Hellboy

[SplatteredAndScattered]

Never read the comics, but at the very beginning of the movie there's a quote from De Vermis Mysteriis, and all the extra-worldly deities have tentacles.

[Aleister]

I had never seen the comics either and watched the movie for the first time just the other day. I noticed that as well, but I had wanted to look again sometime to double check. I guess that confirms it

I went around and told several people that day but no one seemed to be that interested.. blah

[Adrian]

Never read the comics, but at the very beginning of the movie there's a quote from De Vermis Mysteriis, and all the extra-worldly deities have tentacles.

Could you tell me what that quote was? That grimoire was in "Salem's Lot" by Stephen King I think.

[Aleister]

Quote from some movie review site :

First of all, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) or H.B. as his friends call him, does not come from Hell. It is his red appearance, horns, and tail that are responsible for his being given that name. He is from some extraterrestrial "dimension" where powerfully evil aliens are imprisoned in a space-station-like poky. The opening text from De Vermis Mysterii by Ludwig Prinn clues the savvy viewer into the core symbol system of the film: it's the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft and associates. When del Toro scrambles in the Catholic symbols of Rosary, Crucifix and Monastery with the gothic science fiction of the Cthulhu Mythos he forms a rather incomprehensible mess. Why Catholic symbols should act as magical talismans against chaos-loving extraterrestrial creatures remains unmotivated and unexplained throughout the film. They might as well be used to repel Darth Vader or Alf! Like the old Sesame Street song said, "these things just don't go together!"

The De Vermis Mysteriis is Lovecraft's Adrian. Stephen King just borrowed the title

[Aleister]

I couldn't find the exact text yet though

[SplatteredAndScattered]

"He had himself read many of them--a Latin version of the abhorred Necronomicon, the sinister Liber Ivonis, the infamous Cultes des Goules of Comte d'Erlette, the Unaussprechlichen Kulten of von Juntz, and old Ludvig Prinn's hellish De Vermis Mysteriis."
--"The Haunter of the Dark," H.P. Lovecraft

[Adrian]

The De Vermis Mysteriis is Lovecraft's Adrian. Stephen King just borrowed the title

I know :D
I just pointed out that King was the one focusing on it the most while others just mentioned it.

[Aleister]

Ah yes

I just read another persons opinion on their blog a minute ago. They made a good point. Many popular movies have Lovecraft references in them, but the minute a movie tries to BE Lovecraft based, it is doomed heh.

[Frankennietzsche]

There is a rumour floating about that after Hellboy 2, Guillermo del Toro is going to try to make "At the Mountains of Madness."

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