Nice video! I don't think that Silent Hill could be considered very Lovecraftian (although the video games certainly could), but I still love this video.
*Sigh* It's also a shame I lost In the Mouth of Madness. Now I'm stuck watching a shitty substitute (since it has Jurgen in it) of it.
@6Sutter6Cane6 I just used Silent Hill as an example of "tentacled terrors" in the movies. Plus, the witch-persecution could be attributed to the Salem Witch Trials of which HPL mentions somewhere in his books.
Too bad about ITMOM. I was lucky enough to get a decent widescreen torrent of it from The Pirate Bay (my bad) which is better than the VHS version I had!
Could always send you the attachment, I suppose, if you give me your email address?
@wandererlain I'm not sure how to download it, but anyway, another movie I would've recommend for this video is Slither. It's got some Lovecraftian elements. Tentacles, slime, extraterrestrial beings, etc.
You were dead on with HOWARD THE DUCK's Dark Overlords. There's also THE BEAST WITHIN, THE KINDRED, THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP, LEVIATHAN, DEEP RISING, and ALIEN. TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and THE HILLS HAVE EYES, about inbred cannibal yokels are Lovecraft themed, and THE SKELETON KEY dealt with one of HPL's more subtle themes of mind-transference-- I wonder if any Non-Lovecraft fans actually understood the ending of that.
@GoblinXXX Very well done, my man! Unfortunately I don't own these movies (except for Alien and Hills Have Eyes <original and remake>)
The only thing I missed adding was... can't remember. But still, thanks for the output.
When I walk by the River Thames, I feel something...
I must be one of the first people to notice the Howard the Duck influence: "They came Themselves from the stars and brought Their images with Them." Such a catchy line. I'm glad some entity out there understands me.
@GoblinXXX I wouldn't expect for you to have every HPL influenced movie, and it's tough to get some of those concepts across in a short music video! ;)
@GoblinXXX Very true. All these movies are not "pure" Lovecraft. They have ideas lifted from him. Everyone "sees" the stories differently in their minds. It's not easy to translate onto the silver screen, like Clive Barker's Imajica, for example, you could use CGI to recreate a lot of that but not the graphic sex or characters thoughts. Comic books translate these concepts better. John Coulthart's The Call of Cthulhu is a pretty good example.
I do believe in aliens that project themselves in a NON-PHYSICAL WAY
wandererlain 1 month ago
can you name the source of your clips ?
I want to check out those movies myself :D
thanks !
StarSpawn06 1 year ago
@StarSpawn06 Sure. Check out the description part that I just updated.
wandererlain 1 year ago
Nice video! I don't think that Silent Hill could be considered very Lovecraftian (although the video games certainly could), but I still love this video.
*Sigh* It's also a shame I lost In the Mouth of Madness. Now I'm stuck watching a shitty substitute (since it has Jurgen in it) of it.
6Sutter6Cane6 1 year ago
@6Sutter6Cane6 I just used Silent Hill as an example of "tentacled terrors" in the movies. Plus, the witch-persecution could be attributed to the Salem Witch Trials of which HPL mentions somewhere in his books.
Too bad about ITMOM. I was lucky enough to get a decent widescreen torrent of it from The Pirate Bay (my bad) which is better than the VHS version I had!
Could always send you the attachment, I suppose, if you give me your email address?
wandererlain 1 year ago
@wandererlain Eh, I'm more comfortable with buying it from some site like Amazon. But thanks anyway.
Yeah, I see what you mean. I think he mentioned it in "Pickman's Model," along with others.
6Sutter6Cane6 1 year ago
@6Sutter6Cane6 Well, if you got the dough, bro, buy a DVD of it.
I wouldn't ask anything for it, anyway, as I got it for free LOL
wandererlain 1 year ago
@wandererlain I'm not sure how to download it, but anyway, another movie I would've recommend for this video is Slither. It's got some Lovecraftian elements. Tentacles, slime, extraterrestrial beings, etc.
6Sutter6Cane6 1 year ago
@6Sutter6Cane6 Oh yeah, the movie with the bathtub on the cover. Gotta see that if I can find it...
wandererlain 1 year ago
You were dead on with HOWARD THE DUCK's Dark Overlords. There's also THE BEAST WITHIN, THE KINDRED, THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON, HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP, LEVIATHAN, DEEP RISING, and ALIEN. TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and THE HILLS HAVE EYES, about inbred cannibal yokels are Lovecraft themed, and THE SKELETON KEY dealt with one of HPL's more subtle themes of mind-transference-- I wonder if any Non-Lovecraft fans actually understood the ending of that.
GoblinXXX 1 year ago
@GoblinXXX Very well done, my man! Unfortunately I don't own these movies (except for Alien and Hills Have Eyes <original and remake>)
The only thing I missed adding was... can't remember. But still, thanks for the output.
When I walk by the River Thames, I feel something...
I must be one of the first people to notice the Howard the Duck influence: "They came Themselves from the stars and brought Their images with Them." Such a catchy line. I'm glad some entity out there understands me.
wandererlain 1 year ago
@GoblinXXX I wouldn't expect for you to have every HPL influenced movie, and it's tough to get some of those concepts across in a short music video! ;)
GoblinXXX 1 year ago
@GoblinXXX Very true. All these movies are not "pure" Lovecraft. They have ideas lifted from him. Everyone "sees" the stories differently in their minds. It's not easy to translate onto the silver screen, like Clive Barker's Imajica, for example, you could use CGI to recreate a lot of that but not the graphic sex or characters thoughts. Comic books translate these concepts better. John Coulthart's The Call of Cthulhu is a pretty good example.
wandererlain 1 year ago