Gomez
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Rackhir said:WOW! Thanks for that list Gomez.
I would put in another vote for "In the Mouth of Madness", while it ultimately failed at it's ambitious goal, it remains a fascinating failure. The references are much more to to King than Lovecraft, but the feel of the movie is defintely in the later's camp. The whole spreading madness theme is very Lovecraft as is the "knowledge driving you insane" thread and reality not really being what we think it is.
One movie that was not mentioned that I would add was the somewhat unfortunately named "She-Creature". No overt references to Lovecraft's stuff, but the story and the movie really do feel like they could have been written by HPL.
"Cast a Deadly Spell" Is a very funny movie with enough little jokes and background events going on to place it up in the Airplane/Top Secret class. It's well worth the effort to track down, but I would have to disagree about the sequel "Witch Hunt" I felt it lost everything that made the first movie so much fun other than a handful of background jokes.
Thanks, I will have to track down She-Creature. Though I never saw "Cast a Deadly Spell" as a Airplane or Top Secret type movie.
I didn't like "In the Mouth of Madness" that much. Instead of being creepy and scary, it was confusing and weird. I did enjoy the "Pickman's Hotel" reference though.
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