Lovecraft is unfilmable. Just face it.

>>84201436
He wasn't THAT ugly.

what are some flicks about guys who name their cats offensive slurs?

>you will never have a Lovecraftean masterpiece with the set pieces of Crimson Peak because Del Toro can't go a single fucking year without dropping a film

>>84201436
with the whole bullshit about "universes" I'm surprised it hasn't been picked up yet, if anybody was going to try it out, it was Universal.

Maybe they're up to it since the Mummy failed, although I don't know how much of a hit they took from that one

>>84201598
I think they broke even thanks to China, which means they'll still want to take at least one more crack at getting their Universal Monsters shared universe off the ground.

>>84201553
Crimson Peak was way too over the top for HPL. Weird horror is about subtlety, not fuckign Dark Shadows/Dark Souls bullshit.

>>84201436
aesthetic ass picture

Some of his stuff is unfilmable, like his descriptions of non-euclidian architecture. Sailor being eaten up by a geographical fault that is an acute angle that behaves as an obtuse.

>>84201936
The style of Crimson Peak is oddly enough better suited for Poe. The Fall of the House of Usher, for instance.

Lovecraft is more like... maybe The VVitch? I could see The Dunwich Horror filmed like that, or The Colour out of Space

When did this 'Lovecrafts stories are such intelligent and subtle masterpieces' meme start?

Would you guys consider blame! Lovecraftian?

>>84202004
I guess when legit good writers like Robert Bloch, William Burroughs and Jorge Luis Borges said he was good or paid homage to him in their work.

Bloodborne got it pretty right.

>>84202000
>>84202000
>>84202000
Don't they literally film that exact scene in one of the black and white student films?

>>84201436
Lovecraft IS filmable, but cannot be done by anyone who is not at least as intelligent as Lovecraft was.
The adaptation should stick as closely as possible to the source material. No additions, and whatever is removed (and, given the change of medium, inevitably not every detail could be included) must be chosen extremely judiciously.

In the Mouth of Madness was pretty good though.

>>84201436
Nah, its just that the modern audience demands a more kinetic pacing and a more levity filled atmosphere.
Gothic horror simply is not something that the masses are looking for.
That said...True Detective pretty much did Lovecraft type of shit, minus the ugga bugga monsters, and it fucking worked.

>>84202083
I think Fuller would make a pretty interesting visual experience for a Lovecraft story

>>84201553
>>84201936
>>84202000
Crimsom Peak wasn't Lovecraftian at all...it was literally Mario Bava inspired pastiche, it was literally full on Gothic horror kinda like A Cure For Wellness.

lovecraft sucks and /lit/ has sucked past the first few months it was alive

prove me wrong

>>84202004
Lovecraft was a highly intelligent man with one of history's truly original imaginations. His writing was far from perfect, and highly inconsistent, ranging from utter dreck to true masterpieces such as The Shadow over Innsmouth. He was constantly improving as he got older, though - it's a shame that he died young.
When we read Lovecraft, we make allowance for the weaknesses in the writing because the flip side of the coin is the stunning imagination. There is also much else of interest in Lovecraft - complex sentence structure such as is rarely used these days, attention to interesting topics such as architecture and the 18th century, a refreshing absence of romantic or sexual themes, and so on.
It is true that Lovecraft was usually not subtle, but when we read him we imagine greater stories beyond the actual stories - the stories he would have written had he perfected his craft. What we do have is good enough that we can almost see over those mountains of madness and see the greatness that could have been. And so it is as if the greatness already was.

Most of his stuff is "I looked the creature, I can't describe the appearance because it was so horrible" so you can pretty much make the monster into whatever you want

Besides that, it's really not unfilmable
Matter of fact, The Void is pretty much Lovecraft sans weird racist undertones

>>84201598
Lovecraft stuff is public domain. I suppose the reason why there are no big film adaptions (besides the fact that Hollywood is too pathetic and talentless) is because the jewy producers can't seize the rights and have complete control on the properties.

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Fred Ward as 'Harry' Lovecraft, the Marlowe-like private eye, in Cast a Deadly Spell was great.

>Ligotti>>>>>>>>Lovecraft

>>84201436
I think a Lovecraftian horror (as in Cthulu or Yog Sothoth) would be unfilmable. A Lovecraft film, however, is fairly simple. After all, Re-Animator was made into a fairly decent camp-flick.
Dunwich Horror would be my particular choice for an adaption. All they'd have to do is A) Make Wilbur prettier and more sympathetic (but still albino, B) make Yog Sothoth an ever-present threat (but never show it on screen) and C) make Wilbur's twin more sympathetic, but also more monstrous.

>>84201436
This is correct, Lovecraftian horror is only representable through the unknown, therefor cannot be presented through visual art.

I like the short story were the dude is being eaten alive by a ghost dog and he keeps writing on his journals...like he writes the screams while he is dying...

>>84202252
>apples>>>>>>>>oranges

>>84202252
He is Lovecraftian and used Cthulhu myths stuff tho

>>84202228
"The Void is pretty much Lovecraft sans weird racist undertones"

No, The Void is a shitty run-of-the-mill zombie movie with some triangles thrown in.

>>84202334
Everything good in Lovecraft was just shit he stole from better authors, so little sense in calling it Lovecraftian.

Anyone who says that Lovecraft is unfilmable hasn't actually read his stories. They're filmable, you just need a crazy man behind the camera.

>>84202004
It's not really about being intelligent or subtle, but unfilmable. Their strong points of his literature just cannot be translated into a visual medium so all you have left is the weaker, less original elements left and that's why pretty much all the adaptations of his work are either shit, or only vaguely similar to the original story, or both.

>>84202227
>His writing was far from perfect, and highly inconsistent
That's an understatement. Like you said, some of his earlier work is practically unreadable.

>>84202379
When people say "unfimlable" they don't mean it literally.

They just mean any attempt would be shit.

Give a bunch of super talented animators and artists LSD and set them loose in a room with octopuses painted on the walls.

It's the only way

>>84202274
Cth is the most filmable monster because it is the most descript.

i think guillermo del toro or david lynch could.

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>>84202424
That's not ALL his stories though. Some have pretty concrete narratives and don't go that far out there. You could totally film The Shadow over Innsmouth and make it work.

>Del Toro
>Lovecraft
>IMAGINE Tom Cruise's In The Mountains of Madness

>>84202483
Fair enough. It'd make a good action/suspense thriller.

Course the ending was hokey as fuck.
>>84202516
I'm glad I don't have to.

>>84202483
>You could totally film The Shadow over Innsmouth and make it work.

They did, and the movie was called Cthulhu. The only bad part about it was that the acting was bad, but otherwise it got the story right.

>>84202530
>>Course the ending was hokey as fuck.
Cthulhu didn't think he'd have to deal with the power that is boats.

>>84202379
Well said.

There are some parts of Lovecraft, the best parts, that can't be filmed.

How in the h**k would you translate something like "...and the tiles were cut in bizarre-angled shapes which struck him less as asymmetrical than based on some unearthly symmetry whose laws he could not comprehend" into a film? You can't.

>>84202560
You're thinking of The Call of Cthulhu. Cthulhu doesn't appear in Shadow over Innsmouth.

>>84202483
Actually, a ton of his stuff could be very easily translated to TV or film. Most of his short stories don't really go into 'horror beyond comprehension' tier.

Shit like Pickman's Model, Cool Air, Cats of Ulthar, Music of whats-his-name, etc... could all be done in pretty standard Twilight Zone style anthology shows.

>ywn watch an adaptation of At The Mountains of Madness directed by Del Toro starring BASED Ron Pearlman

why live?

Many years ago my dad told me about a Lovecraft story about a town in which all birds avoided a particular building. It was implied (or even told) that the Necronomicon was stored in the attic of that building.
Does anyone know which story this is? I never found it. It wouldn't be unlike him to mix up different Lovecraft and Poe stories, though.

>>84202560
We're talking about Shadow Over Innsmouth, not Call of Cthulhu.

SOI is the one that's moderately exciting where he's being chased around the projects by fish people and then the Navy blows it up and then years later he realizes that no he is the fish people all along.

>>84202620
He was the demons?

>>84202614
The Haunter of the Dark
that's a cool dad

>>84202483
You'd have to work around a lot of stuff, like the whole backstory being told to the character by a drunk, and the final reveal which aren't really cinematic at all.

>>84201436

True Detective S1 is the best Lovecraftian style thing you could get

Doing it in the style of The Void/In the Mouth of Madness is just way too cheesy

>>84202649
>and the final reveal which aren't really cinematic at all.

You could change that part in the script and go all Sixth Sense on the audience where even the MC couldn't piece it together.

>>84202648
Thank you! I wasn't sure if the building was a church but I guess it really was. I've been looking for it for a long time.

>>84202600
Yes, but they're not his better, nor more characteristic and personal stories (except maybe for Music of Erich Zann which is pretty good, but I doubt that'd make a good movie either. The moment you actually hear the music, it loses its power).

>>84202672
Lovercraft reads cheesy.

Read it out loud if you dont believe me.

>>84202649
No, you could do both of those things straight, you just have to have the imagination to pull it off. The backstory is told by a drunk? Just do an extended flashback or flashbacks starting after the scene where the narrator and Zadok are sitting by the water.
The final reveal? Show the narrator looking at himself in the mirror uneasily. Show him going to the doctor because something strange is going on with his skin. Etc. Then in the last scene show him starting a journey back to Innsmouth, maybe getting into a bus or something. Cut to end credits.

Name one (1) good audiobook that is Lovecraft-style.

>>84202702
It was a chuch and iirc the item was the Shining Trapezohedron.

>>84202727
The Message podcast was okay

>>84202702
Sure thing. Good to see that my voluminous knowledge of Lovecraft was finally of use to someone besides myself.

THe call of cthulhu silent movie was breddy gudd

>>84202124
Not really.

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>leave lovecraft kino to me

>>84202685
I guess it could work, but I would be extremely wary of making any additions or major changes to a Lovecraft story when adapting it. It's highly unlikely they would improve anything. The major problems with Lovecraft, IMO, are rarely his basic concepts or his vision or his plots (with a few fairly obvious exceptions such as the weak ending of The Call of Cthulhu and the unbelievable character behavior in The Whisperer in Darkness) - it's more the execution.

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>>84202792

If Lovecraft's wife was pregnant, I could see him writing something like Eraserhead.

>>84202826
Well, if we're bringing in movies that aren't based on Lovecraft texts, but are Lovecraftian, then I would certainly nominate 2001 as the most Lovecraftian movie I'm aware of. But this Europa Report seems interesting. That cover image already tells me I'm in for some quality.

>>84202867
Found footage seems like a good movie adaptation of lovecraft diary style

>>84202867
Except for a shitty squid monster it's got nothing Lovecraftian.

>>84202826
I keep coming around to considering it but the reviews drive me away.

>>84202768
>voluminous knowledge of Lovecraft
Does he have any stories with a strong protagonist? The fact that most of his stories lack a proper main character seems like one of the main reason there are no proper Lovevraft movies.

>>84202768
What's your favorite piece of Lovecraft writing?

>>84202889
There's a number of good found footage movies with Lovecraftian elements to them.

Noroi.
Borderlands.
Taking of Deborah Logan.
Le Documents Interdits

>>84201436
>Directed by Judd Apatow

We can make this happen

>>84202963
If you mean strong as in heroic, then I'd say Willett in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and Randolph Carter in The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and a few other stories.
If you just mean strong as in artistically central and well-executed, then I'd add at least Pickman's Model, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Shadow out of Time, The Thing on the Doorstep, and The Haunter of the Dark.

>>84202963
Not that guy, but no. HPL was terrible with characters and even worse with dialogue.

>>84202984
Hard to pick just one... off the top of my head, I'd say my favorites are:
Nyarlathotep
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The Colour out of Space
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Shadow out of Time
The Haunter of the Dark
Fungi from Yuggoth

>>84202000

This. Lovecraft isn't a look, it's a feel. I think it's better suited for a show though. That way you tell different stories of people connected through a main plot, kind of like Eternal Darkness.

As far as the non-euclidian architecture, American Gods kind of showed that it can be done with how they did Crispin Glover. Fuck, I know he's busy but just put Fuller on it.

>>84202252

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxZpEFJhO6k
>Your plan is a mistake, he repeated
>This world is a mistake, I replied

>>84201436
>Lovecraft is unfilmable. Just face it.
You probably meant "unfathomable".

>>84202004
People don't say it's unfilmable because it's "intelligent and subtle masterpieces". It's unfilmable due to nature of a lot of the stories. See >>84202000
> descriptions of non-euclidian architecture. Sailor being eaten up by a geographical fault that is an acute angle that behaves as an obtuse
How do you even go about trying to film that?
Then there's also the fact that a lot of characterization is in the form of first person narration. In terms of actually showing something happening, a lot of his stories are just people walking around and then going "oh shit" when they realize the truth - a bulk of which happens in the monologue. Take even something like say, the Nameless City: it'll make for a rather boring film since it's just one guy walking around the ruins and seeing pics/engravings of weird creatures and then realizing those were literal representations of its population and not metaphorical.

>>84202725
I think I'd like the ending to be more Prince Of Darkness style, trying to check for the gills, and cut to black just before we get to see it.
And of course, the flashback is the easiest way to do it, but an extended flashback in the middle of a film always sucks.

>>84203730
>but an extended flashback in the middle of a film always sucks
How about Godfather 2?

Dreamquest might be fun to see if the director has a vision to make it really feel fantastical and otherwordly, and that this sunset city is worth the journey. But mostly it comes down to nailing atmosphere and attitude. Kadath and Leng have to feel really foreboding, you need to sense the dread coming from the black rock.

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yet it works in a video game format. whats your excuse /tv/ ?

>>84203812
There's an exception to every rule, and the plot on that one lended itself to it. A horror/thriller like SOI would be, would lose a lot of momentum and tension if you insert a big flashback full of backstory exposition.

>>84204104
It only works for a while. I could never finish it because it goes full retard in the second half.
The whole first part of the game was brilliant though. Loved the escape from Innsmouth part.

>>84204104
Because different mediums works differently? You seriously can't be this stupid to think that what works in games can work as well in a live action.

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>>84201546
I'm reading The Rats in the Walls and literally just got to that part. Fucking lol

>>84204176
>waaaahhh it wont work in movies because you cannot transpose lovecraftian horror to a visual form
>except in video games you can

nigger you dumb

The mistake is trying to film the actual horror shit. Most lovecraft stories are about the road to encountering something fucked up, discovering something mysterious, or coping with an experience that already happened. It's not about gore.

If you want to do a good lovecraft adaptation it has to be psychological horror. Shadow over Innsmouth would be great because you don't have to show any freaks besides mildely fucked up frogish looking people. The meaty parts of the story is an old sailor telling stories and the great escape of the protagonist where you never actually see anyone but they're trying to get the protagonist.

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>>84202000
His shit reads like a fever dream

>>84204197
Not really, the limitations are the same. Lovecraft's monsters look like shit on videogames too.
What worked about CoC was the tension and suspense on the Innsmouth part. That was stealth done right.
After that it was just a lot of crouching and shit DBZ boss fights that had jack shit to do with Lovecraft.

>>84201436
>Lovecraft is one thing

nah

>>84204261
I agree that DCotE went to shit later but not due to the action. Action was fine really, you didnt have crosshairs, weapons had weight to them and shitton of recoil, it felt satisfying. Plus you lose your weapons bunch of times throughout the game and there is a lot of stealth later too.

Where it failed was that they actually showed monsters. Showing vague outlines once or twice, just a glimpse or something would be effective... but having actual fucking things coming at you and fighting motherfucking cthulhu/dagon was too much.

Still one of the best atmospheres in video games ever, everything feels desolate, filthy and rotten.

>>84201436
You can't really do a good 1:1 adaption of Lovecraft's work, but you can sort of adapt the brand of horror it is, not so much the exact imagery so well (incomprehensible masses of tentacles and eyes, ect), but that particular brand of tension leading to various forms of people breaking down, and that subtle fear of something vague and sort of unknowable, so whereas adaptations of Lovecraft fall short, the general sense of his horror can be find in stuff like The Thing (the John Carpenter version, obviously). I can't really think of another good example, though, it's hard to dial it in, since subtlety is a huge part of it, and Hollywood shoots for the exact opposite of subtlety.

>>84204314
Yeah, that's what I meant. Once you get out of Innsmouth, it turnes into just another videogame. Loses most of that atmosphere it had on the first part, and you get all those fucking awful boss fights. I never finished it.

>>84204158
Good points. I think it could be done, if done imaginatively-enough, but I'll have to think about how exactly to pull it off.
>>84204223
The part where the narrator walks through an open intersection and sees the water rippling on the ocean under the full moon as the things come in from Devil Reef a few miles away could be great, very chilling, on screen. It would be awesome if the water can just barely be seen to be rippling in an obviously unnatural way, without actually explicitly showing the creatures.
Devi Reef itself could be very spooky and effective as a visual touchstone that reappears in at different points of the movie and is always sort of lurking in the background.

>>84204261
>Lovecraft's monsters look like shit on videogames

Bloodborne would like to have a word with you, friendo.

>>84204314
Well, the monsters were also too stupid. The AI sucked, whereas in Lovecraft the Deep Ones have human-level or hyper-human intelligence. Unfortunately even the best game AI is very far from posing that sort of challenge.

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>>84204375
literally resident evil 5/6 tier

>>84202227
He also suffers a little bit from paid-by-the-word syndrome sometimes, where you can tell that there's twice the words there needs to be in certain passages, but I think the flaws in his writing serve the material in a weird kind of way, if everything was as eloquent and/or concise as it "should" be, something would be lost.

>>84202867
>That cover image already tells me I'm in for some quality.

Lol. Hate to break it to you but that movie is trash. It's a found footage style movie and it does not do it well, it's not even consistent about it because you get scenes where there is no logical explanation for why there would be footage of this scene, so it just decides to stop being found footage for that scene and then goes back to it again. So what is the point of it being found footage at all then? Just make a real movie instead of this fucking gimmick garbage. And like the other guy said there is nothing lovecraftian about it. There's an alien lifeform beneath the water that happens to be a squid. Anyone who calls something that basic lovecraftian deserves to get punched in the face.

>>84202947
They are right.

>>84204347
That's because after Innsmouth the book is basically over. The only thing left would be him rescuing his crazy brother from the asylum, which could work theoretically if done right. But they wanted to show more of the world. They merged a lot of strories and ideas with that game.

>>84204329
Again, I think the problem is that the fanboys who want to make a lovecraft movie focus too much on the horror shit, which is imho no what make lovecraft great. Like tentacle rape or whatnot.

Roman Polanski could make a great lovecraft movie I think. If you take the Ghostwriter for instance it's a entirely ordinary story in the sense that it's grounded in reality without fishmonsters etc, but it gets the atmosphere right. At least until in a lovecraft story the protagonist would encounter the horror.

>>84204401
Ebrietas and the Brain Trusts are pretty great I'd say.

>>84204364
>I think it could be done
Yeah, sure. From the more classic HPL story is certainly the most doable as a film, as long as you can find a way to work around those two things. The others aren't even worth trying, in my opinion.

>>84204439
>Roman Polanski could make a great lovecraft movie I think.
True. The Ninth Gate was very Lovecraftian in certain ways, although of course it also brought in private eye fiction and Satanic lore and sexuality.

new game coming later this year lads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_1WO-Rs7KA

>>84201436
Pretty sure David Lynch could capture the atmosphere of his work pretty well, desu

>>84204439
>They merged a lot of strories and ideas with that game.
Yeah, and I'm ok with that. I knew it wasn't a straight adaptation of any particular story. The problem is that they went on to make it a full stealth/action game when HPL works better as a more classic, first person adventure game.
There are some of those that I think are better at recreating a Lovecraftian atmosphere.

>>84204484
And some choice dark comedy, too, I should add.

>>84204484
Oh you should watch Rosmary's Baby too. It's like a movie about crazy cultists within a lovecraft universe trying to summon something fucked up. The Tenant has also some great sparks of lovecraftian horror.

>>84204545
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened did a few things right. Nice atmospheric Lovecrafty game.

Well
>INEXPLICABLE TERROR
is pretty hard to catch in live action

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>>84202124
I liked it, but the slimey monsters were out of place. Other than the insanity theme, most of the good parts of it were hardly Lovecraftian.

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>>84202641
He had that Innsmouth look.

>>84204566
Yeah, I liked that one. Scratches was great too, and I also enjoyed Darkness Within.

>>84204615
Carpenter fucked up by showing the monsters. It would still not be as good as his best stuff, but it'd be so much better.

>>84204439
Polanski would definitely be a good bet, he's really good at the slow-burn, all-pervading tension and slowly revealing information bit by bit and letting the fact that the protagonist doesn't know something create drama and tension, which is normal, but he's good at communicating it to the audience instead of showing the audience everything and being like "lol look at how sad it is that this doesn't know," like if the reveal in Chinatown was that everything was caused by some weird cult worshiping the bones of some weird giant fish man instead of incest, it'd be 9/10ths of the way there.

>>84204638
Looks like Benedict Cumbermatch.

>>84202939
>bad troll spoils the movie

color me not surprised

>>84201436
lol

>>84204709
Exactly! Well put. I'm afraid if you had someone like Del Toro you would just get another Hell Boy looking movie or giant robots punching Chtuhlu. On the other hand look at Pan's Labyrinth for something slower.

The problem is most directors and studios would want something big when it should be almost low budget. On one hand to avoid some CGI special effects fest and on the other to be free to be unique.

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>>84204638

yeah well he's also boring as fuck
At the Mountains of Madness was the first book in my entire life that I didn't finish because I couldn't get past more than two pages at a time without falling asleep

if lovecraft is overrated then so is david lynch

>>84204834
You might lack imagination.

>>84204812
The more money you put into a film, the less grimy everything looks, for lack of a better term, and having something that looks super polished and clean would be a problem, and giving someone with a huge fetish for, admittedly cool, monsters and a good eye for cgi would be extremely counterproductive, the less you see, the scarier something is, not even just incomprehensible shit, a door closing and the sound of someone being hacked apart with an ax has more of an impact than a super visceral depiction of the same thing

>>84202727
Slender-man creepypastas on YouTube

>>84204197
Video games are more than visuals. Retards like you are why AAA games throw money at visuals while ignoring gameplay.

>>84205123
Pickman's Model actually contains some relevant Lovecraft musing on horror. He basically says, through the narrator, that straight-up showing the horror in your art (rather than making it vague or concealed) can work, but you have to be a masterful artist. Pickman is such a great artist, the narrator thinks, that he can draw realistic paintings of the creatures, without using any tricks or psychological manipulations, and frighten you. Of course we later find out that in reality, even if Pickman actually is a great artist, he has quite a big advantage.

only /v/eddit likes lovecraft

>>84204375
You don't seem to get it. Lovecraft isn't really quite about the designs of the monsters, it's about the ideas behind the monsters, that there exists an entity beyond our mortal planes.

>>84204314
>Still one of the best atmospheres in video games ever, everything feels desolate, filthy and rotten
And that alone isn't enough to make a movie. In games you can have people just walking around and exploring the environment and it's interesting because it's interactive. But movies are passive, thus won't work as well.

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>>84205329
Well, probably wouldn't make a lot of money.

>>84202826
I really like that movie, but there's nothing Lovecraftian about it

>>84205123
>>84201436
Umm Bloodborne?
The good hunter would make short work out of them.

>>84205269
then bloodborne.

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If they do film it, can it include Jodelle :3

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>>84204104
Works hella good lemme tell you.

>>84204401
>t. someone who never really saw/played it
It's probably the best visual representation of Lovecraft I've seen yet. Also, Bloodborne has a gothic part that's separate from the lovecraftian part

>>84205740
>>84205764
>nippon trash with nippon narrative

nope

>>84206850
>>84205764
Fuck off, /v/. You faggots are on the same level of muck as /a/.

watch the Borderlands, guys. best Lovecraftian atmosphere in a movie made in this decade

>>84205764
The thing about Lovecraft is that the gods and stuff are so much greater than humans, we couldn't even see them without going mad. While in Bloodborne, you can even kill them

>>84201436
>Prometheus is At the Mountains of Madness

>>84206872
>>84206882
>>84206926
Lovecraft was a shit writer and its shit fantasy for nerds. Its like the 40k fanbase hur dur impossible strong, cant imagine?
nothing compares

>>84206968
>hur dur impossible strong, cant imagine?
t. only have "read" a few famous works like Call of Chutlhu and think he knows everything.

Well, it is /v/ after all.

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Reminder that if you like Lovecraft or anything called "lovecraftian" by pleb (The Void, Bloodborne, The Mist TV show), you are Reddit.

>>84207232
i liked call of Cthulhu mainly because I was a big fan of the vidya game

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>>84207232
this

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>>84204104
>>84205740
>>84206599
Fucking plebs.

The Void

>>84207420
daikatana >>>>>>>>>>>>>> quake

>>84207232
I ordered bloodborne last night, is it too late for me? If I burn the disk will I be ok?

>>84206926
>meanwhile cthulu gets btfo by A FUCKING BOAT.

>>84207503
Just on't think "ho its lovecraftian" and you'll be good.
you can think "it's pretty victorian and Georgian"

>>84205123
>>84205157
>>84205179
Fuck. I nevwr fi ished readimg that.

>>84207420
I just reinstalled __UT_

>>84202585
the crazy fractal stuff in Dr Strange is close.

>>84207420
If I remember correctly, Quake actually got me into Lovecraft when I was 14 or so... I was reading Quake-related online forums and somebody was talking about "Lovecraftian" stuff. Seemed cool. So I went to the bookstore, and the rest is history.
Awesome game. The single-player is underrated. Kinda boring mechanics, true, but amazing atmosphere.

>>84201436

The Dunwich Horror could make a decent movie

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DAILY REMINDER that True Detective S1 has been the only media of this century to correctly utilize cosmic horror themes and motifs

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>>84208533

>>84207420
Iä! Iä! Shub-Niggurath!

>>84201436
Mouth of Madness

>>84208915
That movie had a nice ending monster thingy, but still weak af

>>84202058
No, it didn't.

You Sonyggers are just so retarded that you've never read a book and think Lovecraft = Fish monster and then I went crazy.

>>84209065
How was this not posted before? Does anybody here actually watch movies?

>>84208354
In what fucking world can quake be considered "underrated"

>>84207747
It all ends in blood and tentacles. The FBI Agent who got raped by the Deep One in the previous Moore work (Neonomicon) gives birth to a dreaming baby version of the Big C himself.

>>84202227
Nice.

>>84203816
fully agreed.

>>84209171
To be fair, Quake is mostly seen as a multiplayer game.

>>84201436
try unknowable

>wanting Holowood to get their claws on Lovecrafts Anglo literature

lolsto

>>84210792
what is the source of this image?

>>84211214
Anglos are singlehandedly the worst whites

considering the ending of Dagon, it would actually work better as an episode of a horror anthology than as a short story

>guy writes about something breaking into his room and then jumps out the window while still writing

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>>84211273
Anglos are the only whites.

>>84210792
cmon now where that fucking picture from

Lovecraft is shit; he had good ideas that other people have done better things with, shit writer.

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>>84210792
WHO IS THAT FUCKING BITCH FUCKING TELL ME ALREADY GODDAMNIT

Innsmouth and Colour from the top of my head seem pretty doable.

The Mist (2017) is pretty lovecraftian K I N O

Black Spring is here!

At the Mountains of Madness could be done, would be like The Thing.

Call of Cthulhu done like Chinatown with a monster at the end

Colour Out Of Space as Cronenbergesque body horror allegory for alzheimers/abandoning of the elderly by the young.

It'd fucking work I tell you

>>84201436
And not that interesting.. Lovecrafts work done by itself is great and interesting but not so much that it needs to be expanded into a "genre" its boring and repetitive at that point and lacks depth.

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>>84201436
But August Derleth is.

>>84202424
Dagon (Technically Shadow Over Innsmouth) wasn't terrible.

>>84202341
so lovecraft?

acting like lovecraft is some high literature is the epitome of memeddit

cosmic horror is high brow as far as horror goes, but any retard who uses the word "lovecraftian" is automatically disqualified from having any say on the quality of something

the only reason nobody wants to film lovecraft stories is because none of them are good enough (and alternatively, full of enough content to turn into a full movie)

having a good imagination doesnt equate to telling good stories

>>84202004
No one's saying any such thing, they're saying the descriptions in his stories are LITERALLY unfilmable. Not as in "oh this story is so wonderful, it can't be filmed", but as in "how the fuck do we visualize whatever 'Non-Euclidian geometry' is?"

>>84201436
True, but that's because he wasn't a good writer. He had a lot of imagination but his style was very basic. His metaphors are straightforward and there's little to no room for interpretation outside the general idea.

I think writers/directors that have taken inspiration from him have done way better jobs than the ones who adapt his works.

That being said, I really like From Beyond and Reanimator.

>>84204395
Are you actually retarded? A game AI can easily beat any human on the planet, the challenging part about AI is making them fair

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Where op was proven to be fag yet again.

>>84201522
ha ah ah upvoted XD

>>84201436
Prometheus = the mountains of madness

would genuinely trust American Horror Story with doing a season of a lovecraftian story

>>84202889
This. At the Mountains of Madness is just waiting to be turned into a moc-umentary

>>84205266
Shut the fuck up you utter spastic.

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>>84204638
tfw you live near Innsmouth and even by the railroad line Lovecraft mentions in it

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> he's not in the order

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>>84201982
im not seeing an ass anywhere XDDD

>>84201436
who the fuck cares, just try a bunch of times until it works

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This is probably the film which captures the best what a lovecraft adaptation should feel like

>>84215818
boring pretentious shit for edgy teenagers who think they are smarter than they are?

seems pretty accurate

>>84215896
Stop projecting

>>84204249
What the fuck is pic related

>>84204401
I don't care how big and spoopy it is, if you can permanently kill it, it loses its Lovecraftian and fear factor

>>84216175
You can kill Mi-Gos.

>>84201546
Reminder that the entire story of the shadow over Innsmouth is about how miscegenation will destroy the world

>>84215562
>he joined an order when he could have joined a cult
dude, it's like you don't even want to get eaten first

>>84201436
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.

On the Creation of Niggers (1912)
by H. P. Lovecraft

>>84204195
You do know that nigger man was his real cat's name, right?

>>84216639
Why didn't I get to learn this one by heart in school?

And that is why we don't get lvoecraft kinos. LIFE in the western world today IS lovecraftian.

Shadow over innsmouth is probably his best story and I think it is reasonably filmable. Hollywood would probably go for something like call of Cthulhu though and it would definitely fall flat on screen

>>84208757

Wow you're right

>>84201436
Lovecraft, maybe, Lovecraftian, no. There have been decent Lovecraftian films already, but for a truly great ones you'd need a team that's really ready to go all out on things that make you go "Oh my god, how is that happening", but in a good way. They'd also need interesting designs. Like we saw in The Void, that while an indescribable blob of flesh and tentacles is kinda lovecraftian, it's also boring. Think the unnatural, twitching movement that's now so generic in Asian movies and follow that guideline while making it Lovecraftian and westernized

>>84214148
>acting like lovecraft is some high literature is the epitome of memeddit
Living your life to spite reddit is a waste of time. Perhaps you would make better use of that time by investigating the suicide option.

>>84201436
>Being this wrong

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>>84217491
forgot pic

what do I read to get into lovecraft bros?

>>84217574
>>84216639

>>84217618
i'm hooked

>>84216639
By far the worst creature in Lovecraft's works was the nigger.
A disgusting violent illiterate subhuman of low IQ that we as white men are forced to live among and accept as he rapes and pillages the land?
Kill the nigger, spare none.

>>84201546
my grandad named his dog nigger

>>84217693
They should make a shadow over innsmouth where white cucks and white female lefties, non-fish people, would gladly let the town be ruled over by the wonderful fish people, while letting themselves be sacrificed because they're so tolerant.

As a mockumentary. Would be lovecraftian kino af, AND reddit would hate it at the same time.

>>84217693
To be fair, I did nazi that coming. I came here to say this but boy, that escalated quickly so to the top with you! Lost it at 'This is why we can't have nice things' and then my faith in humanity was restored, my mind blown, and manly tears were shed. Well said. As a 'murican, I can confirm this gem has just won the internet and is doing it right. Just sayin', I know that feel, bro, and while that was a risk click, this post was a 9/10, would read again. I see what you did there and it feels good man. You're doing God's work, son. I laughed way harder than I should have at your list that seems legit and totally nailed it. You - I like you. You magnificent bastard; you, sir, are so brave, a gentleman and a scholar, and seeing how you are a redditor for 4 years, this checks out, so I'll allow it. I regret that I only have one upvote to give for this cool story, bro.
CTRL+F "about tree fiddy" was not disappointed.
Wait, why do I have you tagged as "NOPE NOPE NOPE"? Nice try, you monster. What did I just read? Dafuq? I read that as "YOU HAD ONE JOB". I can't fap to this. No true scotsman could see that this relevant XKCD was bad and you should feel bad. You must be new to reddit, so I'll see your cakeday and raise you a karma train. One does not simply rustle my jimmies, not even once. This stahp gave me cancer for science, so that's enough internet for me today. OP is a fag, 2/10, would not bang. What is this I don't even know how is this wtf? This will get buried but brace yourselves, some men want to watch the world burn right in the feels. When you see it, they'll KILL IT WITH FIRE! But this has nothing to do with atheism. Lawyer up, delete facebook, hit the gym, and SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY, said no one ever, so you wouldn't download a strawman. Damn onions, you scary like a BOSS. woosh.
Since rule #1 is 'be attractive', I'll just leave this here: This is my [f]irst post, be gentle. I have the weirdest boner right now.
EDIT: Thanks for the gold.

>>84217781
ethno state for dagon when

>>84217781
Shadow Over Stockholm
Shadow Over California
Shadow Over London
Shadow Over Paris
Shadow Over Berlin

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>>84201553
>A mexican fat cuck in charge of the Lovecraft universe.

Would be a travesty desu.

>>84201436
I dont think he's unfilmable but to capture the romantic nature of his writing and the non anthrocentric nature of his stories requires an audience that just isnt there. You really cant creat the sort of existential dread for common audiences not to mention nowadays his works get muddled down with pop iconography and name drops more than fully understanding his themes.

The closest movie I ferl to ever really capture this would be alien, and within one sequel the main monster became generic insect fodder for space marines.

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>>84217950
yes, but (((they))) would be ready to produce it, for that very reason

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JUNJI ITO IS BETTER THAN LOVECRAFT

JUNJI ITO CAN BE FILMED!

>>84218065
god i hate this cunt, no idea why /v/ and reddit want to suck his fat chode

>>84218170
his gothic movie was pretty white to me, but he had to put stupid (((feminism))) in it though, fucking massive cuck

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>>84218170
>>84218065
>>84217950
u mad ese?

>>84218170
>reddit
Why do you think, and /v/ is full of self-hating faggots. Go to /v/ and just start firing off the word nigger and watch the shitstorm that ensues.

>>84218121
I actually thought spiral was pretty great.

>>84218065
droped

>>84218065
>this triggers the snowflake

>>84201436
Is any book capable of being put to film? Seems to me, some faggot will always whine about some aspect of an adaptation.

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/tv/ is wrong once again, true Lovecraft kino has already been successfully adapted to the screen.

This perfectly captures the alien nature of Lovecraft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp1CT1h6c

>>84213731
>Call of Cthulhu done like Chinatown

Fund it!

>>84218748
>That awkward walk at :45.
Dropped.

>>84218748
Holy shit. This is horrible.

>>84218748
Wrong
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1QzNNK0YGxQ

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Lovecraft's horror is overrated compared to his comedy. The stuff he wrote on regular basis is hilariously more politically incorrect than almost anything you can read on this website. He lived as a NEET in his mother's house in his teens and twenties, so he probably would fit in here.

"In the matter of politics—I don’t go much with the younger crowd. I’m more interested in keeping the present 300-year-old culture-germ in America unharmed, than in trying out any experiments in “social justice”. Smith, to my mind, is a direct exponent of the newer-immigration element—the decadent & unassimilable hordes from Southern Europe & the East whose presence in large numbers is a direct & profound menace to the continued growth of the Nordic-American nation we know. Some people may like the idea of a mongrel America like the late Roman Empire, but I for one prefer to die in the same America that I was born in. Therefore, I’m against any candidate who talks of letting down the bars to stunted brachycephalic South-Italians & rat-faced half-Mongoloid Russian & Polish Jews, & all that cursed scum! You in the Middle West can’t conceive of the extent of the menace. You ought to see a typical Eastern city crowd—swart, aberrant physiognomies, & gestures & jabbering born of alien instincts."

>>84218339
That movie was ass.

>>84202446
HAHA DUDE WHAT DRUGS WHERE THEY ON WHEN THEY MADE THIS

>>84219920
Slav here, this man can sleep in my earth lodge any day

>>84217518
That's a surprisingly good flick. Shame about the obviously small budget.

>>84201436
>spoopy fishing village
>shots of wide angles with a huge silloutte of cthulu a few miles away
>someone comes to investigate
>starts getting hunted down by locals
>etc

its just no normie director can do this

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I wonder what Werner Herzog would do with Lovecraft.

>>84222136
The way you describe it makes it sound like a job for Koreans

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>>84223220

>>84214504

/thread

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>>84223337