I never thought one could make Cthulhu lame...

[Cthulhudrew]

Why can't anyone make a decent HPL movie??

Because there are some things man was not meant to know.

 

[David Howery]

Tori Spelling? Who keeps giving her work on films?! I want names!

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

The first comment has it right

Why thank you *bows*. I don't actually set out to read that fellow's blog, I just subscribe to Wired News' RSS feed, which Wired News' bloggers posts are included. I'm Lovecraft fan and seeing a post on him just attracted my eyes.

Speaking of Lovecraft films, I got the Lovecraft Historical Society's Call of Cthulhu for my birthday recently. Awesome, awesome, awesome. If any one reading this knows of a Lovecraft fan, it's the perfect gift.

 

[Aaron L]

What I would really love to see is a Delta Green movie.

That would be awesome beyond the ability of words to describe.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Speaking of Lovecraft films, I got the Lovecraft Historical Society's Call of Cthulhu for my birthday recently. Awesome, awesome, awesome. If any one reading this knows of a Lovecraft fan, it's the perfect gift.

Seconded. What a fantastic DVD.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Look for Del Torro's Mountain of Madness! http://www.circvsmaximvs.com/showthread.php?t=16600

 

[mmu1]

They don't make decent Lovecraft movies because the sort of cop-outs he commonly employed - "And then he saw what no man was meant to see." - don't just suck, but are rather hard to implement in a visual medium.

And it's kind of hard to work the words gibbous, eldritch and batrachian into the script, I'd imagine.

 

[lukelightning]

And it's kind of hard to work the words gibbous, eldritch and batrachian into the script, I'd imagine.

Gibbous? That just means bulging. Batracian means "frog-like."

And, according to Terry Pratchett, some people think eldritch means "oblong."

 

[mmu1]

Gibbous? That just means bulging. Batracian means "frog-like."

And, according to Terry Pratchett, some people think eldritch means "oblong."

I know what they mean, thank you.

 

[sniffles]

Why can't anyone make a decent HPL movie??

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478988/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264508/

The second one is also based on 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth'. It's not a bad little flick.