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<blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 1205662" data-attributes="member: 149"><p>Are you aware that there have actually been a number of HP Lovecraft stories that were adapted into movies? Or are you talking about specific modules from the game? Personally I don't really care who's in the movie as long as they are good. Plenty of "Star" based adaptations have sucked rocks.</p><p></p><p>If anyone is looking for a good Cthulhu movie. "Re-Animator" and the horribly titled but actually excellent "She-Creature" are probably the best out there. She-Creature isn't based off of a Lovecraft story, but does by FAR the best job of capturing the feeling of one of his stories. Which is the hardest thing to do, but actually requires the least amount of budget. </p><p></p><p>The monsters and "horrifying" scenes in the stories almost always take place off screen in the stories and are related or described to others afterwards. Which is something that most directors miss about the stories. Unless you've got HR Giger working as your art director, it's unlikely that any movie will really capture the sense of something totally alien and incompatible with our reality, that make up so much of what makes the Old Ones and their minions the horrors that they are. Usually you just wind up with something that looks strange, but is basically just another Hollywood Monster.</p><p></p><p>There is also an old Vincent Price movie based on "The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward" called "The Haunted Palace", which is definitely worth a watch. It's from about 1963, so it's probably not out on DVD, but the other two are. </p><p></p><p>The recent movie "Dagon" is a decent adaptation of "The Shadow over Innsmouth", but no great shakes.</p><p></p><p>Avoid the "Dunwich Horror" from the sixties and pretty much anything else that claims to be "HP Lovecraft's......" or "Based on......"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rackhir, post: 1205662, member: 149"] Are you aware that there have actually been a number of HP Lovecraft stories that were adapted into movies? Or are you talking about specific modules from the game? Personally I don't really care who's in the movie as long as they are good. Plenty of "Star" based adaptations have sucked rocks. If anyone is looking for a good Cthulhu movie. "Re-Animator" and the horribly titled but actually excellent "She-Creature" are probably the best out there. She-Creature isn't based off of a Lovecraft story, but does by FAR the best job of capturing the feeling of one of his stories. Which is the hardest thing to do, but actually requires the least amount of budget. The monsters and "horrifying" scenes in the stories almost always take place off screen in the stories and are related or described to others afterwards. Which is something that most directors miss about the stories. Unless you've got HR Giger working as your art director, it's unlikely that any movie will really capture the sense of something totally alien and incompatible with our reality, that make up so much of what makes the Old Ones and their minions the horrors that they are. Usually you just wind up with something that looks strange, but is basically just another Hollywood Monster. There is also an old Vincent Price movie based on "The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward" called "The Haunted Palace", which is definitely worth a watch. It's from about 1963, so it's probably not out on DVD, but the other two are. The recent movie "Dagon" is a decent adaptation of "The Shadow over Innsmouth", but no great shakes. Avoid the "Dunwich Horror" from the sixties and pretty much anything else that claims to be "HP Lovecraft's......" or "Based on......" [/QUOTE]
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