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Annoying lovecraftian ranting without any real purpose

 
 
z3r0
10:51 / 18.07.01
Just watched "Tomb raider". Awful film, but anyway: Seeing the old temples, the arctic scenes, old statues covered with webs and stuff, I could not help thinking it is about time someone takes "The Call Of Cthulhu" to the big screen. It would be at least visually stunning, even though they would fuck with the story anyway... with keanu reeves as Inspector Legrasse or something like this...
Can't anyone do something about it? Is the world gone mad? I'm talkin to you!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
11:39 / 18.07.01
quote:Originally posted by z3r0:
with keanu reeves as Inspector Legrasse or something like this...

Only if he gets to go "woah!" at some point in the film. Or to refer to one of the nameless things as "dude".
 
 
sleazenation
11:42 / 18.07.01
Reeves is pretty much the closest practical definition of a 'thing that shouldn't be' as there is ever likely to be.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
12:04 / 18.07.01
In his house at Hollywood, talent-dead K'nu lies dreaming...
 
 
Jamieon
12:12 / 18.07.01
They've got to do it! I want to know what "C'thulu F'thgn" actually sounds like!
 
 
z3r0
12:33 / 18.07.01
The Soundtrack would be written and performed by this band from Belgium called "Univers Zero". You should check them at audiogalaxy. They give me the creeps.
I can see the trailers:
Black screen, caption says: "It is calling". The the music kicks in, eerie, awful (believe me, they dowrite eerie, awful, stuff. Then scenes of mad people crying and laughin etc, destruction and a giant shadow over Innsmouth(heh).
Black screen again: "Will you answer?
Smash blockbuster, I tell ya
 
 
rizla mission
12:48 / 18.07.01
There's one basic problem with making Lovecraftian movies.

"Now guys, for the story to work, the monster we're working on has to be shapeless, deathless, vast, old and evil beyond human comprehension and, most important of all, one glimpse of it has to be enough to actually drive people insane!"

"Yeah, whatever boss. Pass me that rubber dinosaur tail, wouldya?"
 
 
z3r0
13:03 / 18.07.01
I bet Kubrick could do it.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:10 / 18.07.01
More slime to soundstage six, please. I repeat...
 
 
moriarty
13:26 / 18.07.01
Call of Cthulu itself may not have been made yet, but there are still a number of other Lovecraftian works out there.

Re-Animator. Jeffrey Combs is fantastic. Not terribly Cthuloid, but so what. Most of you have probably already seen this, anyway.

From Beyond. Not very well regarded, especially in comparison to Re-Animator, but in some ways I like this film more. A bigger budget meant more madness.

Unnamable I and II. Again, budget constraints held this one back, but I liked their Randolf Carter. Not for purists.

H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon. An anthology of short films inspired by Lovecraft's work. I had friends ask me which stories these shorts were taken from, and it took me weeks to convince them that this wasn't an adaption. Bonus, Jeffrey Combs as Lovecraft himself.

There are dozens more, mainly hailing from the late 60s and early 70s. Cast a Deadly Spell and Witch Hunt supposedly have HPL as a character, but I have never seen them, and don't think I want to. Also, the filmakers who made Re-Animator and From Beyond are finally starting work on their Innsmouth movie. Here's hoping it's better than Castle Freak.

I highly recommend In The Mouth of Madness, John Carpenter's homage to Lovecraft. People either love or hate this movie, but I have at least a few friends who made the ridiculous statement that this wasn't actually a horror movie because it was, gasp, intelligent. Faceless cultists, creepy New England towns, tomes, barely perceived creatures from beyond our realm, and all brought into a modern day context with a bit of metafiction thrown in for good measure.

Honourable mention should go to Out of Mind:The stories of HP Lovecraft, if only because the actor playing Lovecraft looks exactly like the author. Poor guy.

And if you want real, authentic Cthulhu action from outside the works of Lovecraft himself, play the RPG.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:37 / 18.07.01
quote:Originally posted by moriarty:
And if you want real, authentic Cthulhu action from outside the works of Lovecraft himself, play the RPG.

Tangent: who can give me the guff on it? Or is in London and feels like mebbe playing. Hmm...
 
 
rizla mission
13:49 / 18.07.01
quote:
I highly recommend In The Mouth of Madness, John Carpenter's homage to Lovecraft. People either love or hate this movie, but I have at least a few friends who made the ridiculous statement that this wasn't actually a horror movie because it was, gasp, intelligent. Faceless cultists, creepy New England towns, tomes, barely perceived creatures from beyond our realm, and all brought into a modern day context with a bit of metafiction thrown in for good measure.


God, that film frustrates me. A brilliant, brilliant idea completely fucked up by HAVING NO STYLE AT ALL AND BEING FULL OF SHITTY SUB-STEPHEN KING TV-MOVIE BULLSHIT!!!!

Cosmic horror that breaks the 4th wall.
Imagine how good it could have been...
 
 
Lothar Tuppan
14:25 / 18.07.01
quote:Originally posted by Rizla Year Zero:
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God, that film frustrates me. A brilliant, brilliant idea completely fucked up by HAVING NO STYLE AT ALL AND BEING FULL OF SHITTY SUB-STEPHEN KING TV-MOVIE BULLSHIT!!!!

Cosmic horror that breaks the 4th wall.
Imagine how good it could have been...


I loved it for what it was but then I also thought Carpenter's "They Live!" was a pretty good Gnostic film and I still can't walk around SF's Chinatown without hoping to see Jack Burton drive down the street.

As for Lovecraftian movies, the most horrifying was the '60s production of "The Dunwich Horror". Sandra Dee was the leading lady.

THE HORROR!!! THE HORROR!!!!
 
 
z3r0
14:35 / 18.07.01
Give me R'lyeh with designs of J. Coulthart.
 
 
z3r0
14:43 / 18.07.01
Give me Cthulhu with the design of... huh... I don't know...
 
 
Ierne
15:40 / 18.07.01
As for Lovecraftian movies, the most horrifying was the '60s production of "The Dunwich Horror". Sandra Dee was the leading lady. – Lothar Tuppan

A Hammer Film, no less.
 
 
z3r0
17:07 / 18.07.01
Actually there are a lot of independent movies based on Lovecrafts works. This one uses Richard Corben designs and looks rather good. Huh, ugly, I mean.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
17:54 / 18.07.01
quote:Originally posted by sleazenation:
Reeves is pretty much the closest practical definition of a 'thing that shouldn't be' as there is ever likely to be.



It's comments like this that make me glad you exist, dearie.

And I don't care:
In the Mouth of Madness was fuckin' creepity.
 
 
sleazenation
18:46 / 18.07.01
why thank you miss kali and when are you making it over to dank london town?
 
 
invisible_al
12:10 / 19.07.01
I can actually see roughly how you might film Yog-sottoth (or was in narylathotep who's the 5D being that looks like a group of spheres).

You'd need David Lynch to do it and have to split the screen into lots of little pieces shot from differen't angles. Possibly have bits of the film that have and haven't happened yet playing in parts of them.

And then when things slam back to 'reality' you have about half the cast go bonkers in one way or the other.

Oh and the answer to K'nu is NO.

Closest to the classic HP lovecraft protagonist is J Murdoch out of Dark City, at least at first. Btw is that mad cops room just wonderfully lovecraft or what.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
12:56 / 19.07.01
quote:Originally posted by sleazenation:
why thank you miss kali and when are you making it over to dank london town?


I'm trying, but being unemployed at the moment is making things horribly difficult.
 
  
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