The Color Out of Space - Directed by Richard Stanley and starring Nicolas Cage

Nekromantik2 said:
In the Mouth of Madness is inspired by Lovecraft. At the Mountains of Madness is about alien old ones living in the Antarctica and weird mutant penguins. It's been a while since I've read the story.

Del Toro was going to make a movie about it but Hollywood wanted him to add a love story to it to make it more marketable.
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The other reason is because of Prometheus getting released and studios thought the script was too close
 
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Eyy in Italy it's COLORE, say it with me, COLORE.

This film seems pretty shit, which is unfortunate. I think people were hoping for another Mandy.
 
I'm a Lovecraft fan... but that trailer didn't really wow me, honestly. And I like Nic Cage when he's used correctly.

I hope it's way more twisted than the trailer suggests...
 
This is my favourite Lovecraft story.

I have no idea what the fuck I just watched, but it wasn't that. They have fucked up virtually every part of the text, to the point where I'm wondering what's the point in even referencing Lovecraft's work.

Fuck the people making this. Just...fuck them all.
 
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There are few good Lovecraft film adaptations. There are slightly more good Lovecraft-inspired films. The best of the outright adaptations is, I kid you not, an amateur production of The Whisperer in Darkness by the H P Lovecraft Historical Society. Not a lot of budget but tremendous love and faithfulness for the source material. Can't recommend it enough:

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The Whisperer in Darkness

Teaser trailer for the upcoming film from HPLHS Motion Pictures
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The Whisperer in Darkness - Trailer 2

The second trailer for the forthcoming movie, The Whisperer in Darkness, coming soon from the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
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With regards to this current adaptation, well... I've sometimes thought how someone could adapt such a concept to the screen and vaguely imagined weird filters and Eighties-style fuzzy neon special effects and fliming it like a photo-negative. Even just not having it visible to the audience but characters surrealy reacting to it. Weird conceptual stuff which might be the only way to actually do it. But no, it seems the Colour is actually magenta.

One thought I had re-reading the story is that we now know how the rod and cone structures in our eyes work and can produce any point on the electromagnetic spectrum we wish. The idea of an unknown "colour" being discovered is nonsensical. So the colour might be the brain trying to rationalise something it can sense but not comprehend. But then trying to rationalise the nonsensical is a very Lovecraftian theme anyway. To really read Lovecraft you need to have an ability to put yourself in someone else's mindset, to read it as someone of the time would. His cosmic horror is the revelation that mankind isn't this cherished jewel at the centre of creation but one more rolling marble scattered deterministically and pointlessly across the void. And of people or even societies going mad at a world without meaning or higher truths. And modern audiences have done that - we've seen post-modernism, moral reletavism, the discardment of values and society has gone mad as a result. Lovecraft's writing is no longer threatening what might happen, it's now historical in every sense of the word.
 
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Mariposa Electrique said:
Cosmic horror films are notoriously difficult to create. Why? Because we have pattern recognition, and we've already discovered almost everything on the planet, so it's hard to be scared or freaked out by things. Until we can travel to another dimension and describe and catalog things there, cosmic horror will remain a difficult genre to execute.
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Is it really that difficult though? Just throw a couple tessaracts and hyper cubes around, we have the computer tech to animate that stuff now.
Also you can just pace things properly and throw in a bit of modern nihilism. I think we're at the right point in time for a cosmic horror movie, it just has to be done properly.
 
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I'm still waiting for them to make a film adaptation out of Horror at Red Hook. Oppress those muslims and chinamen! Make them devil worshippers!
 
Eh, i might check this out but tbh im saving my Lovecraft hype for when I see The Lighthouse

Sure it aint based on a Lovecraft story but from what I heard its thematically very lovecrafty
 
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Judge Holden said:
Eh, i might check this out but tbh im saving my Lovecraft hype for when I see The Lighthouse
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I've heard it's really good. But I'm waiting for it to come to cable because every time we go to the movies it's like every backwoods bumpkin comes out of their shack with their retarded child to "SEE DA NEW MOVIE". It ruins it for me.
 
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Nekromantik2 said:
I've heard it's really good. But I'm waiting for it to come to cable because every time we go to the movies it's like every backwoods bumpkin comes out of their shack with their exceptional child to "SEE DA NEW MOVIE". It ruins it for me.
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The production for this seems more like an indie flick, so I doubt people apart from pretentious hipsters know about it. Seriously, I want to see a cosmic horror flick that will blow my mind. The only thing that came close to that was Beyond the Black Rainbow and The Void.
 
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