Cthulhu Mythos & Related Media

[New Fag]

Thanks for the dump.
So what about anybody's favorite yog-sotthery/mythos monster? I personally enjoy the nightgaunts for the simple elegance and appearance.

There's so much since all are quite unique.

Y'Golonac. On his hands he's got orifices and he hasn't got a head!

I really like Star Vampires, invisible creatures which as they suck the blood out of the victim they become more visible and red. Which reminds me I need to get some more Lovecraft circle works.

Shoggoths are ex-slaves created by the Elder Things.

At the risk of TMI I ran a CoC game once and used the investigation which included a Tsathoggua statue which got nicknamed Jeff the Bunny Frog.



Also just remembered I have the complete Munchkin Cthulhu.

 

[Fromtheblackdepths]

There's so much since all are quite unique.

Y'Golonac. On his hands he's got orifices and he hasn't got a head!

I really like Star Vampires, invisible creatures which as they suck the blood out of the victim they become more visible and red. Which reminds me I need to get some more Lovecraft circle works.

Shoggoths are ex-slaves created by the Elder Things.

At the risk of TMI I ran a CoC game once and used the investigation which included a Tsathoggua statue which got nicknamed Jeff the Bunny Frog.



Also just remembered I have the complete Munchkin Cthulhu.

Fun fact Tsathoggua is from Clark Ashton Smith,whose my favorite of the trinity.

 

[Panama]

If you're a degenerate weeb, check out the HPL adaptations by Gou Tanabe. Fantastic artwork, and I think he's finished four so far.

 

[MoffAlbert]

The Elder Things are my favorite creatures. They created the shoggoths, and they look pretty badass.

 

[cecograph]

I really like The Haunter of the Dark for absolutely no reason at all, it's the quintessential Lovecraftian story of someone unable to resist temptation of knowledge and getting fucked over because of it.

Haunter of the Dark is one of my favourites too. It has the trope where the main character knows they are ultimately fucked, and it's now just a waiting game. I love the desperate phone-calls to keep the electricity going. It's also one of the few mentions of Azatoth in Lovecraft, and responsible for his most famous title:

"He thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose centre sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a daemoniac flute held in nameless paws."

My favourite story is hands down "Case of Charles Dexter Ward." It features the other trope that I love, which is people committing themselves to silence rather than think, let alone talk about, the horrors they've witnessed. The post-script in Ward's letter to Willett is awesomely chilling, and it contains the greatest piece of advice on necromancy: doe not call up Any that you can not put downe.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

An HP Lovecraft movie I recommend is Necronomicon: Book of the Dead:

It's a pretty decent anthology. The third story is completely bonkers and there's tons of fun practical effects and gore.

As for stories, The Dunwitch Horror is probably the most mainstream of the bunch, although I liked The Thing On The Doorstep and The Shunned House for their slow-burn mysteries and terrifying climaxes.

 

[Idiotron]

Prince of Darkness (1987):
A really good John Carpenter horror movie that often gets overlooked because it's slower and less bombastic than the stuff he's known for.
It's about scientists who go into an old church to investigate a weird thing that was guarded by the priests for centuries... and then things start slowly getting more and more insane.
Don't look it up, you might get some stuff spoiled, just watch it.

 

[Dang Woodchucks!]

Thanks for the dump.
So what about anybody's favorite yog-sotthery/mythos monster? I personally enjoy the nightgaunts for the simple elegance and appearance.

The hounds of Tindalos are a dreaded favorite of mine. Interdimesional hellhounds that can enter any hideout you have through angles. You know shit gets scary when geometry stabs you in the back.

 

[Anja Din]

The hounds of Tindalos are a dreaded favorite of mine. Interdimesional hellhounds that can enter any hideout you have through angles. You know shit gets scary when geometry stabs you in the back.

I like how those are disturbing enough that they’re in just about every ttrpg. I read some Chill PDFs a while back and a lot of those monsters seem similar.

Prince of Darkness (1987):
A really good John Carpenter horror movie that often gets overlooked because it's slower and less bombastic than the stuff he's known for.
It's about scientists who go into an old church to investigate a weird thing that was guarded by the priests for centuries... and then things start slowly getting more and more insane.
Don't look it up, you might get some stuff spoiled, just watch it.

that movie is great. Carpenter doesn’t get a lot of love these days, but he’s everywhere. He narrated Rise of the Synths. I wish he’d do more shows, it would be cool to see one. Prince of Darkness is weird and scary and awesome.

 

[cecograph]

"Prince of Darkness" is the second of Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy." If you're a Carpenter fan, and you like both "The Thing" and "In the Mouth of Madness", you owe it to yourself to watch "Prince of Darkness." As a bonus, "Prince of Darkness" features the cult favourite Victor Won and Dennis Dun, both from "Big Trouble in Little China".

The first film is the stand-out one, however, and in the running for greatest horror film of all time.

Nigel Kneale is frequently associated with Lovecraft, even though he claimed absolutely no inspiration from Lovecraft. I thought "The Stone Tape" was absolutely superb, and very very Lovecraftian in its scientific pessimism and use of unknowable ancient horror. It's also got a fair bit of racism in it.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

"Prince of Darkness" is the second of Carpenter's "Apocalypse Trilogy." If you're a Carpenter fan, and you like both "The Thing" and "In the Mouth of Madness", you owe it to yourself to watch "Prince of Darkness." As a bonus, "Prince of Darkness" features the cult favourite Victor Won and Dennis Dun, both from "Big Trouble in Little China".

The first film is the stand-out one, however, and in the running for greatest horror film of all time.

I'm sorry, you must be confused. In The Mouth of Madness is the best fucking Lovecraft adjacent horror movies ever lol. The sheer amount of references to Lovecraft plus its plot are fantastic, the whole Pickman's Model interpretation is a really good one imo.

 

[cecograph]

I'm sorry, you must be confused. In The Mouth of Madness is the best fucking Lovecraft adjacent horror movies ever lol. The sheer amount of references to Lovecraft plus its plot are fantastic, the whole Pickman's Model interpretation is a really good one imo.

Oh, don't get me wrong. "In the Mouth of Madness" is way closer to Lovecraft, and wins hands down on that metric.

But as far as general horror goes, "The Thing" is near perfect. And I love the fact that the music is by Ennio Morricone. I have this image of the composer going up to Carpenter complaining "where's my orchestra?", and Carpenter going "oh that's so 1960. Have you not heard of the Casio keyboard?"

 

[Karl der Grosse]

The music from The Thing is minimalist and stark, a perfect complement to the movie's imagery.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Man, I'm really going to have to be that guy, but never forget the best cat ever:

 

[FencePost]

"The Void" is right behind "The Thing" for me for both the horror genre and being a fan of HPL. The ending is non-existent but its probably because they threw the budget at the SFX, which are amazing. When the movie starts with a tentacle monster, you're in for a good time.

 

[Panama]

"The Void" is right behind "The Thing" for me for both the horror genre and being a fan of HPL. The ending is non-existent but its probably because they threw the budget at the SFX, which are amazing. When the movie starts with a tentacle monster, you're in for a good time.

Interestingly enough, alot of the SFX in The Void is repurposed from the 2013 Thing prequel. Effects guys from The Thing volunteered their time and props after all of it was replaced by CGI.

 

[Shitassdeaddude]

Everybody seems to conveniently forget the guy grew out of his xenophobia shortly before he started pushing up daisies. Also that he was almost certainly suffering from a few mental illnesses. But you gotta be outraged about something.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Everybody seems to conveniently forget the guy grew out of his xenophobia shortly before he started pushing up daisies. Also that he was almost certainly suffering from a few mental illnesses. But you gotta be outraged about something.

This shit is so annoying in general. I'm supposed to throw my hands up in terror that someone was racist in the early 1900's.

No shit, really? Wow, just like literally everyone else at the time. This selective enforcement of modern standards on historical media is infuriating, focused only on things that have a cult following of {WRONGTHINKERS}, while at the same time burying any attempt to do the same for their preferred media. This is a huge reason why the kinds of people who like to yell about niggerman don't have any art, why they can't meme, why their writing is always tumblr blog tier, etc. It's literally impossible to create anything when you can't complete something before the winds switch direction and your statement is now doubleplus ungood [insert -ism].

 

[Filthy Greenskin]

Casting my vote for Rats in the Walls as one of my favorites, followed by the Dunwich Horror and Colour out of Space.

 

[Shitassdeaddude]

Casting my vote for Rats in the Walls as one of my favorites, followed by the Dunwich Horror and Colour out of Space.

Color's definitely my favorite. A lot of his stuff doesn't stand up in terms of the scary factor these days but Color is still fucking scary.