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| ==STYLE GUIDE==
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| Cut-n-Paste the following for each Mythos film, short film, TV series/serial/mini-series, etc.
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| <nowiki>
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| [[Image:filename.jpg|thumb|200px|right|AltText]]
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| ==Summary==
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| (Short, Spoiler-Free Summary; tag-line or elevator pitch.)
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| SUMMARY
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| ==Details==
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| This list of details is partly intended for those films produced by
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| film-makers, performers, producers/studios, etc. that tend to make
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| "Lovecraftian" films, for ease of finding related or similar films.
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| This list is also partly intended to make it easier to identify a
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| specific film out of many with the same name, to make them easier to
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| tell apart - some stories have been adapted numerous times by different
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| amateur short film makers! Some films have a "TVTropes" page, which
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| will often detail obscure "Lovecraftian" elements of a film that this
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| wiki misses, and, if a TVTropes page exists, it can be a useful
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| * Release Date:
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| * Country/Language:
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| * Genres/Technical:
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| * Setting:
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| * Runtime: X hr X min
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| * Starring:
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| * Director:
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| * Writer:
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| * Producer/Production Co:
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| * View Trailer: ([URL link])
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| * Film Website: ([URL link])
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| * View Film: ([URL link])
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| * TVTropes: ([URL link])
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| * IMDB Page: ([URL link])
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| ==Ratings==
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| ===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===
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| Lovecraft movies with family, including younger children, and want to
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| E.G., "Rated: R (Violence, Nudity, Language....)"
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| * Rated: MPAARATING (notes)
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| ===Tentacle Ratings===
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| (Use one of the following lines, and edit it as appropriate. Follow it with an
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| explanation/description of how it qualifies as "Lovecraftian", such as any
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| name-dropping of Lovecraft's creations, whether it's based on a Lovecraft story
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| and if so which one, whether it's simply "feels" kind of Lovecraftian, etc.)
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| Some examples: one tentacle only if the mood and atmosphere are right but it's
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| not based on a Lovecraft story and contains no specific Lovecraftian elements even
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| in spirit; one tentacle only if it mentions specifically Lovecraftian elements but
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| isn't based on Lovecraft story and doesn't have the right mood; one tentacle only
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| if it has some tentacle monsters but the mood isn't very Lovecraftian and specific
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| Lovecraft creations aren't mentioned by name; if the film is based on a recognizable
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| Lovecraft story it automatically gets two tentacles, and may get a third or more
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| depending on if Lovecraftian monsters are present, the mood and atmosphere are
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| suitably Lovecraftian in tone, and if the work is particularly accurate and true to
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| the spirit of the original story.
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| * S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
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| * SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian; vaguely similar in tone, could be a very loose adaptation)
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| * SSS__ (Three Tentacles: Lovecraftian, was probably written by Lovecraft himself.)
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| * SSSS_ (Four Tentacles: Unusually Lovecraftian; written by Lovecraft, a remarkably faithful adaptation)
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| * SSSSS (Five Tentacles: definitively Lovecraftian; everything you'd expect from a Lovecraft adaptation and more)
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| A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
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| * _____ (Zero Tentacles: Unrated for Lovecraftian Content)
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| ''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of
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| how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''
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| ===Reviews===
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| Review Links:
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| * Author_andor_Location, ([URL link]) - RATING
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| ==Synopsis (SPOILERS)==
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| ==Notes==
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| ===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===
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| origin of the story or inspiration for elements of it; list dedication,
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| ===Associated Mythos Elements===
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| (A list of notable Lovecraftian creatures, tomes, Great Old Ones, characters,
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| the form of general "name-dropping" (someone mentions "Yog-Sothoth!", but
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| is labeled ''Necronomicon'' but never actually appears, a character is wearing
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| a Miskatonic University sweatshirt but the school never makes an appearance...)
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| Remove any sections that do not apply. Note that some unnamed monsters may be
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| considered "stand-ins" that are effectively the same as specific Lovecraftian
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| monsters, though the film never makes that explicitly clear - for example, a
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| standard-issue Gill-Man from "Creature from the Black Lagoon" might be labeled
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| a "Deep One" for the purposes of this Wiki, even though any resemblance is
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| probably unintentional. Vaguely/generically "Lovecraftian" elements might
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| include [[Human Cultist]]s, [[Tentacle Monster]]s, ''[[Necronomicon Ex-Mortis]]'',
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| and the mysterious outer/astral dimension we might call the [[Other Side]]....)
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| * fiction: "[[title (fiction)]]" or ''[[title (fiction)]]''
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| * tome: ''[[Tome1]]''
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| * race: [[Race1]]
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| * deity: [[Deity]]
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| ===Keeper Notes===
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| (Optional. Notes to Keepers on using this for film for scenario ideas.
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| Heresies and Controversies: this is also a good place to include non-canon
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| and controversial aspects of the film's mythos. Suggested Alternative Theories
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| include: Derleth's elemental scheme; pseudo-science interpretation; "fanon"
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| interpretations; unofficial humorous or eccentric versions; identification with
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| "Real Life" mythological, religious, folklore, natural, and historical phenomena;
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| rumor and speculation contribute some flexibility and ambiguity to the mythos.
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| * Alternative_theory. ([[source]])
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| This section is more commonly used on YSDC Wiki pages for suggesting ways to
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| adapt the film to use as a Call of Cthulhu scenario; the Keeper Notes section
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| might include multiple such suggested adaptations.
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| * (One/two sentence story inspired by the film, starring investigators.)
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| TIP: Film plots are often difficult to adapt into RPG scenarios; try having
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| the investigators arrive after the events from the movie have started happening
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| or have already happened to NPCs, and leave the investigators to piece together
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| the clues to find out what happened. Adaptations of film plots to RPG scenarios
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| almost always benefit from changing cosmetic details around until the exact story
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| is no longer easily recognizable, by changing the setting, descriptions of monsters,
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| character names, and that sort of thing.
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| less than an hour long (perhaps an episode of a TV anthology program, music
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| video, or short-subject amateur film); "Film" is a longer feature-length movie
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| (longer than an hour), "Series_or_Serial" may include TV programs, serials,
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| and mini-series; "Franchise" is a series of Films, perhaps including feature-
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| length Films, Short films, TV Series/Serials/Programs, and other media.)
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