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H.P. Lovecraft Film Adaptations

The creator of cosmic horror himself, while never really successful in his time, has become quite the cult icon and his works have been adapted multiple times. So here we have a gathering of direct adaptations of his mythos. Note, there will be no "Lovecraftian" movies, that will be a separate one. A list brought to you by Eric Myford, author of The Encyclopedia of Horror & Suspense Movies book series...
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  • The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

    1. The Call of Cthulhu

    200547mNot Rated
    7.1 (9.5K)
    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
  • Jeffrey Combs in Re-Animator (1985)

    2. Re-Animator

    19851h 24mR73Metascore
    7.1 (77K)
    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
  • From Beyond (1986)

    3. From Beyond

    19861h 25mR60Metascore
    6.6 (35K)
    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
  • Nicolas Cage, Madeleine Arthur, and Julian Hilliard in Color Out of Space (2019)

    4. Color Out of Space

    20191h 51mUnrated70Metascore
    6.1 (64K)
    A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.
    DirectorRichard StanleyStarsNicolas CageJoely RichardsonMadeleine Arthur
  • Chris Sarandon and Jane Sibbett in The Resurrected (1991)

    5. The Resurrected

    19911h 48mR
    6.2 (5.5K)
    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.
    DirectorDan O'BannonStarsJohn TerryJane SibbettChris Sarandon
  • The Dunwich Horror (1970)

    6. The Dunwich Horror

    19701h 30mR
    5.4 (5.8K)
    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
  • Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, Mark Eden, and Barbara Steele in The Crimson Cult (1968)

    7. The Crimson Cult

    19681h 27mR
    5.5 (3.5K)
    Robert Manning visits the remote country house where his brother Peter was last seen. While his host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, Robert detects a feeling of menace in the air.
    DirectorVernon SewellStarsBoris KarloffChristopher LeeMark Eden
  • Dagon (2001)

    8. Dagon

    20011h 38mR
    6.2 (23K)
    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
  • The Shuttered Room (1967)

    9. The Shuttered Room

    19671h 39mUnrated
    5.8 (2K)
    A series of horrific murders is traced to a creature that inhabits a very strange house.
    DirectorDavid GreeneStarsOliver ReedGig YoungCarol Lynley
  • The Unnamable (1988)

    10. The Unnamable

    19881h 27mR
    4.8 (3.5K)
    College students check out a haunted house where in the 1800s 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)

    11. 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
  • Chill (2007)

    12. Chill

    20071h 28mRVideo
    3.0 (573)
    In this classic retro horror thriller, Sam, an aspiring writer, takes a job as a clerk in an L.A. inner city grocery market owned by the sinister Dr. Munoz, a former scientist who claims to have a rare skin condition that forces him to live in sub-freezing temperatures. Meanwhile, Sam befriends an attractive neighborhood boutique owner Maria and becomes unwittingly entwined in a threatening love triangle when she reveals that ex-boyfriend Detective Defazio, who is investigating the recent disappearance of two local prostitutes, is stalking her. But it's what Sam doesn't know that might prove more fatal. A darker, diabolical secret lurks behind the freezer walls of his newfound employment. Sam is horrified when he discovers that Munoz died some time ago, but has kept himself alive through occult measures and the flesh that he harvests from his kidnapped victims. With Defazio off track in his investigation, Sam becomes captive in this house of horrors. Time is running out and he must escape to save his own hide - literally. Will he escape before the next fall of Munoz's razor-edged blades?
    DirectorSerge RodnunskyStarsThomas CalabroAshley LaurenceShaun Kurtz
  • Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)

    13. Necronomicon: Book of Dead

    19931h 36mR
    5.8 (7.5K)
    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
  • Cool Air (2006)

    14. Cool Air

    20061h 18mPG-13Video
    4.2 (874)
    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. As he learns more about the circumstances of the doctor and the history of his landlady, her autistic daughter and the strange lodger across the hall, Baxter is inspired to write his long blocked "great American Screenplay". Working furiously, Baxter suffers a heart attack, and staggers up to see the doctor for treatment. He passes out immediately, but awakens a cured man. But at a terrible price. The Doctor, a strangely preserved woman named Shockner, persuades Baxter to stay until he recovers fully, and informs her "patient" of the medical condition that has forced her into a hermit's existence. Twenty years ago Shockner suffered a fatal disease. Her solution found in the occult and dark arts, preserved her life but at the cost. Slowly Baxter is drawn into a nightmarish world of insane experiments and murder. He knows something must be done to stop the evil that resides in the room at the top of the stairs.
    DirectorAlbert PyunStarsMorgan WeisserWendy PhillipsCrystal Laws Green
  • Lon Chaney Jr., Vincent Price, and Debra Paget in The Haunted Palace (1963)

    15. The Haunted Palace

    19631h 27mApproved
    6.7 (9.5K)
    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)

    16. Lurking Fear

    19941h 16mR
    4.6 (2.1K)
    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
  • Jessica Dollarhide in Castle Freak (1995)

    17. 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
  • The Color Out of Space (2010)

    18. The Color Out of Space

    20101h 26mNot Rated
    6.2 (1.9K)
    A boy, looking for his missing father, travels to Germany and uncovers a haunting legacy that a meteorite left behind in the area. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Color Out of Space."
    DirectorHuân VuStarsPaul DorschJürgen HeimüllerIngo Heise
  • Pickman's Muse (2010)

    19. Pickman's Muse

    20101h 17m
    5.5 (372)
    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
  • The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)

    20. The Whisperer in Darkness

    20111h 43mNot Rated
    6.5 (4K)
    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 BranneyStarsMatt FoyerBarry LynchDaniel Kaemon
  • Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998)

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

    199856mTV Movie
    6.9 (328)
    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
  • Wil Wheaton in The Curse (1987)

    22. The Curse

    19871h 32mR
    5.1 (4.4K)
    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
  • Cthulhu (2007)

    23. Cthulhu

    20071h 40mR41Metascore
    4.5 (2.4K)
    Seattle professor returns home, reunites with childhood friend, uncovers disturbing details about father's cult, events escalate dangerously toward apocalyptic situation.
    DirectorDan GildarkStarsJason CottleCasey CurranEthan Atkinson
  • Dark Heritage (1989)

    24. Dark Heritage

    19891h 34m
    4.1 (390)
    Reporter Clint Harrison is sent to investigate a massacre at a Louisiana campground and finds that it may be linked to the Dansen clan an old local family thought to have died out years ago.
    DirectorDavid McCormickStarsMark LaCourTim VerkaikEddie Moore
  • Rutger Hauer and Roy Dupuis in Bleeders (1997)

    25. Bleeders

    19971h 29mR
    4.3 (3.2K)
    A man travels to an island with his girlfriend in search of his relatives, but he finds maybe more than what he wanted to know.
    DirectorPeter SvatekStarsGillian FerrabeePascal GruselleRoy Dupuis

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