Cthulhu Trailer

[trancejeremy]

A fairly decent recent piece of Lovecraft on film was "Dreams in the Witch House", an episode of Showtime's Masters of Horror series (playing again this month.)

I saw that - that came out on DVD a few months ago. It was decent but kinda like Re-animator , they didn't seem to play it "straight" , but somewhat campy, and they added sex scenes. (Not surprising, since it was the same guy that did Re-animator)

 

[Mouseferatu]

Bah. Just get the one filmed in "Mythoscope" and designed to look like a 1920s silent movie. I don't think you're ever going to get a better adaptation than that one.

http://www.cthulhulives.org/cocmovie/trailer.html

 

[David Howery]

there was a really obscure movie called "The Unnameable", IIRC, which was 'inspired by' HPL; the main character's name was Randolph Carter, and it was about some students from Miskatonic U. (in Arkham, naturally), who run across some female demon in a haunted house... had nothing much to do with HPL really, other than the names... I remember renting this movie years ago.....

 

[Jakar]

I think I will give this a miss. It has Tori Spelling in it. Enough said really.

 

[Darthjaye]

My favorite HPL inspired movie is still "In The Mouth of Madness" by John Carpenter.

 

[Aaron L]

I thought Dagon was pretty good, myself.

But yes, In the Mouth of Madness is awesome.


Cthulhu Fanboi <---------

 

[JoeGKushner]

Dagon would make a great game/rpg session but I didn't think it was that good a movie.

 

[Huw]

<rant>
Why oh why oh why oh why can't anyone in the movie publicity industry learn how to host a trailer. Time and time again I go to view a trailer, only to have it fail because they insist on some non standard plug-in or script which doesn't work with my browser (Opera) and/or my firewall.
</rant>

Now, YouTube can manage it, anyone with half decent Flash skills can manage it, but these people can't. Fortunately, I know my html, and for anyone else who's having problems:

http://somacreative.com/CthulhuTrailer.mov

Looks reasonable, but only worth a possible hire rather than a cinema visit.

 

[trancejeremy]

My favorite HPL inspired movie is still "In The Mouth of Madness" by John Carpenter.

Other than the title, I've never understood what is Lovecraftian about it. People going crazy? All in all, it seemed more Stephen King-ish to me than anything else.

 

[Hawklord]

there was a really obscure movie called "The Unnameable", IIRC, which was 'inspired by' HPL; the main character's name was Randolph Carter, and it was about some students from Miskatonic U. (in Arkham, naturally), who run across some female demon in a haunted house... had nothing much to do with HPL really, other than the names... I remember renting this movie years ago.....

There was also the Unnamable Returns http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0108447/
which was actually marginally better ...

cheers