Showing posts with label H.P. Lovecraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label H.P. Lovecraft. Show all posts

Monday, July 14, 2025

Even now, when time has dulled the impression and made me half question my own experience and horrible doubts, there are things in that letter of Akeley’s which I would not quote


THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS

2011
Directed Sean Branney
Written by Andrew Leman and Sean Branney (based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft)

plus "The Call of Cthulhu" (2005), written and directed by same

Spoilers: moderate

Saturday, June 29, 2024

American Gothic Week: The dreams were meanwhile getting to be atrocious


CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTAR
aka The Crimson Cult

1968
Directed by Vernon Sewell
Written by Jerry Sohl, Mervyn Haisman, and Henry Lincoln (based on "The Dreams In the Witch House" by H.P. Lovecraft)

Spoilers: moderate

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

An obscene and zestful irony


SUITABLE FLESH

2023
Directed by Joe Lynch
Written by Dennis Paoli (based on the story "The Thing On the Doorstep" by H.P. Lovecraft)

Spoilers: moderate

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

American Gothic Week: From a mere eccentricity to a dark mania


THE HAUNTED PALACE

1963
Directed by Roger Corman
Written by Charles Beaumont (based on the novella "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by H.P. Lovecraft plus eight lines of the poem "The Haunted Palace" by Edgar Allan Poe)

Spoilers: moderate

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Purple prose


COLOR OUT OF SPACE

2020
Directed by Richard Stanley
Written by Scarlett Amaris and Richard Stanley (based on the short story "The Colour Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft)

Spoiler alert: moderate