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* R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour (2010 series)
 
* R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour (2010 series)
 
* Goosebumps
 
* Goosebumps
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* ''[[Lost in Space (1965 series)]]'' (generally non-Lovecraftian, though the classic series did feature an astonishing variety of pulpy, imaginative, and sometimes exotic monsters in at least the first season or two, including tentacle-monsters, fish-men, space-mummies, and other, less easily categorized creatures; the monsters got sillier and more outlandishly inventive as the series progressed); ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964 series)]]'' (similar to "Lost in Space" as an Irwin Allen monster-of-the-week show with exotic monsters; monsters were often re-used between the two shows) http://www.imdb.com/list/ls055335429/
 
* ''[[Tales from the Cryptkeeper (1993 series)]]''
 
* ''[[Tales from the Cryptkeeper (1993 series)]]''
 
* Gravity Falls (cartoon) ("Which despite being a modern children's cartoon (which, I've got a lot of time for, I'd argue we're in a bit of a renaissance), kinda feels like someone syndicated Twin Peaks for Saturday mornings, and managed to do it justice. It's a little monster-of-the-weeky in places, but the metaplot resolves entirely around understanding, protecting and finding grimoires of supernatural knowledge, ancient/alien technology, and the risk of madness."
 
* Gravity Falls (cartoon) ("Which despite being a modern children's cartoon (which, I've got a lot of time for, I'd argue we're in a bit of a renaissance), kinda feels like someone syndicated Twin Peaks for Saturday mornings, and managed to do it justice. It's a little monster-of-the-weeky in places, but the metaplot resolves entirely around understanding, protecting and finding grimoires of supernatural knowledge, ancient/alien technology, and the risk of madness."

Revision as of 08:10, 27 January 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?



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), and British made-for-tv miniseries that might not even have a tangential relation to "Lovecraftian" horror:



Audio Books, Radio Plays, & Other Audio-Adaptations


I don't Get These

I couldn't really figure out the "Lovecraftian" angle on the following films that I've seen suggested as "Lovecraftian":


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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