Which of his stories would make a good movie and who should direct it?

That would only work if it had plenty of bright campy queer colors and plenty of quippy snaps.

I mean if he works from a script written by someone else I still think he would be the best director for a lovecraftian style movie.

Mountains of madness. Giant penguins and all that would appeal to normies too. What ate they waiting for?

The thing was a pretty obvious ripoff of it and normies would say the reverse is true. Sad world.

This thread AGAIN

I would rather take my chances with someone else at this point, but he would not be the worst choice. Alex Garland would be better at this poin

DUDE NIGGER MAN LMAO

Shadow over Innsmouth. I know they already made a movie but they should make another.

Its sad that youre here enough to notice the countless repetitions

what his cat's name was again?

Sneed I think.

He became a SJW cuck with his recent movies, Shape of Water especially.

Yeah, called Dagon. It's shit but still the best lovecraft film out there.

The Whisperer In Darkness, The Shadow Out of Time would also be awesome with a properly surreal director, the concept is so bizarre.

>Standalone movie
probably Rats in the Walls, but there is a suoer high chance that they will fuck the FX up and we get the chink restaurant scene from It 2
Colour out of Space was the story I personally enjoyed the most, but it feels like Annihilation already ripped off the concept so it wouldn't feel original. Still a very based portrayal of what an alien organism on earth actually might be like.
Horror at Red Hook would be pretty kino with some good CGI and more so solid audio design for the final act

>Miniseries
At the Mountains of Madness would make a decent Thing-like kino but the source material itself is so slow paced i actually had to drop it and read a recap
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Color out of Space, directed by Richard Stanley, starring Nic Cage. Oh, wait...

>movie trailer
>WHAT IF CTHULU WASN'T JUST A STORY
>ear shattering fart noise
>full frontal shot of Cthulu rising from the sea with water streaming off of its body
>black screen
>coming 2020

>movie
>opening shot is Cthulu rising out of the water
>movie is 2 hours and 45 minutes of Cthulu destroying a city
>ending is Cthulu standing over the leveled city roaring at the sky

based tbqh

Based

More like movie is 2 hours and 30 minutes of faggot humans no one gives a shit about reacting to Cthulhu and talking about his actions while only 15 minutes are devoted to Cthulhu actually destroying shit.

Mountains of Madness
Shadow out of Time
Del Taco

Has anyone seen this? I really wanna watch it

none
no one

you know what he called it

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Not yet out, but based on TIFF reviews saying it's the most "Nic Cage" Nic Cage has ever been since Vampire's Kiss? Well, I'm mildly interested.

Assuming you've read At the Mountains of Madness, check this out:
toplessrobot.com/2015/01/7_reasons_we_dont_need_guillermo_del_toro_at_the_mountains_of_madness_lovecraft.php#more

He's an absolute hack.

>A story of cosmic terror about The Gardners, a family who moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard. The mysterious aerolite seems to melt into the earth, infecting both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly color. To their horror, the Gardner family discover that this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches...including them.

Yikes

He already put up his script for At The Mountains of Madness. It was absolute trash
>Cthulhu is in it
>Movie starts off with Ton Cruise at a gala where he's shown an Elder Thing corpse they brought from the North/South Pole. They ask him to come with them on their way back.
>Shoggoths are like the thing absorbing/integrating with humans
>There's a theme of science and inhumanity vs humanity and emotion; Tom Cruise survives cuz family
>Tom Cruise keeps pushing them to leave cuz fuck science
>Lots of typical Del Toro emotion

I don't think he understands Lovecraft at all.

His life story ending in abject poverty

David Fincher at the helm

I'm thinking nothing to crazy, no Cthulu shit

Art direction and soundtrack would play a huge role

Watch Die Farbe instead. One of the few "faithful" adaptations of Lovecraft's work out there and a pretty solid movie in spite of being low budget.

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>40 minutes of the movie is just him writing letters and eating canned beans

Die Farbe is far too limp with the Colour. It's nowhere near as threatening or horrifying as it should be.

Del Toro is a hack

It's obvious that the budget prevented them from showing some of the effects of the Colour, but there are still plenty of horrific moments in the movie ( being one of them), and the family's gradual degradation is portrayed really well. I wish they had pulled off the moving trees more effectively, though, that shit gives me the creeps every time I read the story.

By the way, the director is currently working on a movie based on the Dreamlands stories:
youtu.be/zEiC4a6PLcI

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Pure kino worth rewatching

The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath directed by Jodorowsky with an unlimited budget. I know it won't be faithful but none of them are anyway.

>Implying normies care about The Thing.

>The thing was a pretty obvious ripoff
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Goes_There?
Retard.

The Haunter of the Darkies

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It's called Re-animator.

Curse of Yig directed by ? . It wouldn't be hard to make a western horror; Forget the asylum framing and make it just about the young couple.

I'm partial to some of the obscure ones like The Tree on the Hill, and Him. But I really like The Color out of Space and Shadow over Innsmouth too. And what was the one with the degenerated family under the house that mutated into a swarming heap of goblinoid things?

My favorite aspects of the stories are the atmosphere and settings, and all the stuff with obsessive, knowledge-seeking protagonists exploring obscure zones of old cities, forbidden / ancient / weird texts, or going on long journeys to remote places. Reminds me of me, actually. But those aspects of the stories are rarely translated in Lovecraft movies... and that's more what I'd emphase.

So think of the parts of The Ring at that seaside town, with drives through ominous forests, and those lonely shots of that strange hilltop. And just the atmosphere of those scenes, the coastal town vibe, and asking around a strange town and discovering dark secrets. That's what a Lovecraft movie should be based in. See also The Ninth Gate, all these travels to obscure mansions and libraries, intimations of hidden cults.

The other side of the Lovecraft adaptation to tackle would be the trippy, weird stuff. This would require the most mind-bending, pulsating designs, but only leave it to hints and hallucinogenic washes. Like how In the Mouth of Madness (the Carpenter film) you only see flashes of the Old Ones.

the one where he goes out for a smoke and never returns home. would be kino

I like Stuart Gordon's movies, especially Dagon, and I appreciate that he's so dedicated to Lovecraft and has contributed a lot of the most well-known adaptations. But his movies, as much as I love them, are way too campy and wacky to be considered anywhere near good interpretations. *forced meme alert*: They're not remotely 'Lovecraftian' in tone or atmosphere. More like goofy ironic goreporn trashsploitation. And Lovecraft stories definitely have a lot of insanity, outragiousness and pulpiness to them, but not exactly in that way.

>The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath

These really interest me, and I haven't had time to really get through all of those stories.

There was one, related to that particular fantasy world, I think, where some guys get stranded out on a boat, and it goes further and further out (I everyone dies but one) and then he starts getting glimpses of this strange hallucinatory otherworld city with singing towers etc. Really cool ideas.

Oh, it was The Green Meadow.

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The Doom That Came to Sarnath directed by David Lynch

Quite an odd choice. I'd definitely watch a Hypnos directed by David Lynch, though.

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Speaking of the western Lovecraft horror, I've always thought that "The Mound" deserves more attention.

You think it's going to be a typical Indian ghost story, but before you know it, you're seeing ancient subterranean cities in the hollow Earth, with H.R. Giger-tier biomechanical undead and a decadent psychic precursor race worshiping the Great Old Ones.

His stories don't translate as movies or movie-lite videogames at all because the unnameable horrors with unspeakable names only visualize on the imagination of the person currently reading it.
My fear of spiders is your fear of drowning t: Diver

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There's a pretty good Stuart Gordon adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward called The Resurrected. It's pure 80's/90's B movie cheese but I loved it as a kid.

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The Mound is one of my favorites, but it would be complex to adapt. Perhaps working better as a miniseries.

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Herbert West would make a good film.

It did.

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A Weird Tales anthology series could actually be kino as fuck. Lovecraft, Robert Howard, Clark Ashton Smith stories, do a season based on The Night Land. With the right people working on it I think it could actually be pretty successful.

the white ship

i think lovecraftian movies peaked with pic related, everything after that its just a giant COPE

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Rob Zombie's Dunwich Horror
Robert Eggers' Rats in the Walls
Wes Anderson's Strange High House in the Mist

>listicle
Back to your subreddit holy fuck

Lol

Mountains of Madness, Color out of Space and possibly a few others but they'd need to be arthouse-y and more about the scenery and backstory. Criticized and memed as much as he is, Lovecraft's worlds were really hypnotic and amazing.

Then read the whole fucking script nigger