Let's hear it.
>>87478549
Better question: how do you portray the unimaginable, the incomprehensible on film?
>>87478549
first step would be resurrecting jodorowsky
>>87478588
Don't ever show it
Have an effect of reality breaking down coming down the hall towards a character with horrible noises then cut away as it reaches them, never actually show the object of horror
>>87478588
By alluding to it. As soon as you've shown a single tentacle, you've basically shat the bed.
>>87478549
Not sure it's possible.
I think the only successful movies that come closest to Lovecraft are The Thing and Europa Report, but even those don't capture that cosmic horror feeling
>>87478549
this is how you do it:
>movie trailer
>WHAT IF CTHULU WASN'T JUST A STORY
>ear shattering fart noise
>full frontal shot of Cthulu rising from the sea with water streaming off of its body
>black screen
>coming 2018
>movie
>opening shot is Cthulu rising out of the water
>movie is 2 hours and 45 minutes of Cthulu destroying a city
>ending is Cthulu standing over the leveled city roaring at the sky
>>87478685
Pretty much what I was going to say.
Or, at the very end when its starting to look like the Machinist and he's actually just insane, he wanders his way into some horrible, cthulu cavern and something spooky happens like his body disintegrates into space dust
Could work if the camera is from a character's perspective. When he eventually sees the incomprehensible he just loses his mind and runs away or kills himself. Then you just make the whole thing happen at night in a foggy forest somewhere to be as vague as possible.
Google "AM1200". The full movie (it's 40 min) is on Vimeo. It's Lovecraft-inspired and really well done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp1CT1h6c
This but with Hollywood quality effects.
>people legit saying to not show the creature
That's virtually impossible to do, you can't build up to nothing or to a character getting killed by a POV shot. You will eventually have to pay it off.
Unless you're adapting something that's not monster related like Color out of Space, but even then that has the hurdle of making up a new color.
So it's either:
>Change the design to something alien but not Lovecraftian. People are too used to the tentacles and shit.
>Bite the bullet and have the tentacles, leaving for the director's talent to make it scary.
>Don't sell the story as Lovecraftian and have it as a surprise. Make it your standard spooky "oh hell what is going on in this place?" story and boom, cosmic horror in the end.
>>87478549
Why do artists always depict cthullu with wings? I dont remember that from the story
>>87479161
Disagree. You could even make it so that the guy has convinced other people of his problem, but the movie sets it up so the audience still thinks hes a retard.
then at the end of the movie, the character is in another room or something, then screams coupled with horrible noises. When the rest go to investigate, his body is mangled and you hear something scurrying away/flapping its wings
>>87478549
>do true detective
>add tentacles at the end
>let Rusty go full crazy
>>87479161
>Change the design to something alien but not Lovecraftian
the Alien series has already done this
>>87478807
>cthulhu spends 30 minutes destroying the statue of liberty and all american landmarks
>"MR PRESIDENT NEW YORK JUST GOT BLOWN OFF THE MAP"
>rest of the movie is a patriotic war film
>cthulhu is destroyed by american pride after the president gives an inspirational speech
>>87479277
this is a good idea.
do pretty much the same show, but have the yellow king be actually something supernatural (maybe leave the question of its existence open ended at the end).
I'm spitballing here, but:
>Cults worshipping conflicting Old Ones have infiltrated every level of society in a war as old as time
>"Bad" Cult (BC) finds some artifact that lets them communicate directly with their god and gain more power
>BC worshippers slowly start gaining societal power and going nuts which manifests as weird society-changing shit like bringing back public executions and other violent/sexual/taboo shit
>"Good" Cult (GC) has infiltrators in BC who try to figure out what's going on and send their BEST GUY
>BEST GUY starts investigating, leading him to darker and darker places (literally and figuratively) where we learn about the cult war and meet interesting characters
>Meanwhile society is breaking down, BC is hunting down opposition (GC and other dissidents) and the sky keeps getting darker
>BEST GUY (and plucky female sidekick???) thwart BC by killing main BC antagonist and figuring out how to use the artifact to call the GC god into existence from the depths of the ocean
>Shot of BEST GUY where the camera stays on him but rises up high into the sky and you see a large shadow loom over the land behind him, Cthulhu has risen
>Cut to black
>Open up on society again, you get the sense that the "Bad" Cult got got but things under the power of the "Good" Cult are even worse because Cthulhu was a bigger threat to humanity
>>87478549
Can someone explain 'Lovecraftian' to a brainlet?
A lot of people use it to just mean 'giant monsters' but I also see terms like 'cosmic horror' and 'the unknown' thrown around. What does that even mean?
Like True Detective is described as Lovecraftian for example, what makes a detective show where they solve a murder Lovecraftian (aside form Yellow King and Carcosa references, Im talking about the themes/content)?
You can't, Lovecraftian horror only works in short story format.
>>87481121
>madness
>the great unknown
>insignificance of mankind
>giant alien beins
>more madness
>desolation
>undescribable terror
>infinity
>cults
>madness
>>87478906
just finished it. pretty good shit.
like other people said about making a lovecraft movie, i don't think they should have shown what was in the pit. they should have just showed him throwing the stuff down there and maybe have some weird eating noises or something.
>>87479508
This is the only way to make a good lovecraft movie
>>87481148
anthology series maybe?
>>87478588
>>87478685
>>87478849
By a voice over, which describes everything, and movement in the shadows you never really get to see clearly.
Near the end of "In the Mouth of Madness" was nearly like that when he looked into the abyss. Other than that, the closest thing I've found to be truly Lovecraftian was in the video game "Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth". Keeping your character sane in it was a big task. I'm not really sure movies can do that, due to the lack of impressiveness and empathy with the 1st person character the game has. I'd like to be proven wrong though.
Lovecraft doesn't even mean indescribable horror because he describes all his monsters in great detail.
>>87481283
I think the closest you can get in film is "Lovecraftian elements" or "vaguely Lovecraftian". You can't really pin down the true essence of his writing in film. That's not to say that the results are bad, though. Some of my favourite horror movies are the ridiculous Lovecraft adaptations like From Beyond, and the Lovecraft-inspired In the Mouth of Madness.
How do we make the audience go mad when they see what's on the screen? Nerve gas?
>>87481148
>>87481283
>>87481389
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp1CT1h6c
Best short I know.
>>87478549
Get Sam Neill to play the main character
>>87481409
You'd need to make a movie really long so that they are really tired and more susceptible to that sort of thing.
twin peaks: return gave me some good lovecrafty-vibes that I've never got from lovecraft adaptions
wheeeeee unspeakable eldritch horror XD
>>87478879
I have an idea for a cinematographic suicide of the protagonist.
He becomes crazy by what he saw - of course we don't see anyhting -, then begins running away from of the [mansion], in full speed. He's running towards the cliff, always sprinting. The camera is backing away. Wider and wider shot.
> There's not stupid stopping at the edge of cliff, no close-up of his ravaged face, nothing of that meme bullshit.
He's running, running, and he jumps into the sea, and the movie ends.
>>87479621
meh
>>87481386
that's just false, unless you're speaking of not-great-old-ones ancient races
>>87481670
fucking matt & trey went completely senile
>>87481418
Thanks for linking.
>>87481425
What's the first screenshot from?
>>87481938
"I used to make the cartoons ya know"
>>87478549
play bloodborne, no western shit will ever come close to being as good.
>>87481808
That's usually what happened to the previous guy before the main character arrives.
>>87481990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tezqe4pVm3o
I saw this interview the other day and made this
>all that forced laughter
>>87481383
This looks neat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tENZajVJoI
>>87481956
>What's the first screenshot from?
Possession
The Shadow over Innsmouth but with elements of Dark Corners of the Earth.
>>87481909
There's fishmen shoggoths and the mountains of madness ancient ones you refer to that are all described in detail.
>>87482126
thank
In script-form it could read something like this
>The cigarette drops from his mouth as his face is petrified in a expression of true shock and fear fear. Off-screen, Barkers screams progressively get more frantic, eventually dipping into almost unhuman
>>87478549
Let Carpenter and Sam Neill loose
>>87478906
Just finished this, very good.
>ITT: Kids who will be drafted for wars in Korea & Iran
Yeah sure. Keep wasting your time with fantasies about a big monster who'll come and kill your mommy.
Better start learning Arabic or Manadarin. You'll need that in the combat zones...
>>87482649
>wars in Korea & Iran
Fuck that noise I will play no part in being a globalist pawn.
>>87479197
there is a description of a small clay sculpture worshipped by some cult
>The crouching image with its cuttlefish head, dragon body, scaly wings, and hieroglyphed pedestal
>>87482649
>calling people kid
>thinking there will be a draft
Stop trolling, you're like 16 years old obviously.
>>87479621
Too cliche. Sounds more like an 80s action thriller than a lovecraftian descent into madness
>>87478549
Honestly the new AHS has a decent idea although shit execution;.
You could just as well make a long thriller/psychological horror like Rosmary's Baby about a family or person being hunted and paranoid.
And at the VERY end only then have a bit of lovecraft stuff. Anyways, murderous cults are a big part of his work.
Like most people said. Build tension. Create atmosphere. Hint at larger terrors. Leave some things unexplored. Don't treat your audience like they're stupid.
I second the AM1200 short. I think the monster reveal shot at the end is perfect because while it's shocking and revealing, you're only getting some hint at the horror.
Another good one is called Borderlands. I think they called it "Final Prayer" or some shit in the US release. Good setup, good development, good conclusion, very lovecraftian. Also I think the found footage format lends itself well to Lovecraftian stories. A lot of weird fiction is in an epistolary format, which is sort of like the found footage of literature.
>>87478659
he's still alive dumbfuck
This video always spooks me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVEU6n2eKtg
I think just because he doesn't ever go investigate. He hears a weird fucking noise while giving a tour of mine, and just goes "I have no idea what the fuck that is, but I'm leaving now".
>No mention of Prince of Darkness yet
Fuck plebs
>>87482860
>Also I think the found footage format lends itself well to Lovecraftian stories. A lot of weird fiction is in an epistolary format, which is sort of like the found footage of literature.
Unironically this.
Also, I think that going full Cthulhu or Mountains of Madness is way too ambitious and impossible to do. But there's a shitload of other great Lovecraft stories that get across the themes and horrors just as well. Think of The Dunwich Horror made in the style of The VVitch.
>>87482997
I feel like a found footage Mountains of Madness would be a great way to go if you wanted to adapt one of his more ambitious story. Just rework it so that instead of a reaccount of the events that took place, they had recorded it all with go-pros. Maybe make it in the style of a documentary or report, in which there's voice-over and everything
>>87482997
Whisperer in the Darkness would be great for adapting into a movie.
But I think most of HPL's stories are pretty shit. It's the tone that you want from weird fiction, not the stories themselves.
>>87483131
there's a whisperer in darkness movie by the HPL historical society
>>87483100
Yeah, that would work.
Footage from some guy's go pro as he's just doing his work. Then he hears a commotion and has to run outside into a blizzard to pull a pack of hysterical huskies off the corpse of the alien they're ripping apart.
Footage from inside the cabin of a noisy, rattling, shaky airplane. And somebody starts shouting, and the camera goes up to one of the few small windows to look out, and through the blowing wind and snow the viewer himself can see the strange carved formations in the mountains.
Footage from inside a long dark tunnel. Can make out very little except the ground and the guy in front of you. Then there are some whispered warnings, and the guy wearing the camera forces himself against the wall. Everything's quiet. Then you hear shuffling. Camera wearer starts shaking but stays quiet. Suddenly there are horrible animalistic cries. Then something huge moves past the camera and you can't tell what it is, but as the camera wearer turns his head you get an awkward but clear view of a giant deformed penguin.
>>87483260
Yeah but it's shit. They try to hard for both camp and too literal an adaptation.
>>87478549
>movie trailer
>WHAT IF CTHULU WASN'T JUST A STORY
>ear shattering fart noise
>full frontal shot of Cthulu rising from the sea with water streaming off of its body
>black screen
>coming 2018
>movie
>opening shot is Cthulu rising out of the water
>movie is 2 hours and 45 minutes of Cthulu destroying a city
>ending is Cthulu standing over the leveled city roaring at the sky
>>87482037
bloodborne has monsters, but it is definitely NOT lovecraftian in that you can kill all the monsters.
In lovecraft, the monsters are cosmic horrors, closer to gods. You can't fight them. As soon as you add a healthbar to them it ruins the horror aspect of lovecraft.
a survival horror game would be better for lovecraft. Their making a new call of Cthulhu game. I hope they don't fuck it up
>>87478906
Gonna check this out
>>87478807
>>87483356
>I reposted the pasta again
>Am I part of the club now?
>>87479508
Donald Trump is in the movie playing himself.
>>87483100
>>87483267
read guillermo del toros script for At the Mountains of madness. He kind of had the same idea.
too bad it got shitcanned
>>87483267
Exactly. It wouldn't even be that expensive, at least compared to the average capeshit flick that studios like to release these days. The stuff with the shoggoth would pretty much be Cloverfield I antactica, and everything leading up to it should have a Blair witch style, building up lore, setup, etc.
>>87483456
just watched it. solid short film.
i think they showed too much at the end tho. should have left it a little more mysterious
>>87483458
Protip I am literally the guy who created it. It's the only thing I've ever done that caught on in a small way around here. I actually posted my own pasta not even knowing someone had already posted it.
You can ask me anything.
>>87483647
>You can ask me anything.
SSN pls?
>>87483647
What doth life
>>87478549
CTHULHU VS GODZILLA WHEN
>>87483500
Last I heard it was a romantic thriller staring Tom Cruise.
>>87478549
So much of Lovecraft is based around what you CAN'T see, or what you could never comprehend if you did. Something about "oldest fear is fear of the unknown" or whatnot.
That being said, I think the best medium for Lovecraft would have to be through audio dramas, or podcasts or something. Of course, the closest attempt at this so far has been...left-leaning, to say the least.
>>87478549
Mantain the mistery until the very end, create a sense of dread, and make a crescendo where a feel of impending doom is become every minute more real. The movie must have a general ominous feeling too.
>>87483972
>mistery
m8....
>>87483871
Been meaning to check that out. How exactly is it left-leaning
>The movie starts with a completely black screen, save for a very distant orb that's slowly approaching the camera
>There is no music, no sound, just a distant orb
>Around an hour in the viewer realizes that the orb is actually the planet Earth and it isn't approaching us, it's
"we" who are approaching it
>As the camera breaks Earth's atmosphere hundreds of News report/sermon sound clips are played simultaneously, combining into a incomprehensible, ear-piercing cacophony
>The camera impacts the ground the sounds cease immediately and all is black darkness once more, save for a very distant orb in the distance
>>87483871
bleh i couldnt get through the first ep.
wasn't scary. felt like it was for kids or something
This did a pretty good job.
https://youtu.be/r5nLtfsW224
You really have to leave it as vague as possible in a film. Nothing is more horrifying than what you imagine MIGHT be out there.
>>87483741
I seriously really don't know dude. I think we should walk hand in hand into extinction so no one ever has to do this again.
>>87484298
>tips rust cohle
Pretty fucking simple
Never show the Old Ones, always only show the effect they have on reality.
>>87482860
>>87482997
>>87483100
>people having faith in found footage format
Thank god, for years every fucking person out there was shitting on FF at every opportunity no matter what they saw or how good it was. I thought i was practically the only one who liked it.
>>87483131
They are usually not great, only a few truely stand out. He also sunk waayy into his comfortable formula too quickly and hardly ever deviated
Techniques to visualize the incomprehensible:
1. Night sky full of stars - Black mass eclipses the stars, darkening an already dark world.
2. Mass of clouds shroud interdimensional beast, black and swirling, undulating as though a heart beats within, only ONE curl of lighting sparks through the storm, illuminating briefly something immense and terrifying.
3. A character sees the thing. His mind incapable of witnessing such other worldly horror, breaks. The monster itself is not seen, but the world peels away and the character sees the world like a scorched wasteland with watercolor sky. He looks up to see the sun eclipsed by a writhing mass of shadowy tendrils. We never see this place again, but the maddened character is dragged along by the main character as a gibbering madman, constantly alluding to what lies beyond.
>>87482997
i always thought The Rats in The Walls could actually make a good movie
it doesn't have horrors from beyond human imaginations, wouldn't require a huge budget to do properly (mostly you would need a castle and a few set looking like interwar britain and a humongous cave), minimal SFX (mostly the rats which could be done by a mix of practical - individual rats or CGI - swarms).
It's long and complex enough to be a feature film and the subject is rather intriguing, engrossing and depressing at the same time
it's also some of my favorite short stories. i remember john carpenter mentioning how good it is. i might appeal to a wider audience than some of his other stories
>>87481148
Hmm???
You can't
It relies on not seeing the monster.
The best way to do it would be how the aliens were presented in xcom EW
>all theses weird aliens invading
>later it turns the aliens are mind controlled slaves by race of ancient one seeking the perfect race, though the reasons why are unclear
>>87483792
>WHAT IF CTHULHU WASNT JUST A STORY?
>shows Cthulhu rising from the ocean
>zooms in on nearby beach to Adam Sandler and Kevin Hart
>HOLY SH-
>Kevin James drops his ice cream cone
>Cthulhu roars
>Hart turns around and yells "BEACH TRIP IS OVER, EVERYBODY BACK TO THE FORD ESCAPEâ„¢!"
>Rob Schneider who has too much sunblock on his nose is looking at a hot model and not paying attention while the other guys shove passed him and leave him on the beach
>>87483647
hey buddy your pasta is kino, I post it all the time
I had this lovecraftian idea going around
>Town by the sea
>Something really strange is going on
>No deaths have been reported in years
>Obviously suspicious, investigator gets dispatched
>Town is highly religious, almost cult like
>They are vaguely Christian, very big on baptizing everyone even going as far as wanting to baptize strangers
>Very pushy about it
>All sorts of suspicious shit, like showers spray sea water instead of the normal water
>Water fountains are sea water
>At night the townsfolk get too forceful, investigator starts a shootout to escape
>Very dark, it's hard to see
>None of them are going down holy shit
>Gets grabbed, screen goes black
End part one
>The first investigator has gone missing
>Another one is sent
>Faced with the same cultish behavior
>Starts snooping around for where the previous investigator has last been seen
>Second investigator finds the first one
>First is seems a bit depressed but otherwise normal
>Second asks First why he stopped investigating, First says because there's no point he already solved it
>Second asks what's going on, is the cult just hiding all the murder
>First says "No it's far worse than that: no one is dying"
>Second obviously doesn't believe First
>First says "I'll prove it" and shoots himself in the head. Instead of blood it's water that sprays out.
>First explains that they literally can't die but they can't leave either otherwise its sphere of influence spreads
>First shows how him touching the water turns it all salty
>Second decides he's seen enough and tries to leave
>Townsfolk try to stop him
>Second gets injured and is bleeding out. He's dying.
>Townsfolk are scared for him, beg him to accept the baptism. They seem to know something about what happens after death.
>He finally accepts it
I don't know where I was going with this or what the point was. Just an idea I had. Please rate.
>>87484855
Bloodborne is what people whose first exposure to Lovecraftian horror wasn't Lovecraft's own writing think Lovecraftian horror is all about. It's a brilliant game (one of my personal top five), but it's still guilty of diluting the specific kind of horror Lovecraft himself conveyed much more potently through writing. And it's not anyone's fault--there's just no way around it.
>>87484589
I really like a lot of these. Plus, am I the only one who thinks stories should really start with 19th/early 20th century-themed adventures and work their way up to the more dreadful revelations?
Forget the damn tentacles already, I'd much rather see archaeologists exploring lost ruins from times immemorial, monuments and tombs and inscriptions so old that they could only come from civilizations that long predate any known human societies, perhaps even predating several pre-human civilizations that were lost over the millions and billions of years of Earth's history.
There's just so much opportunity to give audiences a feeling of being unbearably small and insignificant in the grand scheme of things, how there could've been entire epochs of prehistoric societies and cults worshiping unknown deities from beyond our dimension.
>>87478549
Never show the horror
Explore madness
Use way too many adjectives
>>87482120
Looks like shit honestly.
>>87478549
Found footage of a submarine wreck that has floated to the surface.
>Small team of scientists (between 2-4) descend aboard state of the art submarine to investigate the deepest depths of the mariana trench (ala james cameron). submarine is easily capable of reaching the bottom of the trench
>descent has character building moments. close confines of the sub starts to cause tensions to rise
>as they descend, their equipment starts showing more and more abnormal readings
>the deeper they go the weirder their equipment behaves and the more stressed and frustrated with each other they get
>electrical starts going haywire
>team decides to surface
>controls won't respond
>sinking and sinking without any control, the team crowds around the one screen that shows the cameras outside the sub
>they hit the bottom. sub is creaking from the pressure. their depth gauge shows impossible numbers, far beyond what previously was thought to be the deepest part of the ocean.
>dust from the impact on the ocean floor settles, crew views the screen. a shape starts to appear. large, rectangular, massive. some sort of monolith. appears to have carvings on it, but picture is too grainy to decipher.
>in the background, it appears as tho there could be more strange, artificially shaped structures
>suddenly light goes out.
>sounds from outside the sub. something has hit the exterior with a loud BANG. crew is thrown to the floor. again and again the sub is moved, until it is clear their sub is being carried or dragged
>the sub shakes violently and the crew is thrown about the inside like ragdolls.
>suddenly stops.
>lights come back on. electrical on and meters show impossible readings: they are at surface pressures and o2 levels
>they look on their screen, they are no longer under water. their camera is pointed at a stone cobbled floor
>crew cant decide what to do. start fighting/crying.
>finally, they decide to leave the sub.slowly, they open the hatch
>>87485426
Agreed. That entire trailer is over-the-top Gothic Horror. Not Weird Horror.
Gothic horror is fine and all, but it misses Lovecraft by a country mlie.
I refuse to watch any Lovecraft adaptation that doesn't have overt racism
>>87485333
The lost world genre is my absolute favourite. I'm writing a trilogy about post-Earth galactic colonialism. One of the human planets loses touch with the rest of humanity and establishes its own isolated human civilization, but the main character begins to discover all sorts of clues indicating the they came from space. Aliens are humans twist and all that.
>>87485493
i just red the horror at red hook.
damn is that some racist shit
>>87485446
Dude continue!
>>87485260
Pretty much Hot Fuzz, meets the Wicker Man? I like it
>>87482882
>stormy and windy night
>decides to explore abandoned mine
was he trying to make a horror film happen?
>>87485528
True Lovecraftian horror is rooted in prejudice
>>87485504
Sounds like Foundation.
The unreliable narrator needs Needs NEEDS to ALWAYS be a way to interpret the story.
>>87485627
T. Person who hasn't read lovecraft
>>87479621
Sort of almost reads like The Stand
>>87485627
No, that was just a flaw of Lovecraft himself.
Many of Lovecraft's contemporary betters wrote better stories of the same genre than he did, and weren't racist cunts. Lovecraft's stories themselves would have been better if his editor had cut out a lot of that crap.
>>87485749
>>87485934
Back to the Lovecraft ezine and your gay herbert west fan fic
>>87485699
Is there any lovecraft story with an unreliable narrator? I can't think of any, they're all gary stus. I mean plenty of hopelessly naive characters. Always getting surprised by the most obvious twists.
>>87485972
Back to /pol/ and illiteracy.
>>87485934
Where do you think you are, you absolute sweetie?
>>87486021
In a discussion of weird fiction, not a /pol/ memewank.
>>87486018
What the fuck? Give me ONE lovecraft story that wasn't either using deus ex or the written account of events in a diary or letters trope.
>>87486060
Then why are you going full sweetie and trying to inject race politics into this discussion? Sounds like you really want to be on /pol/.
>>87485446
>upon exiting the submarine, the team looks around their surroundings. its very dark, but they can make out that they and their ship are on some sort of stone cobbled road. to their left and right rise strange, oddly shaped stone structures.
>behind them there is a dark black pool extending into the distant void.
>the only light comes from their ship, their flashlights, and a dim blueish haze in the distance.
>the team continues to argue about what should be done. one of the team has started talking to himself, clearly starting to lose his sanity
>determining that the ship is beyond repair, and too heavy to try and move back into the black pool behind them, they decide to press on down the cobbled road, towards the hazy blue light over the distant horizon.
>all around them, massive stone structures and monoliths rise. They look up, but see no stars, nor moon.
>it is dead quiet, except for the sound of their footsteps and breathing.
>the stone structures have large doorways that lead to interiors that are pitch black.
>one of the team sees movement inside the darkness, but by the time he/she moves his flashlight, whatever it was has gone
>continuing to explore what appears to be the ruins of some ancient city, one of the scientists, a geologist, examines the rocks. determines that could be millions of years old
>finally, team reaches a massive structure, towering above them, silhouetted by the blue light, with a large cavernous opening.
>the team enters the black interior of the structure. large stone statues and gargoyles depicting humanoid faces and various sea creatures populates the hall.
>as they begin to inspect the statues, the lights from their flashlight flicker, then go out again.
>calls for each other, and heavy breathing are the only sounds... except for something else
>some sort of low grumble, then a high pitched call.
>looking back at the entrance, they see the black silhouette of something large enter the structure.
>RUN
>>87486097
>Lovecraft
>deus ex
I don't think that means what you think it means
DON'T.SHOW.CTHULU.
It is that fucking simple. Let him make all the sounds he wants, maybe even show a TINY bit of him, but showing him completely defeats the purpose.
>>87478549
>>87478588
Have it effect the viewer too. Things appearing on screen that seem unsettling but aren't reacted to by the actors, like something staring right at the audience, binaural sound that begins subtle but often becomes borderline overwhelming, like condemning chatter. All of this becoming more prevalent and obvious during intense moments, to get across some sense of losing your own mind.
The movie itself could just be a village dealing with a curse that effects them psychologically, an intimate drama/thriller like the early VVitch scenes where they're clearly being harassed by something, but they can't work out what and blame each other. But the dialogue has to feel just as familiar as it does in that movie, because while understandable, it comes across as somewhat foreign and draws in focus.
>>87485260
If someone enters its sphere of influence but dies before it makes them totally immortal they turn into some sort of godlike being. The townspeople know this and dont want anyone having all that power to themseve partly cause "if i cant have it no one will" but also because they are scared of what will happen if anyone does have it (make them all suffer for eternity/cuck everyone/whatever). This means that the townspeople have to very careful how they treat the detectives (the shootout scene is onesided/the detective pulls a gun but the towns people dont have any)
Also if i was the protagonist i would like to have an immortal loli who stays a loli forever. overall i rate your post cock out of vagina, not quite hetro enough try again
>>87478549
oh piss off, iv been saying nolivesmatter for years now... fucking chtulu cultists, fucking shits
>>87486018
>Back to /pol/
Sure thing...back to where a misanthropic, prejudiced, shut-in like Lovecraft would probably be hanging out if he were alive right now. One of the worst things about you libs is the way you shit your childish values all over fundamentally conservative works of art like explosive diarrhea in an attempt to retroactively make them "yours".
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Creation_of_Niggers
>>87478588
>>87478549
Never show the thing. Just have characters cry and spasm on screen. Make it credible and it can work.
>Cthulhu inexplicably emerges and begins trekking through the city
>anyone and anything within a certain radius experiences inexplicable evil and darkness
>the evil is magnified the closer you are to Cthulhu
>people go mad
>riots, murder, rape, necrophelia, self harm, domesticated animals eating themselves and their owners
>all while this gigantic force looms, a deep bellowing hum it produces fills the air
>maybe like one or two skyscraper collapses for movie purposes
>whole movie is basically like silent hill crossed with event horizon
>>87486841
You have no idea what lovecraft's stories are about, do you?
>>87487005
Not at all.
>>87486125
Any discussion of HPL will eventually bring up his obnoxious racism. It's /pol/ when it turns into a childish support of his racism.
>>87486097
Neither of those things involve unreliable narrator, anon.
An unreliable narrator is when a character is narrating a story but gives false accounts of things that happen in the story, but the reader is unsure of which things are real and which things are false.
>>87486300
>the team runs from whatever just blocked their only escape.
>they dash deeper and deeper into the interior of the structure, with only the distant bluish haze that is slowly getting brighter to guide them.
>they hear the sound of the thing behind them. chasing them
>something grabs onto one of the scientists and they scream, their body camera briefly shows a hideous appendage before going black
>horrible sounds and screams behind them, the rest of the team is running for their lives
> they see a distant door with blue light pouring through it.
>emerging from the structure they come to a cliff and stop short, almost falling into what appears to be a massive, black abyss.
>as far as the eye can see in either direction, the cliffside extends
>all along the rim of the cliff, are what appears to be piles of clothing. strange rags and toga like garments. piles of clothing.
>looking into the distance, a thick fog conceals the source of the light.
>peering hard into the fog, they see something move slowly, but it not clear what it is
>whatever it is, it is massive. incomprehensibly large.
>one of the team, hearing strange calls that sound a bit like their comrade, but more like a mimic, coming from inside the structure, goes back inside to try and help.
>she leaves her other teammate on the cliffside. he is peering into the foggy blue hazw
>she goes inside the structure which becomes eerily silent. suddenly, her flashlight turns back on, and she can see the opposite door at the far end of the long hall they ran accross.
>blood is splattered all over the floor.
>she runs back outside, calling to her teammate on the cliff, explaining that they can run back to the ship.
>when she sees him, he is completely naked, standing on the edge of the abyss. his clothes are crumpled at his feet.
>"what are you doing? let's get out of here"
>her teammate turns around to look at her. tears run down his eyes.
>"I saw Him." says the teammate.
>>87486541
>back to where a misanthropic, prejudiced, shut-in like Lovecraft would probably be hanging out if he were alive right now.
Exactly. What was your point? You can keep the white supremacy. I'll keep the stuff that has value.
>>87487383
You seem awfully triggered by racism.
I often imagine a cosmic horro movie without actual shot of the said thing. The main character only hear about what's happening through radio and phone.
Like the movie Pontypool.
Also the main character isn't the center of the movie, because he dies. And you follow someone else etc
>>87478588
Don't show it, don't have it make noises. Have the only sound effects be to emphasize the mental stress on the characters.
>>87487321
>the teammate smiles, then slowly tips himself forward into the abyss, falling into the darkness
>horrified, our lady protagonist runs back through the structure as fast as she can.
>she enters cobbled streets of the ancient city and runs as fast as she can back to the submarine.
>waiting for her there, is the other teammate she thought had been killed.
>somehow, the sub is back in the water of the black pool and ready to go
>her teammate says he found it like this, and they should try to use the sub to get out of there
>she agrees, but something is off about her teammates' demeanor
>inside the submarine they prepare everything for descent.
>but something is not right about the teammate.
>the hatch closes and suddenly a large tentacle like appendage explodes from his chest, seizing the lady.
>she screams, before her camera finally goes black.
>end
optional epilogue:
clip of female teammate emerging from the shore on a cold beach in washington state/japan/australia/whereever. is offered help by fisherman. they go inside fishermans house to warm her up. on the tv are reports of a massive earthquake in the middle of the pacific, with expectations of large tsunamis to occur. she smiles.
>>87487261
He wasn't actually racist. You are just virtue signalling and blaming /pol/.
>>87487383
>I'll keep the stuff that has value
Except you won't, because all you guys can output is an empty husk barely resembling the kind of horror written by the man himself. You get nothing, because you can't see how prejudice and Lovecraft's horror are intertwined. English Lit 101 teaches you that you can't separate the art from the artist.
Include as many blasphemous couplings between Lovecraftian horrors and nubile young women as possible. That alone guarantees its commercial success.
Then go back and wrap one king-hell of a story around it. Sort of Roger Corman meets John Carpenter in the Cthulhuverse.
>>87487962
Sorry dipshit but the annotated works of Lovecraft quote his personal letters in qualifying his statements as both of his time and truly paranoid. The man was a jingoistic mutant and denying that is just as stupid is whining about it as relevant to his writing in the first place
bitch
>>87486541
>Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.
>>87488384
>denying that is just as stupid is whining about it as relevant to his writing in the first place
Learn how to construct a proper sentence, retard.
>>87488140
What film is this?
>>87478685
Exactly what I came in here to say. Never show the monster. Especially your incomprehensible great old ones and so on. An occasional Avatar Of The Dark Gods or a Mutant Kid is fine.
>>87487647
That's because he's an awful person.
>>87479508
I'm only OK with this if you have Cthulhu get destroyed by Randy Quaid crashing a plane into him.
>>87478685
Blood borne showed everything and not only is it the greatest piece of lovecraftian art it is also the greatest video game ever made
>>87488560
Galaxy Of Terror. First film James Cameron ever worked on, if you can believe that. Mostly memorable for Taafe O'Connell getting raped to death by a giant maggot summoned from her id by her own fear of worms, or... something.
>>87487647
You seem to enjoy eathing shit.
>>87488005
>written by the man himself
Oh please, HPL was a third rate hack. His own contemporaries, the ones he stole from, wrote better horror than he did and without any of the cringey /pol/ shit.
>>87488781
You shut your whore mouth. His later stuff is masterful -- At the Mountains of Madness in particular. It reads like an old Nat Geo article from the 1920's that gets progressively weirder and weirder and --
>>87488697
>Silent pan of the ocean
>This starts playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIeR7uTqEQY&ab_channel=EpicHeavenMusic
>"Imagine a world"
>shot of underwater city
>"where we weren't the first"
>fart noise, stone cracking
>"to arrive here"
>A huge eye can be seen through a crevice
>tracking shot of a helicopter
>"we've got company boys" crackles over the radio
>gun fire, grenades exploding
>Cthulhu rises from the ocean
>shots of destroyed city
>close up shot of the protagonist with an rpg
>"ia ia this you son of a bitch"
>rocket zooming towards cthulhus scared face
>explosion
>"THE"
>deep one rising out of the water being shot at by US troops
>"CALL"
>navy seals dropping into desert shooting at nyarlathotep
>"OF"
>nerdy character reading the necronomicon looking surprised
>"CTHULHU"
>coming november 8th
>>87488585
What you SHOULD show is artistic representations of the monster made by mentally disturbed people. This is exactly what Lovecraft did in The Call of Cuthulu. We know what Cuthulu looks like because of the description of a cult idol of him, not because one of the narrators saw him directly.
A movie which actually did this, and to great effect, was The Mothman Prophecies. No one would immediately consider it Lovecraftian but used the trope of the unseen monster beyond the veil of reality perfectly. This is why a lot of people still praise it, even though Richard Gere is mediocre and forgettable.
>>87488781
>His own contemporaries, the ones he stole from
The contemporaries he was "stole" from were his friends, actually, which included people as diverse as Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert Bloch, and Lovecraft encouraged them to lift his stuff as well, and they all did, even Bloch.
He mostly stole from people before his time, namely Poe, Machen, Blackwood, and Based Dunsany.
>>87488140
So a live-action high budget adaptation of Michael Moore's Necronomicon, basically.
>>87488822
ATMOM is overrated as fuck. it goes through all the motions of "oh no these ancient ruins... oh no weird aliens used to live here... oh no they're still here... the implications... the madness..." like a bunch of other stories by HPL, only this time it's ten times longer for no good reason and drags it out and repeats the punchlines that you've already read a dozen times, which only serves to make it tedious
>>87488887
Yeah that guy is positively transparent. Every artist and author in human history borrows from some established base of writing, but because he said bad things about muh black people he stole it.
>>87488822
His dream cycle is beyond description. Some of the best adventure fiction ever written.
>>87481121
>Can someone explain 'Lovecraftian' to a brainlet?
It's just anything that plays with the ideas / themes on display in the fiction of HP Lovecraft. He basically wrote three kinds of stories:
1) Stories where the narrator has a dream and goes to a crazy dreamland where he sees aliens and shit.
2) Stories where the narrator visits some backwoods town in new england and discovers the natives are into some really weird stuff, like a frog cult, or mating with people underground, or something like that.
3) Stories where the characters are travelers / adventurers / detectives, who get on the trail of something that looks normal at first, but then turns out to be evidence of COSMIC HORROR.
Now, between those three groups, there's a lot of overlap in core ideas. All the man's fiction speaks to a semi-cohesive universe full of ancient civilizations, omnipotent dark gods, and horrific goings-on behind the veneer of society. Humanity is always portrayed as insignificant, and the narrator is usually just an observer to events he can't understand or affect. And that's always the keystone of the horror - the narrator is a typical 20th century american, who believes on some level in human potential, and god (usually), and the basic goodness of people, etc and then in the events of the story all his illusions are shattered by The Horror.
Granted, there's like 20-something years worth of material there, but that's the basic template.
>>87488943
That's ALAN Moore fuckface.
>>87481121
Try reading it yourself.
>>87489035
a michael moore documentary on the discrimination faced by fish people from Innsmouth would be pretty dank tho
I honestly think the best way to go about it would be making a series based on Providence, the comic by Alan Moore. It's literally an introduction to the mythos (the audience would learn about everything as Robert Black progresses his research), it touches MANY of the stories creating a cohesive narrative out of all of them, and it has quite an apocalyptic ending that goes beyond the usual "narrator went mad and/or killed himself".
>>87488830
>>"ia ia this you son of a bitch"
>>87483394
>bloodborne has monsters, but it is definitely NOT lovecraftian in that you can kill all the monsters
I agree with that, but they did do a good job of getting the monsters to look right. The creep factor in that game is off the charts.
>>87489086
Someone should finance this and get Moore to play it straight. He would, too. He's that stupid.
>>87478549
>Lovecraftian horror
Back 2 Reddit chum
>>87482649
>korea
>mandarin
>>87488822
At the Mountains of Madness is boring and stilted as fuck, and has many of the fundamental flaws HPL never outgrew.
>they were all bestie friends
Maybe in your fanfiction. Most of them corresponded with him, which is not the same thing as friendship. Some tried to help him with his personality defects. Others just openly hated him, specifically because he was such an obnoxious bigot, and cut off the correspondence.
>>87483100
>found footage mountains of madness
Yeah, that's an idea. There was actually a lovecraft-inspired story (I'm struggling to remember where) that used the mountains setting, where the guy's lead sled dog falls through a crevice and into a Mysterious Cave. Same general vibe, but much more limited setting.
The Void did that sort've horror pretty well I thought
>>87489271
You're an obnoxious bigot, but your ugliness stems from hypocrisy.
>>87489378
The Void was a shitty horror movie and throwback practical effects splatterhouse film.
Adding some cultists and triangles doesn't make it Lovecraftian.
>>87489271
I liked it :(
>>87489423
Mmm, nah, I judge people based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
>>87489452
So did I. Some of the concepts are great. But it would have been much better if it had been written by a better author.
>>87486541
Young Lovecraft, maybe.
Unlike /pol, he did actually grow up, eventually.
>>87489473
>I judge people based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
Then you're a fool as well.
>the only way to properly do lovecraft is by never showing anything happening
*yawn*
>>87478549
Lovecraft just isn't scary these days. Everyone faps to tentacle porn, so it's pretty much a fetish these days.
>story developed in bumfuck nowhere
>characters are regular peasants
>nothing actually scary ever happens
>only off putting and slightly weird things happening in town
>only namedrop the monster or cult once
>never show anything about the moster
>show extremely long and dragging scenes of the characters doing random menial shit
>open or weird ending
There you go you Just won the /tv/ and pseudo intellectual crowd. Expect to be called the Best horror movie of the decade by critics and contrarians
>>87485598
No, he's a nutball that reviews flashlights and explores abandoned mines. He has a bunch of vids and nothing happens. That's why it's spooky because in that one you hear whispering and he's just like "okay I'm out".
>>87488775
Yeah, Galaxy of Terror was a thing. Hmmm. There were a bunch of films in the 70's - 80's in that general class of loosely-inspired-by-lovecraft monster movies. The Thing, obviously, but there were a lot of others. Even a couple sorta direct adaptations like From Beyond.
How about this... movies that nail the lovecraft vibe, without actually being about the mythos. For some reason I suddenly started thinking of Altered States.
>>87488879
Oh, yeah, and Mothman! Stupid idea, but a good movie.
>>87489617
Why are you saying something like that if you haven't read Lovecraft?
>>87489737
>From Beyond
All of the Lovecraft adaptations with Jeffrey Combs are liquid kinography.
>>87483458
No. fucking kill yourself
>>87478549
Nothing wrong with that black and white Call of Cthulhu adaptation. It was very retro.
>>87478549
Don't.
>>87489737
>movies that nail the lovecraft vibe, without actually being about the mythos
ReAnimator was good, in a goofy Bruce Campbell way. Of course, it has a naked Barbara Crampton being eaten out by a disembodied head. That's a damn good movie right there.
I reiterate: in order to stand out from the crowd, you need a blasphemous coupling of some sort. Give me one good CGI-enhanced live action tentacle rape scene and a decent script and story and I'll give you an instant classic.
>>87489978
It was awesome. Too bad they tried to do their own thing and drove off a cliff with The Whisperer In Darkness.
>>87479161
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1756479/
This movie introduced the color in a really awesome way.
>>87481121
desu i've never gotten any lovecraftian feel out of true detective, felt like they were trying too hard to achieve it and didn't really pay off
>>87489942
>All of the Lovecraft adaptations with Jeffrey Combs are liquid kinography.
Two points:
1) False, because Castle Freak is in that category and that movie is a steaming pile
2) Re-Animator is a bit different, being part of the horror comedy family with things like Evil Dead, Cast A Deadly Spell, et al
>>87490098
>no tpb torrents
>>87490308
b-but i liked castle freak...
They should do a tv series on all of his short stories. Stuff like the music of erich zann would be perfect for that format.
>>87478549
Make a film about a person totally losing their sense of reality. They spend the film gradually getting more and more unnerved while other people around him act "normal".
In the end the character looks directly at the camera, realising he's not real and just a character in a movie, and goes insane.
>>87490388
>b-but i liked castle freak...
And? Turns out, we can't always be right about everything, all the time. That's OK, friend, we can still hang out. Us jeff combs fans have to stick together (all six of us).
>>87489737
AM1200 creeped the living shit out of me..
>>87490448
Yeah, that could work. I can't remember all the silly ass names off the top of my head, but there are quite a few "mild lovecraft" stories like Pickman's Model or Cool Air that fit that general budget / scale.
Something vaguely in the scheme of twilight zone or dark mirror could do it.
>>87490563
>>87490577
Yeeeahh. That one was mentioned up above. It's also a good subject for the general crop of short and/or student films that are showing up online in recent years. They're not all hits (not by a long shot) but there are a couple lucky shots.
Actually, on the professional end, there's some decent stuff too. Almost all of those shorts Neil Blomfklmampf has up on youtube are horror themed and have aliens, so inevitably a few veer into HPL territory. The light that overwrites your subconscious if you look at it from Zygote springs to mind as being very in-theme (and the monster's not half bad either).
>>87490563
Seven of us.
11, counting RedLetterMedia.
>>87490317
Here you go my dude
https://monova.org/98E4813DD7BDEE0CE319206E049C741C9858DD99
>>87485260
Two ideas stand out in this for me: everything benig sea water, that's creepy and haunting as fuck. And also, the townsfolk deciding that death is a far worse fate than being a prisoner for eternity. You could build on this by making implicit references that the "the dead" are somehow still interacting/affecting the real world, and that maybe some character who chose death, acts as a sort of plot element that never truly reveals it's nature. You never figure out if they became a ghost, or if they're being controlled, or if it's even them at all, only that the similarities are too obvious to ignore.
>>87487863
Fund it! Great effort anon
>>87487863
I like it. Would make for a cool script.
>>87485333
I think the reason peoples minds break, is because the eldritch beings flesh embodies truth. Merely witnessing it's movement sends your brain into convulsions at the sheer mass of information being presented, the implications of this being, the intimidation of its walk, the scorch of its gaze. They all represent the end, the origin, your purpose. It is like being shown the array of synapses in your brain, each individual twitch of a neuron pulling your body along like a puppet on strings. The finality of chance, the tortuosity of fate, all branded to your soul like a curse, purging any sense of normalcy or belonging until your eventual expiration, only to be followed by a subsequent journey of imcomprehensible horror and anguish.
>>87491081
ia ia desu!
>>87485260
I like it, like >>87491314 said, everything-is-water and fate-worse-than-death are very cool. The first part is just Shadow over Innsmouth though, might wanna find some variation maybe
Unpopular opinion: Even though it was kinda low budget I actually enjoyed this one pretty much. Specially the shots of the pyramid plane, looked really cool, like how I imagine landscapes in the mythos.
>>87488384
>his statements as both of his time
Except they weren't even. For his time, he was, as a matter of fact, exceptionally racist. As a kid he read a lot of books featuring crass, outdated (so to speak) racism in the private library of his granddad, I think
>>87482860
>Another good one is called Borderlands
Holy Fuck. I'm not the only one who knows about that movie? That movie managed to nail Lovecraftian horror perfectly, even including the characters failing in the end.
>>87492683
The lads on KKK uniforms and the Demon Doctor were kind of a fuckup tho
>>87492683
it's a good VFX reel
the other stuff is a waste of time
>>87491658
Or maybe it's just really, reallyREALLYgross?
>>87493303
Lurks perty good, I'll have to check that one out.
>>87489919
yeah, yeah, humans are insignificant in the grand scheme of the universe blah blah blah
we've been to space now we've all made peace with it by this point
>>87492685
Go look at the black crime rate and pic related and tell me some forms of racism aren't justified 90% of the time.
Something like the vvitch, excluding the last 30 seconds.
Make it so you never know if it's just hallucinations, fever dreams, misunderstandings or something genuinely cosmic.
Also lot's of trains, especially the old timey steam ones. I can't even get one a train because they give me the fucking creeps and remind me of Lovecraft. I've never been on one and never will.
>>87493659
Funny how you say justified, instead of factual or something. Sounds like you have doubts about your racism and you feel a need to justify it (by pulling bullshit statistics images out of the Internet's ass, for instance). Which of course you wouldn't have to if racism was a sound way of thinking in the first place.
>>87478807
>>87483647
It's nothing to brag about, there's literally nothing even remotely funny about it.
>>87493935
Acknowledging a threat that can be readily identified with a given demographic isn't bigotry. It's self defense. Go live in Dearborn or Hamtramck or any mostly-black neighborhood and see if you don't agree in two weeks.
>>87494032
Agree with what? That black people constitute a threat or that people from bad neighborhoods (who also happen to be black) constitute a threat?
>>87494193
When 6.5% of the population commits half of all violent crime, including murder, that's a threat. You can couch it in whatever terms you please.
If you think I'm exaggerating, go to FBI.gov and look at the stats for yourself.
>>87478549
I don't think there's a single director alive who has the cinematography "grammar" needed to do Lovecraft's literature justice. You'd need to create a Frankenstein director of sorts to do that right now. A bit of Lynch, a pinch of Del Toro, a zest of Tarkovsky and so on
Some pieces of art aren't meant for the screen because their original medium is too intertwined with the work. Adapt I can hear you say. sure Adapt and end up with a very different piece from the original. See Lotr, see Watchmen, see Lolita, see the many Hamlets, etc... None of them are superior to the original, none of them elevates them. Lovecraft would be the same.
>>87484168
DIY film student kino
>>87494347
Of course that's a threat. My question is WHY there is an disproportionally high amount of black people committing violent crimes. Is it because they're black or is it because disproportionally many blacks grow up and live in poverty (which you know, tends to to make people do unhealthy things such as murder)
>>87493566
Why would you, too, say something like that if you don't know anything about Lovecraft? I wonder from where do people get the audacity of saying things, and being serious, about things they know almost nothing, hmm.
>>87494564
It's a cultural thing IMHO. Race is a big part of culture. If poverty explained crime India would be the most violent place on the planet.
Anyway. I don't CARE why they're dangerous. I don't want them around me. I don't want the Feds or some religious group dumping rapefugees or inner city hood rats or cholos in my neighborhood. In fact I don't want them in my country at all. Full stop.
>>87494798
>I don't want them around me.
I'm genuinely curious as to the reason
>>87494959
Go talk to the good citizens of Stockholm or Manchester or Oakland or Philly and get back to me, you precious hothouse flower. You are seriously not paying attention to the world around you.
Anyway. Enough about the undesirability of niggers and mudslimes. What we're talking about is the absolute necessity of eldritch beasts getting it on with nubile women in order to make any Lovecraftian cinematography a commercial success. Between the free publicity from outraged feminazis and the neckbeards who will all go see it and THEN pony up $50 for the Ultra Special Collector's Edition With Two Extra Minutes Of Sexy Supernatural Bullshit, it's a cinch. Nobody would remember galaxy of Terror Today if they went with the original plan and had Busty Blond Babe get eaten by the worm, instead of ravaged.
>>87495058
I was asking you, not the citizens of Stockholm or Manchester or Oakland or Philly, though.
>>87493935
>ideology btfo
>retreats into semantics and pop psych
Every time.
>>87495112
Why would you want to live next door to somebody who is something like twenty times more likely to victimize you? Why would you want to live next door to a religious fascist who cut his own daughters' clit off and put a bag over his wife's head, and is going to want to kill you 8 times in 10 if you insult his fuckass death cult? What is seriously the fucking matter with you? Do you have the civic equivalent of AIDS or something?
>>87494564
>>87495254
>Why would you want to live next door to a religious fascist
But I wouldn't, I never said I would.
>What is seriously the fucking matter with you?
I just want to know about this strong dislike of brown people of yours, is all.
>>87488746
giant monsters look much better in video games than on film
>>87495508
That depends on how much sexy time they get onscreen.
>>87478549
>Cthulhu
Is there hope?
>>87487261
>obnoxious racism
Was he lying? I doubt he was more obnoxious than modern day identity politics obsessed SJWs.
>>87488830
Starring Chris Hemsworth and Leslie Jones
>>87488140
>filename
It's an older meme but it checks out
>>87478768
nigga have you ever seen The Void?
>>87495508
This is actually true, at least in this context.
I wonder why.
>>87481425
Nobody does crazy like Sam Neil
>/pol/ tells me "HP LOVECRAFT WAS REDPILLED ON THE JQ HE'S OUR HERO"
>Turns out all their anti-semitic quotes by him are fake
>Turns out he married a Jew IRL
>turns out his best friend was a Jew IRL
>turns out he considered Ashkenazi Jews part of the "white anglo race" unlike Irish, Italian, and German immigrants
>>87478588
>>87478685
>>87478686
>>87486620
>>87487860
While I get your point, I think that right now what could really be upsetting is to actually show "something", whatever, so utterly incomprehensible but also unsettling to be interpreted as mystical and cosmical horror.
Not showing something makes us believe that our deficit is purely sensible; but showing something really absurd, while not showing something ridicolous, could make understand that our deficit could be deeper than that. Something really hard to see, let alone understand. Our senses are good, our mind are not.
>>87483394
>but it is definitely NOT lovecraftian in that you can kill all the monsters.
>can kill all the monsters.
>all
The eldritch ones aren't dead unless it says nightmare slain
>>87478549
>void
how the fuck has nobody mentioned this movie
>>87495941
Wew
>>87486541
Lovecraft truly was a treasure.
>>87498934
Because "proper" implies it has to be good.
>>87478588
Make it move / exist in a way that doesn't make sense and makes you do a double take, like some kind of living optical illusion. That's the only way a living creature's mere appearance could be "incomprehensible" anyway.
Also try to make everything about it as alien and unfamiliar as possible. Have its presence drown out all other sounds with deafening silence
>>87488879
I always like it when artists get a little bit wild with interpreting Cthulhu, rather than just going for the "fat man with bat wings and an octopus head" look.
>>87499064
The rest is here >>87488140
I'm telling you guys, hot Cthulhuesque sex scenes is where it's at.