#hp-lovecraft

#hp-lovecraft

Considering the oeuvre of Stuart Gordon, "restraint" is rarely a word that comes to mind. From the bloody extremes of Re-Animator to the farcical comedy of Stuck, Gordon was the master of, as Roger Ebert put it when reviewing Dolls, "glorious exercises in bad taste, wretched excess, and blood-soaked horrors." If Ebert was unconvinced by the "more elegant, civilized, artistic and clever" Dolls, it did lay the groundwork for a movie that gels Gordon's bloody best with his unerring desire to understand who we are, deep down, which pervades all his films-even if often obscured by buckets of blood.

Guillermo del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness may go down in history as the greatest unmade movie ever, up there with Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune or Tim Burton's Superman Lives. First announced in 2010, the Shape of Water director had been trying to bring H.P. Lovecraft's terrifying novella to life for almost two decades. But each subsequent update has proven that the story, which follows a group of explorers in Antarctica who discover the existence

Today, when science fiction and fantasy fans mention the name Jeffrey Combs, they almost certainly think of the Star Trek universe. In that world, Combs is an alien with a thousand faces, having starred in multiple roles throughout the franchise, with seemingly no end. And yet, before all of that, back on October 18, 1985, Combs was the lead in a fantastic, and enduringly funny horror movie called Re-Animator,

H.P. Lovecraft is responsible for a long list of classic horror stories that continue to be highly influential in the world of literature, film, television, and video games. The author's blend of unsettling cosmic horror with sci-fi/fantasy and Gothic settings--almost always with an ample dose of weird--is so recognizable that the word Lovecraftian is used to describe stories inspired by his work.