Let’s talk about DIY filmmaking. I’ve reviewed a lot of films that fall generally into this category, and for many of them I have a lot of respect. After all, here’s a film that was made by a group of people who may not have had a lot of money to work with but believed […]
Read more "Cthulhu (2000)"Honorable Mention “There are some things man was not meant to adapt to musical theatre…” The finest H.P. Lovecraft adaptation ever made was the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society’s silent black and white version of The Call of Cthulhu. No questions asked. It took an enormously complex story line, with a series of flashbacks nested one […]
Read more "A Shoggoth on the Roof (2000)"If you were following the horror and science fiction conventions back in 2018, one film kept getting mentioned over and over again: Charlie Steeds’ The Barge People. It was an intense — and gory — horror film made on a tiny budget, reminiscent of the backwoods horror films of the Eighties, only with gill men. […]
Read more "Gods of the Deep (2023)"You never know what to expect from a Lovecraftian film. I mean, we all know the basics: the sheer horror of the abyss; beings older than our puny speck of a world; a cold, uncaring, multi-dimensional universe full of beings too powerful to even notice us, let alone care what happens to us Heck, you […]
Read more "Black Site (2018)"[Warning: Spoilers Ahead] They should have called this one “Rosmary’s Yog Sothoth.” The Dunwich Horror was actually AIP’s third H.P. Lovecraft adaptation in seven years. Mind you, Roger Corman was hoping to start a Lovecraft series of films — as he had with Edgar Allen Poe — when he made The Haunted Palace, based on […]
Read more "The Dunwich Horror (1970)"If you asked me what was the best H.P. Lovecraft film ever made, I would immediately reply The Call of Cthulhu (2005). It’s not like there’s any real competition. It was an intriguing oddity, made by a fan group called the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society, which tried very hard to look like a film that had […]
Read more "The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)"
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