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* ''[[Don't Go To Sleep (1982 film)]]'' ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn7DMJ_vCYs Full Movie]) ([https://unobtainium13.com/2015/10/16/horror-on-the-lens-dont-go-to-sleep-dir-by-richard-lang/ Review by Lisa Marie Bowman]) ([http://www.coolasscinema.com/2011/11/tv-movie-terror-dont-go-to-sleep-1982.html Review at Cool Ass Cinema])
 
* ''[[Don't Go To Sleep (1982 film)]]'' ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn7DMJ_vCYs Full Movie]) ([https://unobtainium13.com/2015/10/16/horror-on-the-lens-dont-go-to-sleep-dir-by-richard-lang/ Review by Lisa Marie Bowman]) ([http://www.coolasscinema.com/2011/11/tv-movie-terror-dont-go-to-sleep-1982.html Review at Cool Ass Cinema])
 
* ''[[Wheels of Terror (1990 film)]]'' - covers much the same ground as Duel ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic2_a1COBgE Full movie]) ([http://hubpages.com/entertainment/Movie-Review-Wheels-of-Terror-1990 Review at HubPages.com]) ([http://web.archive.org/web/20160709003612/http://www.jabootu.com/wot.htm Review by Jason MacIsaac]) ([http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/wheelsofterror.htm Review by Scott Ashlin])([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYpOjg46gB0 Review at The Movie Vault)]
 
* ''[[Wheels of Terror (1990 film)]]'' - covers much the same ground as Duel ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic2_a1COBgE Full movie]) ([http://hubpages.com/entertainment/Movie-Review-Wheels-of-Terror-1990 Review at HubPages.com]) ([http://web.archive.org/web/20160709003612/http://www.jabootu.com/wot.htm Review by Jason MacIsaac]) ([http://www.1000misspenthours.com/reviews/reviewsn-z/wheelsofterror.htm Review by Scott Ashlin])([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYpOjg46gB0 Review at The Movie Vault)]
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* ''[[The Other (1972 film)]] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069050/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmMqWkudgA Another Evil Kid movie with few overtly supernatural elements (there's a sort of "game" involving out-of-the-body experiences, that's it); I don't think I could quite justify calling this one even "not very Lovecraftian" (it's set approximately in Lovecraft Country, but that's it), but I do seem to recall some potentially useful ideas in it....
  
 
I couldn't really figure out the "Lovecraftian" angle on the following films that I've seen suggested as "Lovecraftian", placed in backlog for future reexamination:
 
I couldn't really figure out the "Lovecraftian" angle on the following films that I've seen suggested as "Lovecraftian", placed in backlog for future reexamination:
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* ''[[House Next Door (2005 film)]]'' ?  Maybe this is something I'll need to actually watch for myself, but I didn't get any sort of connection to Lovecraft's style of horror based on the film's description or reviews.
 
* ''[[House Next Door (2005 film)]]'' ?  Maybe this is something I'll need to actually watch for myself, but I didn't get any sort of connection to Lovecraft's style of horror based on the film's description or reviews.
 
* ''[[Friday the 13th (1980 franchise)]]'' ? (note also that the ninth film includes a blink-and-you-miss it shot of the ''Necronomicon Ex-Mortis'' in the background, apparently because it looked cool or possibly as a sight-gag; later there was also a comic that crossed-over Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Evil Dead)
 
* ''[[Friday the 13th (1980 franchise)]]'' ? (note also that the ninth film includes a blink-and-you-miss it shot of the ''Necronomicon Ex-Mortis'' in the background, apparently because it looked cool or possibly as a sight-gag; later there was also a comic that crossed-over Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, and Evil Dead)
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* ''[[Joshua (2007 film)]]''  I had this one marked down on an old list of movies to consider for the Lovecraftian film list, but can't quite remember why, and I couldn't really think of a satisfying way to mine it for RPG ideas strong enough to justify including it anyway. For certain, the facts that there is nothing supernatural or speculative/sci-fi to put a finger on, there's no blood and gore, most of the victims get destroyed without dying, the child seems ancient beyond his years and weirdly inhuman with interests in strange music and Egyptology and Nightmare Fuel Colouring Books, and most of the menace of the film comes from things that aren't said and shown rather than things that are resulted in an intriguing "interesting failure with some vague Lovecraftian potential if I read a little more into it than the film actually provides" reaction from me.  I can almost picture a Lovecraftian adaptation in there somewhere by way of "Case of Charles Dexter Ward" with only a couple minor additions, though not enough so to justify calling the film even "not very Lovecraftian".  I might end up looting a couple ideas from this film anyway - the way the kid took out his parents without actually doing any physical harm to them was chilling and powerful stuff...
  
  
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* ''[[The Innocents (1961 film)]]''
 
* ''[[The Innocents (1961 film)]]''
 
* ''[[A Cure for Wellness (2016 film)]]''
 
* ''[[A Cure for Wellness (2016 film)]]''
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* ''[[Case 39 (2009 film)]]''
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* ''[[Alien Terror (1968 film)]]''

Revision as of 23:24, 30 March 2017

This is the "big, dumb list" of "Lovecraftian" movies that Yronimos Whateley is in the process of cataloguing in the Wiki. It's "big", and it's "dumb" because if Yronimos were smart, he'd never have started undertaking such a mad task.

The list was generated largely by mining several lists of suggestions made to Cthulhu-themed internet discussion boards in response to questions about "Lovecraftian" films. It's also (currently) unorganized - it's mostly listed roughly in the order that Yronimos felt like adding them to the catalogue in, without regard to date, alphabetical order, or any other system of sorting.

Yronimos quickly realized there was a number of films that are clearly "Lovecraftian" - being based explicitly on Lovecraft's stories with varying degrees of faithfulness - while others were almost universally considered "Lovecraftian" in spite of not being based on any particular story; then, there were a number of films in a grey area which could be suggested without objection, and finally a number which would prompt some lively objection and debate over whether it could be included; thus the "tentacles" rating system was born; depending on how "Lovecraftian" Yronimos found the films to be on a slightly less-than-completely subjective scale, with the most accurate adaptations getting five tentacles, and the films most likely to cause argument getting only 1 tentacle, and films that Yronimos could not see any but the most tenuous and distant relationship to Lovecraft (not even a brief mention of his name or anything) in getting left out of the catalogue.

Links

  • Tentacle Rating overview: (link)
  • Film Page Template: (link)

Notes

Want to help, but do not feel like creating your own entry from scratch? See the "Catalogued" section below for films that interest you - most catalogued films in this section could really use the following added to their pages:

  • REVIEWS, EXISTING: Links to reviews needed! Especially reviews from a "Lovecraftian" angle; films reviewed in "Lovecraft film marathons" or on Lovecraft-themed sites are ideal; reviews from general horror-themed sites are OK, reviews written by YSDC members (maybe by YOU) are awesome!
  • REVIEWS, NEW: If you've never seen a film before and want to track it down and watch it, feel free to blog your own review of the film, and add a link to your review on the film's page.
  • SYNOPSES: Very few of these film pages include detailed plot synopses. Feel free to expand the Synopsis section of your favorite film with an original, more detailed play-by-play of the plot.
  • ASSOCIATED MYTHOS ELEMENTS: Whenever possible, in this section I try to mention "Lovecraftian" elements that appear in the film, like tomes, creatures, deities, etc. Sometimes, I forget some elements and miss others for films I have seen, or I just don't know what elements appear in films I've never seen. In rare cases, films will include tomes, creatures, gods, etc. that I don't recognize. If you notice anything missing from the "Associated Mythos Elements" section, feel free to add them.
  • KEEPER NOTES: If you've used a film as a basis for an RPG scenario before, feel free to add suggestions and advice to the "Keeper Notes" suggestion describing ways the film can be adapted to adventures for Call of Cthulhu, Delta Green, etc. I hope to include such notes for every film eventually, but they tend to be time-consuming to write from scratch.


In Progress

Shorts:


Backlog: Unfiltered Animations and Shorts

I haven't gone through these yet at all; they seem to be a mix of short-subject films, anthologies, cartoons (which range from episodes imitating Lovecraft's fiction, to episodes that might have a Lovecraft reference as a punch-line somewhere), British made-for-tv miniseries, and TV movies that might (or might not) have a minimal, tangential relation to "Lovecraftian" horror:

TV movies that are apparently not Lovecraftian, but perhaps useful - moved to Backlog for future consideration:

I couldn't really figure out the "Lovecraftian" angle on the following films that I've seen suggested as "Lovecraftian", placed in backlog for future reexamination:


Audio Books, Radio Plays, & Other Audio-Adaptations



Not Yet Released


Teasers:


Games

I really don't feel like doing these; perhaps on a slow day I'll just make sure some "red links" are added somewhere, so someone with the motivation can do the work:




Catalogued

In no particular order:

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