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H.P. Lovecraft Stories Adapted to Film

by Nik_Nefarious • Created 10 years ago • Modified 10 years ago
Sadly, Lovecraft's stories have a history of not translating well to film and considered very uncinematic. But for the aficionados of very bad, very low budget horror films, H.P. Lovecraft film adaptations offer a treasure trove of some of the very worst in the B-Movie horror flick genre.
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  • The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

    1. The Call of Cthulhu

    200547mNot Rated
    7.1 (9.3K)
    While sorting the affairs of his late Uncle, a man accidentally stumbles across a series of dark secrets connected to an ancient horror waiting to be freed.
    DirectorAndrew LemanStarsMatt FoyerJohn BolenRalph Lucas
  • Dagon (2001)

    2. Dagon

    20011h 38mR
    6.2 (22K)
    A boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring.
    DirectorStuart GordonStarsEzra GoddenFrancisco RabalRaquel Meroño
  • Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)

    3. Necronomicon: Book of Dead

    19931h 36mR
    5.8 (7.3K)
    Lovecraft visualizes 3 stories in Necronomicon: The Drowned, The Cold and Whispers, about bringing a dead wife and child back to life, extending life and aliens.
    DirectorsChristophe GansShûsuke KanekoBrian YuznaStarsJeffrey CombsTony AzitoJuan Fernández
  • Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

    4. Die, Monster, Die!

    19651h 20mApproved
    5.6 (3.9K)
    A young man visits his fiancée's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father 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.
    DirectorDaniel HallerStarsBoris KarloffNick AdamsFreda Jackson
  • The Dunwich Horror (1970)

    5. The Dunwich Horror

    19701h 30mR
    5.4 (5.5K)
    Wilbur Whateley travels to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon. But, little does anyone know, Whateley isn't quite human...
    DirectorDaniel HallerStarsSandra DeeDean StockwellEd Begley
  • Lon Chaney Jr., Vincent Price, and Debra Paget in The Haunted Palace (1963)

    6. The Haunted Palace

    19631h 27mApproved
    6.7 (9.1K)
    Charles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago.
    DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceDebra PagetLon Chaney Jr.
  • Lurking Fear (1994)

    7. Lurking Fear

    19941h 16mR
    4.5 (2K)
    The town of Leffert's Corners has been plagued by unearthly beings for decades, and now there is only a few people left... what everyone is not aware of are the humanoid creatures lurking underneath the holy grounds.
    DirectorC. Courtney JoynerStarsJon FinchBlake AdamsAshley Laurence
  • From Beyond (1986)

    8. From Beyond

    19861h 25mR60Metascore
    6.6 (33K)
    A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
    DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBarbara CramptonTed Sorel
  • Elvira's Movie Macabre (1981)

    9. Elvira's Movie Macabre

    Episode: 

    The Crimson Cult

    (1982)
    1981–1993TV-14TV Episode
    StarCassandra Peterson
  • Wil Wheaton in The Curse (1987)

    10. The Curse

    19871h 32mR
    5.1 (4.2K)
    When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.
    DirectorDavid KeithStarsWil WheatonClaude AkinsMalcolm Danare
  • The Dunwich Horror (2008)

    11. The Dunwich Horror

    20081h 31mRTV Movie
    3.6 (1.2K)
    A single mother delivers a monstrous baby boy, somehow connected to a dark prophecy involving the Black Brotherhood, a book called the Necronomicon, and a demonic portal.
    DirectorLeigh ScottStarsSarah LievingGriff FurstDean Stockwell
  • Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998)

    12. Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft

    199856mTV Movie
    6.9 (325)
    Haunted by disturbing dreams from an inherited book, a young man becomes interested in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
    DirectorRaymond St-JeanStarsChristopher HeyerdahlPeter FarbridgeArt Kitching
  • Colour from the Dark (2008)

    13. Colour from the Dark

    20081h 32mNot Rated
    4.8 (924)
    Pietro and Lucia live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia's younger sister. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Pietro is a good worker and a strong man who, unlike his three brothers, is not at war because of a deformed knee. Lucia is a beautiful and reserved woman dedicated to her family. 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. A strange and alien color flashes underwater, at the well's bottom, then disappears. From that moment on, inexplicable events start happening all around the farm, and by night the surrounding vegetation glitters with a sinister glow. The color soon takes hold of the whole farm, and dwelling inside Pietro and his family's minds, it brings them into its sick world of pain, blood and death.
    DirectorIvan ZucconStarsDebbie RochonMichael SegálMarysia Kay
  • Re-Animator (1985)

    14. Re-Animator

    19851h 24mUnrated73Metascore
    7.1 (75K)
    After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.
    DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara Crampton
  • Jeffrey Combs and Kathleen Kinmont in Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

    15. Bride of Re-Animator

    19901h 36mR54Metascore
    6.2 (18K)
    Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.
    DirectorBrian YuznaStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottClaude Earl Jones
  • The Unnamable (1988)

    16. The Unnamable

    19881h 27mR
    4.8 (3.4K)
    College students check out a haunted house where in the 1800's an ugly monster called "the Unnamable" was trapped in a vault.
    DirectorJean-Paul OuelletteStarsCharles KlausmeyerMark Kinsey StephensonAlexandra Durrell
  • The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992)

    17. The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter

    19921h 44mR
    5.1 (1.3K)
    A creature of demonic nature, too hideous to have a name, once again terrorizes the college kids that summoned it.
    DirectorJean-Paul OuelletteStarsMark Kinsey StephensonCharles KlausmeyerMaria Ford
  • The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)

    18. The Whisperer in Darkness

    20111h 43mNot Rated
    6.5 (3.8K)
    Based on the H. P. Lovecraft story of the same name, a folklorist investigates reports of unusual creatures in Vermont only to uncover more than he bargained for
    DirectorSean BranneyStarsStephen BlackehartAutumn WendelBarry Lynch
  • Jessica Dollarhide in Castle Freak (1995)

    19. Castle Freak

    19951h 30mRVideo
    5.9 (11K)
    A man travels to Italy with his family to live in the castle they have recently inherited. But he soon begins to suspect that they are not the only occupants.
    DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBarbara CramptonJonathan Fuller
  • Cool Air (1999)

    20. Cool Air

    199943mUnratedShort
    6.4 (407)
    Randolph Carter moves into a squalid boarding house in the summer of 1925 where he becomes friends with a mysterious doctor who revives him after a near-fatal heart attack. Soon after, Carter discovers the awful truth about the doctor and the fragile line that separates life and death. Featuring a stellar performance by Jack Donner as Dr. Muñoz, Cool Air remains a haunting reminder of the power of the human will.
    DirectorBryan MooreStarsJack DonnerRon FordVera Lockwood
  • The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (2003)

    21. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

    20031h 40mNot Rated
    5.8 (213)
    "Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvelous city, and three times was he snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace above it." Thus begins 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.
    DirectorEdward Martin IIIStarsToren AtkinsonRaymond BeckettJason Brooks
  • The Shunned House (2003)

    22. The Shunned House

    20031h 30mNot RatedVideo
    4.2 (558)
    Based on an H.P. Lovecraft tale, THE SHUNNED HOUSE is the story of Alex and his girlfriend, Rita, who enter a decaying inn to investigate a series of gruesome and unexplained murders from the distant past.
    DirectorIvan ZucconStarsGiuseppe LorussoFederica QuaglieriEmanuele Cerman
  • Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep (2005)

    23. Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep

    20051h 18m
    5.3 (145)
    Soon after his marriage to the beautiful but mysterious heiress Asenath Waite, poet and scholar Edward Derby exhibits alarming personality changes and mood swings. His graduate advisor, Dan Upton investigates.
    DirectorEric MorgretStarsMelanie CalderwoodDoug CartwrightAngelica DiMico
  • Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2006)

    24. Beyond the Wall of Sleep

    20061h 24mR
    2.9 (1.2K)
    A man is held in an asylum for murdering his family. A young intern at the asylum suspects an even darker force connected to the man.
    DirectorsBarrett J. LeighThom MaurerStarsGeorge PeroulasFountain YountGregory Fawcett
  • Pickman's Muse (2010)

    25. Pickman's Muse

    20101h 17m
    5.5 (368)
    An artist, Robert Pickman, becomes obsessed by visions of unworldly horror, revealed to him through an ancient artifact discovered in an abandoned church.
    DirectorRobert CappellettoStarsBarret WalzMaurice McNicholasTom Lodewyck

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