Spooky Jim wrote:Also, I haven't read Swamp Thing in a long time, but now realizing that Alan Moore is a big Lovecraft fan puts his version more in perspective I think.
Spooky Jim wrote:So of the stories I have read so far, which includes Dunwhich, I think it is weaker because it is the story which the monster is most explicitly described, and has the most widespread encounter with people and stuff so far. I think one of the strengths in Lovecraft's work is the hinting at the horrors and letting you as the reader just understand it is terrifying rather than describing it. The idea that some weird inbred family worships the old ones and is trying to incarnate them on earth is scaryToggle Spoiler. To actually have them so concretely described, and that some professors can banish them out of the realm and kill themToggle Spoiler cheapens it, and makes them seem sorta weak. It's like why True Detective Season 1 is horrible at the end. I'd rather not have seen the family and carcosa, but they could have hinted at it.
Robo-Chachi wrote:Anyone else been having a bunch of issues with the Letterboxed app lately? Seems like search doesn’t work 70% of the time anymore.
Mesh wrote:Robo-Chachi wrote:Anyone else been having a bunch of issues with the Letterboxed app lately? Seems like search doesn’t work 70% of the time anymore.
Yeah, app and site both Gremlins a lot.
a is jump wrote:Super late to the Mike Flanagan train, but just watched Absentia and thought it was really effective. I dug the uneasy atmosphere throughout, fueled by the amount of handheld camera and the droney score. I can be a sucker for movies that play on whether the horror is purely psychological or if it's actually "happening," and Absentia rode that line really well as it was building the story. Honestly, to tie in to the current topic, it was a little Lovecraftian in a lot of ways in how it kept most of the horror just out of reach and focused on the emotional fallout from largely unseen forces. Refreshing to see a low budget horror movie that doesn't depend on comedy, gore, T&A, or nostalgia.
Between Netflix and Prime, it looks like most of his stuff is pretty available to stream. Just no Oculus or Ouija. I'm assuming those are worth tracking down?
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Riverchrist wrote:A later Lovecraft style story I just found is Notorious T.E.D. Klein's "The Events at Poroth Farm." It's 75% "The Colour Out of Space" and 25% "The Thing." He wrote it when he was about 24.
The narrator studies gothic horror (Melmoth etc.) and those books all tie into the story.
ahungbunny wrote:speaking of lovecraft, bird box is a mythos movie in every way but explicitly (and one particular thing that happens). i'm a sucker for anything along those lines and i'm stoked that it's getting a lot of attention
i never really thought lovecraft was a very compelling writer (i more love the ideas behind the writing) but spooky jim's convinced me to give him another chance. i'd also highly recommend the later robert e howard conan stories, which i can't seem to talk about enough around here. by this point he was on a similar weird wavelength to his bud howard p, just in a different (and more engaging, i'd argue) setting. this collection in particular is straight up fantasy horror
sucks they were both horrible racists
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aububs wrote:i liked this. not perfect. not even really finished. but good. scary.
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Robo-Chachi wrote:Robo-Chachi wrote:Really looking forward to Kingdom coming out 1/25.
Enjoying this a lot so far. Good take on the zombie genre. Lot of groundwork laying in the first episode but everything is flat out bonkers by episode 3.
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