lovecraft for the rest of us
A list for viewers who enjoy respectful and mature adaptions of Lovecraft's work.
Ignore the numbering, it's really in no particular order.
Ignore the numbering, it's really in no particular order.
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- 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.
- DirectorJared SkolnickStarsBob DiamondChristopher SheltonRonald E. GilesA student is intrigued by the hauntingly beautiful music coming from the room above his. He finds that an eccentric German violinist, Erich Zann, is responsible but that there is a terrible secret behind his music.
- DirectorIvan ZucconStarsGiuseppe LorussoFederica QuaglieriEmanuele CermanBased on an H.P. Lovecraft tale, THE SHUNNED HOUSE is the story of Alex and his girlfriend, Rita, who enter a decaying inn to investigate a series of gruesome and unexplained murders from the distant past.
- DirectorGary FierroConor TimmisStarsConor TimmisKris KeyesIan MacDonaldHaving regained the key to the gate of dreams, a lonely Randolph Carter leaves behind the prosiness of the waking world forever and crosses into the realm of dreams.
- DirectorBrian McGleenonStarsRory CaseyTommy KnightClem TibberA boy follows his two friends on a late night adventure... but not everything is as it seems.
- 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.
- DirectorChristopher James JordanGary LobsteinStarsJohn DedekeMike JordanA live action adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name.
- DirectorMatt HundleyStarsAlan CarrollMatt HundleyKen MacGregorA hermit living in the 1920's, discovers a race of aliens plot to enslave mankind with a horrible mind control.
- 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.
- DirectorMark Philip LichtensteinStarsPippa Bennett-WarnerRichard David-CaineJoseph ElliottWhen a rich patron visits the studio of the depraved artist Pickman, he is horrified to discover the sinister source of her inspiration. Adapted from the H. P. Lovecraft story of the same title.
- DirectorJohn MoreheadStarsRichard BlairRoki EdwardsKhalid RobinsonThe Statement of Randolph Carter is a short film based upon the H.P. Lovecraft short story of the same name. In it, novice occultist and academic, Randolph Carter, is questioned by the police when his friend and mentor Harley Warren turns up missing.
- DirectorPeter RhodesA prophet who longed to look upon his deities. A daunting journey to a mountain peak. A confrontation with gods too powerful to name.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsEzra GoddenCampbell LaneJay BrazeauA graduate student questions his sanity after he rents a room in an old boarding house which was the residence of a 17th-century witch, and he discovers that the evil forces still roam within the walls.
- 1969–197359mTV-PG7.7 (410)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.
- 1969–1973TV-PG7.2 (353)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.
- DirectorJohn TzouvelekisStarsCassandra ChronopoulouAngelos GklinavosAris KaplanidisBased on H.P. Lovecraft's work, Shadow Beyond Time tells the story of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, an Arkham-born prodigy. At age 22, he becomes the youngest associate professor in the history of Miskatonic University. His bright future is disrupted when he falls into a coma, from which he won't seem to recover. That doesn't mean that his body doesn't wake up in the hospital, however, although that being is clearly not Nathaniel. 5 years later, Nathaniel returns to his body and from that moment on he begins an intense search to discover what happened to him. That's when disturbing visions begin to haunt him- visions that uncover things not only from his immediate past, but also from his own bloodline...
- DirectorAndrew LemanStarsMatt FoyerJohn BolenRalph LucasWhile sorting the affairs of his late Uncle, a man accidentally stumbles across a series of dark secrets connected to an ancient horror waiting to be freed.
- 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.
- DirectorDan GildarkStarsJason CottleCasey CurranEthan AtkinsonA Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reaquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has a long-awaited tryst. Caught in an accelerating series of events, he discovers aspects of his father's New Age cult which take on a dangerous and apocalyptic significance.