How would you depict cosmic horror on film?

More like reddit horror

>>87740471

Film yer mum's snatch lmao

>>87740471
*ear-shattering fart noise*

Lots of build up and absolutely non-existent payoff, really blue ball the audience hard
It's meant to be shit!

>>87740471
without giant monsters, just like the shattering of laws of science and common sense.

With animatronics and puppetry

>>87740495
m8 the cops are on their way, you murdered that guy

>>87740471
the entire point is that you wouldn't

>>87740506
>inception sounds and screen cuts to black

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>>87740471
What is it about these threads that get so many replies? I swear there's a new cosmic horror/Lovecraft thread every day but everyone still flocks to it. Someone tell me what the appeal is without looking like you're trying to impress other anons on the internet.

What honestly appeals to you personally about this theme?

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>>87740490
>>87740506
>>87740495
>The absolute state of /tv/

>>87740471
Event Horizon does it pretty well.

>>87740471
lovecraftian

>>87740471
"In the Mouth of Madness" does it pretty well.

>>87740629
Some people like the cthulu pasta, some people like actual horror. There's multiple facets, man.

Also it's so rarely been done well hollywood gave the fuck up on it.
>>87740668
>>87740684
those are all we got.

>>87740684
I haven't seen that yet, but I did hear good things about it.

Leave the protagonists perspective midway through the film as they're driven insane (essentially killed ala psycho)
Then get nowhere with whoevers following it up.
Maybe show the deity from its own perspective, with humans like ants

>>87740471
Isn't the whole point of cosmic horror that it CAN'T be depicted

>>87740716
>Also it's so rarely been done well hollywood gave the fuck up on it.
Well, the thing with Lovecraft's horror is that it's pretty much defined by being outside conventional senses. Movies have audiovisual resources to confuse people's senses, but most people wouldn't put their money into a movie that's too confusing to follow because instead of feeling "scared" or at least uncomfortable you can end up with people feeling just confused or disinterested.
When you read about indescribable horrors, your imagination does all the work and it becomes that thing that's just outside comprehension. The limits of your imagination become the fuel behind what the horror actually is.
But movies are expected to give you some concrete information. And there's very few ways to successfully pull a similar trick within those constraints.

>>87740471
recommend cosmic horror films pls, need something to watch

>>87740864
Focus groups expect that shit, movies don't have to go that route.

>>87740631
>DAE love Lovecraft?
>SHIT WAS SO SCARY THAT ILL GO INSANE IF I TELL YOU HOW SCARY IS, SO JUST TRUST ME XDDD
>wanna check my new Cthulhu t-shirt?ITS SO EPIC!!!

off yourself

It could work if you have normal monsters like kaiju or something that meet cthulu offscreen and then you deal with mothra going crazy and wearing dresses and stuff

>>87740471
A white guy in a bondage suit.

>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
>shot of Adam Sandler and Kevin James on the beach, staring at it open-mouthed, Sandler tries to take a photo with his Iphone X
>Leslie Jones drives up to them in a Ford Escape (TM)
>"Aww hell naw, this vacation is over!"
>fart noise, drum beat starts and rapidly increases in speed
>US military helicopters flying towards Cthulhu
>shot of Cthulhu roaring
>shot of Will Smith in a jet
>"ia ia this motherfucker!"
>shot of buildings collapsing for no reasos
>another fart noise
>THE CALL OF CTHULHU: DAWN OF THE OLD ONES

>>87740471
barely depict it at all, thats the point right

>>87740629
>13 replies

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>>87740629
The lack of actual good horror movies nowdays, they became cheap jumpscare ridden spooky rides with overused imagery that dimwits mistake for 'le scaery'

Just like any other movie genre degenerated into cgi extravaganzas with 0 soul or emotion.

The sudden romanticism around h.p. memecraft comes from the desire of reliving a dying genre, perhaps his way of describing how you react to something without describing the something is a good lead into the next level on horror kino.
>>87740716
I absolutely love that cthulu pasta because its not a mockery of lovecraft work but how holywood shits on the original matterial and just uses it to suck the brand recognition to deliver you the most forgettable experience you could ever have.

I even made a drawing of it on that drawthread we had.

>>87741170
LMAO

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>>87740471

>>87740471
Never actually showing it

>>87740471
Like this >>87707889

>>87740471
Simple... If any of us have gone outside and explored the countryside, you can understand vast it is and how insignificant you as a person appear. Create that sense in regards to things like the camera angles. Try and avoid the 'money shots' of a skyline view of the creature unless a main character in the film is in that helicopter.

Also, I would do the distortion of the visuals and audio of the film, not in a huge way, more in the lines of what David Lynch did with the Black Lodge/BOB in Twin Peaks. Speaking of Twin Peaks, do what Lynch did and make it appear like the rules of reality not longer matter in the presence of the abomination as well as just create an atmosphere of uneasy and an unreal world.

>>87740471
by dropping memecraft and going full junji ito.

>>87741170
kek 10/10

>>87741566
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/14/asia/manga-artist-junji-ito-racist-rants-cause-outrage/index.html

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>>87740471
they already did anon

>>87740471
>John Carpenter-esk soundtrack
>fog
>suspense
>mostly practical effects
>showing the impossible
>gore
>letting peoples minds fill in the gaps

>>87707889
>>87741527
which director would be capable of doing a movie like this? i believe if done right it could be a master piece

>>87740525
>really blue ball the audience hard
this

You can't discuss HP Lovecraft on /tv/ without a bunch of fucking people that never read his work exaggerating the "it's so scary, I can't even tell you how scary it is" bullshit.

Anyway, I'm going through a list of 'Lovecraftian' type films.

>The Void
Just watched it, pretty fucking good. Someone suggested it in another thread and I sat and watched it.

>AM 1200
Short film. Indy. Watched it a few days ago. Also pretty good for what it was. I think it was like 45 minutes or something.

>The Banshee Chapter
It's like /x/ themselves wrote this movie. It combines Lovecraft, MK-Ultra, and numbers stations. Pretty good movie. Watched it earlier today.

>Black Mountain Side
Another indy film. Kind of reminds me a little of The Thing. Pretty good and spooky.

I'm trying to figure out what to watch next. Maybe Dagon, The Burrowers, or Cthulhu. Cthulhu looks like it has that one bitch who got killed in the beginning of Scream in it.

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>>87741170

Doing right cosmic horror it's impossible because of the following:

>Movies always have to have a human protagonist, watching everything from his human point of view
>Can't be boring, so there must be fights and action
>There must be some kind of hope of defeating the monster/enemy/invader
>Cosmic entities have to have watchable forms, since it's a visual medium

And many more. So no. Books have always been better.

>>87741990
>Cthulhu looks like it has that one bitch who got killed in the beginning of Scream in it.
drew barrymore was in scream you dumbass. That's tori spelling.

>>87741990
Residue

>>87741990
which one would be your suggestion

>>87742137
I would suggest The Void because that seemed the closest to 'Lovecraftian'. I also liked The Banshee Chapter, but they kept doing jump scare shit and it would have been so much better if it didn't do that, it started to get annoying after awhile like having hiccups. The movie was good and spooky and didn't need someone popping up next your window with blaring music telling you to get scared. Black Mountain Side is meh. Bunch of dudes in a camp in far Alaska going slowly insane, it's...okay. AM 1200 is good but short.

So tl;dr The Void. I'm going to watch another movie on the list soon and I'll let you know how it is.

>>87741812
someone who doesn't try too hard, you don't have to put over the top flashbacks in, just audio memories and the ominous image of jupiter moving hurricane getting larger and larger as the one guilty ridden man expires every attempt to break free to revert the situation until the engine fuel (thrusting dowards) runs out, then he remains in the dark in a pod falling towards certain demise that never comes for some reason leaving him mad in the process, the fear of madness will put that character in a position where he won't stand waiting for death any longer he will try his best to kick the glass so he can die before going insane.

>Finally a kino is made inducing true cosmic terror
>at the end of of every showing the audience who haven't clawed out their eyes and punctured their eardrums kill themselves
>the survivors form wild blood orgies that fill the other more family friendly showings and sacrifice entire families on makeshift altars

Would you watch?

Mostly through sound, I guess. Manifest weird environmental effects, like the presence of something is perturbing the fabric of reality. If I had to actually have some sort of eldritch creature right there I'd go humanoid for some body-horror element. Maybe something like Set from Tom Cruise Presents The Mummy, with some additional physical aberrations, non-conventional movement styles.

ment for this guy
>>87741990

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>>87741369
That's how a Cthulhu story should play out though. Hollywood would try to give a happy ending with the monster being defeated.

>>87742086
>>Can't be boring, so there must be fights and action
Most good horror movies have little to no fighting or action shots.

Here is another good example of lovecraftian horror story telling

Get ready for intense 3 minutes pure kino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzuzqu5rm5o

>>87741170
I've contacted my studio, we're going to do this right now.

>>87742452
This. The Others had none of that and it's one of the best ghost movies of all time.

>>87740684
>>87740668
So, basically just add Sam Neil to a movie and you're good to go?

>>87740471
Possession does it pretty well

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>>87741990
Seen all of these, can confirm good recommendations. Just saw am 1200, worth a watch. I'd add this movie to the list:absentia. Definitely also fits the theme.

Stop fussing about cosmic horror.

Body horror is the superior horror. This is fact.

>>87743348
DUDE GORE LMAO

>>87743451
LOL SPACE TENTACLES

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>>87741170
>Leslie Jones drives up to them in a Ford Escape (TM)
>"Aww hell naw, this vacation is over!"

>>87740471
I don't find a giant tentacle monster all that scary.

>>87743451
BRO ITS SO FUCKIN SCARY YOU CANT EVEN IMAGINE HOW IT LOOKS LMAO

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>>87743210
I saw the trailer for that and it unnerved me because there's a tunnel in the neighborhood I grew up in that looks very much like the one in the trailer.

Here it is on googlemaps.

>>87741369
this year saw a couple of incredibly good horror movies tbf, I suggest you to watch it comes at night and the blackcoat daughter

>>87743615
>I've never read any of his stuff, I just repeat what I saw online

>>87741369
>What if Chuthulu was a giant fart?

>>87740525
>its ment to be shit.
Nigga please

>>87742312
Honestly I woud just out of disbelief

>>87741000
>if theres not an monster or slasher it sucks!!
Okay dude.

>>87742312
seems like that one episode of masters of horror directed by carpenter with that the walking dead guy

>>87743348
>imblying they don't go hand in hand
YOU GOT YOUR PEANUT BUTTER IN MY CHOCOLATE

>>87742471

>>87740471
you make the film lead up to an insane climax thats all it takes the fantasy video by dye does it perfectly you just slowly escalate the tension.

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this one was surprisingly good too, the void draws A LOT from it

>>87743684
spoopy

>>87743210
flanagan best director

>>87744279
would bang desu

>>87744279
too much

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>>87744450

>show nothing
>main characters doing menial shit in looooong scenes
>name drop some lovecraft a couple of times
Thats it this wins the contrarian crowd

>>87744450
this image is cursed

>>87744450

Hahahaha fuck you buddy. >:(

>>87744450
would be great with sound

>>87740471
I thought Cloverfield did it, yeah.

It would be cool to see an alien invasion as more of a horror genre than the sci-fi it usually is. If done right the movie could be terrifying.

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>>87740471
cosmic horror 101
1 the universe is very very big
2 the human race is very very small
that´s it
it should nt be that hard to do in film

>>87744497
This basically le witch but with tentacle shit

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>>87741170

>ctrl + F
>"AM1200"
>no results

Watch AM1200 on Vimeo. Great sort of Lovecraftian horror movie. It's 40 minutes, you've got time.

>>87740471
show a couple taped episodes of The View

>>87744653
see
>>87741990

>>87744653
Literally posted earlier in the thread with several responses you utter mongoloid

>>87744611
REEM BLESS

I always thought a movie about a farmer getting terrorized by UFO's could be really scary. Then the men in black and they also have a sinister presence. Possibly the MIB's themselves seem like fake humans, or maybe they actually are, either could be good.

>>87744719
It's one word, anon posted it in two words, that's why it didn't show up. Settle your autism.

>>87741990

Seen all those, and mostly agree. Big fan of the Lovecraft's Society version of The Whisperer in Darkness.

>>87744749
>Then the men in black show up

>>87741990
The Borderlands

>>87744818
good call

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>>87744107

Some idiot anon asked why Lovecraft threads get so many replies. Fucking this. I scour threads trying to find something I haven't seen.

Going to get "Baskin" right now. Hope it's good!!

>>87743210
I can also recommend this one. Unsettling as fuck desu

>>87744878
Baskin is creepy as fuck. It strikes the right dark tone I wish more horror movies tried to do.

>>87740525
>>87740506
These

>>87744878
have fun anon, it's one of the greatest horror movies of the last 5 years imho

>>87741990
good list anon.

Yellow Brick Road was also good. Not really lovecraft but pretty well done.

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>>87740471
Film starts with a deep sea expedition to overcome his fear of the ocean, make it so the protagonist falls into a never ending chasm that depicts his everyday life beforehand but with changes like no shadow on anyone besides him, the days are 26 hours long for everyone's clocks, things like that. The film ramps up to the point where the ground outside of buildings completely becomes sand and everyone turns into walking deep sea fish which leads him to go on a murderous rampage.
Finish the movie with suicide in paranoid some gruesome way.

>>87745030
that sounds very stupid anon

>>87740471
Wouldn't.
Film doesn't work for cosmic horror, any visual medium that won't literally drive the viewer fucking insane wouldn't do it justice.
And that might hurt sales.

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>>87744917
>>87744954

Thank you gentlemen. I am really looking forward to this.

In return, here are some of my recs:

Die Fabre
The Attic Expeditions

In the Mouth of Madness

>>87745091
Who gives a fuck about sales? I want movies that will drive me insane from the sheer knowing of them. Fuck studios if they won't send me into spastic amensia episodes.

>>87744279
>Aeon Fluxx

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>>87740471
kairo

>>87741990
the void has neat effects but it was overall a really shitty movie.

>>87740471
zombee pocklips

>>87745202

Did you see John Carpenter's "Cigarette Burns"?

>not that it will drive you insane...that's the premise.

>>87745287
bad opinion

>>87745326
is this one? >>87743924

>>87740864
Key for a lovecraft movie has to be to show a little freaky shit, but not too much to give it way, and leave it a bit amiguous as to whether what the person has seen is real or not. I.e. "if its real, then everything is fucked, if its in your head, its fine, but that guy will be locked in a mental asylum for the rest of their lives. No good ending basically

>>87742312
I wish something like that were true just so I could see posts on here about how it's not scary

>>87745326
>>87745362
Yeah, J-Carp was the one that got me to watch masters of horrors at all.

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>>87740471
Me? I'd start with an ear shattering fart noise

>>87745202
>>87745171
jesus this thread is r*ddit

Have a good idea of the monsters motives yourself but never reveal it to the audience outside of cryptic clues. The Thing was great because you can tell that it's intelligent and working towards some goal, but the actions it takes throughout the movie don't constitute any discernible, linear progression to one.

>>87740864
>When you read about indescribable horrors, your imagination does all the work and it becomes that thing that's just outside comprehension. The limits of your imagination become the fuel behind what the horror actually is.
How would that be any different than a character in a movie talking about indescribable horrors and not be explicit about those indescribable horror on-screen? Lovecraftcucks always hypes his shit to be this unfilmable impossible-to-grasp horror, but I have the suspicion they only have read Lovecraft from second hand sources.

>>87741538
Fuck off

>>87745171
appreciated recs

>>87745091
I wasn't aware reading Lovecraft drives you insane! Hella friggin epin bro. Fucking retard.

>liek dude imagine a herror that cannot be described with liek words b-but u cannot imagine it also because liek u would go crazuuuuhhh n shit

>>87745555
2spooky4these sweet quads

>>87745335
outside of those cool basement visuals what does it have going for it? the laughable acting?

>>87745659
guess you are not a huge horror fan; it is full of references of fulci-era movies, the nostalgia factor plays a huge role in this one

>>87745659
It's also got pretty terrible writing but it made a decent attempt.

>>87744878
Starts out incredibly strong, peters out midway through once no mystery is left.

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>>87745555

>>87745217
>kairo
>lovecraftian

>>87745633
just say "go crazy" dont say "n shit"

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Not cosmic horror but it's Lovecraftian in the sense that there is no catharsis and the viewer is left pondering the origins of evil

But a setting doesn't get any more Lovecraftian than an asylum in Massachusetts

>>87745431
https://vocaroo.com/i/s1aOIJmtOPdt

>>87745781
It's definitely cosmic horror styled, replace the word 'ghost' with mystery alien and it's lovecraftian.

>>87745847
this movie was truly garbage

>>87745781
the ending got a lovecraftian vibe on it, it doesnt have to show monsters to be apocalyptic

>>87745847
>>87745901
Session 9 is a really great film but has absolutely nothing that would make it relevant to the thread. Even the insanity is super mundane.

>>87745579
It doesn't you spastic, the visual presence of the great ones drives you insane howevre they're still described in written form.
You couldn't show a great one on film because it immediately stops being a great one if you can directly perceive it.

Stop being a retard.

>>87740490
I hate to say it, but this.

>>87745883
That could be said about literally any movie. Replace Michael Myers with a mystery alien and now Halloween is lovecraftian!

>>87745977
woah, I can't directly perceive it bro, man that's fuck*ng crazy haha.

>>87745977
Then you don't show them, asshole.

>>87746007
No, Kairo is apocalypse scale spooks which cause insanity and seemingly obey some obscure set of laws. It's literally a word replace away from being lovecraftian.

>>87746080
So does Michael Myers

>>87745806
Don't you fucking dare to tell me what I can or cannot say, you aborted piece of reddit trash.

>>87746122
Generic slashers aren't the same at all. There's none of the cosmic scale mystery or insanity, none of the obscure fumbling and failing to understand.

>>87746202
Micahel Myers will fuck you shit up bro

>>87746246
only physically and only at tiny human scale, thats not even scary. Everyone's already going to die eventually anyway. Scary is having the illusion of reality you live in ripped away only for nonsense and insanity to poke your unprotected mind for eternity.

>>87745977
you can show it visually to the audience but present it in a way that the characters are still mind fucked. possession does that really well.

>>87746246
Freddy's actually a bit closer, dreams and reality overlapping and shit. Still smalltime and too grounded.

>>87746030
>fuck*ng

>>87740490
fpbp

>>87746163
Where the fuck do you faggots come from? We're in here trying to discuss movies and you shitposting cunts have to crash the party with your bullshit about "whoa so scary can't even describe it" nonsense.

It's obvious you never read anything of his, it's obvious you don't like him for some reason. Just get the fuck out and go back to sneed posting you massive faggot.

>>87745851
Why

>>87746561
>ah blooh blooh, y am i not treated like a special snowflake in here, save muh hillery

fuck off

>>87746788
You fuck off. You're the one shitting up a thread that's actually talking about movies. I don't go bothering Dr. Who or Big Brother threads even though I think it's total fucking trash. They're talking about movies, you're just some garbage shitposter.
>ah blooh blooh
Who the fuck even says this here? And what the fuck does Hillary have to do with it?

>>87746872
Why are you so triggered, tumblr?

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>>87740471
>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

>>87746891
It's annoying because you cocksuckers can't let this board have one thread to exchange movie ideas. There's plenty of fucking Sneed threads in for you to go post bullshit.

>>87746948
>waaaahhhh waaaaaaaahhh pls leave muh safe space alone waahhh

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>>87740629
t. brainlet

>>87746034
>an entire horror film where you literally never see the monster
whoa my dude that's going to be so successful and entertaining
>but muh alien
Showed the monster.
Every horror film that takes inspiration from cosmic horror does eventually.

Watching Absentia right now, paused it for a piss break. It's alright so far. What's next after this? The Borderlands or Baskin?

>>87740629
It's fun

>>87747091
Focus groups need to die.

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>>87745977
>muh puny mind cannot comprehend

>>87747182
>is in a cosmic horror thread
>gets triggered by somebody describing one of the most basic rules of cosmic horror
Are you autistic anon?

>>87747258
I'm pretty sure it's the same anon shitposting in other threads saying "it's my favorite Lovecraftian movie" to movies that have nothing to do with it. Something about this thread triggers the fuck out of him to the point where he's going on an autistic rampage.

Wouldn't be surprised if he started going to /ck/ and pissing everyone off by saying it's his favorite Lovecraftian dish.

>>87741170
As the literal guy who created the original pasta in real life, I found this to be a hilarious augmentation. Good job.

>>87740629
Redditors are used to recycling posts that guarantee upvotes or in this case (you)s

>>87740490
Reddit doesn't understand Lovecraft, but clearly, neither do you.

Film it as a Film Noir detective movie investigating cultist murders, lots of weird shit happens, an Ancient one gets summoned and everyone dies.

>>87747258
>shitty writing
>cosmic horror
sounds about right

>>87740490
Is this post kino?

Holy FUCK the Banshee Chapter is good

That's as close to Lovecraftian horror as I've ever seen.

Didn't get too monster-y at the end unlike the Void which has a very weak 3rd act IMO

That was amazing

I think Lovecraft's greatest strength as a teller of these stories is that he presented highly unusual events and phenomena in very dry and matter-of-fact ways. If you actually read his biggest stories, the monsters don't hide behind dark corners and jump out at people, nor are they so incomprehensible that they blow your mind just by existing. One of his most iconic monsters spends most of its story sitting in a living room using a hilariously gruesome disguise to pretend to be an old man. The key to Lovecraft's monsters is that they just exist like anybody else, and their behaving as if they were a mundane part of the universe when they shouldn't exist at all is what makes them so unnerving.

Contrary to what people usually say in these threads, I think most of Lovecraft's stuff is easily adaptable in terms of visuals since Lovecraft painstakingly explained what most of the monsters and entities in his stories looked like. The horror comes from the way these entities exist and go about their business in a world that isn't prepared to deal with them.

>>87747478
I just watched Banshee Chapter today and I knew I was going to like it as soon as it opened up with MK-Ultra shit. Then numbers stations. Only thing I didn't like about it is what I said earlier, it had too many jump scares. I personally think that ruins movies, and this movie would have been great without them.

>>87744279
GAL GADOT LOOKS LIKE *THAT*?

>>87747491
This is what annoys me about people saying "it's so scary, you can't even see it, just take my word for it" people. There are lots of stories that aren't incomprehensible monsters or tentacles.

>>87747566
Yeah it did rely on them a little bit but I guess they had to grab the plebs too

I didn't mind the spooky face ones but the stuff like in the desert and the wing mirror of the car felt forced.

Still great though, made me turn the lights on

>>87747439
>any horror
>good writing
lol k

>>87745406
fucking underrated kek

I feel like Shane Carruth is the only director I can think of that could do cosmic horror well

>>87740716
>>87741369
Alright I'll bite. What Cthulhu pasta?

>>87740629
these threads are pretty good for getting free recs for horror movies

>>87744279
where the fuck are her internal organs? Last I checked there's supposed to be stuff in there.

>>87747880
There's two in this thread already, it's also in every other thread.

>>87740490
/thread

>>87747928
You're talking about the ear shattering fart noise and Kevin James on the beach? Yeah, that's posted in almost every thread regardless of what the topic is.

>>87747091
>whoa my dude that's going to be so successful and entertaining
I don't care about redditors and capeshitters not getting the movie or not getting entertained by it. A good director will be able to generate fear without showing anything, all through implicit and subtle storytelling. And even then there are many ways cosmic horror can be shown on screen as >>87746339 points out, even though it doesn't even need to be shown at all.
You are retarded capeshitter brainlet, with no imagination, no creatitvity, who only cares about consuming entertainment, and who to top it off probably hasn't even read Lovecraft.

>>87741827
Is this actually good? Looking at the imdb page, it's seems like a mediocre flick capitalizing on Memecraft's popularity with the reddit crowd

>>87740490
this but unironically

>>87748105
Well you obviously don't like Lovecraft or you wouldn't be saying "memecraft" or "reddit crowd", so why would you fucking like this movie?

I've never even been to fucking Reddit yet I like Lovecraftian themes. Is that a thing there, because you seem desperate to try and make it seem like it's a Rick and Morty type situation.

>>87747491
This. There's already tons of visual representations of his monsters too. Faggots put too much emphasis on the "going insane" part, which is just one aspect in some of his stories.

>>87740471
Use flashing strobe lights and distortion effects to trigger seizures and nausea in the audience

>>87740471
>cosmic horror
>it's literally just a seafood platter with arms

There's literally nothing scary or special about this shit. The Creature from the Black Lagoon is scarier.

>>87748169
>Well you obviously don't like Lovecraft or you wouldn't be saying "memecraft" or "reddit crowd"
So if I like Lovecraft, I have to slurp up all the mediocre shit that describes itself as "Lovecraftian"
Also, when I say the reddit crowd, I'm specifically referring to people who consider themselves "total nerds" for liking Lovecraft and Cthulhu. It's definitely a Rick and Morty situation.

>>87748292
You don't have to slurp up anything retard, you don't have to watch it. Why would you ask if a movie is good if you know damn well you won't like it, fucking idiot. I like Lovecraftian shit and I thought it was subpar.

>>87748250
>i like heard of this one monster he wrote about
>let me give you my opinion about it

>>87742471
>nigger music
>lovecraftian
No thanks

>>87748105

i was actually excited for the movie but i fell asleep during it. pretty bad in my opinion, but i think it's on netflix or you can obviously stream/dL it and make your own opinion. only gonna waste a couple hours of your time.

>>87748327
>I like Lovecraftian shit and I thought it was subpar.
Okay then, friend, that's all I was asking for. Obviously I don't have to watch it, I just wanted to know if it was worth my time. Judging the book by its cover, it looks mediocre to me, but I wanted to ask the expert film critics at 4chan.org for a second opinion.

>>87748383
Well there you have it. It's subpar and you don't like Lovecraft. Don't watch it.

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>>87748355
So scary! How could Hollywood ever turn this masterpiece of horror fiction into a movie? It's not possible to capture real horror like this on the big screen!

>>87748413
You're completely missing the point, you seem focused on Cthulhu because that's the most well known of his stories, yet no one that reads his stories wants to make a movie of it. So anything else? Plenty of other stories or ideas to talk about.

>>87748405
>and you don't like Lovecraft
I don't know why you seem preoccupied with this. To be honest, I don't know if I like Lovecraft or not, because I haven't read the books yet. I like the themes of cosmic horror when I've seen them referenced in other works, though.

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Invent some quality deep dream-esque software but instead of using animals and faces and eyes and whatnot, pull from a pool of way more fucked up vile images. Sound should be at times uncomfortably loud and unnatural, using auditory illusions and chaotic 3d soundscapes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqpXSCw3ZLI

>>87748505
Just naturally assumed, since it appeared to me you were eager to use "memecraft" to describe it. If you like the themes, try some of his stories, there are tons of them that aren't Cthulhu, tentacles, Necronomicon, "indescribable horror". I think they have some audio on Youtube.

I forgot to mention this in the thread last night, and I know it's not /tv/, but like Bloodborne, Blood Blockade Battlefront is another one of those pieces of Lovecraftian media that pays tribute without ever directly referencing any of Lovecraft's works. Fantastic chinese cartoon, imo.

>>87748601
I'm gonna pick up an anthology at the library soon and read some of the highly recommended stories, and if I like those I'll read the rest. "Memecraft" wasn't meant to disrespect Lovecraft, just certain elements of the fanbase.

>>87748530
>Invent some quality deep dream-esque software but instead of using animals and faces and eyes and whatnot, pull from a pool of way more fucked up vile images.
That's a cool idea. I'm sure that as that technology advances and becomes more accessible, someone will do this.

>>87742471
pretty sweet

>>87743210
anyone have pics of the creature

Just finished Absentia, wew. That was very unsettling. Would recommend if anyone wanted to watch.

>>87749471
will I have spooky dreams if I watch it tonight, in the dark, alone, like always

DUDE JUST HIT IT WITH YOUR BOAT LMAO

>>87748530
Imagine the main character seeing the monster for the first time, and it's literally just a vaguely starfish-shaped mountain of contorted, conjoined human bodies performing various violent sex acts on one another.
Shit would be kino of the highest degree.

>>87745555
MODSMODSMODS

>>87749506
It's hard to explain, but it isn't a jump scare type of movie or a ghost movie. I would just say unsettling, sad, and disconcerting. Very good though, creepy in all the right spots, but not like you're going to be sleeping tonight and get too spooked.

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>>87741170
shit, kek

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVEU6n2eKtg&t=12m
12minutes
turn volume up

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>>87740631

They aren't wrong nigger. We've been over this countless times. Cosmic horror is unironically the only exception to the rule 'show, don't tell.' If Cthulhu is on-screen being godzilla or shoggoth's are being shot at by the military/cops/people, you're doing it fucking wrong.

The only way to tell a cosmic horror story through film is to only show its effects. People shouldn't realize they're watching a cosmic horror film until well after It's over. What made Lovecraft great is that if you didn't know the author, his stories, (while linked by the same cosmology) were so different from each other in their settings and buildup that you forgot you were reading Lovecraft.

Films as examples to use for Cosmic Horror;
>Black Swan
>Eyes Wide Shut
>The Abyss
>Sphere
>Road to Perdition
>Event Horizon
>Fire in the Sky
>The Devil's Advocate
>Wizard of Oz
>Wings of Desire
>Pet Semetary
>The Machinist
>Seven
>The Fourth Kind (sans the ending)
>Contact
>Solaris

>>87750020
>forgot you were reading Lovecraft.
never did I once. He tends to describe indescribable things the same way if that makes sense. Not knocking him, but he did only have a few descriptive tools in his arsenal that he tended to shuffle around.

>>87750020
One of my pet project ideas was to edit the aliens & shit ending off of the Abyss. I should get on that.

>>87750020
you have no idea what you are talking about

>>87740631
The absolute state of phone posting faggots.

>>87750020
>all those movies
>cosmic horror
shut the fuck up

>>87740629
These threads are the only discussions I ever have about this shit.

>>87741000
Maybe you should stop hanging out teenagers, anon.

>>87750060

>He tends to describe indescribable things the same way if that makes sense

You're not wrong
>muh waxing gibbous
>muh unspeakable spectacle
>muh colors
>muh dread

Still, he was very good at beginning his stories with very strong characterization, to the point where by the time the recycled descriptions came out, you were already firmly in that character's shoes and so usually didn't register it. (Tbf, I decided after Innsmouth that Lovecraft stories are best read in one-sitting rather than repeated sessions.) It's overlooked how well he paced the ever-escalating madness of the plot. If you read it over the course of a week or so, it massively ruins it

>>87750174
+1
>>87750220
Upvoted

>>87748105
Its pretty decent, its not a blockbuster budget movie. Shit had a selected theater screening. Feels like it ran out of steam 20-30 minutes before the end.

>>87743040

>Tohmaes Schelbeh

>>87747491
>Contrary to what people usually say in these threads, I think most of Lovecraft's stuff is easily adaptable in terms of visuals since Lovecraft painstakingly explained what most of the monsters and entities in his stories looked like. The horror comes from the way these entities exist and go about their business in a world that isn't prepared to deal with them.

Wow, it's like someone else in these threads actually read some of his stories.

>>87747491
I just want an faithful adaption.

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>>87750458
ikr

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>>87741170
That's pretty spot on

>>87751578
Spot on to what?

>>87750020
Ocean's 11 isn't cosmic horror you colossal fucking retard

>>87751715
wut

>>87740471
I just cant find tentacular kaiju scary at all

>>87741538
Fag

>>87751852
Me neither. Check out these movies.

https://lovecraftzine.com/movies/mikes-recommended-lovecraftian-movies/

Personally I would love to see a horror movie using Google deep dream software. Start off with subtle effects, then slowly ramp it up as the protagonist succumbs to madness.
https://youtu.be/MvkU2u2tI2g
Just imagine those effects on a mammoth creature and I think that's as close as you can get to visually representing an 'indescribable horror'

>>87740751
Have a normal film through the middle
Then get David Lynch to direct the last quarter

>>87744639
Sei forte

>>87751978
Honestly whenever I read about an evil so fucking evil it'll destroy your mind, deep dream is what I think of.

>>87745030
Wow never write anything

>>87740490
flick post

Hopefully God Particle does it. Cloverfield in space? Can't wait, just wish it they'd stop delaying it...

>>87740684
it's a bad movie and the memecraftian aspects of it are shit

>>87746246
Tipical reddit lovecraft fan MUH KAIJU MUH GIANT TENTACLES

>>87752147
I was thinking about watching that movie next on the list, but it just doesn't look good. I'm thinking Europa Report or Baskin.

>>87747402
This, just do a detective story, very realistic, and then the protagonist get lost in the mistery he is trying to resolve, fuck all the Kaiju lovers

>set in in ye olde times
>protagonist is a medical doctor who's tasked with examining a body that washed ashore with inhuman elements like gills and shit
>clues lead him to rambling madman in an asylum, whose tale sends him on a path down a rabbit hole of insanity
>main focus on the occult themese, idols, ancient text
>only subtle glimpses of actual cosmic beings and only as the main character descents into madness

>>87751978
>>87748530
These would work.

Focus on the math and science aspect.

A genius mathematician goes nuts upon making some huge breakthrough in his research. He must have discovered something about the universe that doesn't make sense. Or maybe a professor of metaphysics develops some theory that just fucks everybody up. Or a biologist finds some creature who's physiology is completely different from any other lifeform that exists and even lifeforms that could potentially exist based on our current understanding of physiology.

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>it's impossible to depict a creature so strange we can't understand what it is

>>87740471
neo noir detective movie set in 1938 america in a new england city
spooky atmosphere, things are barely off, detective boy gets nightmares of events, distrusted by some of the locals
events unfold like the average neo noir movie, detective guy always a step behind and in the end unable to do anything or find the criminals
ww2 starts, drafted
sent to north africa, ambiguous ending of seeing a familiar looking cave while trying to find cover from a sandstorm for his men

any of yall ever play the game anchorhead

>tfw have good ideas for a general story and visuals
>not a kike so I wouldn't get a budget
>only movies made with minimal budget had great scripts (reservoir dogs short)

>>87752347
>>main focus on the occult themese, idols, ancient text
stupid, this should be the most subtle part, the protagonist should deal with what he thinks is unrelated until his findings lead him to sense a dormant enormous evil underneath his reality. Like its been said itt, the horror is about being small in the universe

The Outsider could probably work.

>>87750020
I agree with this post so much. I don't think people have actually read Lovecraft, otherwise they'd not come with these suggestions.

>>87740471
You wouldn't, true cosmic horror can only be depicted through literature.

>>87750285
muh monliths, muh bas reliefs, muh niggerman

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>>87752209
Europa report is pretty Kíno on its own. It builds up atmosphere at least.
>tfw you will never have a qt3.14 blonde tomboy as your GF in spehs

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>>87740471

>>87740490
btfo

>>87740629
Cosmic horror is babbys first literature.

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>>87744279
>be married to this
>all those moments where she could be standing in the shadow and you barely see her

oh man

>>87748530
This is more or less how a Shoggoth is supposed to look.

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>>87741170
this is maginificent eldritch-kino, but i also liked the first trailer version:

>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 ESCAPE™!"
>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

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Just want to mention how underrated this movie is and suggest people to check it out. It's an adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and the only other movie Dan O Bannon directed after Return Of The Living Dead.

>>87741313
bet you feel pretty stupid now haha

>>87752209
Don't listen to that faggot. Watch it.

>>87741990
>the void
>pretty good
>Banshee Chapter
>pretty good

in to the trash your opinions go

>>87754371
>IT: Chapter Two

>>87742471
>historian himself
Muh nigguh

>>87747091
>Showed the monster.

Blair Witch Project never showed what was stalking/killing them.

>>87750020
shut the fuck up you don't know what you are talking about

>>87740471
Make it subtle. Pontypool did it well. Maybe fuck with the tone too.

>>87741700
Love this movie, oddly comfy

>>87740471
I thought about this alot when i heard of the mountains of madness movie that never got made.

in that story there is an eldritch horror nesting in the mountain range near where the story takes place. its constantly eluded to but never shown or describbed directly despite the characters finding all other sorts of other eldritch abominations.

this threat that is known of but not seen i think would be irreplaceable when making a film with "indescribable horror" because it alowes you to show all the horrifying cgi tentacle monsters you want and still keep the whole mystery and dread of things beyond our comprehension alive by not showing the monster the other monsters are afraid of.

in the mountains of madnes only one of the characters ever see what lurks in the mountain range and it turns him insane.
the set up is great, they'r making their escape by airplane and this guy who's seen all this shit knows that if he just looks down from this hight he could see the thing in the mountains. he just can't contain his curiosity, after all what could a peek possibly do.

showing what he sees would ruin it.
I would simply show him and how he breaks, how the pure horror of what he sees dawns on him. how he sweats and shakes, how his eyes widen and twitch but cant look away can't blink. how his grip tightens and mouth quivers. all while the music build through a slow ominous hymn into a desperate muted scream.

>>87740471
Nolan's "Interstellar" is a cosmic Horror per definition

>>87741700
They can't thecide if it's the mist or the fog..

>>87740490
I wouldn't have agreed with this, but after seeing all the redditors here calling The Void "cosmic horror" over and over like some buzzword
Cosmic horror is reddit

>>87745851
Not gonna lie, I kek'd

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>>87740471
The first Alien film and The Thing is the closest one can get to adapting cosmic horror into the big screen, so if I were to make one I'd follow the path they made.

Anyway, cosmic horror is very broad and difficult to define where it's either almost every horror story you know, to a purely literary genre made by followers of Lovecraft

>>87741170
>An Adam Sandler cosmic horror movie
The fact that this does not exist proves the inexistance of god

>>87740490
Well done. Cosmic horror is for 'nihilists with a wicked sense of humour'.

>>87748105
No. It's bad, a genuinely terrible movie. Ignore the people claiming that it's got a low budget or "it's good for it's budget", while the budget is pretty low, that's the least of it's faults - the movie has horrendous writing and acting. Action scenes lack any suspense because they're poorly directed and the plot is just stupid.
If you're going to watch - go in expecting a 3/10 b-movie.

>>87757072
>lovecraft
the guy was a hack, why everybody loves him?
>oh no, something horrible will happen know! They are behind the door! Oh no! no! NO! The End.

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>>87741170
>>shot of Adam Sandler and Kevin James on the beach, staring at it open-mouthed, Sandler tries to take a photo with his Iphone X
i can picture it all so perfectly
amazing

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>>87757149
>https://vocaroo.com/i/s1aOIJmtOPdt
I don't know man, Jack & Jill sure filled me with existential dread

WHAT'S MY NAME
MOCCA THULHU
IT'S A WHOLE NEW INSANE
MOCCA THULHU

>>87757295
Practically only one story ends like that

>>87741990
>It's like /x/ themselves wrote this movie
now I'm interested

>>87740529
Would need dark psychological thriller vibes, with a touch of fear and loathing.

Main characters would need to phase in and out of mire than one dimension, so we could see earth being destroyed in glorious detail... I want to see CThulhu emerge from the sea with starspawn and hoards of deep ones and rain down destruction and plight on LA, Hong Kong Seattle, and of course Japan in a early 20th century boardwalk empire setting.

Do it... Throw in the king in yellow and Hastur.

Lets get Shubniggarath in there too.

>>87757779
This is one of the most awful things I've ever read. On par with that Adam Sandler copypasta earlier in the thread, except you being 100% serious makes it even worse.

>>87740490
Did I agree with this post?

>>87757943
You're probably the one who made it.

>>87745476
>I solved guys, just film a man talking for two hours describing things.
Mátate.

>>87757737
That's not supposed to be a good thing

Sneed

>>87758752
what if Sneed wasn't just a store?
*ear shattering chuck noise*