H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft

Country: USA

Total Credits at Criticker: 48 (Writer)

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    Re-Animator
    A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus. (imdb)
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    The Call of Cthulhu
    A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.
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    Color Out of Space
    A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world. (imdb)
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    Dagon
    Based on a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, the undisputed master of the macabre, Dagon tells the story of Paul Marsh, a young man who discovers that the truth will not set him free instead it condemns him to a waking nightmare of unrelenting horror. (imdb)
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    The Resurrected
    Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries. The husband is a chemical engineer, and the smells from his experiments (and the delivery of what appear to be human remains at all hours) are beginning to arouse the attention of neighbors and local law enforcement officials... (imdb)
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    Castle Freak
    Castle Freak (1995) - Direct-to-Video
    A troubled couple and their blind daughter come to Italy to visit a 12th Century castle they've inherited. Soon they are plagued by unexplained noises, mysteriously broken objects, and the daughter's claims of an unknown nocturnal visitor to her bedroom. When the housekeeper and a local prostitute and are discovered savagely murdered in the castle's dungeon, John must unlock the castle's secret to save himself from jail and his family from the castle's secret inhabitant. (imdb)
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    H.P. Lovecraft\
    A graduate student questions his sanity after he rents a room in an old boarding house which was the residence of a 17th Century witch, and he figures out that the evil forces still roam within the walls. (imdb)
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    Beyond the Wall of Sleep
    In this adapation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name, William Sanderson plays Joe Slaader - a mysterious mountain man being held in the Ulster County Asylum after the brutal murder of his family... (imdb)
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    From Beyond
    Scientists create a resonator to stimulate the pineal gland (sixth sense), and open up a door to a parallel (and hostile) universe. Based on a story by H. P. Lovecraft. (imdb)
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    Necronomicon
    H.P. Lovecraft, the well-known horror writer, is looking in the late thirties after the book 'Necronomicon'. He finds it guarded by monks in an old library. He then copies some stories from it, which unfold for our eyes- and his... (imdb)
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    Cthulhu Mansion
    An aging magician harboring a terrible occult secret and his daughter are taken hostage in their isolated mansion by teenage scumbags need- ing a place to hide out. When the captors refuse to listen to the magician's dire warning to release him unharmed, the mansion slowly releases its nightmare of horrors on the unsuspecting invaders. (imdb)
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    The Dunwich Horror
    H.P. Lovecraft meets Hollywood: Wilbur Whateley wants to help the Old Ones break through by consulting the Necronomicon, and Armitage must stop him. Attractive females are added to fill out the plot. (imdb)
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    The Unnamable
    Back in the 1800's a lady gives birth to a monster. They decide that the baby is too ugly to name, therefore the monster is known as the "Unnamable". The creature brutally slaughters his family, and gets trapped in a vault. Go ahead to 1998, and some college students have heard the story about the unnamable and want to check out the vault... (imdb)
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    Lurking Fear
    The town of Leffert's Corners has been plagued by unearthly beings for decades, and now there is only a few people left, including the local priest and a woman traumatised by the death of her sister. But when John Martense turns up to claim his illicit family fortune, with bad guys in pursuit, the last stand had become a lot more complicated. Supposedly based on the writings of H P Lovecraft. (imdb)
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    Die, Monster, Die!
    A young man (Nick Adams) visits his fiance's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father (Boris Karloff) has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results. (imdb)
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    The Music of Erich Zann
    This story revolves around a student of metaphysics, Charles Dexter Ward who befriends Erich Zann an aging violinist who lives on the floor above him. Charles is fascinated and then drawn to Zann's sinister yet wonderful music that he hears late at night drifting down from above. He, of course, discovers more then he bargains for when he peers at what beckons beyond that strange curtained window in Zann's room. (imdb)
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    The Haunted Palace
    Loosly based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", this fright flick opens with a warlock(Vincent Price)placing a curse on a group of villagers about to burn him at the stake. Generations later, the warlock's descendent(also Vincent Price)returns to the village to pick up where his ancestor left off. (IMDb)
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    Cthulhu
    A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reaquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has a long-awaited tryst. Caught in an accelerating series of events, he discovers aspects of his father's New Age cult which take on a dangerous and apocalyptic significance. (imdb)
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    Cool Air
    Cool Air (2006) - Direct-to-Video
    Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a living, he takes a room in the mansion and learns of the mysterious doctor residing in the room above his own who dabbles in strange experiments. (imdb)
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    The Shuttered Room
    A series of horrific murders is traced to a creature that inhabits a very strange house. (imdb)
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    The Curse
    A farmhouse family gets their water supply contaminated. This causes Mom to grow huge welts on her face (which no one seems to notice). Soon the contaminated become homicidal. (Chas. Balun)
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    The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter
    A creature of demonic nature, too hideous to have a name, once again terrorizes the college kids that summoned it. (imdb)
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    The Tomb
    The Tomb (2007) - Direct-to-Video
    A being known as "The Puppetmaster" holds victims captive in a tomb and tortures them. (imdb)
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    Colour from the Dark
    Pietro and Lucia live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia's younger sister. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Their life is peaceful and good, in spite of the hard work. One day, while drawing water from the well, Pietro and Alice accidentally free something from Earth's womb. From that moment on, inexplicable events start happening all around the farm, and by night the surrounding vegetation glitters with a sinister glow. (imdb)
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    Re-Animator: 1942
    Herbert West is stuck in a bomb shelter during WW2 where he tries to see if his reanimation experiment will work on a Nazi soldier. (imdb)
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    La casa sfuggita
    La casa sfuggita (2003) - Direct-to-Video
    Based on H P Lovecraft's tale, "The Shunned House," presents the stories of three people who all died within the confines of the dark and isolated chateau. Each story is taken from a different period in time, yet they combine with one another to reveal the house's dark past to a journalist specializing in the paranormal and his sceptic girlfriend. (imdb)
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    The Crimson Cult
    When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming - and his niece more demonstrably so - Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything. (imdb)
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    Beyond the Dunwich Horror
    Kenny Crawford arrives in Dunwich after hearing that his brother Andrew has been admitted to a psychiatric ward, and is suspected in a string of disappearances in the town. With the help of local reporter Marsha Calloway and the eccentric Upton Armitage he probes the last few weeks of his brother's life. As they do so, they uncover evidence of a plot in the works revolving around Andrew, his girlfriend Nikki Hartwell and her twisted friend Otto Bellinger. (imdb)
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    The Dunwich Horror
    In this supernatural chiller based on the H.P. Lovecraft short story of the same name, Dean Stockwell plays the leader of a group of academics determined to find the secret to killing the alien beings that are threatening to destroy humankind. Thwarting him at every step of the way is the hulking, drooling Wilbur Whateley (Jeffrey Combs), who along with the rest of his inbred Louisiana clan, is hell-bent on freeing the evil creatures.
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    The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
    H. P. Lovecraft's epic tale of the courageous dreamer Randolph Carter and his search for the mystical sunset city by petitioning the gods of Kadath. During his journey, he travels deep into the world of dream, to the edge of the world, to the moon and back, and to the heights and depths of human and... inhuman experience. (petting-zoo.org)
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    The Whisperer in Darkness
    Filmed in the style of the classic horror films of the 1930s, based on a story by one of the precursors of science fiction and space horrors, the celebrated Howard Phillips Lovecraft. A folklore professor investigates legends of strange creatures in the most remote hills of Vermont. He is sceptical to begin with, but nevertheless sets off for the location, where he finds his colleague in a wheelchair. (wff.pl)
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    Die Farbe
    Arkham, 1975: Jonathan Davis' father has disappeared. His tracks lead to Germany, to the Swabian-Franconian Forest where he was stationed after the Second World War. Jonathan sets out to find him and bring him home, but deep in the woods he discovers a dark mystery from the past. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Colour Out of Space" (imdb)
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    Pickman\
    An artist, Robert Pickman, becomes obsessed by visions of unworldly horror, revealed to him through an ancient artifact discovered in an abandoned church. (imdb)
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    The Shadow Out of Time
    An adaptation of H P Lovecraft's famous sci-fi story. The hero, an academic from Miskatonic University, Arkham, gradually goes mad as he starts to realize that his mind and body was kidnapped during a span of several years, and used by a strange alien race known as the Yith... (hplfilmfestival.com)
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    Cthulhu
    Dan Upton is concerned about the influence of a young woman upon his friend Edward Derby. While a series of dismemberment killings in Arkham seems to be linked to a Cthulhu cult in nearby Innsmouth and Dunwich. (imdb)
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    Pickman\
    Pickman's Model (2012) - Short Film
    When a rich patron visits the studio of the depraved artist Pickman, he is horrified to discover the sinister source of her inspiration. Adapted from the H. P. Lovecraft story of the same title (imdb)
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    Rough Magik
    Rough Magik (2000) - TV Special
    Plugging nicely into the RPG world of Delta Green, Rough Magik is about The Night Scholars, a clandestine organization setup to monitor the ancient cult of Cthulhu. After decades of compiling an enormous database of arcane information, they have come to a single, incontrovertible conclusion: the Sleeping God is waking. Diana Armitage, with the help of her Home Office liaison, the mysterious Mr. Moon, launch an aggressive campaign against the Dreamers. (imdb)
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    The Deep Ones
    A married couple rents a beach side Airbnb only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. They soon discover to be in the grips of a mysterious cult and their ancient sea god. (imdb)
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    La herencia Valdemar
    Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared, Maximilian, president of her company, engaged the services of a private detective to help find her. But soon they will discover that it is not the first disappearance at Valdemar mansion! (imdb)
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    La herencia Valdemar II: La sombra prohibida
    Second part of the Valdemar saga. Ana and Eduardo are sent to assist in the investigation of the disappearance of Luisa. In the middle of the road they find Luisa escaping. At the end the three are kidnapped. A gruesome fate awaits.
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    Backwoods
    Backwoods (2019) - Short Film
    1907, Massachusetts. A scholar drifts from his path and finds himself in a house he takes for deserted. Deserted, apart from a beguiling book containing dark secrets that exerts a powerful hold over those who come into contact with it. (imdb)
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    H.P. Lovecraft\
    In the bleak, disturbing, and suspenseful universe of H.P. Lovecraft, endless horrors await. From ravaging cannibals to ancient rituals coming to life, there’s no escape for these hapless souls, whether they come across the Dunwich outskirts or even the gruesome cover of the Necronomicon.
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    Shadow Beyond Time
    Based on H.P. Lovecraft's work, Shadow Beyond Time tells the story of Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, an Arkham-born prodigy. (imdb)
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    Guillermo del Toro\
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    The Shadow Over Innsmouth
    A Japanese adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, directed by Konaka Chiaki (Marebito, The Big O) and starring Sano Shiro (Infection, Violent Cop).
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    The Evil Clergyman
    The Evil Clergyman (2012) - Direct-to-Video
    Mrs. Brady visits a creepy castle that is haunted by her lover, an evil priest that hung himself in the very room where they shared their unforbidden love. For his blasphemous ways, he is cursed to roam the halls of the castle. But before committing suicide, he performed great acts of dark magic and sorcery including imprisoning the spirit of a bishop and summoning forth a rat-like demon that now tortures his beloved.
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    Suitable Flesh
    A psychiatrist becomes obsessed with one of her young clients with multiple personalities. (imdb)
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    H. P. Lovecraft\
    Sea captain Russel Marsh was possessed by an ancient entity for 93 years, committing horrific acts for a cult. Now free, he seeks to travel back in time to undo his dark deeds, while the cult vows to eliminate him.
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