Any Lovecraft fans here?
POSTED BY: ecgordon
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 2, 2006 10:47
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I think that it's interesting that so many people here are dissing Lovecraft movies. I live in the Portland, OR area and I went to a Lovecraft film festival a few months ago http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/ that showed a bunch of short films that were mostly very good. There were even a couple of parodies that were quite funny. If you like Lovecraft and live in the area I suggest dropping by, I don't think that you will be disappointed.
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My favourite of the short stories I have read is "The Vault". There was only one story I could really call scary and I can't remember the name of it. It's about a guy who's car breaks down and he tries to find a phone. He goes to someones house, the door is open and he see's a book with VERY disturbing pictures in it.
Metallica are big fans and used some of his stuff as lyrics in "The Thing That Should Not Be".
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Cant' remember the name, but my favorite short story I've read of his is the one that take place on Venus, I think. Sort of a sci-fi thing, he's trying to make it through and invisible maze... been awhile since I've read up on my Lovecraft come to think of it (have to dig some of my books out of the closet again, I guess.)
Anyways, that was the story where I went like "oh... yeah, he's writing horror, sure. But it's science fiction, really." Turn of the century, fear of mankind's role in the face of new scientific evidence about the nature of the universe... these aren't supernatural beings we're dealing with but aliens from out in the vast reaches of the black. (Okay, so I knew it was aliens before but it took me awhile for it to all sink in.)
Okay, looks like I'm rambling again. (Seem to have a knack for that. :)
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Originally posted by nuclearday:
Cant' remember the name, but my favorite short story I've read of his is the one that take place on Venus, I think. Sort of a sci-fi thing, he's trying to make it through and invisible maze... been awhile since I've read up on my Lovecraft come to think of it (have to dig some of my books out of the closet again, I guess.)
That one was "In The Walls of Eryx"
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Originally posted by singate:
Yes the movies have sucked in a big way. I heard a rumor a few years back that there was going to be a big budget film based on "At the Mountains of Madness". Has anyone heard anything about this recently?
Well, I read something...in either Rue Morgue mag last month or possibly in Premier (the only two movie things I read regularly) that Guillermo del Toro wants to make an At the Mountains of Madness movie. However, he doubts any studios will do it.
Apologies that I can't cite my source, but I'm at work right now.
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The movie comes out next month..
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