Will they finally get cosmic Lovecraftian horror right?

>>80811093
no one can, you idiot.

>>80811093

how do you get right something that is written so vague? FFS the paranormal activity movies might as well be lovecraftian OH SHIT WHAT MOVED THE TABLE

>>80811139
Yeah but this has cult members and tentacles and shit

>>80811093
one of the fundamental principles of lovecraft's work is "trying to imagine that which cannot be imagined" which translates to "try to show that which cannot be shown" which is, understandably, a difficult thing to do

>>80811139
>>80811189
Nice memes.

DUDE TRIANGLES LMAO

Dagon was as close as they'll ever get, at least for me.

>>80811189
>>80811139
this is memetic faggotry. if anything Lovecraft describes anything and everything like rarely any author does. 80% of the words in his stories are adjectives for fuck's sake.
if you think Lovecraft is unfilmable you are one of those kind of retards who said the Lotr books were not filmable.
You can very well create suspense, dread and horror within the boundaries of film if you actually give a shit and approach it from the right angle. It just wouldn't be successful because normie shit eaters want flashy trash and explosion thrown at them and absolutely everything explained and spoonfed of what exactly is happening at any given moment like the drooling lobotomised buffoons they are.

>>80811522
>obtuse stories about bizarre things happening to non-characters
Why hasn't anyone got Refn to do a lovecraft movie yet?

>>80811522
>if you think Lovecraft is unfilmable

Not what I said~

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>>80811522
>>80811561
>>80811189
>>80811139
Honestly they should just start with 19th/early 20th century-themed adventures and work their way up to the more dreadful revelations.

I'd honestly like to see more archaeologists exploring ancient ruins from times immemorial, monuments and tombs and inscriptions so old that they could only come from civilizations that predate any known human societies.

There's just so much opportunity to really give audiences a sensation of feeling so small and insignificant in the grand scheme of things, that there could've been whole epochs of advanced societies that worshiped unknown deities from beyond our dimension.

Then you can slowly have the cosmic horror aspect seep in as each discovery becomes more unsettling and humanity's role and ultimate insignificance is gradually revealed.

>>80811093
>implying Carpenter hasn't already done that at least 3 times

>>80811139
It's only vague if you have 0 imagination.

Hell it's not vague at all, read a book sometime.

>>80812123
>read a book sometime.

Y'know what, maybe I will!

>>80812152
Excellent :)

>>80812060
>implying he's done it right even once

>>80811093

DUDE TENTACLES AND EYEBALLS AND SHOULD NOT BE LMAO

If people don't want to read Lovecraft because of meme criticisms, that's GREAT. Less people to take his ideas and fuck them up with.

This movie looks like shit though.

>>80812043
My erection now is just as hard as it was when I was INSIDE A REAL LADY (who co-incidentally is pretty hot AND I love her.) .

>>80811093
I would love to see a movie adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth.
At the Mountains of Madness, Herbert West: Reanimator, or the Dunwich Horror would also be some of the more adaptable of Lovecraft's stories.

The problem with Lovecraft is, regardless of his particular use of imagery, his main character's are fairly bland for the purpose of letting the reader imagine themself as the character. Hollywood would probably fuck this up by getting a metaphorical or literal Ryan Gosling to play their lead.

I'm very excited for this film in all it's low budget glory but while it does have lovecraftian elements, it is first and foremost a gross out film with lots of emphasis on what we ARE seeing. And lovecraft's most important concept is the unknowable, the unseen.

>>80815466
>the unseen
not really, if anything you are probably meaning the unfathomable.

>>80811093
no

>>80815466
You've seen it?

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>>80811093
they already did.

>adapting horror that is supposed to be indescribable to a visual medium

No

>>80815787
someone up to the task of making impressive and revolutionary disorienting effects could do it, but this film's just about sucking Carpenter's dick so.

The best Lovecraftian horror is The Ninth Gate.

>>80812043
Holy fuck. I love long setups like this. It builds as normal with slightly sinister undertones and then by the end it becomes overt, gradually increasing as it goes on

>>80815857
Are there any movies like this?

>>80815758
That's said to be based around WH40K not lovecraft

>>80815897
details aside, they're sort of expressions of the same kind of larger and consuming horror.

>>80815566
nice semantics faggot, screw off

>>80815688
No but I've seen all the trailers and read the reviews and the kickstarter updates. This is a movie with a ton of low budget practical fx, creatures, props, gore, etc. Some of it apparently looks pretty good and some of it looks pretty cheesy. But one thing everyone seems to agree on is that there is plenty to see, it's not going to be a film full of people staring into doors with nothing but blackness staring back.

>>80815979
sorry if you can't PERCEIVE a difference between vision and comprehension

>>80815857
>>80815875

I'd say the Ninth Gate is the best movie you're going to find with this kind of feel.

>>80815929
Not necessarily. The Chaos Gods can only survive if the living beings in real space exert the emotions associated with them. If all the beings died out, the Chaos Gods would cease to exist, while the gods in Lovecraft live regardless if there is life in the universe

The computer game "eternal darkness" did it really well. The format allows the story to span millennia, which I think gives it the epic scale needed fur lovecraft

>>80816005
fite me IRL nigger post address and last 4 of social so i kno its you

>>80812060
Prince of darkness, mouth of madness, and what's the third?

>>80816102
da ting

Reanimator
Dark city

FUCK OFF with these fucking shill threads this movie looks terrible as is all content created by 30something numales with misplaced 80s nostalgia, go viral market it on reddit or fucking imgur

>>80816208
no one has anything nice to say about the film, and your post is the shittiest of them all desu.

pipe down

>>80815831
>someone up to the task of making impressive and revolutionary disorienting effects
I've got a handful of ideas with what you could with 3D, but the problem is the studios dont like fucking with the audience that way.
But there are things that you can do that would genuinely be creepy as fuck and could create a really dreadful atmosphere.
Coraline really used 3D well. It did things like changing the distance between the cameras in the other world, so its constantly fucking with you and subconsciously informing you that something is weird and "off" about the world.
You could even take it farther and film different scenes in the right and left camera. Like imagine a guy going crazy in an evil dead type situation.
He starts to see these demons coming for him and he grabs an axe to defend himself. In the right channel you see this really creepy evil world with the demons coming, whilethe other channel shows a more objective view and you see hes really murdering his family. Right before he axes his daughter both cameras switch to the fantasy as hes about to connect.
Just an idea off the top of my head, but it would be a good use of the medium beyond the meme appeal.

>>80811093
the void is shit. It's like a B grade horror flick like really cheap

>>80816118
Well I feel like a stupid asshole now.

>>80811093
Die Farbe is by far the best Lovecraftian movie I've ever seen.

I think the biggest thing most of them miss is the air of hopelessness and existential dread. Lovecraft is more than just 5-th dimensional tentacle monsters that make your head explode.

>>80811093
What's wrong with Into the Mouth of Madness?

>>80811189
What a fucking meme writer. I wish I thought of writing a scary book and then saying, and he saw.... IT. It was so scary, I can't even describe it!!!!

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>>80813203

>>80816050
I have never seen someone miss the point this fucking hard.

The only way they could make an effective Lovecraftian movie would be to start it out as something completely innocent and spiral into madness as it goes on.

Like Hot Fuzz but scary.

>>80817198
>believing what some idiot on 4chan tells you

>>80815758
this fucking cheesefest of a film is not even remotely close to lovecraft. i love it for its goofiness but it's not what op is talking about, at all

>>80817362
Kill List and The Wicker Man come to mind, although not Lovecraftian.

>>80817436
>cheesefest
nigga wut

>>80817952
hes not making it up. you're out of he loop.

>>80811093

Hellboy.

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>>80818008
>>80817436
>cheesefest

>>80817754
Good examples but I'm speaking more of something absolutely not marketed as horror whatsoever

Think if Indiana Jones turned into eldritch horror partway through the first movie.

>>80818494
The cat would be out of the bag before the movie even made it to theaters.
Did From Dusk Til Dawn even fool anyone when it first came out?

>>80816058
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>>80811093
YES YES 100 TIMES YES

This movie is great.

>>80818494
>Think if Indiana Jones turned into eldritch horror partway through the first movie.
You mean like the cult of kali ripping peoples hearts out, human sacrifice, and child slavery?
Kali worship is basically irl lovecraftian tier shit.

>daily Lovecraft thread
RIP /tv/

>>80817952
>>80818057

He's right though. The movie is like a fucking nu-metal music video.

Also, did you just forget about the wacky black guy and his funny one-liners and he floats through space and then jetpacks back to the ship?

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

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Will this be the Babadook of 2017?

Movie looks great, fuck you salty contrarians.

Hoping this will strike that perfect balance between hardcore mainline cosmic horror, and pulpy shock goodness.

I'll watch it for the SFX if nothing else.

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How do you depict "indescribable horror"?

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>>80811093
>From the Executive Producer of The Witch

>>80811139
>vague

I've only read The Shadow Over Innsmouth and it spent forever describing everything

>>80820409
see this exchange >>80815566
and consider >>80815831

>>80820440
way 2 be gay

>>80811093
>cosmic Lovecraftian horror

AKA Reddit spoopy

>>80811093
RELEASE DATE
March 31, 2017 (UK)
April 7, 2017 (VOD)(Limited)

RELEASE DATE
March 31, 2017 (UK)
April 7, 2017 (VOD)(Limited)

RELEASE DATE
March 31, 2017 (UK)
April 7, 2017 (VOD)(Limited)

we hype or what?

>>80812629
Kill yourself

>>80820952
brb killing myself

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hi

>>80821145
hello

>>80811139
>>80811139
My memory of many of his stories is that he provides a lot of descriptive features of the various horrible things (tentacles, fangs, claws) without actually indicating what it looks like (size, shape, etc).

Rather than calling it unfilmable, why wouldn't you see that as impossible to do wrong? He left the important things open for our worst fears to fill in the blanks. I'd give a good filmmaker a chance at going for it

>>80820838
>April 7, 2017 (VOD)(Limited)

I will definitely be making a VOD Friday thread for this movie.

>>80820838
I'm more hyped about this The Void to be honest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cML814JD09g

>>80821340
>>>/v/

>Pure cosmic dread

What did they mean by this?

>>80821536
that feeling when you know you're gonna drop spaghetti but you can't stop yourself

>>80821340
>VR meme

>>80821340
this is a scam

>>80821649
story?

>>80821418
>>>/lgbt/

>>80821689
Jessi got fired for stealing the gems

>>80812043
Sounds like it would be an awesome television series if it didn't get canceled in the first season.

>>80821145
who's the director ?

>>80811093
They'll never get Lovecractian horror right because miscegenation doesn't scare people the way it used to.

>>80822017
Have you looked at who is President?

>>80822477
Yeah but modern america's hatred of black people comes from over-proximity, not fear, of the Other.

>>80822655
We don't hate niggers. We just want them gone so they don't slow us down, hurt us, and leech off us.

>>80811310
>Dagon

Fuck I completely forgot about that movie.

>>80816586
Weird, I've had similar ideas about what to do with 3D ... I don't like it much but I would take advantage of it if I were going for Lovecraft.

fuck off with this shitty meem /lit/

>>80822772
>bookz r stoopit

>>80811093
>DOOD LOVECRAFT IZ BOUT TENTACKLES N SHEIT L O L
I bet this was written by a bad GM who runs CoC games.

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>>80813203
Proofs?

>>80824160
no

>>80811093
stop shilling your stupid gore movie here

you literally just rebranded it as "lovecraftian" (despite the total lack of genuine lovecraftian elements) because it got no traction in shitty film festival appearances last year

>>80811093
I thought the cloverfield 2 movie had a decent bit of a lovecraftian vibe in it

>>80811522
Calling something "unfathomable" or "undescribable" is hardly a description.

>>80814311
>I would love to see a movie adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth.
Check out Dagon, my friend.

>>80817123
My favorite horror movie is In the Mouth of Madness and Im hoping The Void to surpass it.

>>80820440
>from the intern of the catering company who served lunch on the production of Pirates of the Carribean: Stranger Tides

>>80818494
>Good examples but I'm speaking more of something absolutely not marketed as horror whatsoever
Start with a WW2 German U-boat movie. End with crazy captain entering millenia old temple under the ocean after murdering his crew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temple_(Lovecraft_short_story)

I honestly don't know why this story doesn't get much attention. It's short but it's told excellently and would be easily translated to film.