Holy shit, Lovecraft was a real life Pure Evil Villain?

​@@hildegunstvonmythenmetz6095 With an unfinished Redemption Arc, as he got better as time went on, though he was rather in the middle of working things out when he died.

​@@hildegunstvonmythenmetz6095the KKK REFUSED to collaborate with him due to being too extreme

I don't care, he was still a piece of shit and you shouldn't be defending him. Being racist and knowing it's bad is worse that just being unknowingly racist, actually.

It genuinely sounds like the name of a rural northern Spanish town, I thought that was clever if a bit obvious. They also nailed how these towns look and how isolated they are (they're not THAT isolated but still)

Are you serious lol

@@JackieTheCatfox Spaniard here. Yes, Imboca sounds like a legitimate northern Spain town. It also sounds very like the verb 'invocar', that means 'invoke', 'call upon', 'beckon' or 'summon', giving the name some esoteric vibes. And the action is moved to Spain, where a town named 'Innsmouth' will make no sense. So i think the translation is both adequate and necessary.

Red: The Gilman… Gill Man… *sigh* hmm-kay!

I hope you don't mind that I may have to steal that idea.

l0stndamned Go ahead

I don't know, swat teams taking over crack houses (or innocent people houses mistankely or falsely acusse of being dealers) have been known to be very violent, ramming the doors, throwing granades at the windows, killing all the dogs, even lap dogs, destroying furniture and house fixtures looking for drugs and shooting people after mistaken their game controller for a gun, in the USA buldozing the house of a suspect will be a first, but in an small town of inbreding people who his neighbors dislike a lot, not so unusual

Its basicly a bustercall. I mean, it remembers me of a story from one piece.

As an aside, in the book the government arrested a lot of them. The ACLU complained. They were then showed the prisoners. The ACLU said "never mind".

Specifically, it was Zadach, and possibly one other person. Also, there's the bit when he first sees the tiara.

Plus, they did mention several times that the MC's grandmother was a weird stranger, and that one of Obed's daughters married an Arkham gentleman and cut off all contact.

@@timkrauss3961 It's brought up in passing a couple times more in a "some of this corruption has gotten out" kind of way. And then clarified in the epilogue portion of the story where Robert looks into it after getting back to "civilization" because he can't get everything about it out of his mine and actually places her as his direct ancestor and then fills in how certain members (mostly women) in that direct line of the family are always rather cold and clammy to the touch and go kind of odd before getting reclusive or disappearing eventually, right up to and including his mother.

I believe the protagonist was also directly compared to Obed a few times.

Yup, I had that "CALLED IT!" Moment as well....after reading so many books/ comics and watching so many movies/ anime-you can see the tropes coming...

@@BahstX That is the thing. They weren't tropes until later....though I admit that 'narrator is the descendant of something inhuman' is a twist Lovecraft may have employed too often.

That is freggin awesome. It might drive the folks shooting them insane, but its a small price to pay to give the middle finger to the Old Gods that they and their servants aren't so invincible >:)

@LordManda2 I TOTALLY agree! The possibilities are AMAZING!!!

JenxRodwell ironic, isn't it?

That sounds like quite a game. I'd kill for another Lovecraft fan to play that with. Ah, well demographics I guess...

That....Is hilarious.

Every where he goes

And when I started to look around

There's some fishy bros

I hate that you made me sing this in my head

@@thatoneguy7345 I thought these ill-bred people's gill slits show. Sorry, just had to continue the verse.

MrNozza123 I know right or even aquaman or the little mermaid and him finding out there’s a movie about fish people falling for humans as a kids movie would probably give him an aneurism Also a huge fan of lovecraft

Shoggoths???

@@martinarreola64 The ECOG (Expository Creepy Old Guy) name drops them right before he realizes he's been made by the Deep Ones and skeedaddles.

@@nicholaspokorny5058 Which I guess indicates Mountains was written before Shadow. Author really love plagiarising themselves.

¿Arkham Asylum? ¿That means there is a crossover with batman? PD: it´s a joke, I know Arkham is a place in Lovecraft books and that it´s were they took the name for the asylum, don´t overreact

Alba Tris Well I'm pretty sure a large portion of the Bloodborne DLC was heavily based on it too but then again Bloodborne doesn't even have enough story for five pages, even with the DLC.

its actually based on the shadow over inssmouth...still, it doesn't make sense why they'd name it dagon if theyre two different stories..

The Innsmouth people were worshiping Dagon as he is somehow related to Cthulhu and the rest of the Deep Ones religion. Something about Father Dagon and Mother Hydra possibly being the origin of the Deep Ones made by celestial immigrant Cthulhu. And the church in the movie is the Esoteric Order of Dagon. I think the movie did it to try to subvert expectations but it just pissed people off. Then again, with all the other "this is based off of this book but has this name instead" movie adaptations it isn't that surprising. I'd look up the IMBD trivia for the movie to learn more. Seems the movie took 15 years to get made. Though the details to why are conveniently missing.

@@admech590 It's rule of cool. Dagon is a way cooler name. Incidentally let me recommend the extremely weird short story Dagon, by Avram Davidson. Set at the time of Operation Beleaguer, the forgotten episode where the US Marine Corps was sent to North China. Honestly this actually did happen.

So is Lovecraft responsible for the first hentai?

Madder Max And Insects

Michael Johnson And immigrants

Michael Johnson He had serious issues with everything that wasn’t him

And maths.

Nice, maybe I should look up that one. The first one I read was The Nameless City

My personal favorite is The Shadow Out of Time

Aidan Peterson. The color out of space is my favourite Lovecraft's story. I consider it one of his best work.

Pete Ainsworth Well then it might please you to know that the adaptation that came out this year, Color Out of Space, by Richard Stanley is amazing. It does change some stuff, like updating he setting and having the events of the story happen over a shorter time than the story, but it’s still very faithful in how it captures the cosmic horror Lovecraft intended.

Ah yes. The story about *"mysterious colors unlike any seen on Earth"*

I would love an adaption of The Music of Erich Zann. That story is like a Twilight Zone episode in book form

TheApachacha I would also like to add The Rats in the Walls

@@Pooky1991 Ouu yes, Rats in the walls, Music of Erich Zann and in the walls of Eryx please

Zann is mentioned in the Laundry Files by Charles Stross, one of his violins is an exceedingly powerful weapon. Does that count?

Late but: I LOVED the cats of Ulthar. I don't think it would make a good movie as it basically only consists of (spoiler warning) this couple likes to kill cats. They kill a cat belonging to a wanderer kid who seems to have some pull with an elder god, as said kid causes all cats in the village to eat the couple alive. Great story, but too short for a movie. I think the music of Erich Zann could make a great movie, particularly if the director is clever with their use of the image of a dead person still playing their instrument.

You shoul read „The Dreams in the witch house“. Although it‘s kinda racist, like Lovecraft does, it is one of my personal favorites. The story is not only really creepy, but also creative, and the monsters are not as fishy looking as in other stories.

Hahahaha, piece of Lovecraft trivia for you: He always wanted to go see Niagara Falls, but never managed to. A child who was his neighbor friend and whom he always fed with his Shakespearean vocabulary is related to have reacted to the Falls by saying: GEE!!! I imagine what Mr. Lovecraft would say!!!!

It is

You are correct

@@timv82 It's standard pronunciation of English coast towns named after rivers, like Portsmouth or Plymouth.

But as he's talking about Inboca (in the mouth, in Spanish), it makes sense to say Ins-Mouth.

So that town from Resident Evil 4 isn’t far off???

@@Lazlowinthehouse Haven't watched/played any Resident Evil movie/game.

Not really. It's only referenced in one of HP Lovecraft's stories. Not one other one, just the Shadow Over Innsmouth. There is a reference to an Innsmouth in another story but it's a town north of London England, not in New England

Well, I mean, Batman was originally set in New York and a later writer made up Gotham but I see what you mean.

In the movie they actually name the town Innsmouth basically but in a different language from what I recall. I don't remember which one. But it's only iconic because he had a habit of not clearly naming locations things were taking place in. Innsmouth, Arkham, Kingsport, and Dunwich are the only places he named in the Miskatonic valley. And he doesn't make it clear how close or far from each other actually are or if there are others. Though he does have stories that take place somewhat around those locations. Arkham or Kingsport are probably far more iconic but people don't necessarily know why or that they are Lovecrafts but are the settings for several of his stories.

@@Quandry1 Spanish. "Boca" means "mouth", so... "Innsmouth" -> "Imboca". It DOES sound like the name of a rural Spanish village, though. I liked it even though it's as subtle as a sledgehammer to the groin.

@@livclark8154 He didn't make it up exactly. Gotham has been a joke name for New York since the early Nineteenth Century.

FilmmakerJ I can't remember the Rathbone version, but of the others that I've seen, they all screw it up in one way or another. Even the Brett version wasn't good, and he was probably the best Holmes there's ever been!

FilmmakerJ Did the Soviet adaptations include this story as well?

Andrew Gwilliam My personal favorites were the Peter Cushing Hammer film, and oddly enough, the Matt Frewer version, mainly for that portrayal of Watson, and the unique locations they found in Canada as opposed to the albeit actual moores. nothing against the moores, of course, they're gorgeous. Matt Frewers Holmes, though, is atrocious because he simply does not have the capabilities of nuance and subtlty. And despite many standout episode and a geuine overall high quality, the Brett rendition was just boring to say the least. Ian Richardson's, I can say was... different. Not good or bad, just very different in the changes and story elements it chooses to use as opposed to the more usual route. I was quite pleased with the Tom Baker version, however I haven't had a chance to finish all the way. But his is probably my favorite version of the opening dialogue with Watson, and subsequent discussion with Doctor Mortimer.

the best version is the Sherlock TV Shows movieadaption of course. Who needs Charakterdevelopment and atmosphere, you know what we need instead? Evil Scientists and phantasydrugs! I realy want him to review Sherlock, ore Agatha Christie. I like his Style, but dont know ore care for most of the books he covered so fare.

Yes I felt for this lonely, isolated guy being creeped out by freaky fish people. Glad he finally embraced his destiny. A happy ending of an unusual kind.

August Derleth has a book where the US navy nukes Cthulhu and Rhlyeh, but only manage to sink the elevator island city (comes up and down from the sea, can only call it an elevator island) and send Cthulhu back to sleep because they destroy the portal he was coming out of. Apart from sending him into another nap, the nuke does nothing but destroy a few Rhlyeh buildings.

I too was rather touched by the protagonist's sudden sympathy for those Old Ones, resurrected to a world which must have been frighteningly alien to them.

Reanimator was a great flick. Lovecraft Month FTW!

I would point out the oddity of having an EAP story in Lovecraft month, but I'm guessing that name is in quotes for a reason

+QuikVidGuy Very much so. The movie is named after an Edgar Allen Poe Story, but is an adaptation of The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

Ben Rodriguez Are the two stories alike in any way, or were they just grabbing the more recognizable name?

+QuikVidGuy Still not sure myself. but They starred Vincent Price, was produced by either Hammer or Corman- so basically it was rolling with Poe to connect with Mask of the Red Death, Fall of the House of Usher, etc.

I'd love to see that too know many Lovecraft films aren't that good which is a shame

Same here. I think September/October would be best for netting new viewers.

Kaldor Kandoka Eh he doesn’t deserve a good adaptation of his work

Yes. But I like the fact that the narrator was a loon and not really in danger (probably).

And more specifically half fish people, so it more species than race mixing, but close enough

Bloodborne did it well XD

Despite being an adaptation of another story not written by Lovecraft, The Thing comes off as a well made Lovecraft story. In The Mouth of Madness as well, also despite not being based on anything directly.

***** VERY loose, but yes it does share a lot in common.

The Call of Cthulhu short film in '05 was F**king A

Wesley Hunt Was that a thing?! Holy shit how have I missed this, can you link it???

same here. I'm currently listening to "Call of Chuthulu" and the brief moments of "Racism" in the book reminded me that these stories were written during a time not my own.

That's an interesting way to view it. Myself? I just accept his racism and roll my eyes at it. (Not ignoring it, but it was the 20s.... Everyone was super racist then. So I can't truly be mad.)

Carewolf which story was that?

I don't remember the name, but it was one of his earlier stories, and I agree with Carewolf. I don't care about the racism when it's just brought up on the side, since it's a product of the time (and I think it's adds an interesting meta-element considering that the fear of the unknown is often the case of racism), but there are some stories where he just hits you over the head with it. It's not only uncomfortable to read, it also ruins the atmosphere because a lot of the racist comments are so dumb by modern standards. Another, slightly less stupid one that I remember dealt with a Native American guy going insane, and the whole story kept talking about his primitive nature, simple mind and tribal instincts, and at that point, it just becomes very hard to ignore.

I always thought it was funny how Lovecraft was avid pen pals with Robert E. Howard of Conan fame who had almost the exact opposite take on primitive v.s. civilized cultures.

Genau das dachte ich auch, hahahaha! Coldmirror ist die Beste.

I too recalled Angel Heart. It's quite a Lovecraftian story really.

No kidding, I have never seen her before, but Jesus is she creepy as fuck, even when she's doing nothing.

Mn K it was very...........Hollywood. Lol.

Most of the monsters in Lovecraft pretty much laugh at guns especially the ones with astral aspects. Even the likes of cannon fire are regarded as merely annoying to all but the weakest of them and blowing them with a bombs usually means they'll just sleep for sometime and just rise up again fully renewed. Remember as Lovecraft said with strange aeons even death my die.

Terminalsanity Ok then that kinda makes sense, I was more reffering to the Harry Potter aspect of things for example

Go read the Dresden Files. The power levels of regular humans is the justification why everyone keeps vampires and whatnot a secret: They may be weaker than other creatures but technology and numbers are quickly turning the "prey" into dangerous enemies. Guns are very lethal and even magical creatures are shown resorting to buying MP5s out of practicality. Off the top of my head: A wizard kills a native american demon by luring it into the blast radius of a nuke. A Vampire nearly kills a Wizard with a flamethrower because the heat can bypass his magic shield. Nearly every succubus carries a Desert Eagle or similarly large handgun (superstrength lets them handle the recoil) A sniper rifle is the preferred weapon of choice against superbeings because you can kill them before they can react. During a war between wizards and vampires, the latter have an advantage since wizards have a walking EMP effect: The vampires can fly by plane, use smart phones, and communicate through the internet. Wizards have to walk, drive, commute, or use a very dangerous and impractical method of interdimentional travel owned by a neutral or sometimes hostile faction. Computers break if they get too close so the internet's right out, and they're lucky to get a tracphone working for long. Oh, and one of the many powerful factions recognized by a pact of supernatural superpowers is a Human mafia.

Try 'The Laundry Files' by Charles Stross. Think Lovecraft+Bond. such fun. The first is 'The Atrocity Archives', i'd recommend reading or hearing the whole series

The good vs evil story would be great if it was a case of "if written right, good can be horrifying".

Dom put images of some of the Derleth books in there, which I found a bit odd.

Oh I agree. I really can't stand most of the work that came later. I think Derleth ruined what they coined "the Cthulhu mythos". What can you expect, though. There was only one H.P. Lovecraft, and we can at least thank Derleth for collecting his work and getting it all published again, bringing a lot of notice to Lovecraft after his death. Without Derleth, Lovecraft ' s works may have disappeared.

also, I hear you... ummm.... fight Cthulu?

And Paco Rabal didn't speak a word of english, so he memorized all his lines phonetically, having no idea of what he was saying.

Keep at it Hewy! One day I am confident it will happen, even if its out of sheer pity due to the amount of times you have asked.

LOL Yeah!

it's "niche" not "niché"

“They’re coming to get you, Barbara...” ... I would say it’s probably just another descriptive name for annoying, useless women in horror movies - like how we use the name “Karen” or “Becky”.

In the video, near the beginning, that drawing of a man with the wide eyes and distorted face also scared me so maybe I just have a weird mind

Trifon Trifonov your taste is....strange