At The Mountains Of Madness / Lovecraft film adaptations?

Erich Zann · Post by **Erich Zann** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:18 am

Carmine Doll wrote:Better than Dagon??????

really??? well i must have to see it then

Since Dagon is one of my Favorite movies.

I shall go and find it at my local store!

Thanks!!

I'm gonna have to check Dagon out again. Maybe I was a little to biased upon my initial viewing.

By the way this really is a great forum. Very well set up too.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sat May 20, 2006 2:13 pm

It's the members that make it so, so you'd better stay!

jp · Post by jp » Mon May 22, 2006 1:43 pm

I haven't read "At the Mountains o Madness" yet... so I can't comment on that.

But I will say that "In the Mouth of Madness" was an amazingly Lovecraftian film, and as far as I'm concerned the closest cinema I've seen in relation to Lovecraft's works. Very very well done. And Sam Neill >>>>>>>>>>>> all.

I would like to see "The Dunwich Horror" turned into a movie. Or even more so, "The Whisperer in the Dark". Now THAT would be creepy.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Mon May 22, 2006 1:47 pm

Was "In The Mouth of Madness" not John Carpenter?
And I don't hear good things about the "Dunwich Horror" adaption. Can't remember the name of it. There's A "Charles Dexter Ward" film, too, called "The Resurected".

jp · Post by jp » Mon May 22, 2006 2:03 pm

Jesus Prime wrote:Was "In The Mouth of Madness" not John Carpenter?
And I don't hear good things about the "Dunwich Horror" adaption. Can't remember the name of it. There's A "Charles Dexter Ward" film, too, called "The Resurected".

"In the Mouth of Madness" was indeed John Carpenter, and it was part of his "End o' the World" trilogy (the other two films being "The Thing" and "Prince of Darkness"). Very very VERY good movie. Heh, I still remember when I first saw it (which was before I had ever read Lovecraft) and the whole time I was thinking "Man, I wish someone actually wrote books like that."

I didn't realize there WAS a film adaptation of "The Dunwich Horror". Sucks to hear that it was probably not very good though. The only actual Lovecraft adaptations I'm aware of are "Dagon" and, to a much lesser extent, "Necronomicon", which was horrible (I liked "Dagon" alright though).

Now a Lucio Fulci adaptaiton of a Lovecraft story would have been AWESOME. Sadly, it will never happen.

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Mon May 22, 2006 2:04 pm

i remember that movie! that was a swell movie. it really does seem influenced by hpl's kind of storytelling. admittedly, it was several years ago and i don't remember it scene-for-scene.. but i would recommend seeing it if you haven't

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Mon May 22, 2006 2:16 pm

jp wrote:
Jesus Prime wrote:Was "In The Mouth of Madness" not John Carpenter?
And I don't hear good things about the "Dunwich Horror" adaption. Can't remember the name of it. There's A "Charles Dexter Ward" film, too, called "The Resurected".

"In the Mouth of Madness" was indeed John Carpenter, and it was part of his "End o' the World" trilogy (the other two films being "The Thing" and "Prince of Darkness"). Very very VERY good movie. Heh, I still remember when I first saw it (which was before I had ever read Lovecraft) and the whole time I was thinking "Man, I wish someone actually wrote books like that."

I didn't realize there WAS a film adaptation of "The Dunwich Horror". Sucks to hear that it was probably not very good though. The only actual Lovecraft adaptations I'm aware of are "Dagon" and, to a much lesser extent, "Necronomicon", which was horrible (I liked "Dagon" alright though).

Now a Lucio Fulci adaptaiton of a Lovecraft story would have been AWESOME. Sadly, it will never happen.

There's actually quite a few films. There's ones based on - "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", "The Dunwich Horror", "Call of Cthulhu", "At The Mountains of Madness", "Herbert West - Reanimator", and probably more.
None of them are any good, though, with the exception of the film based (loosely) on "Mountains" - otherwise known as "The Thing".

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Mon May 22, 2006 2:18 pm

the thing?? it doesn't get much looser than that.. antarctica is all there is in common

Yog-Sothoth · Post by **Yog-Sothoth** » Mon May 22, 2006 2:18 pm

good news! there is going to be a "At the Mountains of Madness" film adaptation directed by Guillermo del Toro from Dreamworks. i'll find more info soon.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Mon May 22, 2006 2:19 pm

JJ Burke wrote:the thing?? it doesn't get much looser than that.. antarctica is all there is in common

Vegetable/animal alien, killing Antarctic researchers?

Yog-Sothoth · Post by **Yog-Sothoth** » Mon May 22, 2006 2:20 pm

http://www.countingdown.com/movies/609348

theres one.

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Mon May 22, 2006 2:22 pm

Jesus Prime wrote:
JJ Burke wrote:the thing?? it doesn't get much looser than that.. antarctica is all there is in common
Vegetable/animal alien, killing Antarctic researchers?

it's been a while.. was there much killing in that story? all i remember from it are the ancient specimens, and the mad dash out of the tunnel being chased by shoggoths

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Mon May 22, 2006 2:23 pm

Pleasepleaseplease do it right...

jp · Post by jp » Mon May 22, 2006 2:36 pm

There is a "Call of Cthulhu" movie?

Does Cthulhu get exploded by a steam boat at the end?

*And just FYI, my roomate is currently working on a comic strip I wrote up a few weeks ago concerning the end of the "Call of Cthulhu" story, I'll be sure to post it when/if he ever finishes it.

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Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Mon May 22, 2006 2:39 pm

Haven't seen it. It's short, and it's silent.