Got excited when he mentioned "cast a deadly spell" as it influenced one of my favorite book series, The Dresden Files. WHERE MY DRESDEN FILES FANS AT?!
When I was a teenager I wrote a screenplay for a documentary style film that would basically be the last third of the call of Cthulhu on film, i wish I could find it
Hellboys comics are set in the mythos world and the movies use designs based on geigers philosiphy of design and geigers whole design philosophy is based off of lovecraft, have no summetry, and make things alternate sizes so something always feels off when you look at it, even if you cant place why. I mean geigers design opus is called geigers necronomicon hes so influenced
It will take CGI on another level for us to see a proper Lovecraft film. The structures must look...wrong. The audience must look at a pillar and feel that it shouldn't be. That's not happening any time soon...if ever.
it will never happen, the point of lovecraft's monsters is that the moment you gaze upon them, your mind will break and you will lose your sanity, even if movies were able to do this in the future, they wouldnt put it ion the public lmao itll be a torture device if anything
Reiju That's not true, really. Quite a few creatures are seen without the viewer going mad. Shoggoths, Elder Things, Yithians, etc... Besides, Lovecraft never gave the mind enough credit. It has defenses for that sort of crap. Like blocking the image out.
Well Lovecraft does cover quite a bit in his stories the human brain being unable to comprehend and register what it has just seen and the narrator's recollection of the unseen being just on the edge of their memory but not enough to completely recollect it.
TheBlues32 I would direct your attention to the most recent trailer for the upcoming video game "Call of Cthulhu". It might well change your mind on landscapes with an inherent wrongness about it not being able to be done.
Don't know about that. It would actually be a great use of bad 3d/cgi effects to have something be there, but look like it shouldn't. Perhaps the current Lovecraft movies just haven't been the right *kind* of low-budget in certain areas.
The entire dark tower is just a loving nod to lovecraft, from the spider bad wolf creattures, to the unknowable tentacle creatures in the lakes of blood, to the sppace vampires that eat souls and change shape, to the giant tower that has always been but was never built that is watched by nameless faceless beings, flagg or "the man in black" is good old nyarli, thats basically told in eyes of the dragon, and the low men are eldtitch beings that wear the skin of humans to find anyone who has seen the weirdness, oh and dont forget the hoise in salem where a "book of the dead" was found that literally turned the house into a monster
5:20 What’s infuriating about that movie is that it was canned because of Prometheus. The amount of similarities made the studio skeptical that viewers could recognize the chicken/egg nature, despite Scott stating in interviews that the original book was a huge influence. The black goo, tentacled blob, and malignant intelligent design are all present in both but I guess Scott did it first.
That's a shame. Prometheus really demonstrated that it was the writers of Alien and not Ridley Scott that actually understood how cosmic horror worked...
I think part of the reason why films based on Lovecraft's stories are so few and far in between is because, to me at least, Lovecraft has always been treated as a cult icon. Even with his influence on sci-fi and horror, I feel like Lovecraft doesn't have the sort of mass appeal that Hollywood would want in order to bet on adapting his works to film. All the same, I wish Del Toro all the luck in the world. He's been well regarded in the past, and he's the closest chance we have to a Lovecraft film, and a good one at that.
Its not so much that hes a cult icon, its that his stories are too hard to transcribe into video believably, instead what we get is his monsters showing up or his designs of places and even the mood and fear, anything geiger related is lovecraftian to the core, and lovecraft permeates sci fi and horror movies and shows, but we may never see anl dreamworld of unknown kaddath, or the silver key, or the cats of ulthar, because even though the cgi is getting thwre (aquaman is full of lovecraft references) we may never be able to truly get the feeling of unknown horror on tv that does lovecraft justice
@@HovektheArtist their are some movies that pull off unknown horror can't remember what it was called it came out in the 2000's it was a horror fantasy but was sorta Lovecraftian the main issue is i think the stories are very complex some of them and overlap multiple plots that could be one movie so to put them all in would be a mess as for with a book you can get away with that alot more then in video
Personally, I find Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness to be one of the best additions to the Mythos ever put to the screen despite of never mentioning Cthulhu or other Lovecraft stuff. Also the Prince of Darkness is worth mentioning.
For anyone looking for a good adaptation of the universe, I really enjoyed the void. It’s got decent special effects. It’s got a lot of references to the mythos, and, my favorite part, seems to focus on beings other than cthulu.
Yeah, "Re-Animator" is completely devoid of reference to the mythos. It's purely science gone horribly wrong. "From Beyond" is closer to the mythos, talking of things that have always been there but remain unseen...but the creatures don't seem to be connected to Cthuhlu or its kind.
Yeah, "Re-Animator" is completely devoid of reference to the mythos. It's purely science gone horribly wrong. "From Beyond" is closer to the mythos, talking of things that have always been there but remain unseen...but the creatures don't seem to be connected to Cthuhlu or its kind.
Nah, it's based on a short story called "Who Goes There?". Very little Lovecraft here. Nothing is unknowable or maddening. It's just paranoia and distrust.
I think the film “Annihilation” is a pretty neat take on The colour out of space with its imagery and themes. Sure it very much starts sold sci-fi with subtext about leaving through a traumatic event but towards the end of the film the story goes completely psychedelic and you could take what happens literally or see the very clear subtext of that happened to the main character
your channel is really cool dude, i love HPL and all the weird cosmic horror stuff he came up with. it's cool to get to hear small overviews of different characters and aspects of the mythos.
Cthulhu also appeared in a film sequel called Valdemar II, where he was only on screen for about 5 minutes before he got dragged away by weird hell hands.
You mentioned Cast A Deadly Spell. Straight up, no one I know has ever heard of it and I keep trying to get people to watch it. It is so good in so many ways.
I must correct you here. Godzilla vs. Cthulhu was never going to be a movie. That poster was edited by someone on the Internet. Someone obviously thought it resembled Cthulhu and made it into a mock-up poster. The original poster was the American poster for Mothra vs. Godzilla, called Godzilla vs. The Thing in the American release. They wanted to keep her (Mothra) secret for the US release, to make it seem more exciting they called her The Thing and made the posters seem like she'd be a horrific, many-tentacled beast instead of what she really was. Just thought I'd let you know.
Not really. First of all Cthulhu's ability to make people go mad would never work on him. Godzilla has no fear and has no psychological breakdowns. Not to mention if you read the comic Godzilla in hell he has fight demons and gods. So yeah do not underestimate him.
John Reeves. Cthulhu is likely much larger than Godzilla, actual size is not mentioned, but Johanssen drove a steamship through Cthulhus head. If you need a steamship for that he's gotta be a big fella. Also, hard to kill, driving steamship through his nogging only stunned him and he was already regenerating as they sailed away. This was from "Call of Cthulhu" by Lovecraft.
Actually Godzilla is over 100 meters tall. There for a steam boat is even smaller in comparison. Besides size isn't a factor in Godzilla's case since he is strong enough to lift any Kaiju bigger and heavier than him off the ground with ease.
Sorry but ol G-zilla is being devoured or more likely ripped to shreds with no chance of ever being resurrected, Now, watch as the hope you have in this "king of monsters" as it tries to attack the Slumbering One, his atomic fire breath hitting him once before the great dreamer turns his attention towards this mindless monster trying to act some inane defender of humanity, C'thulu would reach down and grab this lumbering beast and proceed to twist it's body, not even one rotation and the "king of monsters" is twisted apart, blood spilling into the ocean as godzilla barely has a chance to scream in pain before his demise comes; and C'thulu's tentacle entrenched mouth would seep inside the the monster's body and inspect the inner workings of this now dead creature functioned. The carcass of the king of monsters upon splashing into the ocean creates a huge tidal wave as the ancient horror continues his rampage not even hindered by atomic fire breath or monster sized bench presses his awakening brings the world to eventual demise. Your king of monsters' remains slowly sink into the dark blue abyss, slowly turning it red as godzilla's blood continues spilling into the ocean; his remains are feasted upon by bottom dwellers. Godzilla is not match for the mind the H.P Lovecraft, least of all one of his most iconic creations of all time, as Godzilla is a creature with defined limitations whereas C'thulu has no known boundaries to which his godlike status is limited too, he has no limits because he is a from a very different genre from that of Godzilla.
charles herm In the mouth of madness is on yt and is a great movie, though is more about the ideas Lovecraft represented than any actual adaption. i heard it is more to do with the real cult phenomenon that lead people to believe Lovecrafts stories were real.
Event horizon is a really great film inspired by HPL. I thinkthe biggest issue with a HPL novel adaptation is that the moment you show the monster too much, you lose that horror.
Oktanas Ameno not really, but I just feel like a lot is lost translating it to film and video games, it takes people who know what they are doing to make it..
I'd agree with you when it comes to most things you pit Godzilla up against, and he does have some insane feats that would be on superhuman levels for his size, and when you really scale that up to the fact hes a massive creature Godzilla is pure ridiculousness. Not to mention he's basically a symbol for the sheer mass destruction and untamable force of nature that is an nuclear blast. However, Cthulu is basically an all powerful entity that makes human beings as insignificant as little bacteria floating around, and human beings are exactly of as much importance to Cthulu as bacteria floating around (which is none). Godzilla would probably be only worth slightly more interest than humans to a being like Cthulu. You don't fight Cthulu, you don't stand a chance. He could wipe out all of our existences with the bat of an eye, but he simply doesn't care. Part of the point of the lovecraft mythos is to make us feel very insignificant in the grand scheme of things going on in the universe. While Godzilla may be a being strong enough to make humans practically irrelevant, (except when they use their random movie science mumbo-jumbo to build ridiculous technologies and machines to fight him). he still isn't anywhere on the level of deities from the lovecraftian mythos. Something people tend to forget when matching up beings created by different writers is that these different writers wrote their characters and entities in for specific purposes in their stories. Cthulu makes human beings insignificant while Godzilla shows them the horror and destruction caused by nuclear weapons. These things were not made to fight eachother, and it's clear why one is marginally much greater than the other.
As a visual homage to Lovecraft one thing worth mentioning is Alan Moore's comic booker series Providence. Not a movie, but it's its a rather terrifying and unforgettable homage to Lovecraft and his creations.
When it comes to movies, In The Mouth of Madness is probably the best representation of Lovecraft’s work ever put into a film, and it’s not even an adaptation of one of his stories.
I really love this video series. It's not directly connected to the Mythos but The Thing has really Lovecraftian themes and imagery so I was surprised not to see it mentioned. I think Carpenter's The Thing captures the feel of a Lovecraft tale more so than any other high budget Hollywood movie and even more than Who Goes There? does, imo.
Damn im not gonna lie im pretty upset that you didnt talk about the Godzilla vs Cthulhu movie i know its more than likely a spoof in a sense of the mythos due to Godzillas campy nature i can definitely understand why but i cant lie id seriously would enjoy you diving into a Godzilla movie! Maybe you would want to make a super short series of Godzilla lore there really isnt a lot so i know you could blow through it easily and would do a great job doing it! I understand if you cant though not many people are Godzilla or kaiju fans in general as of late. Have a good one brotha! Im seriously enjoying all of your explorations series from start to finish! keep it up brotha! I absolutely love them and know many others who do too! Thank you for making all of these series and thank you for consistently continuing them! 💜
At the Mountains of Madness on the death stranding engine kojima is mad enough to do it, and clearly del-toro would. the focus on movement and harsh terrain would suit the engine perfectly, especially as they'd be using early 1900's equipment to do so. and the engine does black tar effects for the beached things so it could likely do a shoggoth really well too.
Holly shit, I actually watched The Haunted Palace back in 2013 by pure coincidance and I've spent the last 4 years trying to remember its name in order to watch the damn thing again, and now you saved me! Thank you man, I'll see if it's avaible on Netflix
Great video. 8f you haven't watched the Voif, you are missing out. One of the best movies, not just horror or cosmic horror to out in the last 30 years.
Worth checking out "Anihilation" on Netflix, which I think is based in "The color out of space". Meteorite falls on earth, spanning a weird color field, which spans and grows slowly day by day, causing mutations of any life within... worth checking :)
I think that movie is more related to H.R. Giger's work and style then it is to Lovecraft. Although Giger was probably inspired by Lovecraft, he still developed a style quite unique to his own. Lovecraft... just feels different.
@@MrDibara geigers style is based off of lovecrafts ideas, he has stated multiple times that his goal was to make lovecraftian ideas real, i mean his artbooks are called necronomicons and he has lovecraft books and journals that he looks through when designing monsters and aliens, if anyone is influenced by lovecraft it is geiger
Resolution is a very recent film that strongly embodies cosmic horror and lovecraft while being distinctly it's own thing. It's very good and I highly recommend it.
I was sad that you didn't name "The Unnamable" 1988. While it had some Lovcraftian bones it was a very loose but enjoyable introduction to Lovecraft in film.
ive seen a few of these. i loved the theme music to " the haunted palace". i think that the reason there are so few, realy good adaptions of HPLovecraft stories in films is because the complex, & barely describable forms of his god like, ancient aliens, would be almost impossible to create on film, even with modern CGI techniques. its easy to make a big, dusty, ancient looking book, to be used as the Necronomican, but not so easy to create the bizzare creatures it describes!
Messiah of Evil was another (though loose) Innsmouth adaptation, and features some beautifully freaky scenes. The story behind the making of the film is also interesting.
So I know this came out much after this video but annihilation was a good adaptation of the color and I didnt realize that's what it was til you described it
It would be fantastic to see an actual Cthulhu-film, made by the biggest studios and the biggest budget and talent. While staying as true to the story as can be. I'm far from the only one who genuinely wants this. There has been good attempts and I udnerstand the issue, but it's so iconic and the fanbase is vast. I crave it. And please show Cthulhu is the visually best way possible.
I always consider alien and the thing from 1982 as strong lovecraft like horrors, they share a lot of traits with his works despite not being directly tied to them
The HP Lovecraft Historical Society did a great adaptation of the Testimony of Randolph Carter, probably my favourite method story! It's low budget, but very enjoyable all the same!
Maybe a video series on those inspired by Lovecrafts work? John Carpenter's The Thing is probably the best tribute ever to Lovecraft themes on forbidden knowledge, isolation and group dynamics. I mean the scientist is driven mad by staring at the Thing's cells and turn on the group, destroying the radio equipment! Seems pretty Lovecraft to me.
6 years late to the party but Color Out of Space starring Nicholas Cage from 2019 is an excellent adaptation and although taking place in a more modern era, captures that eldritch and body horror that Lovecraft implemented. I highly recommend it
"G.I. Joe" hinted at it in an episode where the last act took place in Destro's Scottish dungeon. "Heavy Metal" had the Ulatek worshippers ( _Cthulhu_ backwards). Marvel Comics had Shuma Gorath. Tobin's Spirit Guide from "The Real Ghostbusters" also made references to the Lovecraftian creatures.
I watched The Curse right after watching this video. Well I skimmed it through on youtube because I already read the short story. It was quite amusing haha. And I have In the Mouth of Madness available. I might watch it tomorrow night when I have time!
"In the Mouth of Madness" is a head trip. You gotta watch closely to catch everything. In particular, observe the close ups of faces to see if you can spot something...off.
I have just found a very strange Cthulhu mythos movie it's supposed to take place in Hp lovecrafts childhood, dealing with the apparently immortal Abdul alhazred. This movie is called Howard lovecraft and the undersea kingdom. Cthulhu is also a supporting character.
The 1982 movie, THE BEAST WITHIN, is also a very loose adaptation of the Charles Dexter Ward story. Also, DIE MONSTER DIE! was an attempt to do THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE.
The only Cthulhu mythos movies I have ever been happy with were the ones made by the HPL Society. Both are outstanding, and I really want to see them do more.
Its probably been said below, but I believe a good and faithful adaptation of a Cthulhu Mythos story can be done if both Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro were to work on it jointly. Peter (with help from Fran Walsh) has shown that he can put something to film once thought to be more or less impossible, and like Guillermo he started in low budget horror films, so he has a soft spot for such stuff. Its also telling that when the film makers of The Hobbit thought they couldn't get Peter back, their first choice was Guillermo.
there is a German adaptation of "The Color from space" from 2010 called "Die Farbe" (the color). It's in black and white exept for the color, and it's a very close to the original adaptation. Another great German production is Shadow of the Unnamable from 2011. It was also dubbed in English.
Cthulhu, done right (of course) would fit well with the current giant monster craze, since there’s no one bigger and no one badder. A Mythos story (done right, again) could also pay handsome dividends in the psychological horror films regarded today as the height of the art.
A recent addition and definite faithful adaptation was The Color Out of Space with Nicolas Cage. Just throwing that in there. Also great narrations, big fan of Lovecraftian material.
You missed one of my favorites, although not surprising its not a well known film. There's an animated adaptation of "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath." What's really cool about it is the animation style is very similar (and deliberately I think) to the style of the old Reading Rainbow segments. Very faithful and well done. I think though my favorite Lovecraftian movie is still "In the Mouth of Madness." Yeah its not a single story from Lovecraft's work but it captures the feeling of the Mythos better I think then any of the adaptations i"ve seen (granted I haven't seen them all).
Legendary Pictures' Monsterverse franchise has some Lovecraftian elements and influences as well, especially Godzilla: King Of The Monsters. The official prequel novel 'Godzilla: Aftershock' further explores Godzilla's possible ancestor who's name happens to be Dagon and who the Phoenicians believed to be their God. The Titans in the movie were often considered and worshipped as Gods by ancient civilizations as explained by Serizawa and Chen. Let's not forget the Hollow Earth scene where there's an ancient underwater city that shows murals depicting humans worshipping Godzilla. And lastly, Titanus Scylla, one of the new Titans created for the Monsterverse, kinda does resemble Cthulhu and Cthylla; and director Michael Dougherty stated that he created Scylla to "indulge" his interest into the Cthulhu Mythos. I say its safe to say that the Monsterverse has Lovecraftian elements.
I can't imagine a truly faithful visual adaptation of Lovecraft's work will ever surface. Many of the stories deal with Extra-dimensional concepts and non-euclidean space. Not really things you can easily represent in film.
I think the problem is you have to not directly show the monster. Bird Box did it, The Blair Witch Project did it, I think a good film could be made if you heavily suggest that there is a Great Old One or Outer God, but never show it, or only partially show it.
surprisingly, non-Euclidean space would actually be the easiest thing to show on film. All you have to do is...literally film anything three dimensional in our universe. Non-Euclidean geometry is just geometry on a curved surface, like the planet Earth, or anything affected by the curvature of spacetime, aka, gravity. Lovecraft didn't know what Non-Euclidean geometry meant because he stopped studying it at a young age, and because he didn't understand it, he imagined it to be much more horrifying than it is.
Recently a Colour out of Space adaptation came out. And the diretcor said that this is the first installment of Lovecraft adaptions. He said that the second will be the Dunwich Horror. I didn't watched any of them, but I thought it would be good for you to know.
Might I suggest watching a movie currently on Netflix called The Void. Although not a direct adaptation, it’s one of the best films to capture the spirit of the mythos in my opinion
Have you checked the movie Die Farbe, it's a very interesting adaptation of the color out of space. It changes some parts of the story but it's faithfull to the themes in the mythos. I think the group that filmed that movie is going to film another one.
nice, list I also liked Unnameable part one , part 2 for a much lesser extent, From Beyond, Castle Freak, and Bleeders was... different. but at least in Tone I LOVED John Carpenter's Apocalypse trilogy. (The Thing, Prince Of Darkness and Mouth Of Madness) great list, thanks for the videos, gonna check out the Haunted Palace now. seen all the rest and think this is a great list. keep it up.
There's a pretty decent film from 1991 called The Resurrected (sometimes also called Shatterbrain) which is a pretty faithful adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Although it does take liberties and condense many things together, it's a solid movie.
The ending quote is pretty good. I plan to discuss a guy who tried to work together Lovecraft stories as the basis of an alternative faith to Judaism or Christianity on Sunday.
The Haunted Palace is actually a pretty good movie. A few of Lovecraft's stories were also adapted for Rod Serling's Night Gallary (Cool Air and Pickman's Model are all I remember), although I suppose these aren't Mythos stories per say.
Here are some smaller, indie ones, on vimeo: vimeo.com/ondemand/hanswagner "Why Hans Wagner hates the starry sky" is a movie about a very lonely guy with anxiety issues who has to leave his house sober for the first time in years, experiences fear, disgust, shame and many more emotions on his way to the supermarket, where he immediately falls in love with the cashier and becomes best friends with a hobo. From there, his life slowly transforms into a Lovecraftian nightmare. A horror comedy that, though very ironic, is all about the spirit of Lovecraft's horror writing. It's in Grmany, but it has English subtitles. vimeo.com/ondemand/cordeliaskinder "Cordelias Children" After murdering her husband, mob leader Cordelia has to deal with her daughter, who is a contract killer and suspects her, the police investigating, her late husband's ghost haunting the house and her teenage son, who has just fallen in love with a callboy and opened the gates of hell in the family's basement. Loosely connected to "Hans Wagner", this is another movie with a Lovecraftian threat lurking in the dark. And it also has subtitles. vimeo.com/ondemand/zeckenkommandovscthulhu "Zeckenkommando vs. Cthulhu" This one doesn't have subtitles yet, but if you understand Germand and would like to see a small town punk band battling a sinister conspiracy of Cthulhu-worshippers, then this found footage movie is for you!
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Got excited when he mentioned "cast a deadly spell" as it influenced one of my favorite book series, The Dresden Files. WHERE MY DRESDEN FILES FANS AT?!
I'd love a modern day Cthulhu movie if it was done right. But hollywood has a bad habit of making bad movies using good existing stories.
its there fetish :P
A movie about call of Cthulhu cant be done right. The movie Cthulhu makes his appearance is the moment that he's not scary anymore.
So you just go the Alien route and never have him on-screen.
wolverineminer that's I was thinking
Or have ominous lifting everywhere at that point
When I was a teenager I wrote a screenplay for a documentary style film that would basically be the last third of the call of Cthulhu on film, i wish I could find it
also Hellboy features heavy lovecraft elements and i also feel that " even horizon" has lovecraftian elements to it.
dude if you ask he is the inventor science fiction horror any film in that area will probabley owe something to him
event horriozon is what happens when you enter the warp without a geller field. please google that and look for warhammer if your not familiar
but war hammer was inspired heavily by Lovecraft too so....
Hellboys comics are set in the mythos world and the movies use designs based on geigers philosiphy of design and geigers whole design philosophy is based off of lovecraft, have no summetry, and make things alternate sizes so something always feels off when you look at it, even if you cant place why. I mean geigers design opus is called geigers necronomicon hes so influenced
Both "In The Mouth Of Madness" and "Event Horizon" were amazing, mind-twisting horror in a Lovecraftian vein. And both starred Sam Neil.
It will take CGI on another level for us to see a proper Lovecraft film. The structures must look...wrong. The audience must look at a pillar and feel that it shouldn't be. That's not happening any time soon...if ever.
it will never happen, the point of lovecraft's monsters is that the moment you gaze upon them, your mind will break and you will lose your sanity, even if movies were able to do this in the future, they wouldnt put it ion the public lmao itll be a torture device if anything
Reiju That's not true, really. Quite a few creatures are seen without the viewer going mad. Shoggoths, Elder Things, Yithians, etc... Besides, Lovecraft never gave the mind enough credit. It has defenses for that sort of crap. Like blocking the image out.
Well Lovecraft does cover quite a bit in his stories the human brain being unable to comprehend and register what it has just seen and the narrator's recollection of the unseen being just on the edge of their memory but not enough to completely recollect it.
TheBlues32 I would direct your attention to the most recent trailer for the upcoming video game "Call of Cthulhu". It might well change your mind on landscapes with an inherent wrongness about it not being able to be done.
Don't know about that. It would actually be a great use of bad 3d/cgi effects to have something be there, but look like it shouldn't. Perhaps the current Lovecraft movies just haven't been the right *kind* of low-budget in certain areas.
Stephen King did The Mist... pretty much a mythos type story connected to his Dark Tower series.
The entire dark tower is just a loving nod to lovecraft, from the spider bad wolf creattures, to the unknowable tentacle creatures in the lakes of blood, to the sppace vampires that eat souls and change shape, to the giant tower that has always been but was never built that is watched by nameless faceless beings, flagg or "the man in black" is good old nyarli, thats basically told in eyes of the dragon, and the low men are eldtitch beings that wear the skin of humans to find anyone who has seen the weirdness, oh and dont forget the hoise in salem where a "book of the dead" was found that literally turned the house into a monster
Pennywise can be nod to Nyarlathotep
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What’s infuriating about that movie is that it was canned because of Prometheus.
The amount of similarities made the studio skeptical that viewers could recognize the chicken/egg nature, despite Scott stating in interviews that the original book was a huge influence.
The black goo, tentacled blob, and malignant intelligent design are all present in both but I guess Scott did it first.
That's a shame. Prometheus really demonstrated that it was the writers of Alien and not Ridley Scott that actually understood how cosmic horror worked...
I think part of the reason why films based on Lovecraft's stories are so few and far in between is because, to me at least, Lovecraft has always been treated as a cult icon. Even with his influence on sci-fi and horror, I feel like Lovecraft doesn't have the sort of mass appeal that Hollywood would want in order to bet on adapting his works to film. All the same, I wish Del Toro all the luck in the world. He's been well regarded in the past, and he's the closest chance we have to a Lovecraft film, and a good one at that.
Its not so much that hes a cult icon, its that his stories are too hard to transcribe into video believably, instead what we get is his monsters showing up or his designs of places and even the mood and fear, anything geiger related is lovecraftian to the core, and lovecraft permeates sci fi and horror movies and shows, but we may never see anl dreamworld of unknown kaddath, or the silver key, or the cats of ulthar, because even though the cgi is getting thwre (aquaman is full of lovecraft references) we may never be able to truly get the feeling of unknown horror on tv that does lovecraft justice
@@HovektheArtist their are some movies that pull off unknown horror can't remember what it was called it came out in the 2000's it was a horror fantasy but was sorta Lovecraftian the main issue is i think the stories are very complex some of them and overlap multiple plots that could be one movie so to put them all in would be a mess as for with a book you can get away with that alot more then in video
Personally, I find Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness to be one of the best additions to the Mythos ever put to the screen despite of never mentioning Cthulhu or other Lovecraft stuff. Also the Prince of Darkness is worth mentioning.
I loved In the Mouth of Madness and agree that it's a very worthy addition.
For anyone looking for a good adaptation of the universe, I really enjoyed the void. It’s got decent special effects. It’s got a lot of references to the mythos, and, my favorite part, seems to focus on beings other than cthulu.
Out of all the channels Im subscribed to, these are the videos I look forward to the most. Thank you.
I'm glad to hear that.
loved the cthulhu vids, an't wait for lotr!
Cthulhu Mythos is hard make movie just as much Dante's inferno.
In the Mouth of Madness came awfully close.
Uhm, what about Re-animator and From beyond?
Unfortunately, neither are part of the Cthulhu Mythos.
I guess, they don't really deal with the deities and creatures of the mythos that much.
Yeah, "Re-Animator" is completely devoid of reference to the mythos. It's purely science gone horribly wrong.
"From Beyond" is closer to the mythos, talking of things that have always been there but remain unseen...but the creatures don't seem to be connected to Cthuhlu or its kind.
Yeah, "Re-Animator" is completely devoid of reference to the mythos. It's purely science gone horribly wrong.
"From Beyond" is closer to the mythos, talking of things that have always been there but remain unseen...but the creatures don't seem to be connected to Cthuhlu or its kind.
TheBlues32 Yeah, but it's loosely based on the story of similar title and is branded with Lovecraft's name.
I feel like John Carpenters The Thing is based off In The Mountains of Madness
Nah, it's based on a short story called "Who Goes There?". Very little Lovecraft here. Nothing is unknowable or maddening. It's just paranoia and distrust.
I know. I read the short story and I feel that was inspired by the The mountains of madness. and there's actually a lot of Lovecraft in both.
in inspiration I mean
In the mouth of madness. This is a tribute to HPL. I highly recomend this movie.
Not entirely true because the alien could influence dreams, specifically the doctor's. That's very Lovecraftian.
The Void is a very recent movie and is heavily based on Lovecraft
I think the film “Annihilation” is a pretty neat take on The colour out of space with its imagery and themes. Sure it very much starts sold sci-fi with subtext about leaving through a traumatic event but towards the end of the film the story goes completely psychedelic and you could take what happens literally or see the very clear subtext of that happened to the main character
your channel is really cool dude, i love HPL and all the weird cosmic horror stuff he came up with. it's cool to get to hear small overviews of different characters and aspects of the mythos.
Call of Cthulhu is one of the best book adaptations. Great work and heart put in this production.
Cthulhu also appeared in a film sequel called Valdemar II, where he was only on screen for about 5 minutes before he got dragged away by weird hell hands.
You mentioned Cast A Deadly Spell. Straight up, no one I know has ever heard of it and I keep trying to get people to watch it. It is so good in so many ways.
Color Out Of Space. Incredible. Nicolas Cage is a perfect fit with cosmic horror and the director is going to do Dunwich soon.
And two years later I can tell you, if you want a good lovecraft style movie, watch The Void. It's freaking incredible.
Love that last quote. And the video. And all your Lovecraft videos :)
I must correct you here. Godzilla vs. Cthulhu was never going to be a movie. That poster was edited by someone on the Internet. Someone obviously thought it resembled Cthulhu and made it into a mock-up poster.
The original poster was the American poster for Mothra vs. Godzilla, called Godzilla vs. The Thing in the American release. They wanted to keep her (Mothra) secret for the US release, to make it seem more exciting they called her The Thing and made the posters seem like she'd be a horrific, many-tentacled beast instead of what she really was. Just thought I'd let you know.
I'd kill for a Godzilla vs Cthulhu movie, even though Godzilla would be hopelessly outmatched IMHO. ;-)
Not really. First of all Cthulhu's ability to make people go mad would never work on him. Godzilla has no fear and has no psychological breakdowns. Not to mention if you read the comic Godzilla in hell he has fight demons and gods. So yeah do not underestimate him.
John Reeves. Cthulhu is likely much larger than Godzilla, actual size is not mentioned, but Johanssen drove a steamship through Cthulhus head. If you need a steamship for that he's gotta be a big fella. Also, hard to kill, driving steamship through his nogging only stunned him and he was already regenerating as they sailed away. This was from "Call of Cthulhu" by Lovecraft.
Actually Godzilla is over 100 meters tall. There for a steam boat is even smaller in comparison. Besides size isn't a factor in Godzilla's case since he is strong enough to lift any Kaiju bigger and heavier than him off the ground with ease.
Sorry but ol G-zilla is being devoured or more likely ripped to shreds with no chance of ever being resurrected,
Now, watch as the hope you have in this "king of monsters" as it tries to attack the Slumbering One, his atomic fire breath hitting him once before the great dreamer turns his attention towards this mindless monster trying to act some inane defender of humanity, C'thulu would reach down and grab this lumbering beast and proceed to twist it's body, not even one rotation and the "king of monsters" is twisted apart, blood spilling into the ocean as godzilla barely has a chance to scream in pain before his demise comes; and C'thulu's tentacle entrenched mouth would seep inside the the monster's body and inspect the inner workings of this now dead creature functioned. The carcass of the king of monsters upon splashing into the ocean creates a huge tidal wave as the ancient horror continues his rampage not even hindered by atomic fire breath or monster sized bench presses his awakening brings the world to eventual demise.
Your king of monsters' remains slowly sink into the dark blue abyss, slowly turning it red as godzilla's blood continues spilling into the ocean; his remains are feasted upon by bottom dwellers.
Godzilla is not match for the mind the H.P Lovecraft, least of all one of his most iconic creations of all time, as Godzilla is a creature with defined limitations whereas C'thulu has no known boundaries to which his godlike status is limited too, he has no limits because he is a from a very different genre from that of Godzilla.
3:45 I liked Dagon
me too. best Cthulhu mythos movie imo
charles herm In the mouth of madness is on yt and is a great movie, though is more about the ideas Lovecraft represented than any actual adaption. i heard it is more to do with the real cult phenomenon that lead people to believe Lovecrafts stories were real.
i think two films from this year have a lovecraftian element to them. A Cure For Wellness, and THE VOID
No mention of the Masters of Horror film-episode, "H.P. Lovecraft's Dreams in a Witch House"?
Event horizon is a really great film inspired by HPL. I thinkthe biggest issue with a HPL novel adaptation is that the moment you show the monster too much, you lose that horror.
I feel like lovecraft's stories should stick to literature because of the imagination factor that a book can create
But I also feel that video games have a great way of creating lovecraftian feel
It should be done only in books and video games.
Oktanas Ameno not really, but I just feel like a lot is lost translating it to film and video games, it takes people who know what they are doing to make it..
Ronemilix Tube For the film to work there must be a lot of dialog and Lovecraft work doesn't have enough of that.
Godzilla vs. C'thulu? Poor ol' Godzilla would be devoured in seconds.....
You clearly don't know Godzilla do you? Godzilla would destroy him...
He has feats that you wouldn't expect...
I'd agree with you when it comes to most things you pit Godzilla up against, and he does have some insane feats that would be on superhuman levels for his size, and when you really scale that up to the fact hes a massive creature Godzilla is pure ridiculousness. Not to mention he's basically a symbol for the sheer mass destruction and untamable force of nature that is an nuclear blast.
However, Cthulu is basically an all powerful entity that makes human beings as insignificant as little bacteria floating around, and human beings are exactly of as much importance to Cthulu as bacteria floating around (which is none). Godzilla would probably be only worth slightly more interest than humans to a being like Cthulu. You don't fight Cthulu, you don't stand a chance. He could wipe out all of our existences with the bat of an eye, but he simply doesn't care.
Part of the point of the lovecraft mythos is to make us feel very insignificant in the grand scheme of things going on in the universe. While Godzilla may be a being strong enough to make humans practically irrelevant, (except when they use their random movie science mumbo-jumbo to build ridiculous technologies and machines to fight him). he still isn't anywhere on the level of deities from the lovecraftian mythos.
Something people tend to forget when matching up beings created by different writers is that these different writers wrote their characters and entities in for specific purposes in their stories. Cthulu makes human beings insignificant while Godzilla shows them the horror and destruction caused by nuclear weapons. These things were not made to fight eachother, and it's clear why one is marginally much greater than the other.
Aye, people who claim Godzilla would 'win' (an amusing concept when discussing anything mythos related) are pretty much missing the point of Cthulhu.
John Reeves Godzilla < most ancient ones
Who is to say Godzilla is not Cthuhlu?
Wonderful! Keep them coming man!
As a visual homage to Lovecraft one thing worth mentioning is Alan Moore's comic booker series Providence.
Not a movie, but it's its a rather terrifying and unforgettable homage to Lovecraft and his creations.
Everyone needs to watch Color Out of Space (2019) its pretty dam close to the story
THE VOID may be not a full Lovecraftian film but it smells like a super lovecraftian thought
When it comes to movies, In The Mouth of Madness is probably the best representation of Lovecraft’s work ever put into a film, and it’s not even an adaptation of one of his stories.
I would love to see an attempt, it doesn't have to be big budget, just a faithful attempt at a classic short story.
After watching this series and then watching In the Mouth of Madness, I'd say heavily influence is putting it mildly.
Def worth mentioning Tru Detective Season 1 imo.
I really love this video series. It's not directly connected to the Mythos but The Thing has really Lovecraftian themes and imagery so I was surprised not to see it mentioned. I think Carpenter's The Thing captures the feel of a Lovecraft tale more so than any other high budget Hollywood movie and even more than Who Goes There? does, imo.
Damn im not gonna lie im pretty upset that you didnt talk about the Godzilla vs Cthulhu movie i know its more than likely a spoof in a sense of the mythos due to Godzillas campy nature i can definitely understand why but i cant lie id seriously would enjoy you diving into a Godzilla movie! Maybe you would want to make a super short series of Godzilla lore there really isnt a lot so i know you could blow through it easily and would do a great job doing it! I understand if you cant though not many people are Godzilla or kaiju fans in general as of late. Have a good one brotha! Im seriously enjoying all of your explorations series from start to finish! keep it up brotha! I absolutely love them and know many others who do too! Thank you for making all of these series and thank you for consistently continuing them! 💜
I loved cast a deadly spell. they could make a good show based on that now, with great practical effects.
It looks like the new movie "Annihilation" (2018) is also based on 'The Colour Out of Space'!
Legendary Pictures recently announced that they are making an anthology TV series based on His works! Get hyped!
Not really, they'll fuck it up.
Je Peralta what is it called
I'm interested to see they're take on Lovecraft's monsters.
At the Mountains of Madness on the death stranding engine
kojima is mad enough to do it, and clearly del-toro would.
the focus on movement and harsh terrain would suit the engine perfectly, especially as they'd be using early 1900's equipment to do so.
and the engine does black tar effects for the beached things so it could likely do a shoggoth really well too.
Holly shit, I actually watched The Haunted Palace back in 2013 by pure coincidance and I've spent the last 4 years trying to remember its name in order to watch the damn thing again, and now you saved me! Thank you man, I'll see if it's avaible on Netflix
I really liked your ending statement!
Great video. 8f you haven't watched the Voif, you are missing out. One of the best movies, not just horror or cosmic horror to out in the last 30 years.
love to see a big movie some day.
I really don't mind if a film adds to the story, as long as the soul is still there.
Worth checking out "Anihilation" on Netflix, which I think is based in "The color out of space". Meteorite falls on earth, spanning a weird color field, which spans and grows slowly day by day, causing mutations of any life within... worth checking :)
My opinion is that In the mouth of Madness is one of the best C'thulu films to date.
How about the first Alien movie?
I think that movie is more related to H.R. Giger's work and style then it is to Lovecraft. Although Giger was probably inspired by Lovecraft, he still developed a style quite unique to his own. Lovecraft... just feels different.
@@MrDibara maybe it feels that way because Giger worked on the designs in the first movie
@@ranwolf76 Exactly. Does it having a much closer feel to his style then to Lovecraft's, that's what i was saying.
@@MrDibara geigers style is based off of lovecrafts ideas, he has stated multiple times that his goal was to make lovecraftian ideas real, i mean his artbooks are called necronomicons and he has lovecraft books and journals that he looks through when designing monsters and aliens, if anyone is influenced by lovecraft it is geiger
@@HovektheArtist I know Giger is influenced by Lovecraft, but his style has become pretty much his own. It is unique.
Resolution is a very recent film that strongly embodies cosmic horror and lovecraft while being distinctly it's own thing. It's very good and I highly recommend it.
An update to this would be awesome.
I was sad that you didn't name "The Unnamable" 1988. While it had some Lovcraftian bones it was a very loose but enjoyable introduction to Lovecraft in film.
The HPLS "Whisperer in Darkness" is a truly disturbing take. You, dear reader, would seriously be doing yourself a favor by checking it out.
ive seen a few of these. i loved the theme music to " the haunted palace". i think that the reason there are so few, realy good adaptions of HPLovecraft stories in films is because the complex, & barely describable forms of his god like, ancient aliens, would be almost impossible to create on film, even with modern CGI techniques. its easy to make a big, dusty, ancient looking book, to be used as the Necronomican, but not so easy to create the bizzare creatures it describes!
Messiah of Evil was another (though loose) Innsmouth adaptation, and features some beautifully freaky scenes. The story behind the making of the film is also interesting.
So I know this came out much after this video but annihilation was a good adaptation of the color and I didnt realize that's what it was til you described it
It would be fantastic to see an actual Cthulhu-film, made by the biggest studios and the biggest budget and talent. While staying as true to the story as can be. I'm far from the only one who genuinely wants this. There has been good attempts and I udnerstand the issue, but it's so iconic and the fanbase is vast. I crave it. And please show Cthulhu is the visually best way possible.
in both comic and film the hellboy series is massively inspired by Lovecrafts works as well :)
So is aquaman surprisingly
I always consider alien and the thing from 1982 as strong lovecraft like horrors, they share a lot of traits with his works despite not being directly tied to them
The HP Lovecraft Historical Society did a great adaptation of the Testimony of Randolph Carter, probably my favourite method story! It's low budget, but very enjoyable all the same!
Is it out on DVD and Blu-Ray yet?
cha5 I bought it a number of years ago, not sure if it's still available though.
Thanks, I'll see if i can find it, I really appreciate it. :-)
Maybe a video series on those inspired by Lovecrafts work? John Carpenter's The Thing is probably the best tribute ever to Lovecraft themes on forbidden knowledge, isolation and group dynamics. I mean the scientist is driven mad by staring at the Thing's cells and turn on the group, destroying the radio equipment! Seems pretty Lovecraft to me.
I loved Cast a deadly spell.
6 years late to the party but Color Out of Space starring Nicholas Cage from 2019 is an excellent adaptation and although taking place in a more modern era, captures that eldritch and body horror that Lovecraft implemented. I highly recommend it
"G.I. Joe" hinted at it in an episode where the last act took place in Destro's Scottish dungeon.
"Heavy Metal" had the Ulatek worshippers ( _Cthulhu_ backwards).
Marvel Comics had Shuma Gorath.
Tobin's Spirit Guide from "The Real Ghostbusters" also made references to the Lovecraftian creatures.
I watched The Curse right after watching this video. Well I skimmed it through on youtube because I already read the short story. It was quite amusing haha.
And I have In the Mouth of Madness available. I might watch it tomorrow night when I have time!
"In the Mouth of Madness" is a head trip. You gotta watch closely to catch everything. In particular, observe the close ups of faces to see if you can spot something...off.
TheBlues32 dang, i saw it two nights ago. it was a very good movie, but missed the close ups close watching. will need to do that next time
daniel shim Well, if you've seen it, I'll give a further hint. It's the eyes.
I have just found a very strange Cthulhu mythos movie it's supposed to take place in Hp lovecrafts childhood, dealing with the apparently immortal Abdul alhazred. This movie is called Howard lovecraft and the undersea kingdom. Cthulhu is also a supporting character.
The 1982 movie, THE BEAST WITHIN, is also a very loose adaptation of the Charles Dexter Ward story. Also, DIE MONSTER DIE! was an attempt to do THE COLOR OUT OF SPACE.
Color out of Space with Nicholas Cage was an absolute trip
The only Cthulhu mythos movies I have ever been happy with were the ones made by the HPL Society. Both are outstanding, and I really want to see them do more.
The color out of space with Nicholas Cage was a surprisingly good movie. I would highly recommend it to any lovecraft fan
"Monster of Terror" aka "Die Monster Die"1965 was a version of "Colour Out Of Space"
Great playlist
Its probably been said below, but I believe a good and faithful adaptation of a Cthulhu Mythos story can be done if both Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro were to work on it jointly.
Peter (with help from Fran Walsh) has shown that he can put something to film once thought to be more or less impossible, and like Guillermo he started in low budget horror films, so he has a soft spot for such stuff.
Its also telling that when the film makers of The Hobbit thought they couldn't get Peter back, their first choice was Guillermo.
Love these. Please do more.
there is a German adaptation of "The Color from space" from 2010 called "Die Farbe" (the color). It's in black and white exept for the color, and it's a very close to the original adaptation.
Another great German production is Shadow of the Unnamable from 2011. It was also dubbed in English.
I feel like Hellraiser is pretty inspired by Lovecraft yeah?
Cthulhu, done right (of course) would fit well with the current giant monster craze, since there’s no one bigger and no one badder. A Mythos story (done right, again) could also pay handsome dividends in the psychological horror films regarded today as the height of the art.
A recent addition and definite faithful adaptation was The Color Out of Space with Nicolas Cage. Just throwing that in there. Also great narrations, big fan of Lovecraftian material.
The colour out of Space with Nicholas Cage! Check it out. It's kind of great actually!
there was an 'at the mountains of madness film' made in 2021 but the ratings arent good
Annihilation seems pretty heavily inspired by The Color Out of Space. And its pretty great!
You missed one of my favorites, although not surprising its not a well known film. There's an animated adaptation of "The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath." What's really cool about it is the animation style is very similar (and deliberately I think) to the style of the old Reading Rainbow segments. Very faithful and well done. I think though my favorite Lovecraftian movie is still "In the Mouth of Madness." Yeah its not a single story from Lovecraft's work but it captures the feeling of the Mythos better I think then any of the adaptations i"ve seen (granted I haven't seen them all).
Paranormal Encyclopedia where can you watch this animated film?
I think high budget Cthulhu Mythos movies with a good writer for a script may be very cool to see
I rented the dunwich horror something like 20 years ago. It had a certain charm.
in the mouth of madness is by far the best cthulu mythos film.
Legendary Pictures' Monsterverse franchise has some Lovecraftian elements and influences as well, especially Godzilla: King Of The Monsters. The official prequel novel 'Godzilla: Aftershock' further explores Godzilla's possible ancestor who's name happens to be Dagon and who the Phoenicians believed to be their God. The Titans in the movie were often considered and worshipped as Gods by ancient civilizations as explained by Serizawa and Chen. Let's not forget the Hollow Earth scene where there's an ancient underwater city that shows murals depicting humans worshipping Godzilla. And lastly, Titanus Scylla, one of the new Titans created for the Monsterverse, kinda does resemble Cthulhu and Cthylla; and director Michael Dougherty stated that he created Scylla to "indulge" his interest into the Cthulhu Mythos. I say its safe to say that the Monsterverse has Lovecraftian elements.
I can't imagine a truly faithful visual adaptation of Lovecraft's work will ever surface. Many of the stories deal with Extra-dimensional concepts and non-euclidean space. Not really things you can easily represent in film.
Yeah, so let's just leave the stories alone.
I think the problem is you have to not directly show the monster. Bird Box did it, The Blair Witch Project did it, I think a good film could be made if you heavily suggest that there is a Great Old One or Outer God, but never show it, or only partially show it.
surprisingly, non-Euclidean space would actually be the easiest thing to show on film. All you have to do is...literally film anything three dimensional in our universe. Non-Euclidean geometry is just geometry on a curved surface, like the planet Earth, or anything affected by the curvature of spacetime, aka, gravity. Lovecraft didn't know what Non-Euclidean geometry meant because he stopped studying it at a young age, and because he didn't understand it, he imagined it to be much more horrifying than it is.
masters of horror: Dreams in the witch house
Recently a Colour out of Space adaptation came out. And the diretcor said that this is the first installment of Lovecraft adaptions. He said that the second will be the Dunwich Horror. I didn't watched any of them, but I thought it would be good for you to know.
A trilogy of adaptions.
Do you consider John Carpenter's 'The Thing' to be inspired by At the Mountains of Madness?
Not especially no. As another commenter posted, The Thing is based on the story "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell.
Oh wow really? I'd figured the twisted creatures in The Thing would closely resemble the mythos. Thats interesting to know.
But John Carpenter is influenced by Lovecraft, that's for sure.
Oh, it may be nasty looking but it's hardly beyond comprehension. It's no Shoggath.
TheBlues32 *Shoggoth
Might I suggest watching a movie currently on Netflix called The Void. Although not a direct adaptation, it’s one of the best films to capture the spirit of the mythos in my opinion
Have you checked the movie Die Farbe, it's a very interesting adaptation of the color out of space. It changes some parts of the story but it's faithfull to the themes in the mythos. I think the group that filmed that movie is going to film another one.
Cast A Deadly Spell is a lot of fun.
nice, list
I also liked Unnameable part one , part 2 for a much lesser extent, From Beyond, Castle Freak, and Bleeders was... different.
but at least in Tone I LOVED John Carpenter's Apocalypse trilogy. (The Thing, Prince Of Darkness and Mouth Of Madness)
great list, thanks for the videos, gonna check out the Haunted Palace now. seen all the rest and think this is a great list.
keep it up.
There's a pretty decent film from 1991 called The Resurrected (sometimes also called Shatterbrain) which is a pretty faithful adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
Although it does take liberties and condense many things together, it's a solid movie.
The ending quote is pretty good.
I plan to discuss a guy who tried to work together Lovecraft stories as the basis of an alternative faith to Judaism or Christianity on Sunday.
Awesome job thumbs up man
The Haunted Palace is actually a pretty good movie. A few of Lovecraft's stories were also adapted for Rod Serling's Night Gallary (Cool Air and Pickman's Model are all I remember), although I suppose these aren't Mythos stories per say.
Here are some smaller, indie ones, on vimeo:
vimeo.com/ondemand/hanswagner
"Why Hans Wagner hates the starry sky" is a movie about a very lonely guy with anxiety issues who has to leave his house sober for the first time in years, experiences fear, disgust, shame and many more emotions on his way to the supermarket, where he immediately falls in love with the cashier and becomes best friends with a hobo. From there, his life slowly transforms into a Lovecraftian nightmare. A horror comedy that, though very ironic, is all about the spirit of Lovecraft's horror writing.
It's in Grmany, but it has English subtitles.
vimeo.com/ondemand/cordeliaskinder
"Cordelias Children"
After murdering her husband, mob leader Cordelia has to deal with her daughter, who is a contract killer and suspects her, the police investigating, her late husband's ghost haunting the house and her teenage son, who has just fallen in love with a callboy and opened the gates of hell in the family's basement. Loosely connected to "Hans Wagner", this is another movie with a Lovecraftian threat lurking in the dark. And it also has subtitles.
vimeo.com/ondemand/zeckenkommandovscthulhu
"Zeckenkommando vs. Cthulhu"
This one doesn't have subtitles yet, but if you understand Germand and would like to see a small town punk band battling a sinister conspiracy of Cthulhu-worshippers, then this found footage movie is for you!