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Old 09-04-2007, 04:35 PM
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The Wicker Man is pretty Lovecraftian, too. Just without the monsters.
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Old 09-05-2007, 03:37 AM
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Haha...How is it that you and I are almost always at opposite ends about movies?

It's true that Stuart Gordon takes quite a bit of liberty with Lovecraft's stuff...But, I absolutely LOVE what he does, and the addition of Jeffrey Combs makes it even better...Stuart Gordon has never let me down...It took me forever to find From Beyond to purchase, but I was so happy when I finally got it...I have all of the others, as well, and they are some of my favorites in this vast collection

In The Mouth Of Madness is awesome, too...Kudos to Carpenter on that one

I recommend ALL of the Lovecraft projects that Stuart Gordon has undertaken...As well as everything else that Stuart Gordon has done (Yes, even Dolls ;))
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Old 09-05-2007, 06:06 PM
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Go watch some Spawn :p
:D...I love you, Vod....And ya know, it might actually be just about time to watch Spawn again
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Old 09-09-2007, 11:28 AM
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Dont judge him on mimic, it is a poor representation of his skills.
That's a relief. Just saw Mimic and didn't find anything extraordinary about it, besides the two kids getting killed.

I'm looking forward to Pan's Labyrinth.
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Old 09-09-2007, 12:46 PM
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That's a relief. Just saw Mimic and didn't find anything extraordinary about it, besides the two kids getting killed.

I'm looking forward to Pan's Labyrinth.
Pan's Labyrinth is sooo good.

On the note of Lovecraft though, I watched Dreams in Witch House last night. It was alright, nothing special but I wasn't expecting much.
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The Lovecraft film adaptation thread..

Lovecraft is a difficult author to translate to celluloid - when he describes his great ones/outer gods etc as undescribable and then showing them kinda defeats the purpose but from the amount of pretty poor adaptations my faves are:

With out doubt the best is The Call of Cthulhu (the recent Silent film) is by far the best adaptation of his work ever. Very close to the story in both plot and mood. An amazing piece of work..The HPLS have made some other good filsm too, there's a good From Beyond but unfortunally most of them despite being true to spirit fial in the budget department.

Stuart Gordon's Dargon is a pretty decent adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth (despite the title) - pity Combs wasn't in the lead though. Gordon also did a decent job of Dreams in the Witch-House in the 1st series of Masters of Horror. The Crimson Cult was another poor though all star cast version of Witch House too..

As much as i love Re-Animator i bet it would have Lovecraft spinning in his grave - there were woman and Boobs in it ofr godsake...

Despite everything I kinda like the 70's version of THE DUNWICH HORROR with Dean Stockwell...The more recent one with him was a chaotic mess...

The Haunted Palace is another fave of mine starring the always fantastic Vincient Price - it's a version of The case of Charles Dexter Ward with a title change so it would fit in with the rest of the other AIP Poe films. The Resurrected is another (closer) version of the same story..
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I happen to love H.P. Lovecraft's works (I've read everything) and I doubt anything will ever match the brilliance of his stories, but I thought Dagon, The Resurrected, Re-Animator were very enjoyable fims...

I however was completely bummed by the silent-film adaption of Call of Cthulhu. It was boring and ugly...

I'm sure there's more Lovecractian films floating around... I'll dig up some more titles.

Here's a good link:
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Die, Monster, Die! is a favourite of mine...super loose adaption of Colour Out of Space. Not very faithful to ol' HPL but still a damn cool 60's horror flick.

Love Dagon too. Shame about the deceptive title, but it does manage to stay surprisingly close to Shadow Over Innsmouth. Still, I'd love to see someone take on the actual Dagon short story - really think someone like David Lynch could do some great stuff with it.

I'm gonna agree with Piz on Call of Cthulhu though...even though it was pretty faithful, that doesn't make it well done.

Guillermo Del Toro has been trying to adapt At the Mountains of Madness for ages now, but it keeps getting pushed back. Hope he gets around to it, because he's the absolute ideal choice for Lovecraft. Can't wait to see what he does with it.
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Yeh but its fun to talk about things from scratch.

...not to mention everytime I dig up an old thread everyone has a spazz out :p
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