It has a reputation for being impossible to adapt, and it is not for less: HP Lovecraft’s work is as personal and influential as it is complex to put into images. Dreamlike descriptions, impossible monsters, stories almost without action… but some hapless have tried and, although many have fallen prey to feverish dreams and unintelligible babbling, others have come to fruition.
From a hilarious zombie satire to film noir with Lovecraft himself
There’s more to Lovecraft than tentacled giants, and some of our guests on today’s video know it well. he is also underground sex, dark populations, bottomless abysses, cosmic panic and, why not, something of sarcastic humor about fatality and the useless metaphysical kicking of humans. We have reviewed those who best understood it… and knew how to translate it into images.
From the brutal comedy of ‘Re-Animator’ to the clash with Edgar Allan Poe in ‘The Palace of the Spirits’, from Lovecraft himself turned into a character from a black series in ‘Lethal Spell’ to the madness in its purest form of the unknown ‘Necronomicon’ ‘. Each one with his vision, these 11 films have tried to give shape to what does not have it. In the new installment of ‘Everything is a lie in film and television’, the best adaptations of HP Lovecraft.
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