Mouth of madness
2019
Brandon Bell
Ethan Brown
It’s clearly a drawing of the climax in ‘Dagon’. Fuck Cthulhu redditors. Nyarlathochads stand up.
Julian Myers
>when you nut but she keeps sucking
Luis Hill
I liked the horror at red hook.
Nathaniel Rodriguez
Del Toro doesn’t understand Lovecraft. He is just obsessed with the creatures.
Xavier Cruz
>a giant, whale hunting fishman
>at the midnight and in an isolate island.
THat’s pretty terrible
Brody Bell
>what is "In the Mouth of Madness"
Cameron Phillips
Kill List had the atmosphere of Lovecraft, (dread, impending doom), and the cults similar to some of his stories.
Despite Pizza overexplaining and removing any sense of mystery after S1 aired, first season of True Detective also nails the “infinite, malevolent, unknown force” lurking within the environment and a few of the characters.
Del Toro’s script for Mountains is available to read online and it’s completely asinine. Christian allegory, a love story, a big action sequence with sailors VS Cthulhu. The guy would be perfect for creature design in a Lovecraft adaptation but should stay away from writing and directing.
Kevin White
>implying you know what lovecraft is about
You've probably never read more than 2 of his stories if anything at all.
All you stupid cunts want is le epic tentacle flying monsters.
And then when you get something like "The Void" it's still not enough because it wasn't what YOU wanted out of what you THINK you know about lovecraft.
Most of the horror is supposed to come from your own mind.
Film is not an appropriate medium for true lovecraft
Gabriel Thomas
The most Lovecraftian movie made so far is Cruising with Al Pacino. Consider how extreme and alien the gay leather culture was to most audiences in 1980. It's like a stand-in for one of Lovecraft's 1920s cults. In the spaces controlled by this "cult", things from everyday life are twisted in sinister directions, similar to how Lovecraft made gambrel roofs and elderly people objects of dread. Popular music that would be forgettable in other contexts is used to evoke forbidden desires.
In the story, an ordinary man has been tasked with infiltrating the alien space and stopping a mysterious killer. He goes through a typical Lovecraftian character arc, experiening sanity-twisting horrors before achieving his goal. But after the goal is achieved, it turns out that the horror is not gone. The style of the film implies that the "killer" is not one person but some kind of mysterious force haunting the gay bar scene. And in one part of the film the hero discovers a piece of writing that directly conjures Lovecraftian imagery.