Re: The Portrayal of Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith on Film
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Raven10 (IP Logged)
Date: 15 November, 2008 02:55PM
One film which has been mentioned very little, if at all, is "Castle Freak". I'm surprised at that, because it was supposed to have been based on Lovecraft's "The Outsider". By the way, I don't think that it even had a cinema release in my country (England).
These days, I tend to avoid films which claim to be based on Lovecraft's writings. There are not many of them, mind. And overall, I no longer think much of the examples which I have seen. Indeed, I have reached the conclusion that some writings are simply too difficult to adapt for the cinema. At least, to do so effectively.
I find it slightly ironic that anybody actually wanted to make a movie adaptation of "Dagon". That's partly because this is such a short story. Thus, there is relatively little for a movie team to work with in this case. On the otherhand, one of Lovecraft's brilliant novellas, such as, "At The Mountains of Madness", might make a good film. As could his story, "The Horror at Red Hook". What do the rest of you think?
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 15 Nov 08 | 02:57PM by Raven10.