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* "[[Rats in the Walls (2006 short)]]" (or film?) Director: Tim Uren | Star: Tim Uren
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* "[[Rats in the Walls (2010 short)]]"
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* "[[Evil Clergyman (1987 short)]]"
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* "[[Evil Clergyman (1988 short)]]", segment from ''[[Pulse Pounders (1988 film)]]''
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* "[[Evil Clergymen (2002 short)]]"
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* "[[The Terrible Old Man: H.P. Lovecraft (2001 short)]]" Director: Bob Fugger | Stars: Paul Abbott, Rene Defazio, Geoff Edwards, Rock Moran
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* "[[The Terrible Old Man (2001 short)]]"
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* "[[The Terrible Old Tran (2006 short)]]"
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* "[[The Terrible Old Man (2007 short)]]" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHpuAAnHdEc full movie]) Directors: Sean Kearney, Doug Simon | Star: Sean Kearney
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* "[[The Terrible Old Man (2008 short)]]"
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* "[[The Terrible Old Man (2013 short)]]" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rab_sXwnnFY full movie])
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* "[[The Terrible Old Man (2014 short)]]"
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2003 short)]]"
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2005 short)]]"
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2007 short)]]" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qcqKRUyHLU full movie])
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2008 short, Digitribe)]]" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T3l0FZ--bg full movie])
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2008 short)]]"
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2009 short)]]"
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2010 short, Eldritch Animation)]]" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcLm_7Yip_E full movie])
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2010 short, Projection Pictures)]]" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0k8n77qCmI full movie])
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2011 short)]]" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CsXcApPtEM full movie])
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2012 short)]]"
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2013 short)]]" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mbJ6bq0LH0 full movie])
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2015 short)]]"
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* "[[The Statement of Randolph Carter (2016 short)]]" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgREAkge9QA full movie])
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* "[[The Statement (2015 short)]]"
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* "[[Testament of Randolph Carter (1987 short)]]"
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* "[[The Ordeal of Randolph Carter (2016 short)]]" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oq7rv77pd4 full movie])
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* "[[Testament of Tom Jacoby (2001 short)]]"
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* "[[Nekromania (2010 short)]]" Hungarian adaptation of "Statement of Randolph Carter" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1BY-5Ava2Y full movie])
 
* "[[Music of Erich Zann (1980 short)]]"
 
* "[[Music of Erich Zann (1980 short)]]"
 
* "[[Music of Erich Zann (2015 short)]]"
 
* "[[Music of Erich Zann (2015 short)]]"
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* ''[[Quiet Earth (1985 film)]]''
 
* ''[[Quiet Earth (1985 film)]]''
  
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Catalogued Shorts:
 
* "[[Crouch End (2006 short)]]", from ''Nightmares and Dreamscapes''
 
* "[[Crouch End (2006 short)]]", from ''Nightmares and Dreamscapes''
 
* "[[Within the Woods (1978 short)]]"
 
* "[[Within the Woods (1978 short)]]"
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* "[[Hunters of the Dark (2011 short)]]"
 
* "[[Hunters of the Dark (2011 short)]]"
 
* "[[Insanophenia (2007 short)]]"
 
* "[[Insanophenia (2007 short)]]"
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* "[[The Music of Erich Zann (1980 short)]]"
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* "[[Die Musik des Erich Zann (2005 short)]]"
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* "[[The Music of Erica Zann (2002 short)]]"
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* "[[The Music of Erich Zann (2008 short)]]"
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* "[[The Music of Erich Zann (2009 short, Skolnick)]]"
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* "[[The Music of Erich Zann (2009 short, Langeberg)]]"
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* "[[The Music of Erich Zann (2010 short)]]"
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* "[[The Music of Erich Zann (2011 short, Zika)]]"
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* "[[The Music of Erich Zann (2011 short, Chase)]]"
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* "[[The Music of Erich Zann (2014 short)]]"
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* "[[The Music of Erika Zann (2014 short)]]"
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* "[[Pickman's Model (1971 short)]]" (Night Gallery)
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* "[[Chilean Gothic (1997 film)]]" ("Pickman's Model")
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* "[[Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2009 short)]]"
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* "[[The Cold (1993 short)]]" ("Cool Air")
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* "[[Cool Air (1999 short)]]"
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* "[[Cool Air (2000 short)]]" (Bryan Moore)
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* "[[Cool Air (1971 short)]]" (Night Gallery)
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* "[[Insumasu o ouu Kage (1992 short)]]" ("Shadow Over Innsmouth")
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* "[[Dagon (1999 short)]]"
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* "[[Return to Innsmouth (1999 short)]]"
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* "[[Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014 short)]]"
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* "[[The Other Gods (2006 short)]]"
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* "[[The Other Gods (2013 short)]]"
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* "[[Dreams in the Witch House (2013 short)]]"
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* "[[Dreams in the Witch House: No Turning Back (2014 short)]]"
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* "[[Dreams in the Witch House (2005 short)]]" (Masters of Horror)
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* "[[Nyarlathotep (1999 short)]]"
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* "[[H.P. Lovecraft's Nyarlathotep (2001 short)]]"
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* "[[The Picture in the House (2008 short)]]"
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* "[[Whispers (1993 short)]]" (very loosely based on "Horror at Red Hook" and "Whisperer in Darkness")
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* "[[The Dunwich Horror (2008 short)]]"
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* "[[The Festival (2008 short)]]"
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* "[[The Hound (1997 short)]]"
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* "[[The Hound (2008 short)]]"
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* "[[The Canal (2000 short)]]"
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* "[[To Oblivion (1991 short)]]"
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* "[[The Testimony of Randolph Carter (1987 short)]]"
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* "[[Haunter of the Dark (2011 short)]]"
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* "[[Shadow Out of Time (2012 short)]]"
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* "[[The Whisperer in Darkness (1975 short)]]"
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* "[[The Haunter of the Dark (1976 short)]]"
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* "[[The Outsider (1994 short)]]"
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* "[[The Outsider (1993 short)]]"
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* "[[The Outsider (1998 short)]]"
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* "[[The Outsider (2008 short)]]"
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* "[[The Outsider (2009 short)]]"
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* "[[The Outsider (2012 short)]]"
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* "[[The Outsider (2015 short)]]"
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* "[[From Beyond (1997 short)]]"
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* "[[From Beyond (1999 short, Canadian)]]" Bob Fugger
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* "[[From Beyond (1999 short, Swedish)]]" Magnus Sörell, Peter Andersson, and Robert Lindberg
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* "[[From Beyond (2006 short)]]"
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* "[[From Beyond (2011 short)]]"
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* "[[From Beyond (2013 short)]]"
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* "[[From Beyond (2014 short)]]"
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* "[[From Beyond (2015 short)]]"
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* "[[From Beyond the Beyond (2016 short)]]"
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* "[[The Drowned (1993 short)]]" (very loosely based on "The Rats in the Walls (fiction)" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth (fiction)")

Revision as of 12:48, 29 June 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. A much-needed index is on the "to do" list, but not yet started.


Want to Help?

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 that section could really use the following added to their pages:

  • REVIEWS: Graham has helped a great deal with adding reviews to film pages, but many film pages could probably still use some additional review links...
    • 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. (YSDC has some great reviewers, I just haven't been able to concentrate on tracking their reviews down!)
  • 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.

The following might also be fixed on older pages or in future projects:

  • add indexes of films:
    • a master index with better organization than the "big dumb film list" (I wish I'd picked a better name for that page in retrospect!)
    • movie suggestion guides by categories ("I'm in the mood for... Films with tentacles in them!" See: Category:Film:TentacleMonster")
  • improve categorization -
    • I've added a number of film categories since the Lovecraftian film project began, and earlier film pages do not yet include them
    • new categories for films by decade: 1950s, ..., 1990s; Contemporary; and, a single category for anything from before the 1950s (there wouldn't be very many)
    • alternatively, categories for films by style/sub-genre/technical: Found Footage, 1980s Horror, Made-for-TV, 1950s Paranoia, Weird Western, Weird World War (which seems to be a subset of the so-called "eldritch location" films)...
    • there should perhaps be a category for films with downer endings - it has just sunk in that I've been told that is a criteria used by some people for considering a film "Lovecraftian", and I didn't consciously notice!
    • in retrospect, "eldritch location" does not precisely capture the essence of the sort of film I was trying to describe - when I think of a better name for this category, it'll take some work to re-categorize the numerous surreal, nightmarish films categorized there
  • add setting details
  • add TVTropes and IMDB links
  • all films could probably use an improved rundown on associated Lovecraftian elements included in the film (especially RPG setting, creatures, tomes, etc.)
  • add "Keeper Notes" with suggested RPG story-starters based on the film

Film Catagories:

  • Template and Categories for Films and reviews, plus a "Lovecraftian" rating system:
    • Created Tentacle Ratings system
    • Category:Film:General
    • Category:Film:Franchise
    • Category:Film:Film
    • Category:Film:Short
    • Category:Film:Series_or_Serial
    • Numerous other categories by type of "Lovecraftian" content, style, etc. (see template)

Links

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



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:

Perhaps a page for some Harryhausen adventures, and a handful of other sword-and-sandal style things (pages for some of these already exist)?


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

Not Released Yet:


Teasers:


Catalogued

In no particular order:


Catalogued Shorts:

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