Lovecraftian films
Films that are adaptations of Lovecraft's work or inspired by him or could fit in his vast Cthulhu Mythos or feature him as a character. Obviously, this gets a bit subjective at the fringes but is all the better for it.
Further reading: The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Filmography (2001) and Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft (2006).
Links:
* The HP Lovecraft Film Festival: http://www.hplfilmfestival.com
* Unfilmable: Cosmic Horror Cinema: http://unfilmable.blogspot.co.uk
Removed: Mystery of the Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1999), a Lovecraftian hentai that doesn't appear to be that porny but it can't be added to this list. Another mucky movie inspired by Lovecraft is Angel Above - The Devil Below (1974).
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Further reading: The Complete H.P. Lovecraft Filmography (2001) and Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft (2006).
Links:
* The HP Lovecraft Film Festival: http://www.hplfilmfestival.com
* Unfilmable: Cosmic Horror Cinema: http://unfilmable.blogspot.co.uk
Removed: Mystery of the Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1999), a Lovecraftian hentai that doesn't appear to be that porny but it can't be added to this list. Another mucky movie inspired by Lovecraft is Angel Above - The Devil Below (1974).
Comments: As I don't have a Facebook account I cannot interact with the new comments system, so have switched it off and replaced it with a thread on the message board.
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- DirectorFrank H. WoodwardStarsRobin Atkin DownesNeil GaimanPeter StraubA chronicle of the life, work and mind that created the Cthulhu mythos.Here for the thumbnail graphic, the list begins below:
Although if you want to skip scrolling through to the end of this list (where this is), it can be watched at SnagFilms:
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/lovecraft_fear_of_the_unknown - DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsBoris KarloffAnne RevereAmanda DuffScientist becomes obsessed with the idea of communicating with his dead wife.Based on William Sloane's The Edge of Running Water, which was included in the double novel volume The Rim of Morning, Two Tales of Cosmic Horror, which is enough for me to bung in here.
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsPatricia JesselDennis LotisChristopher LeeA young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceDebra PagetLon Chaney Jr.Charles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago.Based on "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"
- DirectorRoger CormanStarsRay MillandDiana Van der VlisHarold J. StoneA Roger Corman tale of Dr. James Xavier's devastating experiments on himself and the unforeseen.An ending pulled right from the pages of Lovecraft's stories.
- DirectorDaniel HallerStarsBoris KarloffNick AdamsFreda JacksonA young man visits his fiancée's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.aka Die, Monster, Die!
Based on "The Colour Out of Space" - DirectorHarvey HartStarsLeslie NielsenPeter Mark RichmanJudi MeredithPolice call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.Pilot for an occult detective series with Lovecraftian overtones that starred Leslie Nielsen. As great as that sounds, it was never picked up and I think the world is a duller place for it.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsOliver ReedGig YoungCarol LynleyA series of horrific murders is traced to a creature that inhabits a very strange house.
- DirectorVernon SewellStarsBoris KarloffChristopher LeeMark EdenRobert Manning visits the remote country house where his brother Peter was last seen. While his host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, Robert detects a feeling of menace in the air.
- DirectorDaniel HallerStarsSandra DeeDean StockwellEd BegleyWilbur Whateley travels to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon. But, little does anyone know, Whateley isn't quite human...
- DirectorJack WoodsDennis MurenMark Thomas McGeeStarsEdward ConnellBarbara HewittFrank BonnerFour friends are attacked by a demon while on a picnic, due to possession of a tome of mystic information. Told in flashbacks by the sole survivor.
- 1969–197359mTV-PG7.7 (409)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn BadhamJeff CoreyJeannot SzwarcStarsMarty AllenRoss MartinBarbara RushA Gothic love story about a woman and a man who lives in a refrigerated apartment. / Miserly banker Sharsted finds himself trapped after viewing his client's strange optical device. / Edgar Allan Poe can't get the first line down on paper.Based on "Cool Air"
- 1969–1973TV-PG7.2 (352)TV EpisodeDirectorJeff CoreyJack LairdStarsBradford DillmanLouise SorelSteve LawrenceLovelorn Mavis Goldsmith ignores her reclusive art teacher Pickman's warning not to follow him home. / A fake fortune-telling racket is disrupted by adultery. / When a woman enters an elevator, a ghoul is asked to remove his hat.Based on "Pickman's Model"
- 1969–197351mTV-PG7.2 (421)TV EpisodeDirectorJerrold FreedmanWilliam HaleJack LairdStarsPatty DukeVirginia MayoDavid WayneA strange diary shows gossip columnist her sad future. / Dracula visits a blood bank with an odd request. / Hawkins the hermit promises a surprise to three boys if they dig for it. / Professor Peabody publicly ridicules Lovecraftian gods."Professor Peabody's Last Lecture" isn't based on HPL's work but it involved the Necronomicon and includes a Mr Lovecraft as a character.
- DirectorRichard BlackburnStarsLesley TaplinCheryl SmithWilliam WhittonA young girl who returns to her hometown to see her dying father finds herself being drawn into a web of vampirism and witchcraft.Feels like "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" but with vampires instead of Deep Ones (although Lovecraft isn't credited).
- DirectorWillard HuyckGloria KatzStarsMichael GreerMarianna HillJoy BangA young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.A tricky call as this film is trippy and doesn't allow itself to get pinned down to genre specifics - are the cultists vampires? (no, they go out in daylight and eat meat)? Zombies? (no, they have their wits about them still). The closest thing they resemble are the creatures from I Am Legend, the next phase in humanity, and you kind of get that feeling from them, that they are coming to take us over. What is interesting is that the... cultiness does seem to spread (see the woman Thom meets and the cop), so I've added them to my contagious violence list. So is it Lovecraftian? Author and horror expert Kim Newman has suggested as much - from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_of_Evil#AnalysisWikipedia/link:
He draws attention to details such as the vanished father being a death-obsessed painter, the daughter falling in with a group of hedonists, the town people turning into ghouls. He also notes that the "dark stranger" was a sinister preacher, whose awaited return comes from the sea. He find all these details to point to the influence of H. P. Lovecraft on the film
Watch it for yourself and make up you own mind, as this is public domain:
Get it from the Internet Archive (or as Dead People with MPEG2 format) - DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsSissy SpacekPiper LaurieAmy IrvingCarrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.I'm going to have a ponder on this one, I'd have not come up with it myself but it gets a mention on Wikipedia, so is worthy of further thought (it is set in Lovecraft Country).
- DirectorPeter WeirStarsRichard ChamberlainOlivia HamnettDavid GulpililA Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.
- 1973–197923mTV-PG6.2 (14)TV EpisodeDirectorVic HughesStarsElizabeth AdareNicholas YoungMike HolowayA stranger, Jake, offers to manage Mike's band, but when Liz learns that he is the leader of a religious group called the Hearts of Sogguth, she begins to wonder what his motives are.According to the Tomorrow People wikia:
The concept (and name) of Sogguth is reminiscent of H.P Lovecraft's short stories of ancient aliens whom early civilisations identified as gods. The idea of an ancient book that contains key information is also often used by Lovecraft.
http://thetomorrowpeople.wikia.com/wiki/The_Heart_of_Sogguth - 1973–197923mTV-PG6.4 (14)TV EpisodeDirectorVic HughesStarsElizabeth AdareNicholas YoungMike HolowayJake sends John to kill Liz, but forcing a Tomorrow Person against his nature breaks his possession. John and Liz realise that if Mike plays Sogguth's drum on live television, Sogguth (Satan) will be released into the world.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsBarbara BachClaudio CassinelliRichard JohnsonAquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.Based on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.
- DirectorBarbara PeetersJimmy T. MurakamiStarsDoug McClureAnn TurkelVic MorrowHumanoid sea creatures start killing a fishing town's residents, and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off.One part Creature From the Black Lagoon and one part Shadow Over Innsmouth.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsChristopher GeorgeCatriona MacCollCarlo De MejoA reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.Takes place in Dunwich.
- DirectorAlan GibsonStarsAnna Calder-MarshallGary RaymondPaul HawkinsA family on holiday stop to pick up a mysterious hitch-hiker.
- DirectorJohn StrysikStarsRobert RothmanRobert AlexanderDarryl WarrenThis story revolves around a student of metaphysics, Charles Dexter Ward who befriends Erich Zann an aging violinist who lives on the floor above him. Charles is fascinated and then drawn to Zann's sinister yet wonderful music that he hears late at night drifting down from above. He, of course, discovers more then he bargains for when he peers at what beckons beyond that strange curtained window in Zann's room.
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellEllen SandweissRichard DeManincorFive friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.The best known use of the Necronomicon in film.
- DirectorGary ShermanStarsJames FarentinoMelody AndersonJack AlbertsonSheriff Dan Gillis investigates eerie deaths in a sleepy coastal town.Hints of Herbert West
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsCatriona MacCollDavid WarbeckCinzia MonrealeA young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.The Fulci film that best captures the Lovecraftian feel.
- DirectorLucio FulciStarsCatriona MacCollPaolo MalcoAnia PieroniA New England home is terrorized by a series of murders, unbeknownst to the guests that a gruesome secret is hiding in the basement.
- DirectorAndrzej ZulawskiStarsIsabelle AdjaniSam NeillMargit CarstensenA woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.
- DirectorCathy WelchStarsMac WilliamsMarc MahanNancy GriffithInspired by Lovecraft's short story, Pickman's Model is about a morbid painter named Richard Upton Pickman, who created from his fiendish brush "unbelievable loathsomeness and moral foetor." William Thurber, a student of occult art and author, becomes obsessed with Pickman and pursues him learning more and more about the source of his art until it finally consumes him.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellWilford BrimleyKeith DavidA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.Actually getting closer to the original short story, "Who Goes There?", than the earlier Thing From Another World managed.
- DirectorRichard JefferiesStarsJames Earl JonesJosé FerrerLila KedrovaAn adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.
- DirectorIvan ReitmanStarsBill MurrayDan AykroydSigourney WeaverThree parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.According to Wikipedia: "novelist/screenwriter Barbara Hambly has called 'marvelously Lovecraftian'" something I missed first time around, as I'd yet to read any Lovecraft. I'm still not 100% sure but...
- DirectorFritz KierschStarsPeter HortonLinda HamiltonR.G. ArmstrongA young couple is trapped in a remote town where a dangerous religious cult of children believes that everyone over age 18 must be killed.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonAfter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.Based on "Herbert West: Re-Animator"
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBarbara CramptonTed SorelA group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
- 1985–1989TV-PG6.5 (408)TV EpisodeDirectorBradford MayPeter MedakGus TrikonisStarsBarret OliverDarlanne FluegelFrederick LongA boy is terrified of his odd, sinister, bed-ridden grandma. / A hack with writer's block is tormented by impish hell-raising creatures that only he can see. / An understudy copes with radio director's insistence on real sound effects."Gramma" was inspired by "The Thing on the Doorstep" and references the Cthulhu Mythos.
- DirectorDavid KeithStarsWil WheatonClaude AkinsMalcolm DanareWhen a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellSarah BerryDan HicksAsh Williams, the lone survivor of an earlier onslaught of flesh-possessing spirits, holes up in a cabin with a group of strangers while the demons continue their attack.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsDonald PleasenceLisa BlountJameson ParkerA group of graduate students and scientists uncover an ancient canister in an abandoned church, but when they open the container, they inadvertently unleash a strange liquid and an evil force on all humanity.
- DirectorRoger EvansStarsRed MitchellTracey HuffmanCharles L. TrotterThe sole survivor of a backwoods massacre investigates the incident with the help of a photographer and a police officer. Soon, it becomes clear that they're up against nothing less than an ancient god!
- DirectorStephen CarpenterJeffrey ObrowStarsRod SteigerKim HunterDavid Allen BrooksA geneticist takes his assistants to his old family home to locate the deadly product of his late mother's revolutionary research into rapid human evolution--his monstrous, tentacled baby brother--before a mad scientist gets to him first.
- DirectorTibor TakácsStarsStephen DorffChrista DentonLouis TrippKids left home alone accidentally unleash a horde of malevolent demons from a mysterious hole in their suburban backyard.
- 1986–199130mTV-Y78.3 (146)TV EpisodeStarsArsenio HallMaurice LaMarcheLorenzo MusicThe Ghostbusters are fighting creatures in the sewers, chasing down cults and research comic books to succeed in the their mission - to recover the Necronomicon that gets stolen from the public library.
- DirectorJean-Paul OuelletteStarsCharles KlausmeyerMark Kinsey StephensonAlexandra DurrellCollege students check out a haunted house where in the 1800's an ugly monster called "the Unnamable" was trapped in a vault.
- DirectorCharles BandStarsBarbara CramptonJeffrey CombsDavid WarnerIn this 'sequel' anthology, the film offers a TRANCERS sequel written by original creators Danny Bilson and Paul DeMeo, a new Lovecraft adaptation THE EVIL CLERGYMAN, featuring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, and finally a sequel to THE DUNGEONMASTER.
- DirectorBrian YuznaStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottClaude Earl JonesDoctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.Based on "Herbert West: Re-Animator"
- DirectorBrian YuznaStarsBilly WarlockConcetta D'AgneseBen SlackAn ordinary teenage boy discovers his family is part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
- DirectorJay WoelfelStarsNick BaldasareRick KeslerSusan PinskyBen hasn't been able to dream since the deaths of his parents, but as he attempts to make human connections, his nightmares begin to spill over into all of their waking lives.
- DirectorDavid McCormickStarsMark LaCourTim VerkaikEddie MooreReporter Clint Harrison is sent to investigate a massacre at a Louisiana campground and finds that it may be linked to the Dansen clan an old local family thought to have died out years ago.
- DirectorDan O'BannonStarsJohn TerryJane SibbettChris SarandonCharles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries.Based on "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"
- DirectorMartin CampbellStarsFred WardDavid WarnerJulianne MooreIn a fantastical 40's where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
- DirectorRobert T. MegginsonStarsRichard ClarkeMart HulswitRichard HughesIn this tribute to 1950s monster movies, two old gentlemanly friends are playing a game of chess, when a sinister telepathic alien invader shaped like a giant tentacled eyeball arrives to eat their brains.Based on Frank Belknap Long's story of the same name, which is a parody of cosmic horror stories, featuring a fictionalised author based on Lovecraft (and some say it was an attempt to fictionalise the Cthulhu Mythos).
- DirectorJean-Paul OuelletteStarsMark Kinsey StephensonCharles KlausmeyerMaria FordA creature of demonic nature, too hideous to have a name, once again terrorizes the college kids that summoned it.
- DirectorSam RaimiStarsBruce CampbellEmbeth DavidtzMarcus GilbertWhen Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home.
- DirectorJuan Piquer SimónStarsFrank FinlayMarcia LaytonLuis Fernando AlvésA group of drug dealing petty criminals fleeing from the police take a magician and his daughter hostage; but once they reach his mansion, all hell breaks loose.
- DirectorChiaki KonakaStarsRenji IshibashiMichiko KawaiNaomasa MusakaAn one hour made for TV special. Set in modern Japan, a journalist goes Insumasu to investigate people with deformation.
- DirectorChristophe GansShûsuke KanekoBrian YuznaStarsJeffrey CombsTony AzitoJuan FernándezLovecraft visualizes 3 stories in Necronomicon: The Drowned, The Cold and Whispers, about bringing a dead wife and child back to life, extending life and aliens.
- DirectorMariano BainoStarsLouise SalterVenera SimmonsMariya KapnistA girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.
- DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsSam NeillJürgen ProchnowJulie CarmenAn insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.Another of those films that you could be fooled into thinking was based on a little-known Lovecraft story.
- DirectorC. Courtney JoynerStarsJon FinchBlake AdamsAshley LaurenceThe town of Leffert's Corners has been plagued by unearthly beings for decades, and now there is only a few people left... what everyone is not aware of are the humanoid creatures lurking underneath the holy grounds.
- DirectorPaul SchraderStarsDennis HopperPenelope Ann MillerEric BogosianIn a twisted 1950's where everyone does magic, a private detective investigates a murder case without it.
- DirectorAaron VanekStarsHerb LichtensteinKathryn GradyDavid David KatzmanA man awakes unaware of who he is. Through a series of flashbacks he gradually begins to remember his life, the woman he loves and a violent confrontation.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBarbara CramptonJonathan FullerA man travels to Italy with his family to live in the castle they have recently inherited. But he soon begins to suspect that they are not the only occupants.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsCarlo CecchiStefano DionisiArnaldo NinchiA seminary student, Giacomo Vigetti, is convicted by the Papal State of seducing a young girl. He is forced to flee and takes refuge with an excommunicated priest. Unfortunately, the priest was excommunicated for experimenting with the black arts. And soon Giacomo wishes they'd never met.aka Arcane Sorcerer or Mysterious Enchanter
- DirectorBrand GamblinStarsBrand GamblinPaul PawlukTori SpellingThe ultimate horror which, trapped beneath the ocean, awaits the time when the stars are right, to wreak destruction upon mankind. While he waits, he takes your calls.
- DirectorLesley MathesonStarsChris ExnerIan FaganGlenn GlazerAt a meeting of a college society a student is lured by the offer of free pizza into becoming a human sacrifice to the Great Old Ones.
- DirectorPeter SvatekStarsGillian FerrabeePascal GruselleRoy DupuisA man travels to an island with his girlfriend in search of his relatives, but he finds maybe more than what he wanted to know.
- DirectorPaul W.S. AndersonStarsLaurence FishburneSam NeillKathleen QuinlanA rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years.Manages to capture indescribable and alien evil like few other films.
- DirectorKen AvenosoAndrew Migliore
- DirectorAnthony PentaStarsScott Alan HoyeSteve TothIn this adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story, two grave-robbers enter an old cemetery on an island and break into one of the tombs. They steal a mysterious amulet, thus, activating a centuries old curse.
- DirectorRaymond St-JeanStarsChristopher HeyerdahlPeter FarbridgeArt KitchingHaunted by disturbing dreams from an inherited book, a young man becomes interested in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
- DirectorJesús Salvador TreviñoStarsBruce BoxleitnerClaudia ChristianMira FurlanThe crew of Babylon 5 discover an ancient artifact floating in hyperspace.Babylon 5 has ancient astronaut elements to the fictional universe's back story (which Lovecraft's works also do), but this TV movie is explicitly Lovecraftian as they find a portal to another dimension full of mind-rapingly monstrous entities.
- DirectorDjie Han ThungStarsJolanda MulderDick TuinderJos UrbanusA lonely man feels at odds with normal day reality. He starts losing himself in insignificant details in his surroundings. He finds a way out in the night sky.Based on "Azathoth."
On The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGFPZ7R0uNg - DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsJohnny DeppFrank LangellaLena OlinA book broker discovers his latest find may summon Satan.Mysterious books, strange cults and gates to elsewhere...
- DirectorAaron VanekStarsEzra HubbardLarry CurwenEdgar ReynoldsA young graduate student must decide his own fate when he discovers he is related to a race of monsters. Based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft.
- 1995– 45m7.5 (63)TV Episode
- DirectorBryan MooreStarsJack DonnerRon FordVera LockwoodRandolph Carter moves into a squalid boarding house in the summer of 1925 where he becomes friends with a mysterious doctor who revives him after a near-fatal heart attack. Soon after, Carter discovers the awful truth about the doctor and the fragile line that separates life and death. Featuring a stellar performance by Jack Donner as Dr. Muñoz, Cool Air remains a haunting reminder of the power of the human will.
- DirectorRuairi RobinsonStarsJim BradyPeter O'MearaAn investigator investigating the disappearance of a previous investigator runs into a spot of bother involving things that are not quite dead.
- DirectorRicardo HarringtonStarsRodrigo SepúlvedaLuis AlarcónFernando GallardoA journalist sets out to uncover the truth about the death of his colleague who was researching an American artist, Richard Upton Pickman. When he discovers the artist is in Santiago he goes to pay him a visit.
- DirectorDamian HeffernanStarsPaul DouglasMelissa GeorgiouMalcolm MillerDan Upton is concerned about the influence of a young woman upon his friend Edward Derby. While a series of dismemberment killings in Arkham seems to be linked to a Cthulhu cult in nearby Innsmouth and Dunwich.
- DirectorJamie PayneStarsPaul DarrowGerrard McArthurTim KirbyPlugging nicely into the RPG world of Delta Green, Rough Magik is about The Night Scholars, a clandestine organization setup to monitor the ancient cult of Cthulhu. After decades of compiling an enormous database of arcane information, they have come to a single, incontrovertible conclusion: the Sleeping God is waking. Diana Armitage, with the help of her Home Office liaison, the mysterious Mr. Moon, launch an aggressive campaign against the Dreamers. This operation, designated the Rough Magik initiative, was successful but they trod on the toes of some powerful people, amidst accusations of financial impropriety and possible treason, and the Night Scholars were disbanded. Now years later, the old magic is returning, the Sleeping God is rising, and there are more Dreamers than Mr. Moon can handle as he struggles to rebuild the Night Scholars before its too late.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsEzra GoddenFrancisco RabalRaquel MeroñoA boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring.Despite the name it is an adaptation of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" and a pretty good one at that.
- DirectorJeremy KastenStarsAndras JonesSeth GreenJeffrey CombsAn amnesiac awakens in an asylum for the criminally insane and must find answers as those around him die one by one.
- DirectorAaron VanekStarsShawna WaldronDale SnowbergerDavid ReynoldsA young art gallery owner, facing bankruptcy, dreams about a painter, who she discovers actually exists. She tracks him down in a dilapidated hotel and asks him to show at her gallery. He agrees, provided she poses for him.Based on Robert Chamber's story of the same name and his work was a big influence on Lovecraft.
On The Weird Tale Collection, Volume 1: The Yellow Sign and Others - DirectorVince D'AmatoStarsLigaya AllmerGregory PierobonLisa HudsonHostess Miss Ligaya introduces a horror anthology consisting of four stories. SF tale 'Take it as it comes'. The murderous 'Dead Head'. 'Six shots at dawn' featuring 'Re-animator' Herbert West and vampire story 'Hell and Back'.
- DirectorIvan ZucconStarsMichael SegálEmanuele CermanRoberta MarrelliA band of humans seek The Necronomicon in order to destroy the Old Ones whose evil is wrecking the Earth.
- DirectorSebastian GutierrezStarsRufus SewellCarla GuginoJim PiddockIn Ireland, two carnies abduct a mermaid and decide to take her to America. In their sea route, the seductive and mysterious creature reveals an uncontrollable darker side.
- DirectorChristian MatzkeStarsDan HarrodChristian MatzkeMichael KristanIn the early 1920s a traveling show comes to Arkham led by the mysterious Nyarlathotep. Like much of the population of Arkham young Dr Burke goes to see the show - but finds neither the show nor the showman are what they seem.On The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWijkeEzCb8 - DirectorAnthony PentaStarsScott Alan HoyeAn antiquarian tries to rid himself of a rare, albeit cursed book. The story unfolds in the telling of the alphabet, ala Ed Gorey.On The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 1
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1KZpNM4UTM - DirectorBob FuggerStarsPaul AbbottRene DeFazioGeoff EdwardsMiles, Ronnie and Billy are three criminals fleeing the law. When they stop off in the town of Kingsport they notice that an old man pays for his cup of coffee with a gold coin and plan to rob him - but they are in for a surprise.
- DirectorJulien LacombePascal SidStarsRomain ChesnelHenri DebeurmeAxel DrheyAn archaeological excavation uncovers a manuscript written by a Roman commander in Gaul. Most of the local tribes have been pacified but every year terrible hill people ravage the area. The Romans set out to crush them.
- DirectorEric ValetteStarsGérald LarochePhilippe LaudenbachClovis CornillacFour prisoners find an ancient diary in the wall of their cell which might be the key to getting out.
- DirectorRobert HarmonStarsLaura ReganMarc BlucasEthan EmbryA psychology student finds all her childhood fears and phobias becoming real after a traumatic event.
- DirectorJeremy HechlerStarsE. Dale SmithScott SwansonMariam HembrookWilliam is a down on his luck druggie in Paris. He takes a room in a seedy boarding house after being mugged for drugs in the street. As the pain of withdrawl racks his feeble body, he hears a strange and wonderful cure coming from the room above his: The sound of a violin. The instrument is played by a girl painfully shy, mute and terrified to open the window in her garret room, for to open it means destruction for her. originally performed as a play, the film version captures all of the atmosphere, mystery and fear of the play. E. Dale Smith playes the luckless William, while the role of Erica Zann is played by two actresses: One represents the mute violinist herself, the other the voice within yearning to get out.
- DirectorJason SolesStarsMichael GravesAnn KoiAlaineThe Resurrectionist is a horror western chronicling the exploits of grave robber Ezekiel Sutter as he delves into a mystery that threatens his very soul.First shown at the 2002 HP Lovecraft Film Festival.