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H.P. Lovecraft in Film and Series - The Big Lovecraftian Movie List

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  • The Mysteries of Myra (1916)

    1. The Mysteries of Myra

    1916
    5.7 (40)
    Myra Maynard, is plagued by a wide variety of metaphysical assaults by the corrupt Black Order, a secret organization which uses magic, curses and any supernatural means possible to achieve its ends.
    DirectorsLeopold WhartonTheodore WhartonStarsJean SothernHoward EstabrookAllan Murnane
    Occult mysteries in the era of H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Aleister Crowley stars in this serial.

    HPLP: 2/5
  • The Trail of the Octopus (1919)

    2. The Trail of the Octopus

    19195hNot Rated
    6.9 (49)
    Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!
    DirectorDuke WorneStarsBen F. WilsonNeva GerberWilliam Dyer
    Occult mysteries in the era of H.P. Lovecraft. If Lovecraft ever saw these is unlikely but they do have a lot of themes Lovecraft used in his work.

    HPLP: 2/5
  • Violet MacMillan, Paul Panzer, J. Robert Pauline, and Peggy Shanor in The Mystery Mind (1920)

    3. The Mystery Mind

    19205h
    A murderous gang of mysterious creepy killers mark a young heiress for death. They are led by a ghostly voice known only as the "The Mystery Mind." Will her finance save her just in time, and stop the gang from finding the lost Treasure of Atlantis? Who is "The Mystery Mind"? Alas, we will never find out the answers, as the serial is believed lost. Or will we? Stay tune.
    DirectorsWill S. DavisFred SittenhamStarsJ. Robert PaulineViolet MacMillanPaul Panzer
    Occult mysteries in the era of H.P. Lovecraft. If Lovecraft ever saw these is unlikely but they do have a lot of themes Lovecraft used in his work.
  • Grace Darmond in The Hope Diamond Mystery (1921)

    4. The Hope Diamond Mystery

    19215hPassed
    6.5 (56)
    The true story of Lord Francis Hope, who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe'. Lord Francis Hope gambles away the family fortune and May Yohe' leaves him--another suspected curse of owning the Hope Diamond.
    DirectorStuart PatonStarsGrace DarmondHarry CarterGeorge Chesebro
    Occult mysteries in the era of H.P. Lovecraft. If Lovecraft ever saw these is unlikely but they do have a lot of themes Lovecraft used in his work.
  • Leslie Howard and Heather Angel in Berkeley Square (1933)

    5. Berkeley Square

    19331h 28mPassed
    6.5 (1K)
    A young American man comes to believe that he can will himself back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meet his ancestors, who lived in the house he has just inherited.
    DirectorFrank LloydStarsLeslie HowardHeather AngelValerie Taylor
    Of Lovecraftian interest. Supposedly inspired H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow out of Time.
  • Robert Cornthwaite, Margaret Sheridan, Douglas Spencer, and Kenneth Tobey in The Thing from Another World (1951)

    6. The Thing from Another World

    19511h 27mApproved
    7.0 (36K)
    Scientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.
    DirectorsChristian NybyHoward HawksStarsKenneth TobeyMargaret SheridanJames Arness
    Echoes of At the Mountains of Madness. John Carpenter based the 1982 The Thing on this film. Adaptation of Who Goes There? (John W. Campbell).
  • The Maze (1953)

    7. The Maze

    19531h 20mApproved
    5.8 (1.4K)
    A Scotsman named Gerald breaks his engagement to Kitty, moves to his uncle's castle. Kitty and her aunt follow him weeks later, finding Gerald aged.
    DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsRichard CarlsonVeronica HurstKatherine Emery
    Lovecraftian themes and overtones. A bit of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider and Clark Ashton Smith's Tsathoggua.

    HPLP: 3/5
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)

    8. Creature from the Black Lagoon

    19541h 19mG68Metascore
    6.9 (37K)
    A strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.
    DirectorJack ArnoldStarsRichard CarlsonJulie AdamsRichard Denning
    Lovecraftian creature mostly (The Gill-man resembles a Deep One).
  • The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)

    9. The Quatermass Xperiment

    19551h 18mApproved
    6.6 (7.9K)
    Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
    DirectorVal GuestStarsBrian DonlevyJack WarnerRichard Wordsworth
    Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
  • Quatermass II (1955)

    10. Quatermass II

    19556 epsTV Mini Series
    7.1 (519)
    Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his soon-to-be son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.
    StarsJohn RobinsonMonica GreyHugh Griffith
    Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
  • Revenge of the Creature (1955)

    11. Revenge of the Creature

    19551h 22mApproved
    5.6 (7.4K)
    Men capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.
    DirectorJack ArnoldStarsJohn AgarLori NelsonJohn Bromfield
    Lovecraftian creature mostly (The Gill-man resembles a Deep One).
  • X the Unknown (1956)

    12. X the Unknown

    19561h 21mApproved
    6.1 (3.5K)
    A radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village.
    DirectorsLeslie NormanJoseph LoseyStarsDean JaggerEdward ChapmanLeo McKern
    Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Colour Out of Space.

    HPLP: 3/5
  • The Mole People (1956)

    13. The Mole People

    19561h 17mApproved
    5.0 (4.2K)
    A party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.
    DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsJohn AgarCynthia PatrickHugh Beaumont
    Echoes of The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Lurking Fear and At the Mountains of Madness.

    HPLP: 1/5
  • Marla English in The She-Creature (1956)

    14. The She-Creature

    19561h 17mApproved
    3.9 (2.1K)
    A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.
    DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsChester MorrisTom ConwayCathy Downs
    Lovecraftian creature mostly (The She-Creature resembles a Deep One).
  • Jeff Morrow, Gregg Palmer, Rex Reason, and Leigh Snowden in The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)

    15. The Creature Walks Among Us

    19561h 18mApproved
    5.6 (4.4K)
    A scientist captures the Creature and turns him into an air-breather, only for him to escape and start killing.
    DirectorJohn SherwoodStarsJeff MorrowRex ReasonLeigh Snowden
    Lovecraftian creature mostly (The Gill-man resembles a Deep One).
  • Lola Albright and Grant Williams in The Monolith Monsters (1957)

    16. The Monolith Monsters

    19571h 17mApproved
    6.3 (4.3K)
    Rocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.
    DirectorJohn SherwoodStarsGrant WilliamsLola AlbrightLes Tremayne
    Echoes of The Colour Out of Space. Big monoliths instead of an alien colour.

    HPLP: 2/5
  • Quatermass 2 (1957)

    17. Quatermass 2

    19571h 25mApproved
    6.7 (5.1K)
    Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.
    DirectorVal GuestStarsBrian DonlevyJohn LongdenSidney James
    Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
  • Dana Andrews and Peggy Cummins in Curse of the Demon (1957)

    18. Curse of the Demon

    19571h 36mApproved
    7.4 (17K)
    American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshipper Julian Karswell.
    DirectorJacques TourneurStarsDana AndrewsPeggy CumminsNiall MacGinnis
    Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Adaptation of Casting the Runes (M.R. James).

    HPLP: 3/5
  • Beverly Garland in Not of This Earth (1957)

    19. Not of This Earth

    19571h 7mApproved
    6.1 (2.5K)
    An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to Earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There, he terrorizes Southern California in an attempt to acquire blood for his dying race, the result of a devastating nuclear war.
    DirectorRoger CormanStarsPaul BirchBeverly GarlandMorgan Jones
    Lovecraftian creatures mostly.
  • Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro, Laurence Payne, and Forrest Tucker in The Crawling Eye (1958)

    20. The Crawling Eye

    19581h 24mNot Rated
    5.2 (5.2K)
    A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
    DirectorQuentin LawrenceStarsForrest TuckerLaurence PayneJennifer Jayne
    Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of At the Mountains of Madness.

    HPLP: 3/5
  • Quatermass and the Pit (1958)

    21. Quatermass and the Pit

    1958–19596 epsTV Mini Series
    8.0 (1.3K)
    A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.
    StarsAndré MorellCec LinderAnthony Bushell
    Lovecraftian themes and overtones.

    HPLP: 3/5
  • The Blob (1958)

    22. The Blob

    19581h 26mApproved58Metascore
    6.3 (31K)
    An alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.
    DirectorsIrvin S. Yeaworth Jr.Russell S. Doughten Jr.StarsSteve McQueenAneta CorsautEarl Rowe
    Echoes of The Colour Out of Space.
  • Fiend Without a Face (1958)

    23. Fiend Without a Face

    19581h 14mApproved
    6.1 (5.1K)
    A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.
    DirectorArthur CrabtreeStarsMarshall ThompsonTerry KilburnKynaston Reeves
    Lovecraftian ideas and creatures mostly.
  • John Merivale and Daniela Rocca in Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (1959)

    24. Caltiki, the Immortal Monster

    19591h 17mApproved
    5.9 (1.8K)
    A team of archaeologists in Mexico encounter an amorphous, blob-like monster that appears to be connected with the collapse of the Mayan civilization.
    DirectorsRiccardo FredaMario BavaStarsJohn MerivaleDidi SullivanGérard Herter
    Inspired by The Call of Cthulhu.

    HPLP: 3/5
  • Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)

    25. Beast from Haunted Cave

    19591h 12mApproved
    4.3 (2.4K)
    A group of gold thieves pull of a heist and flee into the snowy wilderness, only to be pursued by a horrible, spider-like monster.
    DirectorMonte HellmanStarsMichael ForestSheila NoonanFrank Wolff
    Lovecraftian themes and overtones.

    HPLP: 2/5

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