Movie: The Shunned House (TODS only)

[amedia]

A mishmash of three Lovecraft stories, mooshed together and set in Italy. Best feature: the disc came with about a dozen previews for hilariously-bad low-budget horror movies (I watched some of those).

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[bulleteyes.livejournal.com]

Have there been any good films based on a Lovecraft story? When I read his work I sensed the words were woven with dank mist and unnatural fog.

It did not seem feasible an ordinary director could capture them.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

the words were woven with dank mist and unnatural fog.

That's BEAUTIFUL! And true.

TODS really liked The Call of Cthulhu, which was done recently but in black and white, in the style of a 1920's silent movie with subtitles. I watched it with him (one of the few!) - instead of fancy special effects they built up a lot of mood and atmosphere, which seemed to work MUCH better. Some of the short pieces that come collected on DVD nowadays - I forget who does them - are very well done.

And I think TODS really liked the first Reanimator movie as kind of a lighthearted riff on the original story; he says the original story itself is kind of a self-parody, so the approach wasn't out of place.