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H.P. Lovecraft
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H.P. Lovecraft
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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
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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
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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
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Sunday, October 8, 2023
American Gothic Week: Of Their semblance no man may know, saving only in the features They have begotten on mankind; and of those there are many sorts, differing in likeness from man's truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them
THE DUNWICH HORROR
1970
Directed by Daniel Haller
Written by Curtis Hanson, Henry Rosenbaum, and Ronald Silkosky (based on the short story by H.P. Lovecraft)
Spoilers: maybe kind of high?
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Saturday, March 18, 2023
American Gothic Week: Fragments as our universe must needs disown
DIE, MONSTER, DIE!
1965
Directed by Daniel Haller
Written by Jerry Sohl (based on "The Colour Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft)
Spoilers: moderate
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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
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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
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