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Published: 2019-03-28 12:53:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 2049; Favourites: 47; Downloads: 4
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Despite not being a Lovecraft fan (cus I value distinct enough characters, so I fall in the Howard fans category...), I did read the Call of our delicious friend here and have the whole dream quest stuff as a bookΒ (so I suppose I'll sharp my reading teeth on it...). I found the naked-dancing cult infinitely more interesting than whoever the fuck was the cardboard protagonist.
Thing is, I don't think Lovecraft's concepts are bad, but they've been executed better in other places. Hell, there's even a Disney parody that is both terrifying and hilarious... mostly because I emphathize with Donald !
About his racism ? That is a problem to me when people call his tales horror tales... the heavy-handed racism turns them into the paranoid ramblings of Aunt Josephine ! How can I be spooked when I can probably be the spitting image of what the author fears ?! Hell , all I need is just to put on an octopus on my head, speak sophisticated english and BAM, I am Lovecraft's nightmare ! If any of you makes that disguise or that movie, I want full credit. Now go watch "In the Mouth of Madness", it is fucking AWESOME !
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I, for one, have always been more in love with the surreal aspect of Lovecraft's stories and the overwhelming intensity behind the idea of cosmic horror and the madness that it can instill.
Mr. Lovecraft's crippling xenophobia is indeed unfortunate, but it is also expected given the time he lived in (plus his questionable mental condition was also likely a factor)...but I can't complain too much as it was his from phobia that we gained his major contribution to modern horror. ^^
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See the concept IS good. The ramblings however make the execution either hilarious or boring. Thankfully , the peopleΒ that were inspired by him turned out to be better at writing and visualizing !
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I agree. It makes interpretations that the so-called monsters are not so bad, because of the fact that author's racism makes everyone not white demonized.Β
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I don't know about being not so bad, but they sure as hell are more entertaining than his damn "protagonists" !
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Oooooh, who is our favorite tentacle abomination?
WhoΒ΄s gonna destory every single one of us?Β
I just want to hug that little scamp.Β
When I was in my teenage edgelord phase, I read a lot of Lovecraft stuff.
It was pretty new for me to see monsters that could not be defeated by some plucky heroes, but rather drove them to insanity and/or suicide. As for the racism, I read enough of HPLΒ΄s stories with a World War I setting to see that he was that kind of WASP racist who thought that all Germans were a human-blood-drinkingΒ horde of barbarian-stereotypes.Β
Therefore my world view was not exactly influcenced by reading his stuff.
Well, that and the fact that itΒ΄s just retarded to base your world view on pulp era horror stories.Β
Anyway, Lovecraft stories are kinda teenage classic for me nowadays.Β
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He's amazingly ineffective ! Throw a boat at him and BLAM he's gone !
The racism makes the stories hilarious to me XD
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Yeah, that was the dumbest thing in the entire Cthulu story.
First they built him upΒ as this cosmic horror, who will destory everything.
And when he actually crawls out of his hole, he gets owned by some random dude ramming him with a boat and runs home whining. Bit of a paper tiger, to stay polite.Β
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I suppose the dude who was writing the report was heavily exaggerating things. Also the naked dancing diverse cult is hilarious...
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His racism can be funny like:
His pet cat in the offensive slur against African American
Seeing cultist are all from outside American
Three foreign thief tried to break into the Old Manβs house and got killed.
Funnily enough, he also friended with Robert E. Howard and Clark Ashton Smith to share his universe to Conan and Hyperborean Cycle.
You can read his story in another website.
List of his stories that I have read so far:
At The Mountain of Madness
The Call of Cthulhu
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Dunwich Horror
The Shadow Out of Time
Dagon
The Whisper in Darkness
Herbert West - Reanimator
The Haunter of The Dark
The Doom That Came to Sarnath
Nyalarthotep
The Rat In The Wall
The Terrible Old Man
and other story that I still reading...
I have some fan art of his story.
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I might give the books and the movie a chance.
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The only Lovecraft story I've read so far is "At the Mountains of Madness". Interesting and hugely influential but the writing style itself is very slow and repetitive. It's impressive what effect an obscure writer can have posthumously.Β Games like Alone in the Dark,Dark Corners of the Earth or Arx Fatalis to movies like Pandorum, Event Horizon, The Ritual or the Thing. There even is a Call of Cthulhu live action movie made by dedicated fans and shot like a 30's black and white horror movie. Some of John Carpenter's and Ridley Scott's most acclaimed movies are Lovecraft inspired. Guillermo del Toro pretty much tries to shove as much of this stuff in his movies as possible especially his Hellboy movies. Interestingly enough he was gearing up to actually direct a big budget "Mountains" but it fizzled out. The script leaked online for those interested.Β
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The majority of those products improve on his concepts. Good Horror (as in serious horror) is mostly about empathy. If one cannot emphathize with the characters, there is no genuine fear.Β That's kinda where Lovecraft falters in his writing as I can't give 2 shits about his "characters"...
About Del Toro, the lovecraftian stuff in Hellboy (mostly the 1st movie...) is kind of a no-brainer since it is originally in Mignola's comic i.redd.it/la4xcbm2pfo11.jpg XD
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Yeah, he also added Elder Things in the background of Golden Army. I wonder how the new Hellboy is gonna be? The new trailers don't seem to be doing anything for me.
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I'll give it its chance. I love Red and his insane world so I'm fine with it ... even if the new make-up would fit Etrigan more than Hellboy XD
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Not a big Lovecraft fan either, but I think the concept behind a Hounds of Tindalos is pretty scary and smart.
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Hounds of Tindalos was actually not Lovecrafts idea.
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Well, then I guess you can't call me a fan of his. Since that one I thought was particularly weird and scary.
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Yeah the guy CAN craft a good concept...
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I you ever read another Lovecraft tale then I would recommend Mountain of Madness since it is both Who Walks There? and Aliens before Who Walks There? and Aliens existed.
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Thanks dude ! I will check them. I also hear "The color out of space" will be adapted with Nic Cage ! XD
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Strange since the whole point of The color out of space is that it is a color foreign to earth.
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Maybe it'll be "Nic Cage" colored XD !
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I should point out that between the cannibalistic black zombie and Herbert West the Re-Animator who created him, West is definitely the monster. Just saying.
I think you've added a rather cute spider feature to Cthulhu here. Those eyes!
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Usually he's drawn with 2 big yellow eyes ... Buuut I stuck to Lovecraft's doodle lovecraftzine.files.wordpress.β¦
Is the Re-animator story good ? if so I know what I should target next...
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It's a collection of stories which basically follow the same plot. Herbert West tries to bring a dead body back to life. It doesn't quite work. Someone dies horribly. Why the hell am I working with this man?!.. Okay, let's try and help him bring back another dead body. It doesn't quite work...
Personally, I like them. Especially the last one.
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