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In Progress/Upcoming

"Lovecraftian" Filmography

• Films Big Dumb List

I'm creating pages for "Lovecraftian" films and television series - the following red YSDC wiki links point to pages that do not yet exist; someone else can feel free to do any of the following - just let me know so I don't start working on them at the same time:

• Tank 432 (2016 film)
• Devil's Rock (2011 film)
• Last Shift (2014 film) (Trailer) (IMDb) Review by Richard Schieb at The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (3/5 Stars) (Link) Review by Josh Mogan at Quick Horror Movie Reviews (7/10) (Link) Joey Keogh at Wicked Horror (Link)
• Lightning Field (1991 film) (Also known as "The Lightning Incident" (Discussion at Yog-Sothoth.com) (IMDb) (Trailer) (Plot summary at RottenTomatoes.com) (Review by Amanda Reyes at Made for TV Mayhem)
• Life (2017 film)
• Nomads (1986 film) (Trailer) (IMDb) Review by Ryne Barber at HorrorNewsdotnet (Link) Review by Nicholas Bell at IonCinema (3/5) (Link) Review by Rick L. Blalock at Terror Hook Review (7.5/10) (Link) Review by Roger Ebert (Link) Review by Matthew Foster at Foster On Film (2/5) (Link) Review by Aaron Gillott at GorePress (3/10) (Link) Review by Richard Scheib at The Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (4/5) (Link)
• Spectre (1977 film)
• Road Train (2010 film) (Trailer) (IMDb) Review by Dave Becker at the 2,500 Movies Challenge (Link) Joseph Howell at Talk of Horrors (0.5/10) (Link) Andrew Pragsam at The Spinning Image (4/10 Stars) (Link) Jeff Ritchie at Scary Minds (4/10 Stars) (Link) Brandon Sites at Brandon C. Sites: Critic of Modern Day Horror (2/4 Stars) (Link)
• Disappointments Room (2016 film)
• Wake Wood (2009 film)

Shorts:

• "Rats in the Walls (2006 short)" (or film?) Director: Tim Uren | Star: Tim Uren
• "Rats in the Walls (2010 short)"
• "Evil Clergyman (1987 short)"
• "Evil Clergyman (1988 short)", segment from Pulse Pounders (1988 film)
• "Evil Clergymen (2002 short)"
• "The Terrible Old Man: H.P. Lovecraft (2001 short)" Director: Bob Fugger | Stars: Paul Abbott, Rene Defazio, Geoff Edwards, Rock Moran
• "The Terrible Old Man (2001 short)"
• "The Terrible Old Tran (2006 short)"
• "The Terrible Old Man (2007 short)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHpuAAnHdEc Directors: Sean Kearney, Doug Simon | Star: Sean Kearney
• "The Terrible Old Man (2008 short)"
• "The Terrible Old Man (2013 short)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rab_sXwnnFY
• "The Terrible Old Man (2014 short)"
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2003 short)"
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2005 short)"
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2007 short)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcqKRUyHLU
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2008 short, Digitribe)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T3l0FZ--bg
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2008 short)"
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2009 short)"
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2010 short, Eldritch Animation)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcLm_7Yip_E
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2010 short, Projection Pictures)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0k8n77qCmI
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2011 short)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CsXcApPtEM
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2012 short)"
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2013 short)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mbJ6bq0LH0
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2015 short)"
• "The Statement of Randolph Carter (2016 short)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgREAkge9QA
• "The Statement (2015 short)"
• "Testament of Randolph Carter (1987 short)"
• "The Ordeal of Randolph Carter (2016 short)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oq7rv77pd4
• "Testament of Tom Jacoby (2001 short)"
• "Nekromania (2010 short)" Hungarian adaptation of "Statement of Randolph Carter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1BY-5Ava2Y

Catalogued Shorts:

• "The Music of Erich Zann (1980 short)"
• "Die Musik des Erich Zann (2005 short)"
• "The Music of Erica Zann (2002 short)"
• "The Music of Erich Zann (2008 short)"
• "The Music of Erich Zann (2009 short, Skolnick)"
• "The Music of Erich Zann (2009 short, Langeberg)"
• "The Music of Erich Zann (2010 short)"
• "The Music of Erich Zann (2011 short, Zika)"
• "The Music of Erich Zann (2011 short, Chase)"
• "The Music of Erich Zann (2014 short)"
• "The Music of Erika Zann (2014 short)"
• "Pickman's Model (1971 short)" (Night Gallery)
• "Chilean Gothic (1997 film)" ("Pickman's Model")
• "Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2009 short)"
• "The Cold (1993 short)" ("Cool Air")
• "Cool Air (1999 short)"
• "Cool Air (2000 short)" (Bryan Moore)
• "Cool Air (1971 short)" (Night Gallery)
• "Insumasu o ouu Kage (1992 short)" ("Shadow Over Innsmouth")
• "Dagon (1999 short)"
• "Return to Innsmouth (1999 short)"
• "Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014 short)"
• "The Other Gods (2006 short)"
• "The Other Gods (2013 short)"
• "Dreams in the Witch House (2013 short)"
• "Dreams in the Witch House: No Turning Back (2014 short)"
• "Dreams in the Witch House (2005 short)" (Masters of Horror)
• "Nyarlathotep (1999 short)"
• "H.P. Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep (2001 short)"
• "The Picture in the House (2008 short)"
• "Whispers (1993 short)" (very loosely based on "Horror at Red Hook" and "Whisperer in Darkness")
• "The Dunwich Horror (2008 short)"
• "The Festival (2008 short)"
• "The Hound (1997 short)"
• "The Hound (2008 short)"
• "The Canal (2000 short)"
• "To Oblivion (1991 short)"
• "The Testimony of Randolph Carter (1987 short)"
• "Haunter of the Dark (2011 short)"
• "Shadow Out of Time (2012 short)"
• "The Whisperer in Darkness (1975 short)"
• "The Haunter of the Dark (1976 short)"
• "The Outsider (1994 short)"
• "The Outsider (1993 short)"
• "The Outsider (1998 short)"
• "The Outsider (2008 short)"
• "The Outsider (2009 short)"
• "The Outsider (2012 short)"
• "The Outsider (2015 short)"
• "From Beyond (1997 short)"
• "From Beyond (1999 short, Canadian)" Bob Fugger
• "From Beyond (1999 short, Swedish)" Magnus Sörell, Peter Andersson, and Robert Lindberg
• "From Beyond (2006 short)"
• "From Beyond (2011 short)"
• "From Beyond (2013 short)"
• "From Beyond (2014 short)"
• "From Beyond (2015 short)"
• "From Beyond the Beyond (2016 short)"
• "The Drowned (1993 short)" (very loosely based on "The Rats in the Walls (fiction)" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth (fiction)")

Monsters and Great Old Ones

I'll be working on filling out the occasional monster and GOO pages getting collected here: (Category:Wiki_Cleanup)

Before doing so, I'll go through the list of GOOs and mark the skimpy pages for Cleanup/Expansion.

I still need to do something with the most recent "Monster Makeover" results (Tree Men of M'bwa), and post the next Makeover.

Wiki Cleanup

Finish these some day:

• In the future, I may create pages for individual Lovecraft stories.
• setting: Weird West
• setting: Weird World War
• setting: Stephen King Country (Maine, Bachman Mills, Bangor, Portland, Castle Rock, Derry, Jerusalem's Lot, Collinsport, etc.)
• setting: Hollow Earth, a collection of such locations from Lovecraftian lore (Yoth, K'n-yan, N'kai, etc.)
• setting: Cthulhu Icarus, a near-future space setting (it's a scenario, too, I believe, more so than a setting)
• setting: Cthulhu End Times, a post-apocalyptic setting
• the "Daylands" - the so-called "waking world", as opposed to the Dreamlands
• character: Nephren-Ka
• race: Martian, needs heavy clean-up (it just sort of seemed to naturally grow on me)

It looks like many of the scenarios have "red links" for monsters, tomes, locations, GOOs, cults, and organizations, some of which are unique to those scenarios (or their authors' other works). I may try to fill some of those red links, but feel free to add them yourself if you get to them first.

Complete

Films - Catalogued

• See the Catalogued section of: Films Big Dumb List

Scenarios

I've finished updating these scenario pages, feel free to provide further editing and reviews:

• D20 CoC (2002):
  • Call of Cthulhu (d20) scenarios & core rulebook details
    • The End of Paradise - Modern U.S.
    • Little Slices of Death - Modern Chicago
• Cthulhu Dark Ages (2004):
  • The_Tomb_(Scenario)
• Dreamlands: Role-Playing Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2004):
  • To_Sleep,_Perchance_to_Dream
  • Captives_of_Two_Worlds
  • Pickman's_Student
  • Season_of_the_Witch
  • Lemon_Sails
  • The_Land_of_Lost_Dreams
• Halloween Horror (2005):
  • Eyes_That_Should_Not_See
  • Halloween_in_Dunwich
  • Terror_at_Erne_Rock
• Halloween Horror 2 (2006):
  • Of_Angels_and_Bones
  • The_Devil's_Agents
  • Haunted_Molesbury
  • Way_Down._In_Ioway.
  • The_Smokestack_Horror
  • Halloween_Candy
  • Enter_the_Gaijin
  • A_Ring_of_Toadstools
• Halloween Horror Returns (2007):
  • Hope_(Scenario)
  • The_Return_of_the_Headless_Horseman
  • Halloween_At_St._Odilio's
  • Masks_of_Halloween
  • Shadows_Of_War_Past
  • The_Mask_Of_Neil_Marlow's_Pet
• The Bride of Halloween Horror (2008):
  • The_Beloved_Dead
  • Cain's_Clan
  • A_Chill_Down_Your_Spine
  • The_Dragon_and_the_Wolf
  • Earth:_Rest_Stop,_Body_Shop
  • Longa_Obscuritas
  • Jubai_Kaidan
  • Revenge_of_the_Hei_People
  • Who's_That_Knocking?
• Plan 09 From Halloween (2009):
  • Flesh_Festival
  • You_Are_What_You_Eat
  • The_Faculty_Party
  • The_Return_of_the_Magician
  • Halloween_Nuit
  • Must_The_Show_Go_On?
  • The_Dead_School
• Dead Leaves Fall and Other Halloween Horrors (2011):
  • Fear_in_a_Bottle
  • The_Lock-In
  • The_Ilsley_Variant
  • The_Confessions_of_St._Augustine,_Chapter_CCLXVIII
  • The_Great_Old_Ones_On_The_Great_White_Way
  • The_Costume_Party
  • Lemuralia
  • 13_Black_Candles
  • Dead_Leaves_Fall_(Scenario)
• Pulp Cthulhu:
  • The Disintegrator
  • Waiting for the Hurricane
  • Pandora's Box (scenario)
  • Slow Boat to China
• Dead Light:
  • Dead Light (Scenario)

Style Guides:

• CoC:Settings
• Mythos:Cults
• Films
• Mythos:Artifacts
• Mythos:GreatOldOnes
• Locations
• Races
• Mythos:Tomes

Categories:

• Expanded on categorization by "Setting" and "Style" (for example, it would seem that Dream scenarios are as much a departure from Purist CoC style as Pulp scenarios, depending on the Group's opinion of Dream scenarios; Dreamlands-based scenarios are a setting all of their own; etc.)
  • I should expect that Combat-Heavy scenarios are similarly a stylistic departure from traditional investigation-based scenarios, but I haven't decided whether to single these out as a Style yet.
• new category for scenarios set in schools (location-based scenarios)
• new category scenarios set in Japan (places)
• New Venue Category: Farms
• New Venue Category: Restaurants
• Created categories for Sthood (a Dreamlands deity).
• New categories for a few eras (Invictus, 18th and 19th centuries, etc.; surprisingly these did not already exist, but there don't seem to have been too many Colonial American or Imperial Roman scenarios archived in any great detail in the Wiki until I started documenting some of Halloween scenarios that use off-beat settings.)
• New category for scenarios, Venue: Library

Creatures:

• Aihais
• Yorhis
• Body Snatchers
• Cat
• Child of Chaat
• Crow Person
• Deep One (picture and quotes, still needs work); added Illustration for Deep Ones (taken from a creepy old woodcut)
• Dero
• The Drowners
• Ghoul
• Martian
• Men in Black
• Troll Cats (to be a catch-all for "Familiar")
• Serpent People
• Tcho-Tcho
• Thing
• Tree-Men of M'bwa
• Triffid
• Troll
• Zoog
• Dark Ones
• "Frazetta Man" - such wild-men as Gnophkeh, Voormi, etc.
• Faerie
• Gnophkeh (picture only, still needs work)
• Voormis (picture only, still needs work)
• Worms of the Earth (Race)
• Human Cultist (still "needs" for me to complete the build-your-own-generic-cult generation tables)
• Added or expanded the pages for numerous creature races and lesser-known Great Old Ones.

Great Old Ones:

• Bugg-Shash
• Nug and Yeb
• Yibb-Tstll
• Chaat
• Cxaxukluth
• Ghizguth
• Gloon
• Hzioulquoigmnzhah
• Knygathin Zhaum
• Sfatlicllp
• Shathak
• Ycnagnnisssz
• Zstulzhemgni
• Zvilpogghua
• Ymir
• Shadowman (inspired by the "Slenderman Mythos")
• character: Nitocris
• A new page for Gloon.

Cults/Organizations:

• Red Room Cabal
• Pure Heart Society of Benevolence
• Fellowship Within the Water
• Esoteric Order of Dagon
• Dark Order of Baphomet
• Created a page about Halloween, mainly to answer the question of why cultists would choose to perform spells and rituals on Halloween (which has quickly become a good question, considering the number of Halloween scenarios I've seen so far in documenting the Halloween Monographs!)

Tomes:

• The Book of Eibon
• Book of the Dark Order of Baphomet
• Cthäat Aquadingen
• Cultes des Goules - "Cultes des Goules" (and "Comte d'Erlette"); "Cultes des Goules" was greatly elaborated on.
• De Vermis Mysteriis
• Necronomicon
• Non-Occult Books
• Occult Books
• Of Evill Sorceries Done in New-England of Daemons in no Humane Shape
• The Kranorian Annals, Fact or Fallacy?
• The True and Horrifying Confessions of the St. Osyth Witches
• Voynich Manuscript
• Created an entry for "The Book of the Dark Order of Baphomet"; I took the opportunity to begin sketching in the foundations of a loose Tome template I may use for future entries (based loosely on the entry for the Necronomicon).
• Better organization of Occult Books, and added page for Non-Occult Books
• Added some variations of mythos tomes included in a couple of scenarios, and created several pages for new tomes.

Settings and Locations:

• setting: "Cthulhu BERG" - 1960s UK ("British Experimental Rocket Group"), borrowing a bit from Quatermass; article is started, but needs some TLC from someone who knows British science fiction better than I do....
• setting: Collinsport - a Maine setting based on the original Dark Shadows soap opera, which here is assumed to co-exist with Stephen King's fictional small towns in Maine (Salem's Lot, Derry, etc.); article is started, but needs some TLC from someone who remembers Dark Shadows better than I (I saw it off and on back in the 1970s and 1980s, but remember very little)
• setting: Stephen King Country sites: Derry, and Jerusalem's Lot
• Ye Olde Standing Stones - a generic location for cultists to perform rituals
• What do you know? "Foxfield" is a Lovecraft creation, one I'd never heard of before, used in one of the scenarios I synopsed(?). I was unable to find the map Lovecraft was said to have drawn, but I suspect the map included in the scenario is probably at least based on it, so I created a cheap imitation. (Anyone with access to a copy of Lovecraft's original can feel free to replace my poor drawing, if there's no problem with copyright on Lovecraft's original.)
• Redirects for "Hyborea", "Hyborean" to "Hyperborea".
• Details about town of Aylesbury.
• Added illustrations for the Corbitt House ("The Haunting"), and lighthouse for "Erne Rock", plus additional illustrations and alternate floor plans for buildings that have appeared in the first couple Halloween Monographs (I "built" the houses in 3D using The Sims 3, and posed them for screenshots).
• Built and uploaded screenshots of the MU "Miskatonic University English Department", based roughly on a design included in one of the scenarios I looked at ("The Faculty Party"). Seems like the basic floor-plans could be re-used for any generic University classroom building, and might come in useful in other scenarios.
• Created redirects for "Orne Library" and "Orne library" (they point to Miskatonic University (Location)).
• Added, organized, and cited Miskatonic University staff and books in the Orne Library, making heavy changes to Miskatonic University (Location).
• I contacted the author of one of the scenarios to see about including "lost" background information on the Village of Sogailraugh; it should be OK to include a link to the website that is hosting the supplemental information, and provide a map key.

Current Thoughts

I'm pretty sure there aren't too many genuinely "Lovecraftian" horror or science-fiction stories left for me to catalogue; really, at this point, I'm just dragging in very peripheral films. After cataloguing a handful of documentaries, I'll get started on a rather large list of short films; there are a LOT of them, and more every day.

I don't intend to be as thorough with these (that way lies only madness and futility!), and my priority will be on cataloguing those that are directly based on Lovecraft stories, and I'll be a lot more likely to ignore suggestions for short films that are only vaguely "Lovecraftian" at best, and a lot less likely to go out of my way to find new ones.

Really, Lovecraft has moved from a subculture interest into pop-culture kitsch in the internet age, and one can barely move through YouTube without bumping into a dozen home-made Lovecraftian shorts, often in the form of audio books or fan lectures half-heartedly illustrated with random pictures collected from DeviantArt, with few of the results being very noteworthy, let alone good. Additionally, more are being made all the time, with new ones appearing faster than I can keep up with.

I'll probably miss a lot of good Lovecraftian shorts I've never seen as a result of my refusal to play whack-a-mole with them, but there's no rule that says that I have to get them all - this is a wiki, there are, after all, other editors out there, and no reason they can't add their own favorite short films wherever I've missed some.