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* ''[[Ackermonster Chronicles (2012 film)]]''
 
* ''[[Ackermonster Chronicles (2012 film)]]''
  
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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), and British made-for-tv miniseries that might not even have a tangential relation to "Lovecraftian" horror:
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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:
  
 
* ''[[The One Game (1988 series)]]'' ?
 
* ''[[The One Game (1988 series)]]'' ?
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* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 franchise)]]''
 
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 franchise)]]''
 
* ''[[The League of Gentlemen (1999 series)]]'' ("dark humour,  particularly the couple in the "local" shop, wouldn't be out of place in Innsmouth") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhvaxUvVK_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG_QtF2zCz8 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184135/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435687/?ref_=tt_rec_tt
 
* ''[[The League of Gentlemen (1999 series)]]'' ("dark humour,  particularly the couple in the "local" shop, wouldn't be out of place in Innsmouth") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhvaxUvVK_8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG_QtF2zCz8 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184135/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435687/?ref_=tt_rec_tt
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* ''[[Dreamcatcher (2003 film)]]''
 
* ''[[The Stand (1994 series)]]''
 
* ''[[The Stand (1994 series)]]''
 
* ''[[Needful Things (1993 series)]]''
 
* ''[[Needful Things (1993 series)]]''
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* ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 series)]]''
 
* ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 series)]]''
 
* ''[[The Colour of Magic (2008 film)]]'' (this wasn't the first Discworld film, but this one does include the "Dungeon Dimensions" parody?)
 
* ''[[The Colour of Magic (2008 film)]]'' (this wasn't the first Discworld film, but this one does include the "Dungeon Dimensions" parody?)
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* ''[[The Tall Man (2012 film)]]'' (no relationship to ''Phantasm'', and likely not very Lovecraftian either)
 
* ''[[Dramarama (1983 series)]]''
 
* ''[[Dramarama (1983 series)]]''
 
* ''[[The Storyteller (1988 series)]]'' (a "Deep One" of a sort does appear in the second episode)
 
* ''[[The Storyteller (1988 series)]]'' (a "Deep One" of a sort does appear in the second episode)
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* ''[[Brock Wilbur: 28 Years Later (2012 film)]]'' (this suggestion turned out to be for about 5 minutes of an hour-long stand-up comedy routine)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQUKkjVvr6U http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2504014/?ref_=nv_sr_2
 
* ''[[Brock Wilbur: 28 Years Later (2012 film)]]'' (this suggestion turned out to be for about 5 minutes of an hour-long stand-up comedy routine)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQUKkjVvr6U http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2504014/?ref_=nv_sr_2
 
* ''[[Star Trek (1966 franchise)]]'' I only intend to put effort into cataloguing the original series, as I got much less of an art/avant-garde and cosmic horror "vibe" out of later spin-offs, and feel that a fan of the franchise might be better qualified to comment on the various spin-offs, films, expanded universe, and so on.
 
* ''[[Star Trek (1966 franchise)]]'' I only intend to put effort into cataloguing the original series, as I got much less of an art/avant-garde and cosmic horror "vibe" out of later spin-offs, and feel that a fan of the franchise might be better qualified to comment on the various spin-offs, films, expanded universe, and so on.
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* ''[[Tarzan (1918 franchise)]]'' (there is some thematic pulp overlap between the work of Burroughs and Lovecraft, but is there enough?)
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* ''[[Godzilla (1959 franchise)]]'' (there is perhaps some thematic overlap in Kaiju films, but with so many films under this umbrella, this is a mighty big can of worms to open!  Perhaps use the article to focus on some select films, like the original Godzilla and Rodan films, which most closely match cosmic horror in tone, theme, and atmosphere?)
  
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TV movies that are apparently not Lovecraftian, but perhaps useful - moved to Backlog for future consideration:
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* ''[[Hijack (1973 film)]]'' ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDmjxqSJxjc Full Movie]) ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijack_(1973_film) Wikipedia])
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* ''[[Curse of the Black Widow (1977 film)]]'' ([http://www.terrortrap.com/reviewsdatabase/c/curse_of_the_black_widow.php Review at The Terror Trap]) ([http://www.scifilm.org/musing4552.html Review by Dave Sindelar]) ([http://thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=9686 Review by Andrew Pragasam])
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* ''[[Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981 film)]]'' ([https://youtu.be/1boHxruFmUk Full Movie]) ([http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=5507 Review by Andrew Pragasam]) ([http://horrornews.net/47916/film-review-dark-night-of-the-scarecrow-1981/ Review by Angel Van Croft]) ([http://www.scifilm.org/musing3754.html Review by Dave Sindelar])
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* ''[[The World Beyond (1978 film)]]'' ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzjM40LU8XI Full Movie]) ([http://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/world-beyond-1978-tv.html Review at the Bloody Pit of Horror]) ([http://bleedingskull.com/world-beyond-the-1978/ Review at Bleeding Skull!])
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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])
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* ''[[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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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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* ''[[The Dunwich Horror (2010 film)]]'' (dir. Colin Edwards) "The world's first 'Audio Movie'"
 
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I couldn't really figure out the "Lovecraftian" angle on the following films that I've seen suggested as "Lovecraftian":
 
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* ''[[Tarzan (1918 franchise)]]'' (there is some thematic pulp overlap between the work of Burroughs and Lovecraft, but is there enough?)
 
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* ''[[Godzilla (1959 franchise)]]'' (there is perhaps some thematic overlap in Kaiju films, but with so many films under this umbrella, this is a mighty big can of worms to open!  Perhaps use the article to focus on some select films, like the original Godzilla and Rodan films, which most closely match cosmic horror in tone, theme, and atmosphere?)
 
 
* ''[[House of Bones (2010 film]])'' ?
 
* ''[[House of Bones (2010 film]])'' ?
 
* ''[[Cronos (1993 film)]]'' - a vampire thing by Guillermo del Toro, with an alchemical tome, a weird rejuvenating artefact, and not much else "Lovecraftian"
 
* ''[[Cronos (1993 film)]]'' - a vampire thing by Guillermo del Toro, with an alchemical tome, a weird rejuvenating artefact, and not much else "Lovecraftian"
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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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* ''[[The Dunwich Horror (2010 film)]]'' (dir. Colin Edwards) "The world's first 'Audio Movie'"
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Revision as of 01:38, 14 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.


Catalogued

In no particular order:



In Progress

Shorts:

Documentaries?

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:

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