John Carpenter’s In The Mouth of Madness is a really odd movie in that the more you view it, the better it gets (which is curious, considering the story). It revolves around an insurance investigator, John Trent (Sam Neill), who’s hired to find a missing author, Sutter Cane (Jürgen Prochnow, who combines the prolificness of […]
At the Mountains of Madness may make it to the screen after all, though whether little or big is anybody’s guess. In an Indiewire interview Guillermo del Toro talks about his upcoming Pinocchio on Netflix and how animation (of the stop motion variety) inspired his work in live action. Pinocchio was Guillermo del Toro’s stop […]
Freeze is based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft and like most such adaptations, my expectations are not high. This is because by my reckoning most people that adapt Lovecraft don’t understand Lovecraft (kind of like when Zach Snyder was at the helm of DC’s live action efforts. You could feel the contempt he had […]
It’s interesting to me that a series overseen by Guillermo Del Toro, who has yet to get his interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness off the ground, would have not only one, but two adaptations of Lovecraft-penned stories and they’re somehow the weakest episodes thus far. Though keep in mind that the […]
Recently I watched Chad Ferrin’s H.P. Lovecraft’s The Deep Ones and it made me realize something, namely the better adaptations – or maybe those with the most notoriety – were directed by Stuart Gordon (Herbert West: Reanimator, From Beyond, Dagon, Castle Freak), none of which were particularly faithful to the material they were based on. […]
H.P. Lovecraft is an interesting writer in I suspect that if it weren’t for his racism his writing wouldn’t have been as memorable, as haunting as it is. Because underlying his eldritch horrors is a fear of the unknown, of terrors beyond comprehension, an “other” which if you look deeper you’ll likely realize are inferences […]
I’ve always been interested in quirky and idiosyncratic movie directors – though not always their personal lives – people that no matter what they’re doing bring their own distinct flavor and point of view to the project. That’s the case with artists (not a word I throw around lightly. Just because you’re a director doesn’t […]
Guillermo Del Toro always ranked particularly high in my hierarchy of directors, so when I heard he was developing a movie based on a staple of anime – giant robots – I was so there. And Pacific Rim (2013) didn’t disappoint, though what surprised me was how much heart the movie had. And sure some […]
I tend to dislike reboots with a passion because – more often than not – they tend to either be cynical money grabs or retreads of what we’ve already seen. In other words, typically wastes of time. For instance the reboot of Total Recall (2012) wasn’t terrible but the original, directed by Paul Verhoeven (Robocop), […]
Stuart Gordon’s Castle Freak is not The Outsider – the story by H.P. Lovecraft’s short story that it’s based upon – though it is interesting in it’s own right. It takes the essential essence of Lovecraft’s story – a being separate from humanity due to his alienness (it’s always a “he” with Lovecraft) – a […]
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