

>loltenticles
Dropped.

>>79738987
"Dagon" might work, as well...

The real short story, I mean.

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>>79737663

>>79741631
>not worshipping a giant sea tentacle monster

>>79741631
Fucking hell man, how does that even happen?

Anyway, which short story by lovecraft would make the best kino horror movie?

I think Rats in the Walls or The Hound would make great horror movies

>>79739929
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4991112/
sounds like that failed NASA experiment years ago while trying to train people to live together for an extended period of time -- in Arizona, I think

>>79736408
> horror

Pleb garbage. there's no genre more artistically bankrupt than horror. you probably read comic books too

>>79741703
>worshipping a sea dwelling octopus faget
>not worshipping a universe sized shapeless mass
Inferior cult detected.

This just seems like a gorefest, with an elder god theme.

>>79736953
You are a fucking idiot.

>aaron poole

he's cute. will watch it but will wait to find out if he (and other young handsome guys) survive. if they survive in the end, i will watch it. if the young handsome guys die, i will not watch it.

>>79737206
>>79741471
Lovecraft had a hell of an imagination for someone born in the late 1800s. That cthulhu sketch barely looks like a squid if you think about it. And the Elder Thing is basically a vagina in 2D, but in 3D it's an entirely original design.

>>79736777
>it's about your imagination

that's an excuse used by small-minded idiots incapable of understanding the simplest of things and then insist there are many interpretations when their statements are exposed as apocalyptically incorrect.

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>>79741185
For Real, my nigga.

>>79741817
Same, but with the women.

>>79741303
The song got me, Anon...

But truly, that is one of the most darkest ending of a film I've seen in a while. One of the better Kind adaptations to a movie, for sure.
Gotta stick with it all the way through and the payoff is good. Well acted et. all...

>>79741321
I thought the same thing!

>is it?

>>79741825
They had 3d back in the past anon it was real life. His creatures were probably inspired by sea life.
Fishermen frequently pulled up horrifying stuff.
Notice how his books often focus on the sea.

>>79742086
>books
Stories*

>>79741706
Just grab a bunch of his Dream Cycle shit and go to town. That stuff was always fun to read.

>>79736953
>Six feet end to end, three and five-tenths feet central diameter, tapering to one foot at each end. Like a barrel with five bulging ridges in place of staves. Lateral breakages, as of thinnish stalks, are at equator in middle of these ridges. In furrows between ridges are curious growths – combs or wings that fold up and spread out like fans. . . which gives almost seven-foot wing spread
Gives a pretty solid image, even the exact dimensions of the thing.

>>79741706
Dagon.

>>79742044

it's aaron poole who plays the main character. it's weird that not only they look alike their names also sound alike.

>oh no there's a space octopus in that up there space
>how spooky
the point of lovecraftian shit is that the horror is so vast it can't even be comrehended, how do you make a movie out of this unless it's just people going mad from something

>>79741993

but big boob girl running away from monster boobs jiggling and then dying orgasmically is a sacred tradition in horror movies. A SACRED TRADITION, YOU BLASPHEMOUS CRETIN!

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>>79742165
OK, I actually laughed at that... I'm off to bed.
Thank you.

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>>79742176
The Watchmen.

>oh wait... right... no squid...

>>79742280
I now understand how lovecraft's protagonists always end up insane because its only taken 10 seconds staring at that image to fuck with my head.

>reddit horror
or as I like to call it: horreddit

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>>79742309
I don't know if that's an insult or a compliment...

Either way, I will take it!

>>79742309
I thought wtf at first too but I think I've figured out how it works and how they made it.

>>79742365
they didn't make it. its a fake picture.

>>79741631
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yAnVNy27co
Dagon is the real fish god Cthulhu is just a lazy cunt

>>79742384
Actually it's possible to make a think like this. But it's an optical illosion, not a real box. There is no depth, even though it gives the illusion of depth.

>>79741706
They should make a mmo in the mythos. everyone picks there own cult

>>79742394
ancient horror.
still got time for some good old fashion comedy.

>>79742201
Never seen this

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>>79742394
I never understood why they called it "Dagon" instead of the real title, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (sp?) but I guess DAGON looks cooler on a poster...

>>79742463

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>>79736408
The trailer is ok-ish, but they shouldn't mess with Lovecraft's universum.

Most of all its still unknown, and we don't even know what would Chthulu's tax policy be if he were to rule the world.

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>>79742412
>illusion of depth

My sides... I posted that pic and thank you for getting the joke and making me laugh.

I can rest now...

>>79742463

watch horror movies not gay porn

>>79742521
Awful fucking meme. Worst of 2017 yet.

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>lovecraft is all about your imagination and not seeing the things and they not being described!

Why the fuck do people keep saying this shit

>>79742453
Evil Dead?
Evil Dead 2? (even better)
Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness

...never saw anything after that.

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>>79742428
World of Warcraft has a whole expansion dedicated to HP Lovecraft's works, a lot of the enemies are based on his designs. They also use some of his quotes and creepy lines.

>>79742560

see >>79741874

>>79741451
Are you reading Providence? It's fucking intense.

>>79742574
Man, Ulduar was neat. Recently did it again on a private server, still holds up.

>>79742584

No. Go away.

>>79742412
>possible to make a think
really makes me think

>>79742412
>illusion of depth.
Just like all Lovecraft's work!

>>79742625

i think anon >>79742412 thinks the think is a think. what do you think?

>>79742622
MoP as well, pretty much the whole Old Gods story line is based on Lovecraft universe.

>>79742574
There is no strategy to wow. I would prefer if each guild competes to corrupt the most npcs. and fight other cults. You can make the enemies that try to fight you the generic hero classes like paladins

>>79741631
There was a guy in Dunedin a few years ago who was trying to start a "Cthulhu Cult," as he called it. Obviously it never went anywhere, but he was all over the news for a couple of days or something.

>>79742624

Don't like Alan Moore horror eh, fine, I'll take my ball and go home. People think your rude.

>>79742779
YOU'RE
Fucking hell son is english not your first language?

>>79742574
Cata sucked though. They will probably try a true old gods exp after legion.

>>79742779
>your not you're

People know you're inbred.

>>79742833

No no no no NO! Cats do not suck, you irredeemably retarded maggot!

>tfw no short movies about the dream cycle

>>79742824
>>79742838
ignorant 90's born faggots, shut the fuck up with you're meme bullshit.

>>79742965

meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow

>>79742824
Sorry, I was answering the phone, people think your rude-boy style is out of date. I hope you get drawn into one of the horrible slash fictions you write and no one ever finds you again, I hope you eat a balanced lunch, but that's YOU'RE prerogative. Chet.

>>79742962

>tfw no dream cycle about the short movies

>>79743006
>people think
>implying inbred know people

kek

>>79740241
Ohh, that's why she looked so familiar.

>>79741419
Just watch the trailer.

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>>79742965
try 70s-born faggots...

and the Cats did not suck
The Cats of Ulthar would make a great film.
Probably have to animate it though, these days...

>>79742988
are you seriously quoting that commercial????

Now I can't get it out of my head...

>>79743082

millenial faggot

>>79743057
yore really lonely, I'm sorry for being mean

>>79736528
But there were plenty of Lovecraft short stories that were just basically slashers or thrillers with monsters, not all of his stories were about existential dread in the face of cosmos

>>79739205
Angel Heart is Lovecraftian with that criteria

>>79743131
More like Gen-X, being born in 1974...

I still think that the Cats of Ulthar would make a great short film, at least.
Same with Dagon.

>>79743131
>he doesn't know he's also a millenial

>>79743209
Holy crap! One of my most favorite movies and never thought of that...
Good call.

>>79743224
and then?

>>79741396
God damn Pizza fucked up big time
>tfw rememebering the godly atmosphere of the first 5 eps

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>>79741706
Rats in the Walls or Mountains of Madness

>>79743256
If you think Cypher is Nyaralathothep in human form instead of Satan it all fits
Even has the element of the main character finding out he is somehow involved in the fucked up cult things that was kinda common with Lovecraft, though often it was about family relations I guess.

>>79743082
70 jesus mate. what happened in your life?

>>79742833
Yep they already established that the Burning Legion is not the final enemy, but some Void creatures.

Well, in case anyone gives a hoot, Alan Moore's Providence has turned out to be the culmination of all the previous Lovecraft comics he Jaccen Burrows have created. The crux principle it turns out is that the Elder gods are about to be born and all our current pop culture reference to the Lovecraft mythos are echos from the future (from our point of view, not to the timeless ones), echos that are helping bring them into reality.
In the narrative Lovecraft himself was a pawn in this and now the dreams he spread are absorbed and believed, from hardcore black magic practitioners to the Cthulhu plushies adored in irony. Plus it's a nice creepy ride that plays out some classic H.P. stories before they were "twisted into fiction". This is just a summary on the tight angle and all this has only just been revealed as the main drive of Providence, there is a lot more to it. I think Lovecraft would have liked it. I do not work for Alan Moore.

I want a ''The Shadow over Innsmouth'' movie.Best story of Lovecraft.

Lovecraft hasn't been done because it requires
Genius cinematography that most directors lack.
The best special effects and artistry also from geniuses.
The very best musical score and sound effects from geniuses.
Finally a genius writer so genius they seem insane.

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>>79736408
>THE VOID
>uses the Red WEAPON 8K S35 and has a panavision primo 65mm lense
>top of the line
>decides to hire a first year film student to do the lighting
> ends up looking like a high school production of fanfiction

How do you fail so horribly with the right equipment?

Why did they think this product looks good?

pic related

>>79741185
>>79741225
Friendly reminder that Lovecraft recanted his racism on his deathbed, and started walking back on his beliefs in general when he married a jewess.

>>79743319
those Tintin covers really makes me want read those albums (yes i know they are fake)

>>79743743
So then Zack Snyder passes the first 2 categories.

Add a good music composer and a writer and we will have to Lovecraft kino.

>>79743836
Yeah, that is a major problem with the film, especially in the hospital internal scenes when shit gets odd. Overall I liked it, but it isn't the great Lovecraft film everyone is waiting for.

>>79743836

RED is not the "right" equipment for horror to begin with imo, looks too digital ( see Hobo with a shotgun ), or it looks okay if you have a 200 millions $ budget ( see Prometheus ).

But yeah, I gotta agree with you, if they had the money to buy/rent a RED and a lens like that, why not hire a better director of photography/lighting guy

:(

>>79736606
Carpenters remake of The Thing is an adaptation basically of At the Mountains of Madness.

hmm lovecraft created a mood around his stories, it's a combination of:
>holy shit billions of years is a really long time
>holy shit billions of stars is a lot of stars
>holy shit i am so small and insignificant and i've just made a huge mistake

Frantic 1988
and
The Ninth Gate 1999

both capture that mood for me, of a man lost - not quite in time, not quite in space, but more in his own mind and some deeper mystery.

Neither film has anything to do with cosmic terror or monsters or aliens, but they set the mood of a lovecraft story, always a mystery, always some misunderstanding, always confusion, always uncertainty.

>>79736648
Yeah same, I love all of the Carpenter movies so I hope they can at least capture that vibe.

>>79743950
You seen it ?
Can you spoil me a little ? What are the monsters ? Is it gory ? Any gruesome death ?

>>79743853
you should just cause tintin is based as fuck. Go to your local library and borrow them. don't settle for shitty scans on the internet.

>>79743992
>implying i dont have all Tintin albums already
I just wish someone intelligent would make lovecraftian tintin

>>79736408
>same thread yesterday
Hello The Void creators, nice shilling you got here

Whats that Lovecraft movie with the girl from Beverly Hills?
Some parts where real shit but others really caught the right feel.

>>79743932
Nah, cinematography and effects work sure, but Snyder has no concept of the human soul, his films lack the humanity to make the materials horror sing. The utter dread loneliness of Lovecraftian cosmic horror would end up being represented in the story as "space tentacles". Denis Villeneuve might have what it takes as long as he can get more visceral along with the cerebral, he'd really needs to get his bollocks out on it.

>>79744081
Where she doesnt need makeup because she looks the part? I think it was just called Cthuhlu

>>79742165
"Get me Aaron Paul!"

"He's not available, sir."

"Then get me the cheapest British non-union equivalent."

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>>79742394
>Dagon is the real fish god Cthulhu is just a lazy cunt


how about we wake you up ten thousand years too early, you get no coffee, and then we call you a lazy cunt?

>>79742560

generally there's two schools of horror: the slasher, where they'll show you a man getting his face sliced off and his tongue waggling about in what's left of his mouth..

and the cerebral, where they say it happened and they let you imagine it.

obviously, the second one isn't very popular in the US, where nobody has any imagination.

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>>79741706
The Outsider could be done well as a short film or a small-scale project, but I would like to see The Music of Eric Zann or The Colour Out of Space personally.

meme movie from a meme filmmaker

and a literal PR shill thread

Anyone who likes this shit has no taste or no education in the classics, possibly both.

Face it, your fans are people you don't respect and the peopel you respect don't respect you

>>79743987
It's tense as shit, the monters are kinda standard thingies but look great in context, though there are a couple of money shotters that are real neat. Not super human gory, more implied mostly, though there are two or three shots that will make you "...fucking hell..." internally. It's very John Carpenter, a bit Phantasm, a bit Hellraiser. If it had a budget of, say, even as low as 50 million it could have knocked some serious heads. Considering they brought it in for so little money it's very good, hell, not even considering the budget, it's good, but it ain't the great whit HoPe for Lovecraft movies, it's more that it was influenced by a lot of thing that were influenced BY Lovecraft. That it or do you want serious spoilers?

>>79744290
not him but thanks

>>79739155
>The greatest strength of Lovecraftian horror is the ability to not show your unimaginable monster

Lovecraft described his settings and creatures all the time.

>>79744290
ha, thanks bro ! I'm tempted to ask you more but I'm going to stay spoiler-free from now on ! our review and small spoilers are more than helpful, wasn't sure if it was a simple carpenter rip-off or a good movie !

>>79744210
I agree, the Outsider would actually work quite well as an art house project, but it would really be about the abstract effects and feel.

There is a short video on youtube which basically is the penultimate moments of the story.

>>79744309
>>79744380
no troubles

>>79744356
Heck I remember reading mountains of madness and going "alright this is going a bit crazy on the amount of detail"

>>79742747
http://firstunitedchurchofcthulhu.blogspot.com/p/certificate-of-ordination.html

>>79742485
because the title of the movie attracts people, it's why many movies have different names in other countries

>>79742747
>>79744611
>>79743504
IT SHALL COME TO PASS

>>79744356
He doesn't describe the most powerful beings though thats where the terror comes in.

>>79736606

Pasting some anon's post from last year:

>Lovecraft's central concept was cosmic insignificance, human limitation and ignorance and materialist horror. There's no God or Devil, no ghosts or spookily dookilys, but there are things that inhabit this very very old planet in this very very old universe in which we are a blip, which dwell, and will continue to dwell, outside of our very narrow-minded existence.

>The monsters and books and shit are tools to get across an idea. It's not about what Cthulhu IS, it's about what Cthulhu MEANS for you, me and the rest of humanity, what its mere existence implies for life on Earth.

>>79744680

You are wrong. He tends not tod escribe Outer Gods, but the Great Old Ones generally have a physical description where possible.

>>79736606
>dude learns there are these omnipotent old gods
>learns they are coming
>learns their is nothing he can do to stop them
>learns humans are a small bug on a blue rock
>gets depressed and angry
>goes crazy

There you go thats every story in a nutshell

>>79736606
A lot of racism

>>79744832
That doesn't describe even majority of his movies
Lot of them don't find out about omnipotent old gods, just some lesser monsters or some shit
Many stories feature the MC finding out something nasty about his past, usually involving someone in his family being cultist or something
And so many of them are about the dreams

>>79744961
>his movies

>>79743177
yeah but people usually don't talk about those stories
he did have to write for a living

>>79745157
Still, with the autistic amount of bickering about what is 'lovecraftian' is kinda silly when people dismiss most of his works entirely and just focus on the handful of the stories.

>>79736606
as meh as the movie was, black mountain side was probably the best recent example of a lovecraft influence ive seen in film

>>79745267
it's amazing to find kids these days that actually read, nontheless read... a lot

>>79736408
Looks like the entire movie is in the dark and unwatchable.

>>79736801
>one of the most horrific endings in film.
It's pretty great, but retards on the internet can only cringe or feel ironic, so to them it's bad.

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>lovecraft fans think lovecraftian means "dude tentacles lmao"
>"lovecraftian" is nothing more than an aesthetic now

For me it was Take Shelter, poor MC think he's crazy entire time, it's like male version of Cassandra

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>>79739929
Two scientists who share a romantic history. Black male. White female.

Just a coincidence though

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>>79736606
Think real slow but disturbing /x/ mixed with some /pol/

>>79744794
>where possible
That was my point. All the greatest powers in the setting are undescribable or too confusing to accurately describe.
Which cause insanity in humans. Its ome of the themes of the mythos.

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>>79736408
stop viralling your garbage here

>In Tolkein lore, Astron-6 is the day of The Elvish New Year. And a new year is upon us indeed...

>From their first meeting at The Winnipeg Short Film Massacre, the five men instantly found themselves embroiled in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Rather than destroy eachother, the sworn enemies decided to unite - and then destroy themselves (once famous.)

>Astron-6 is the brainchild of these five iconoclastic, multi-media artists who share a fascination with the mechanics of fear and laughter. They subvert the expectations of the seasoned viewer with the nightmarish and absurd. Their imagery and recurring themes are often torn from the childhood of the irony-craving, internet savvy Generations X and Y.

>>79736408
>fuck bullshit like In the Mouth of Madness or Event Horizon
Nuh uh fuck you.

>>79738792
>This trailer screams "I want the reddit audience".
the creators are reddit incarnate, see >>79746203

this hits vod in april and will be torrentable the next day. literally nobody is gonna pay money for it.

>>79736606
A movie in which the monster cant be shown or descibed in any way even slightly analogous to the book, because the majority of his monsters are described as unknowable evils that cant be described.

With a large budget i guess you could have some wild cgi for some uncanny eye candy but this type of horror is better read than watched.

Lovecrafts cosmic horror isn't that different from conspiracies and fear and insanity that revolves around them.
If you discovered the existance of enormous cosmic entities somewhere on Earth your mind would break because its pulling back a curtain. Just like unravelling a conspiracy.

>>79743844
Without his racism and prejudices and fear of the unknown/OTHER he wouldn't have been able to write what he did

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>>79736408
Lovecraft doesn't do well translated to film.
It works very well in vidya though.

>>79745267
>Still, with the autistic amount of bickering about what is 'lovecraftian' is kinda silly when people dismiss most of his works entirely and just focus on the handful of the stories.

"Lovecraftian" doesn't mean "similar to something Lovecraft wrote. Its meaning is far more specific in that it refers to the horror subgenre he created. The guy wrote stories that are straight science fiction, fantasy, etc. You wouldn't call Lord of the Rings "Lovecraftian" just because HPL was a fan of Lord Dunsany and the World Fantasy Award was originally his likeness.

>>79746343
He was disgusted by foreigners. When he was around immigrants he became angry and dusgusted.
Not really that unique desu.

>>79746384
Tbh lotr had some lovecraftian elements..

This is the most reddit thread I've seen in a long time

>LE EBIN LOVECRAFTIAN
>LE EBIN HORROR GENREEEE!@!!!!

>>79746465
Lovecraft fans cant help its popular with hipsters.

>>79746369
A big part of why Bloodborne's lovecraftian themes worked so well was the marketing. It was marketed as a simple, victorian gothic van helsing style game, there were no hints that it was cosmic horror so when the game hits the half way point you actually get the feeling of genuinely uncovering this vast cosmic terror, just like a character in a lovecraft story.

spoil this movie for me pls

Dunno if Lovecraft is translatable to film, but it's definitely translatable to video games

>>79746465
Man let the ppl enjoy the guy's works, what's wrong with you.

Lovecraft was our guy since day one, just look at his bio he was awkward af.

>>79746728
Aww fuck beaten
>>79746369

>>79746449
ye the cthulhumonster inside the lake is v loveraftian, aslo the existential dread of the mordor winning

>>79743976
>Carpenters remake of The Thing is an adaptation basically of At the Mountains of Madness.

No, it's not. It's literally an adaptation of Who Goes There?

>>79746777
Balrog is Lovecraftian.

>>79746822
All the monsters like Balrog, Spider and Watcher were explained as being very old entities.
I think the Spider shelob or whatever has the most lovecraftian background.

What is pure cosmic dread /teevee/?

>>79746931
Your dick touching a public toilet bowl.

>>79741185
It's. A satire like Get Out

>>79746955

What did he mean by this?

>>79736606

Very racist.

A good cosmic horror flick is last days on mars its not really mind blowing but when the alien zombified person says you are all going to dieit could be the thoughts of the alien virus saying it.

>>79739155
I imagined it as a sort of pruplish pink while reading and funnily enough so did the makers of the film Die Farbe.

A movie about a director who tries to make a movie about a lovecraft book but then gets raped by tentacle monster and the film itself turns the audience into fish monsters because Hollywood is built on top of a sleeping alien God and everyone in Hollywood is in an evil cult

>>79736408
Looks like The Mist+Event Horizon+From Beyond. I'm interested in it but the way the trailer is cut it could just be hollywood trash that they're trying too hard to market as something with more substance/subtlely.

>>79736606
1. The protagonist would be a white awkward man
2. The movie would be one giant flashback that he's writing, so he has to survive the events.
3. The justification for recording the events is to warn people from re-awakening the horror
3. At least part of it would take place in New England

That's pretty much it.

>>79736408
gee I wonder if this is a shill

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If you love Cosmic Horror, just watch Banshee Chapters. Full of jump scare, but tense as shit and it borrows a lot from Lovecraft ( it's even referenced in the movie ).

>>79748477
>Full of jump scare
pass

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>>79742533
Get mad, /got/fag.

>>79748611
You're missing out, the atmosphere is great. But I can understand peoples are tired of jumpscares.

Thanks Insidious I guess :'(

>>79736408
>Lovecraft

It's really not, it's lol tentacles and DUDE CULTS LMAO.

The only good piece of modern Lovecraftian media is Bloodborne.

>>79747293
Moving Pictures - Terry Pratchett

Not exactly what your after but pretty damn close.

>>79748477
I fucking hated Banshee Chapter, it was a fucking mess. I just about turned it off when the guy references Lovecraft by name and then proceeds to incorrectly summarize From Beyond. Fuck off with that hack shit.

>>79739155
Bloodborne did just fine