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Showing posts with label lovecraft. Show all posts

Saturday, March 15, 2014

RIP H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft died today in 1937.  He is one of my favorite horror story creators and truly mastered his craft.  I am going to post some of his audio books and stories based on his works so you can watch them and enjoy them this weekend!


 
This is, of course the basis for The ReAnimator Series as well as the basis for The Resurrected aka Shatterbrain.  The ReAnimator is available on Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video as well as on Vudu.  
The Resurrected aka Shatterbrain is available on Vudu as well as Amazon Instant Video.  You can find the appropriate links in the post below if you are interested in renting either of them.  
OVGuide.com also has the appropriate links listed here.  Its a handy little guide for finding free movies and where to rent ones that aren't free.

Its gonna take you to another post on my blog I had previously written, because if you often read my blog, you know what a fangirl I am!

Here, you just hit the mother-load, because you can watch The H.P. Lovecraft Documentary, Fear of the Unknown by clicking here as well as
Late Bloomer - the Short Film - from The Sundance Film Festival
Late Bloomer is a compelling and humorous short film about 7th grade sex ed class gone horribly wrong, which is loosely based on the dark tales of H.P. Lovecraft.
It received the 

Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Lake Placid Film Festival

Best Short Film at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
.

In the aforementioned post, you can also watch 
And I have yet more up my sleeve, mo foes...

You can watch the film adaptation of  

The Call of the Cthulhu (2005) -  The sailors aboard the Emma first encounter the Alert abandoned at sea, rather than crewed by Cthulhu cultists and taken over by Emma's crew after a violent confrontation as in the original story. Additionally, the film depicts the narrator present at the time of his great-uncle's death, who dies peacefully in his sleep, rather than being summoned upon the mysterious death of his great-uncle, who was presumably killed by Cthulhu cultists in the original short story.

The narrator notes as well that Inspector Legrasse, who had directed the raid on cultists in backwoods Louisiana, had died before the narrator's investigation began.
In the original story, the narrator does not seem to end in a lunatic asylum or experience any mysterious nightmares himself.  Its shot in black and white and given the mood as if it was shot long ago despite the fact that its a relatively "new" film.

To view this free, short (47 minutes) Lovecraft-based flick click here.



Lastly, you can check out Masters of Horror's (mini movie short) - Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch House (watch it here, free.)

Saturday, December 28, 2013

The Resurrected - 1991 Lovecraft Adaptation Flick

The Resurrected (Shatterbrain), not to be confused with "The Re-animator", which is based on the H.P. Lovecraft's Story, "Herbert West: Re-animator", is based on Lovecraft's other short story, which has a similar theme, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".  In my youth, I sometimes confused the two and melded them together, although the two films differ entirely in tone and obviously in context.


The Resurrected was released directly to video in 1991 and I remember renting it on VHS quite fondly as a matter of fact.  It stars Chris Sarandon (the vampire from the original Fright Night), as both Charles Dexter Ward and his "evil twin ancestor", Joseph Curwen.



My brother's name is Joseph, and he too can be evil, although we look nothing alike so I cannot say he is my evil twin, just Evil Sibling II, in which I refer to him and he refers to me as Sibling I.  Our parents are referred to as "the units" as in "the parental units".  I will say that my brother has way better dental hygiene than this guy's evil twin.

In the interest of time and further clarity, I will quote Wikipedia to describe the basic premise of the film.

" Claire Ward hires private investigator, Terry, to look into the increasingly bizarre activities of her husband, Charles Dexter Ward as he has become obsessed with the occult practices of necromancy once practiced by his ancestor, Joseph Curwen.  As the investigators dig deeper, they discover that Ward is performing a series of grisly experiments in an effort to actually resurrect his long-dead relative Curwen.".

Check out the trailer below, weee hawww!

This is another one that's hard to find as it went straight to video when it was released.



You can obtain a copy of 
if you still have a VCR. 

 

is also available here on DVD, but its kinda pricy due to its rarity. 


If you haven't had the joy of reading the H.P. Lovecraft book on which this flick is loosely based, its called,
"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward",
and can be obtained for $.99 by clicking on the image below!



You can also rent The Resurrected on VUDU for $2.99 here.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

RIP Karen Black, Happy Birthday H.P. Lovecraft!


Oddly enough, today is H.P. Lovecraft's birthday. Karen Black just died. Speaking of Karen Black, one of my favorite films of all time, where horror is concerned is Trilogy of Terror, which features Karen Black as a different character in all three stories in the trilogy film. Its a good flick and I always remember it fondly!




Sunday, July 8, 2012

H.P. Lovecraft Documentary - Watch It Free!!!

An in-depth look at H.P. Lovecraft, the forefather of modern horror fiction and inspiration to such writers as Stephen King, Robert Bloch and Neil Gaiman.
H.P. Lovecraft was the forefather of modern horror fiction having inspired such writers as Stephen King, Robert Bloch and Neil Gaiman. The influence of his Cthulhu mythos can be seen in film (Re-Animator, Hellboy, and Alien), games (The Call of Cthulhu role playing enterprise), music (Metallica, Iron Maiden) and pop culture in general. But what led an Old World, xenophobic gentleman to create one of literature's most far-reaching mythologies? What attracts even the minds of the 21st century to these stories of unspeakable abominations and cosmic gods? Lovecraft: Fear Of The Unkown is a chronicle of the life, work and mind that created these weird tales as told by many of today's luminaries of dark fantasy including John Carpenter, Guillermo Del Toro, Neil Gaiman, Stuart Gordon, Caitlin Kiernan, and Peter Straub.


Late Bloomer is a compelling and humorous short film about 7th grade sex ed class gone horribly wrong. Loosely based on the dark tales of H.P. Lovecraft.

Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Lake Placid Film Festival

Best Short Film at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
.

 

H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993)

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

More Underrated Masterpieces - Masters of Horror

Hackel's Tale - Tasty necromancy at its best! Ever love someone so much you would dig them up if they died, bring them back to life, just so you can get it on or even just lay next to them, decisions, decisions...How much do we adore Clive Barker?




Family - You normal, middle-aged family man neighbor has some secrets, and you might not like them. He's a "family" man, and takes his til death do us part vows seriously, beyond death, really....





Imprint - OOOOh, disturbing hooker, well, more like a Geisha, with a heart of gold is horribly deformed, with a split face, one on each side, one beautiful, one horribly ugly. Nevertheless, she's sweet and entertaining, so she gets customers. She's got some secrets, and oh does she have a story to tell!


Watch it here!

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