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Every Terrifying (50) True Lovecraftian Movie Adaptations - Explored
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H.P. Lovecraft - The Nameless City (1921)
The Nameless City is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine, then in Fanciful Tales, Fall 1936, and in the Volume 32 of Weird Tales in the 1938. (Link Here). Lovecraft said that the story was based on a dream. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story.
Story by H. P. Lovecraft
Plot - The unnamed narrator of the story goes into the middle of the Arabian Peninsula to seek out and enter a lost city. The protagonist states: “ It was of this place that Abdul Alhazred the mad poet [author of the Necronomicon] dreamed on the night before he sang his unexplainable couplet:
"That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
>The Nameless City by Alexander J
After hearing a clanging seemingly coming from deep inside the earth, the narrator inspects mysterious carvings and ruins until nightfall. The narrator discovers a cliff riddled with low-ceilinged buildings, unfit for human use. While he attends to his suddenly nervous camel, the narrator discovers a somewhat larger temple, with altars, painted murals, and a small staircase going down.
>The Nameless City, art by Sprech4
After he descends, his torch dies, and he crawls on his hands and knees until he enters a hallway with small wooden coffins containing bizarre bodies inside of them lining the walls. The narrator notices a large amount of light coming from an unknown source. After crawling to it on his hands and knees, he sees a large brass door with a descent into a misty portal...
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Animated by MSA Matthew | Video YT / Link Invidious
>The Nameless City from Gou Tanabe's lovecraftian Comics.
The Nameless City illustrated by Attila Futaku from the comics "The Lovecraft Anthology: Volume II" | link Anna archive | Link Internet Archive
The Nameless City illustrated Comics in " The Myths Of Cthulhu" by Alberto Breccia - Link Anna Archive
Sound from the Deep | by Joonas Allonen & Antti Laakso
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>An international research group is searching natural resources from the newly melted waters of the Arctic Ocean. They pick up a strange underwater sound from far north. Thinking it might be natural gas, they start their journey to the uncharted waters. Soon they begin to understand the true nature of the Sound.
- Written and directed by Joonas Allonen & Antti Laakso
- Starring Eero Ojala, Lasse Fagerström, Anastasia Trizna, Mikael Andersson, Fabian Silén
- Produced by Jupe Louhelainen / Twisted Films
- Production country: Finland
The Eldritch Dreams | by Danny Takacs
Based on the stories of H.P. Lovecraft.
>Alice Atwood discovers an old chest hidden in her fireplace. After sifting through the contents, she is exposed to terrifying cosmic revelations that lead to a series of increasingly horrifying nightmares. Can her religious faith bring her out of the darkness, or will she succumb to insanity?
- Written and Directed by: Danny Takacs
- Music: Denis Nadeau
"The Outsider" Adaptation by Ludvig Gür
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Based on H. P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name, "The Outsider" is the story of how a desperate loner who has grown up with a butterfly and the Bible for company one day seizes his chance and makes good his escape, only to face his worst fears head-on at an all-nighter in the company of strangers.
Starring Kola Krauze as "The Outsider"
- Written , Directed & Edited by Ludvig Gür
- Produced by Ludvig Gür & Jesper Jönsson
- Director of Photography: Markus A. Ljungberg FSF
The Statement | H. P. Lovecraft adaptation by Owen Imgrund
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Adaptation from H.P. Lovecraft’s short story "The statement of Randolph Carter"
>After investigating an Elder cult's meeting place, a professor wakes to find himself in an interrogation room with a grotesquely scarred hand.
CAST
- James Finn
- Matt Wilhelm
- Jeffrey Peterson
CREW
- Writer/Director | Owen Imgrund
- Executive Producers | Nick Houchin & Owen Imgrund
- Director of Photography | Nick Houchin
Backwoods | Award Winning H. P. Lovecraft Adaptation By Ryan Mackfall
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Ryan Mackfall adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Picture in the House”
Article - directorsnotes
>1907, Massachusetts. A scholar drifts from his path and finds himself in a house he takes for deserted. Deserted, apart from a beguiling book containing dark secrets that exerts a powerful hold over those who come into contact with it.
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Director - Ryan Mackfall
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Writer - Neil Fox
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Producer - Kingsley Marshall
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Producer - Ryan Mackfall
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Producer - Neil Fox
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Key Cast:
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The Scholar - Ciaran Clarke
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The Old Man - Kevin Horsham
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Shepherd Boy - Noah Wallace
H. P. Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)
The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by H. P. Lovecraft, written in November–December 1931. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization. It references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures and invocations. It is the only Lovecraft story which was published in book form during his lifetime in the 1936. After Lovecraft's death, the story appeared in an unauthorized abridged version in the January 1942 issue of Weird Tales. <Link Here>
Novel by H. P. Lovecraft
The story is divided into five chapters. In the first chapter, the narrator begins by recounting to the reader of a secret investigation that was undertaken by the government at the ruined town of Innsmouth, Massachusetts.
>Innsmouth By Sebastien-Ecosse
The second chapter details his ride into Innsmouth, described in great detail as a crumbling, mostly deserted town full of dilapidated structures and people who look just a bit odd and who tend to walk with a distinct shambling gait.
>Innsmouth Look by Propnomicon
The third chapter is composed of the conversation between Zadok and the narrator. Zadok, who is very old, has seen much in the town and goes on at length, telling a tale of fish-frog men known as Deep Ones who live beneath the sea.
>Zadok Allen - Innsmouth by tallkid47
Chapter four tells of the night that the narrator was forced to spend in town. The narrator has no choice but to spend the night in a musty hotel. While attempting to sleep, he hears noises at his door like someone trying to enter. Wasting no time, he attempts to escape out a window and through the streets. Eventually he makes his way to some train tracks where he hears a great many creatures passing in the road before him. Upon seeing the fish-frog creatures in full light for the first time, faints in his hiding spot.
>Innsmouth Parade by Pete von Sholly
In the final chapter, we hear of how the narrator wakes up unharmed and quickly walks to the next town (Rowley).
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1992) - Insumasu o ouu Kage - Directed by Chiaki J. Konaka | Video on YT / Link Invidious
Dagon 2001 - Spanish horror film directed by Stuart Gordon and written by Dennis Paoli. It is loosely based on the short story Dagon (1919) and his 1931 novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Radio play - The Shadow over Innsmouth, a Dark Adventure Radio Theatre adaptation of the story.
La Sombra sobre Innsmouth - Spanish theater adaptation
Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft - Silvia Moreno-García | TED
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Arcane books of forbidden lore, disturbing secrets in the family bloodline, and terrors so unspeakable the very thought of them might drive you mad. These have become standard elements in modern horror stories. But they were largely popularized by a single author: H.P. Lovecraft, whose name has become synonymous with the terror he inspired. Silvia Moreno-García dissects the “Lovecraftian” legacy.
Lesson by Silvia Moreno-García, directed by Globizco Studios.
H. P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
At the Mountains of Madness is a novella written in February and March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. - Link Here - It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft's death. Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi describes the novella as representing the decisive "demythology" of the Cthulhu Mythos by reinterpreting Lovecraft's earlier supernatural stories in a science fiction paradigm.
Novel by H. P. Lovecraft
>*The story is narrated in a first-person perspective by the geologist William Dyer, professor at Arkham's Miskatonic University. Dyer relates how he led a group of scholars from Miskatonic University on a scientific expedition to Antarctica, during which they discovered ancient ruins and a dangerous secret beyond a range of mountains higher than the Himalayas.
>Only when the first survey group, isolated by a storm, begins to radio back of highly unusual finds in a cavern beneath the surface, do events begin to unravel. From then on, Dyer and his companion, the student Danforth, are on a downward spiral of discovery that attacks every notion of time, space, and life, until Danforth’s speech is reduced to disconnected fragments, recalled only in dreams*
>Elder Thing - ink drawing on board Tom Ardans
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Horror Short Animatic "At The Mountains of Madness" - Video on YT | Link Invidious
Review of the Manga - At the Mountains of Madness - by Tanabe Gou
Mountains of Madness illustrated edition from Free League
H.P. Lovecraft - Dagon (1917)
Dagon is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in July, 1917. It is one of the first stories he wrote as an adult, and was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11). Later, in October of 1923, Dagon was published in Weird Tales. < Link Here >
The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide over an incident that occurred early on in World War I when he was a merchant marine officer.
>I cannot think of the deep sea without shuddering at the nameless things that may at this very moment be crawling and floundering on its slimy bed, worshipping their ancient stone idols and carving their own detestable likenesses on submarine obelisks of water-soaked granite. I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind—of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium.
Short story by H. P. Lovecraft
EXTRA
>Dagon, with illustrations by French artist Armel Gaulme
>Dagon - Short movie by the Lone Animator - YT Video | Invidious Link (NO ADS)
illustrated reading of 'Dagon' Read by Mike Bennett, illustrated by Christopher Steininger. - YT Video | Invidious Link
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown (2020) | Guillermo Del Toro
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Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown is a 2008 documentary film about American writer H. P. Lovecraft.
- Director Frank H. Woodward
- Produced by William Janczewski, James B. Myers, Frank H. Woodward
- Starring Ramsey Campbell, John Carpenter, Guillermo del Toro, Neil Gaiman, Stuart Gordon, S. T. Joshi, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Andrew Migliore, Robert M. Price, Peter Straub
