Lovecraftian horror

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Its obviously not a real picture. You can tell it's photoshopped/unreal

That kinda takes the mystery out of the equation and it just looks like random shit pasted together

My head hurts a little but I think it’s just because my eyes are trying to figure out what to focus on. It’s like a whole bunch of individual objects out of focus and photoshopped together.
So what’s the backstory to this picture?

Are you 12 years old?

It's basically Reddit, but I was mildly entertained for the 1.5 hrs. Not scary, though.

In The Mouth of Madness, Dagon, and From Beyond are the best Lovecraft movies

True but there are still aspects of his writing that are interesting, no one is saying his work is well known for his amazingly well written stories

Can’t wait

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No shit, it's AI-generated to represent a stroke. Mystery was never a factor. It's not supposed to be some spooky /x/ cursed image where you're creeped out, it's an automatic revulsion.

the void is a really good eldritch horror type of movie. Annihilation is also just a color out of space. A cure for wellness has the vibes as well.

The Call of Cthulhu is ironically one of his worst stories. Read The Whisperer in Darkness for HPL at his best.

>ai blurs the image
Anyone can do that

It just looks like clutter. Not revolting at all. Vaguely confusing but then again I don’t understand much of anything

true, but like said, it's basically lovecraft saying "Such unimaginable horrors, men would scream if they knew even an inkling about it!"

I don't think the people that make these threads over and over have ever read lovecraft, they just buy into the vague, superficial mythology of it because "lovecraft" sounds stylish and cthulhu is somewhat popular in the mainstream.

It's shit, pic related is where it was originally published. In a pulp magazine..

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it's more than blurring. it's formatted in a way that your mind tries to make sense of it, but can't and ends up disoriented. but maybe that's most people. like i said, some people can't into frisson/asmr/tickling/etc so maybe it just doesn't affect you.

>HURR you just haven't read Lovecraft
it's always the same retarded shit in these threads.
even IF that were true, we're not talking about an authentic adaptation of a Lovecraft story. it's about the themes and ideas of "Lovecraftian" horror.

I'm pretty sure it was literally for kids though, but yeah his stuff is actually pretty whatever. The cosmic horror concept itself that he popularized is interesting though and has been a major influence on a lot of stuff.

Also he was based, read The Street

i watched annihilation the other day and everything besides the atmosphere and the environment was pretty stupid

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It was published in a pulp magazine because he was struggling to find work

Anyone like OPN's new album? Similar themes I think

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>we're not talking about an authentic adaptation of a Lovecraft story. it's about the themes and ideas of "Lovecraftian" horror

In that case, check out Possession and Resolution. Those are pretty good. But the truth is there isn't really many options, and barely any of them are good.

Bloodborne is pretty much the best Lovecraft creation in media if you like games.

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The philospher Nick Land wrote a couple horror short stories recently that I think explore the themes of AI generated Lovecraftian horrors pretty well. All of his writing and overall philosophy is about this

Shit, that looks good. Thanks, shillkun.

I thought he was some transhumanist dark enlightenment dude?

Not exactly, it's more like it is mimicking real life, but without knowing anything about real objects.

Cool air story is scary for it's time. But now most of us are familiar and maybe even need AC cooling to function normally.

John dies at the end movie has lovecraftian horror.

Link?

His philosphy is all over the place but Lovecraft is a pretty consistent influence
The only stories/fiction he wrote are called Phyl Undhu and Chasm, I really liked them as a fan of Lovecraft's actual writings. His pre Dark Enlightenment writings are pretty interesting but very methed out, Dark Enlightenment is gay though

this. He's got so many better stories, its just that pop culture picked up cthulhu because it was marketable despite the rest of his symposium which goes far beyond muh octopus monster.

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Bloodborne is too over the top tentacles and viscera everywhere to be truly Lovecraftian to me, it misses the psychological/inward focus. It's pretty much the reddit interpretation of "Lovecraftian" although done really well. David Lynch is honestly the only thing I've seen in media that captures the vibe

Yes. It's designed to mimic what happens when people have certain kinds of strokes. They see everything around them as familiar somehow, though they don't know what any of it is.

David Lynch is a bit too out there for me to have a real coherent vibe for. His shit doesn't feel like horror or mystery to me, just like instead he's trying to make the viewer uncomfortable in the most autistic way possible

I'd argue the key to Lynch is that there seems to be a mythology or logic behind things but that logic is incomprehensible to humans. Twin Peaks does this but also makes that mythology closer to common sci find tropes, basically the whole thing is about cosmic horrors interfering in people's lives and his work is about the horrors inside our dreams/subconscious

>make the viewer uncomfortable in the most autistic way possible
Yes exactly like Lovecraft lol

Alien Covenant was unironically a pleb filter. Scott was doing something similar to the Tudor poet John Skelton, who put sophisticated concepts into the medium of doggerel as a sort of dialectical movement. Scott takes what essentially amounts to a medieval religious cycle play, mixes in some heavy existential themes like the inverted Pygmalion myth (David and Shaw) and the Nibelungen tradition filtered through Wagner, and puts it into the medium of cinematic doggerel - slasher horror. It's genius, and it is really enjoyable to watch if you're interested in historical literature.

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This, the original Alien, Prometheus, and Covenant are pretty decent Lovecraftian films

Good taste lad

Always liked the Local 58 Weather Service and the Emergency Alert Message videos. They do feel like a more modern, subtle take on Lovecraft.