What version of the Shadow over Innsmouth did you read? Because there was no detective in that story. It was a young man tracing his geneology. What you're describing is the plot of the videogame Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth.
damn ur right, i was planning to include the game before i found Dagon. i must have mixed up details when i read the story before writing, well spotted
Nero J While i will admit to getting details mixed up or just plain wrong at points. I can guarantee you i have read the stories. For proof i ask you to observe what Cthulhu is sitting on when im on screen.
Overlooked Lovecraft adaptation: Whisperer In Darkness, done by same folks who did Call of Cthulhu. Favorite Lovecraft story: Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath Favorite Lovecraft-inspired story: Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Gravity falls is a kid friendly and largely optimistic version of the Lovecraftian universe (at least according to Arstechnica but I would largely agree).
Really my wife and I were kind of wondering about that show, I haven't gotten a breakdown quite like that before but that makes me intrigued to check it out to say the least thank you
you missed The Whisperer in Darkness, Necronomicon.....but if you REALLY want great Lovecraft adapations go check out RU-vidr bluworm's The Other Gods and The Shadow out of Time. It will restore your optimism....
OMG!!! Only 175 subs... but how>? Great video. Have you seen the movie "John Dies at the End"? As far as I know, it's not based on a Lovecraft story, but I feel even with all of the comedy, it did a good job of adapting a Lovecraftian-esque story into a movie. It's on Netflix. Watch it ASAP.
Fully admitting that it is NOT a Lovecraft story, but the made for TV (made for HBO?) Cast A Deadly Spell was kind of fun. In some ways it had some elements of Lovecraft's stories, but by and large it was not horror and not the same level of intelligent psychology
There is a german indepandent movie called "Die Farbe" and is a one to one retelling of "The color out of space" and is one of the best movies in the HPL mythos.
I think you need to do more research. Stuart Gordon did five Lovecraft adaptations: Re-Animator, From Beyond, Castle Freak (an adaptation of The Outsider), Dagon and Dreams of the Witch-House. You also didn't seem to get the point of In the Mouth of Madness (easily the best Lovecraft-inspired film so far) and missed the references/homages to the original stories. The movie ends with John Trent laughing because like all the best Lovecraft characters, he's become mad. And the writer's name is Sutter Cane. Not Sutler. As for other Lovecraft films, there's The Dunwich Horror, The Curse (The Colour Out of Space), The Unnamable, The Resurrected (The Case of Charles Dexter Ward), Necronomicon and The Lurking Fear.
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Was this best to worst or worse to best? Don't quite understand the order since you end with #4 being your favorite but #5 least favorite. There were several Lovecraft inspired movies like Mouth of Madness left out with The Void, Carpenter's The Thing, The Witch and Heritage which were both recent intensely horrific Lovecraft inspired Productions as well as Gordon's From Beyond which was a little better than his Dagon and I can go on. Also, Dagon had some of the worse makeup effects depicting the hybrid inhabitants of Innsmouth but succeeded on other levels working on a shoestring budget which was a result of his original production being canceled that had creature designs and storyboards created by the late Bernie Wrightson and slated for a major studio like Del Toro's At The Mountains Of Madness but canceled. Oh what could have been had these movies been green lighted, your list would have been much different... Excellent work on the production of your video posting and good analysis and narration, your getting there my friend. Just a little more research is needed and clarification... 🤔🙄😉😊👍
I know this was made in 2017, but I’d say Color Out of Space with Nicholas Cage is the best HP Lovecraft adaptation. At the time this was filmed, I’d say Dagon was the best one
The only thing that could have made the kids' film worse is if young Howard had named him "pet" Mr. Snuffleupagus. What could have made it better is if the seriously twisted mind of Tim Burton was manning it.
So many movies that were missed. The Haunted Palace from 1963 starred Vincent Price as Charles Dexter Ward, and it draws upon both that tale and Shadow Over Innsmouth. It was directed by Roger Corman and also starred Lon Chaney Jr. It's depiction of Arkham had a great, creepy atmosphere. It's totally worth a look, and even a comparison to the 1991 film The Resurrected, which starred Chris Sarandon as Charles Dexter Ward. Adored The Whisperer in the Darkness by HPLHS. Like with The Call of Cthulhu they put in the extra effort and delivered a great film.
I think The Mist should have a second part but that's coming from someone who thinks there should be a part two for Cabin in the Woods/ so it may not be saying much.
I came across Call of Cthulhu a few years back on RU-vid. It is by far the best adaptation of Lovecraft on film. The neo-expressionist style works perfectly. I give them credit for taking a stab a depicting R'lyeh with it's weird geometry, and their Cthulhu is fantastic.
11:55 "Ya'll know Lovecraft was an atheist, right?" What's that supposed to mean? That he thought a cult of Dagon worshippers was preferable to a typical Christian congregation? I seriously doubt it.
Thagomizer I said that more to highlight how blatantly victemizing Christians in an HP Lovecraft story feels a bit forced. Kind of like it was put in there to make a personal statement. Also their heavy focus on scripture, kind of felt out of place in a story where the use of worship was often a tool of ridicule by Lovecraft. In short i just didn't think it fit the story.
Bookmark I’ll disagree with you there. If it was a synagogue, Buddhist temple or mosque that was vandalized to make way for Esoteric Order of Dagon to be formed, it would have worked just as well. The reason is that when you worship a god who doesn’t share a sense of morality with human religion, things can denigrate rather quickly. Around 50 years after starting to worship Dagon, you have skinning people alive, ritual human sacrifice and rape, mutations, incest and more.
you could've ended on a horrifying scar-children-for-life note with Dreams in the Witch House... nobody needed to know about that "kid's film" that made me want brown jenkin to chestburat my face.
I love Lovecraft's themes and concepts but he's too wordy for me. Same thing with Twain and the Bible. Not that i don't admire, respect and believe. It's just that I'm sort of fine with a Cliff's Notes version...
The 1965 Boris Karloff flick "Die Monster Die", very loosely based on " The Colour Out of Space" turned me on to Lovecraft when I was a kid. I believe that Roger Corman's "The Haunted Palace" (1963) was the first feature film to be based on a Lovecraft story-"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". I enjoyed your vid. Thanks.
So many things. First, you said you could not find Lovecraft films to review, should do some research. www.imdb.com/name/nm0522454/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1 Next, did you even read or watch any of these stories? In the Mouth of Madness WAS NOT a Lovecraft film, it was Lovecraftian, learn the difference. The antagonist's name was SUTTER Cane, not Sutler. As far as a Lovecraftian story, it was near perfection. It captured the madness, cosmic horror, and existential dread that is Lovecraft. Dagon was not Stuart Gordon's second Lovecraft adaptation, it was his FOURTH. Re-Animator, From Beyond, Castle Freak, Dagon. And all of them were brilliant adaptations. Lovecraft has appeared as a character in several films before the Frozen Kingdom. www.innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/lovecraft-the-character/ I suggest you watch The Resurrected (1991), The Unnamable (1988), From Beyond (1986), Castle Freak (1995), Lurking Fear (1994) You, good sir, are not educated enough in the lore or films of H. P. Lovecraft to have made this video and I fear for others you may have produced in your ignorance. Please, look at the link I posted in this comment for The Internet Movie Database and acquaint yourself with more of his films.
For Call of Cthulhu I think they were thinking, "This is a 1928 story, let's make the movie like it could have been made in 1928".SInce you asked us, favorite Lovecraft story is The Colour Out of Space. Favorite films are The Call of Cthulhu and The Haunted Palace (actually based on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward with a smidgen of The Shadow over Innsmouth).
Um, nearly all the information about "Herbert West -- Reanimator" is somewhat off the beam. It was NOT originally published in WT, but in a semiprofessional magazine titled Home Brew, edited by one of Lovecraft's amateur colleagues, George Julian Houtain. It was chiefly a humorous magazine, making HPL's story rather an oddity. As for him not getting paid... the deal was $5 per installment and he got that (he in fact went on to write another serial for Home Brew, "The Lurking Fear")... though it took longer than it should. As for why he disliked writing it... that was nothing to do with money (most of his writing to that point was written without thought of money, and a lot of it was published in amateur magazines (no pay save contributor's copies, if that). It was the entire idea of a serial, which he felt was completely inartistic and foreign to good writing (see his letters on the subject in the first volume of his SELECTED LETTERS). The Herbert West stories were indeed published later in WT, but by that time HPL was already dead.
For the most part I liked your selection and enthusiasm, but disagree on your take of ItMoM. Except for the last movie... These bullshit direct to video CGI cash grabs don't deserve our attention. I would have given it a 'dis-honorable' mention and moved on to 'From Beyond' or 'Cthulhu'(2007). Cthulhu is not very good and actually based on The Shadow of Innsmouth , so while mistitled, it is an HPL adaptation. Your love for the subject matter really shows and made for a great video.
You actually didn't list The Dunwich Horror, starring Dean Stockwell There's also The Necronomicon, which is an anthology (not too bad) The Nameless & The Nameless 2 and Castle Freak
I liked the movie _Dagon_ the best. That seemed to catch and hold the essence of _Shadow Over Innsmouth_ very well. _In the Mouth of Madness_ was done pretty well, IMO. My favorite Lovecraft stories are: 1. _The Case of Charles Dexter Ward_ 2. _The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_ 3. _The Cats of Ulthar_
Also dont mean to spam the comment section, but why not put the Thing in there? I could understand if you only wanted to include pure adaptations though, but I think its pretty heavily inspired by At the Mountains of Madness... Also, wtf is up with HP and the Frozen Kingdom.. Is that real? or a joke? I cant tell... The animation looks fucking DREADFUL, although Ive also heard that its not as bad as it looks...
Favorite story: Shadow Over Innsmouth. Favorite Lovecraft-inspired story I think is "N" by Stephen King. I can't remember if he said it was directly inspired by Lovecraft, but it feels to me like it must have been. Love Lovecraft, enjoyed the video!
Does shadow over innsmouth really talk about Race?. Have read It and never Saw that. As Guilhermo del Toro Said It, people have been trying to find meaning where there isn't one for years regarding Lovecraft's work. Great vid btw, some Nice additions to My watchlist.
Good job with this man. Its so cool to see people coming around to the greatness that is H.P. Lovecraft nowadays.... Also I think Stuart Gordon tried his best, but he's just not that great of a director. The only one who I think ever did it right was John Carpenter.. and hell, maybe Guillermo del Toro will finally come around and make At the Mountains of Madness
That was great, I agreed with you about the Lovecraft cartoon, what a load of ... pants.... My favourite story by far is The Hounds of Tindalos. I found it in an anthology but sadly lost the book in a house move. Maybe it vanished back to Rlyeh?????
You got mail (1998) was clearly the best Lovecraft adaptation, alas all the lovecraft bits were so accurately and relentlessly represented endless and unknowable horrors the audiences minds at the time simply repressed all memories of them, so everyone just remembered it as a generic crappy rom-com alas.
I think *Rats in the Wall* would've been a perfect psychological horror film. I know the cats name is contoversial, but besides that, I think it feels realistic and depressing... An epitome of madness at the end.
Great review, but I confess I have a soft spot for Mouth of Madness. As for my favorite Lovecraft stories, it would have to be Rats in the Wall and Colour Out of Space. LOVED them. They creeped me out!
I have a copy of Call of Cthulhu and it is a good film for what it's worth. My favorite tale is the Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath but appreciate most everything he did. I'm also a gamer and look at what he has done as fodder for my own weird tales and to have something to spice up D&D 5E and Pathfinder with.
Hey there. Have you seen The Whisperer in Darkness (by the folks who did The Call of Cthulhu) or the German film Die Farbe, which is an adaptation of The Colour out of Space?
I think the music of Eric Zann is my favorite story, I just love the imagery and noises the wording invokes. Also have you seen the from beyond film? its awful and has alot of the problems from re-animator including some random bdsm stuff.
Levecraft work could inspire many great movies and games. But no! If it does not brings a ton of cash it cant be done. We are stuck with call of duty and 50 shades of porn.... For now...
Completely untrue I enjoyed it solely because it was just a Lovecraft movie yeah it was super hokey and it was for kids but come on man how much Lovecraft do we do we actually get to enjoy you know
Call of Cthulhu was an incredible movie. Definitely still liked Reanimator even though it was a little generic of a film. And "The Cats of Ulthar" has always been a story of his close to my heart.
I've considered The Thing to be a fair analogy to Mountains of Madness with a liberal swap of sci-fi for the occult. It's superficial but both are enjoyable.
thanks for the review. I pretty much agree with you on the adaptions you've mentioned. but what about the colour out of space from 2010? although it doesn't stick to the short Story, this is a neat movie and the visual style is fantastic
there's another Call ofCthulhu based on the Shadow over innsmouth, and Necronomicon with Lovecraft as the central character if you want some more red hot rage Lovecraft appears again in Cast a Deadly Spell
the banshee chapter was based off a lovecraft story and it worked very well, you should've had that, or mist, my family watched it and said it was pretty good, and i plan on checking it out
I like this list however I do think you are missing one movie that does have a very Lovecraft feel to it. Pan's Labyrinth. The monsters I feel are something out of Lovecraft yes but on top of that the story is very dark, and takes place in a dark setting.
Considering all of Lovecraft's work is free on the Internet, the public can go read them all instead of waiting for movie adaptations of his work like fking normies
I actually like Lovecraft’s story Herbert West Reanimator myself, regardless of the fact that it wasn’t a favorite of his, especially the dark ending of the original story(the waxen headless figure at the end of the story is nightmarish IMHO) plus the fact that it’s technically the first zombie story. 😉
I'm really impressed with your dedication and all the hard work you put into creating and animating a FAKE kids Lovecraft film that clearly could not possibly be real and i refuse to even consider that. Oh, you are a devious tuber. But you won't trick me!!! ;)
lovecraft as a person has been portrayed before in the movie necronomicon. you also might want to check out the whisperer in darkness and the pseudoanimated mountains of madness. you can find the latter on youtube
Lovecraft rarely had strong female characters in his books. Modern films always want to toss one in. Really, unless its Kanziah Mason, Lavinia Whateley or Asnaneth Waite you dont have one. Thing of the Doorstep was a decent adaptation, and my favorite story.
My favorite lovecraft story is Shadow over Innsmouth. And my favorite lovecraft inspired game is Bloodborne. And i want to add that the sets on "Call of Cthulhu" are supposed to look this fake. because all old movies of that black and white mute era looked like this because they didn't had the possibilities like today, too
Another guy that loves talking to us, without to much relevant content in his words. What makes it worse is that he's showing himself! Down with selfies.
This may sound rather odd but the best story (not necessarily film) inspired by Lovecraft is probably the first Dead Space game. The first part is that the main character is only given enough of a backstory and development to allow for him to be a John Doe that anyone can identify with. it also has this sense of other worldly horror and a general indifference to the humanities existence. It also contains that sense of madness in tge main character, Issac, and even after he's believed he's defeated it's hold over him the last frames of the game is that ancient power still holding power over him. all in all it's a great game and very Lovecraftian.
