LOVECRAFT Clip #4 - HPL Taken Seriously

[TheJameslehr]

H.P. Lovecraft's oeuvre should be part of the Western Canon. The Penguin editions avec annotations, The LOA volume, the S.T. Joshi research, bios, etc. should persuade you on this. Plus let's focus on all those letters HPL wrote (100,000 pgs).

[KorAnos1]

CTHULHU F'THAGN!

[raynard88666]

Hey he was a good writer, but nigger hatin' is what he did best! Horror against niggers!!!!

[hanaryukoku]

@raynard88666

do you know what time period he lived in? EVERYONE were bigots back then.

[raynard88666]

@hanaryukoku yeah, and the crime rates were lower and our cities would have been safer. being bigotted might have saved our cities and towns from being the black crime filled filthy ghettos they are today. but you are blissfully unaware of such areas thanks to your privlidged upbringing.

[MythicDude]

I actually have a bit of a hard time taking Lovecraft seriously even though I think his tales are great

[Yapostadodat]

Carpenter's "Thing" was intended to be based on the Old Ones. An indescribable, unfathomable shape shifting horror that could Medusa anyone DARING to look upon it!

[MrWilum]

It's a superb documentary. I do get tired of Gaiman saying that Lovecraft is great "...because he's rock and roll," but I thought he came across far better in this than he did in THE ELDRITCH INFLUENCE, where he called "The Call of Cthulhu" a "crap story." I was thrilled to see that you interview'd ye fabulous Peter Straub! His Library of America edition of Lovecraft's TALES is simply wonderful!

[wyrdstuff]

The Library of America edition was with me through out making the doc.

[wyrdstuff]

Sorry we missed your comment. The DVD is available on Amazon. It's released this October 13th.

[Grofffy]

actually warner bros declined ATMOM (del toro's) cos they were worried how will audience accept the film which does not include love scenes and happy ending..... stupid WB

[GWINDOR33]

ATMOM is gonna be made by Del Toro

[TheSpoofMan3]

Why don't big horror directors make a Lovecraft movie? instead we get mediocre adaptions, some of which are hard to find. B&W Cthulhu, Dagon and Music of Eric Zahn (short movie), are the only faithful or quite close adaptions of his work. I would love to see Carpenter, Raimi, or Peter Jackson, or even Croenberg make a movie on Lovecraft's work.

[Floorsnarl]

I'm with you on that.

[octagon79]

yeah or david lynch

[DreadAle]

Because, while Lovecraft may have been a prominent, or even the defining influence on modern day horror, the general masses would not like a Lovecraftian horror film.

It is simple: there is no happy ending ever, and as someone who has seen Hollywoods adaptation of "I Am Legend", I have a hard time believing that kind of script, which is the kind of script required to be faithful to the stories, could possibly be approved.

That said if Christian Bale would star in it, I would be all over it.

[Floorsnarl]

I would be doing cartwheels if any of those directors were to make a movie adaptation of Lovecraft's work.

[o0FreakinStein0o]

they do got a call of cthulhu film but its a silent film made to fit the mood, it SUCKS!! and theres CTHULHU (2008), that movie i have been trying to get my hands on but its almost like it dosent exsist

wich is very much pissing me off, they got a load of movies based upon his work, From-Beyond, Re-Animator, At the mouth of madness, Dagon. try thos, hope it helps lol

[musklimpa]

lovecrafts life story would not make a good film, his life was actually quite boring, they should do a film of the call of cthulhu and the shadow over innsmouth

[Domzdream]

I'd love for some director to do a life's story of Lovecraft, but showing the viewer the world of cthulu through his eyes, with computer generated graphics. Also showing cthulu as a visual metaphor of his life's hardships.

[rhagerlugo]

ia ia cthulhu ftaghn

[SmileyCrossbones]

HPL is big business right now...poor dude didn't see any of that during his lifetime though...

[fhw1138]

Amen, brothers! It's hight time Lovecraft (and horror) was taken as a real art

[spetnaz93]

thank you!