Just in case anyone else finds this useful: • The lighthouse (2019) • From Beyond (1986) • Event Horizon (1997) • Reanimator (1985) • The Call of Cthulhu (2005) • Castle Freak (1995) • In the Mouth of Madness (1994) • Color out of Space (2019) • The Resurrected (1991) • The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) • Necronomicon (1993) • The Void (2016) • Underwater (2020) • The Haunted Palace (1963) • The Ritual (2017) • Annihilation (2018) • Spring (2014) • Sacrifice (2020) • The Dunwich Horror (1970) • The Mist (2007) • The Endless (2017) • Cthulhu (2007) • Alien (1979) • The Thing (1982) • The Outer Limits Series - S2.E6: Cry of Silence (1964) • Cloverfield (2008) • Dreams in the Witch House (2013) • Daniel isn't Real (2019) • Pandorum (2009) • The Unnamable (1988) • A Cure for Wellness (2016) • The Empty Man (2020) • The field Guide of Evil (2018): The Palace of Horrors

Event horizon and mouth of madness are 2 of my favourite horrors of all time. Simply brilliant

Wow, this man has THE story telling voice. I'm a bit jealous, but in a healthy hearty way. When I was younger I "sang" in a pink band and drank several bottles of whiskey each week in hopes of getting a dark and rich voice, all I got from that was a good time:) Kind regards, Solo - Sweden

I'm only seeing 47, not 50. :D I did notice that two versions of "The Dreams in the Witch House" were mentioned (both the Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities and Masters of Horror), but that would bring us up to 48. 0:01:00 - The Lighthouse 0:02:48 - From Beyond 0:04:30 - Bleeders 0:06:18 - Event Horizon 0:08:12 - Re-Animator 0:10:02 - The Call of Cthulhu 0:11:55 - Castle Freak 0:13:49 - Dagon 0:15:41 - In the Mouth of Madness 0:17:20 - Color Out of Space 0:18:56 - The Resurrected 0:20:33 - The Whisperer in Darkness 0:22:22 - Necronomicon 0:24:24 - The Void 0:25:58 - Underwater 0:27:31 - The Haunted Palace 0:29:26 - The Ritual 0:31:08 - Annihilation 0:32:53 - Spring 0:34:40 - Sacrifice 0:36:13 - The Dunwich Horror 0:37:52 - The Mist 0:39:30 - The Endless 0:41:03 - Cthulhu 0:42:35 - Alien 0:44:06 - The Thing 0:45:42 - Cry of Silence (The Outer Limits) 0:47:17 - Cloverfield 0:48:48 - Dreams in the Witch House (Masters of Horror) 0:50:23 - Daniel Isn't Real 0:52:00 - Pandorum 0:53:55 - The Unnamable 0:55:18 - A Cure for Wellness 0:56:56 - The Empty Man 0:58:34 - The Palace of Horrors (The Field Guide to Evil) 0:59:53 - Prince of Darkness 1:01:20 - The Shuttered Room 1:02:55 - Cast a Deadly Spell 1:04:23 - Die, Monster, Die! 1:05:52 - The Crimson Cult 1:07:12 - X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes 1:08:43 - The Lurking Fear 1:09:59 - The Curse 1:11:08 - The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter 1:12:07 - The Island of the Fishmen 1:13:23 - Out of Mind: The Stories of H. P. Lovecraft 1:14:22 - The Thing on the Doorstep

People often forget Lovecraftian is different from cosmic horror. Cosmic horror is Lovecraftian... but Lovecraftian encompasses much more than just cosmic horror. It is especially Lovecraft's early stories that show a more open horror, which indicates to us the fact that even in the most mundane elements of our daily experience, horror can hide. Robert Bloch understood this well when he wrote Psycho. Robert Eggers also understood this very well when directing The Lighthouse.

The Endless is an underappreciated film that deserves a watch.

I'd add "Dark City" to the list! This movie had the 'luck' of being released the same year as "The Matrix," which explored similar themes. "Dark City" has strong Lovecraftian vibes and themes cleverly hidden in what looks like a typical science-fiction thriller. The acting, the narrative, and the score are solid, and the production values rock with eye-candy cinematography.

Lovecraftian horror, sometimes used interchangeably with "cosmic horror", is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock.

I still love " The Call of Cthulhu ", its done with such love, silent and in black and white, some terrific details small and large, some great acting, claymation, atmosphere, some actual chills - I just fell in love with the film the first time I viewed it, it gets more fun with every viewing. Heh, you stretched it to the limit there going for 50!

I watched The Ritual on Netflix here a year or two ago and even though it does feel Lovecraftian, I do like how the main antagonist creature is actually the daughter of Loki from Norse mythology. Also Dagon was really good and my introduction to his work.

I can't wait for "At the mountains of madness" to get made especially by Guiellermo Del Toro, as it is my understanding he has bought the rights to make the movie of it. In his more than capable hands it should be a masterpiece of filmography indeed.

"The Faculty" is a movie that most people over look as Lovecraftian but very well could/should be... it's not taken as seriously as most of these films but all things considered, it's just as Lovecraftian as any, if not more than most of the list

The Void was a surprisingly great film. I went in not knowing there was any Lovecraftian influence in the movie, but quickly saw how well it fit into Lovecraft's writings. Once the end hit, I ended up loving it. I have to say though I'm surprised there was no mention of any of the adaptations of Pickman's Model.

I saw Dagon with absolutely no expectations… by the end I was in love with it. Idk why but I really felt the idea of ‘being so confronted with inevitable horror that you just go with it’, resonated as very much a possibility for a protagonist in these stories.

There was a pretty good 2010 German adaptation of The Colour Out of Space called "Die Farbe". It was filmed in black and white with the Color itself being the only thing in color, to show its otherworldly nature. Bob Fugger used a similar technique in his 1999 short film version of "From Beyond", with the Resonator causing color to slowly bleed into the black and white scene as the characters' perceptions were altered. While it was never a good movie, the legacy of "The Curse" has suffered even more now that Wil Wheaton has spoken about the exploitation, physical abuse, and sexual abuse that he and his sister experienced when working on the movie.

It should be noted that Call of Cthulhu 2005 was meant to recreate the film style and special effect restrictions of the time period the original story was written. A black and white silent film, with stage production effects and stop motion, very reminiscent of early Georges Méliès.

All 3 Re-Animator films are great actually. Especially the last one. But From Beyond is something truly incredible.

Having seen 90% of these, I appreciate the mention of ones I've missed and appreciate the recognition of the plethora of films mainly having gone unnoticed, even though being deserving of love.

Thank you for this amazing video . !! I just found it and watched it the entire video .

This was an amazing video, I love Lovecraftian movies and now I am going to the movies I didn't see yet. Thank you so much for this video, I love it!

Long awaited compilation. Unexpected in my recommendations but very welcome.

Perfect to watch this while I am stuck at home, bundled up with the onset of a bad cold! Added lots of titles to my TBW list, and reminded me of a few old faves overdue for a re-watch (looking at you, Dagon!). Sadly quite a few of these cannot be found streaming, but I added them to my IMDB watch list in case that changes! Love me some Lovecraft!

For Convenience: 0:01:00 The Lighthouse; 2019; Robert Eggers 0:02:49 From Beyond; 1986; Stewart Gordon 0:04:32 Bleeders; 1997; Peter Svatek 0:06:18 Event Horizon; 1997; Paul Anderson 0:08:11 Re-Animator; 1985; Stuart Gordon 0:10:08 The Call of Cthulhu; 2005; Andrew Leman 0:11:55 Castle Freak; 1995; Stewart Gordon 0:13:50 Dagon; 2001; Stewart Gordon 0:15:41 In the Mouth of MMadnes; 1994; John Carpenter 0:17:20 Color Out of Space; 2019; Richard Stanley 0:18:56 The Resurrected; 1991; Dan O’Bannon 0:20:33 The Whisperer in Darkness; 2011; Sean Branney 0:22:22 Necronomicon; 1993; Brian Yuzna, Christophe Gans, Shusuke Kaneko 0:24:24 The Void; 2016; Steven Kostanski, Jeremy Gillespie 0:25:57 Underwater; 2020; William Eubank 0:27:32 The Haunted Palace; 1963; Roger Corman 0:29:27 The Ritual; 2017; David Bruckner 0:31:09 Annihilation; 2018; Alex Garland 0:32:53 Spring; 2014; Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead 0:34:40 Sacrifice; 2020; Andy Collier, Tor Mian 0:36:14 The Dunwich Horror; 1970; Daniel Haller 0:37:52 The Mist; 2007; Frank Darabont 0:39:31 The Endless; 2017; Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead 0:41:04 Cthulhu; 2007; Daniel Gildark 0:42:36 Alien; 1979; Ridley Scott 0:44:07 The Thing; 1982; John Carpenter 0:45:44 The Outer Limits - Cry of Silence; Season 2, Episode 6, 24 October 1964; Charles Haas 0:47:18 Cloverfield; 2008; Matt Reeves 0:48:49 Dreams in the Witch House: Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities, Episode 6, October 27, 2022; Catherine Hardwicke Masters of Horror, Season 1, Episode 2, November 4, 2005; Stewart Gordon 0:50:23 Daniel Isn't Real; 2019; Adam Egypt Mortimer 0:52:00 Pandorum; 2009; Christian Alvart 0:53:50 The Unnamable; 1988; Jean-Paul Ouellette 0:55:19 A Cure for Wellness; 2016; Gore Verbinski 0:56:57 The Empty Man; 2020; David Prior 0:58:34 The Palace of Horrors (The Field Guide to Evil anthology film); 2018; Ashim Ahluwalia 0:59:55 Prince of Darkness; 1987; John Carpenter 1:01:22 The Shuttered Room; 1967; David Greene 1:02:55 Cast A Deadly Spell; 1991; Martin Campbell 1:04:24 Die, Monster Die!; 1965; Daniel Haller 1:05:53 The Crimson Cult; 1968; Vernon Sewell (UK: Curse of the Crimson Altar) 1:07:11 X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes; 1963; Roger Corman 1:08:43 The Lurking Fear; 1994; C. Courtney Joyner 1:09:58 The Curse; 1987; David Keith 1:11:09 The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter; 1992; Jean-Paul Ouellette 1:12:06 The Island of the Fishmen; 1979; Sergio Martino 1:13:23 Out of Mind: The Stories of HP Lovecraft; 1998; Raymond Saint-Jean 1:14:21 The Thing on the Doorstep; 2003; Eric Morgret

Cool video! Will definitely be checking out some of the films here that I hadn't heard of.

Event horizon is still one of the scariest movies I’ve seen

Astonishing list 👏👏👏👏 Many I've watched them but many others I didn't know about them, so I thank you for the video 👍🎬😎

Three of my favourite movies are definitely on this list, Event Horizon, In the Mouth of Madness, and Annihilation. The first is brutal, the second mind-bending and very in the theme of Lovecraft, and the third is cosmic and not so harsh and blood-thirsty, and has the value of being one my 70+ mother also appreciates.

Excellent list. I found the Endless horrifying...nice to see it on the list. The Empty man is another great movie with the intro being top notch.

Evil Dead would be a good choice to put in this list because of the Necronomicon being part of the story. Even IT as well since it had a heavy influence of cosmic horror

Yuzna and Gordon collaboration and individual efforts are my favorites. Dagon, From Beyond, Re-Animator, and Necronomicon to name my tops.

Wasn't sure you would include The Empty Man. Glad you did, it's definitely Lovecraftian.

I saw cast a deadly spell at a friend's house as a kid and loved it but never knew the name. Thank you friend.

I might have blinked and missed "Dagon" (2001, directed by Stuart Gordon) and "Bleeders" (1997, directed by Peter Svatek and starring the incomparable Rutger Hauer). Those two are stong candidates, as they are movie adaptations of stories by Lovecraft, not just inspired by the themes. "The Deep House" (2021, directed by Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury) also deserves a mention, even though it is not a direct adaptation, but does have strong Lovecraftian themes, and a line from CoC in French no less.

Thx for my new watchlist.....christmas is save now 😉😁.

Chapters would be nice for these longer videos, still love your content regardless!

ALIEN , Event Horizon , The Outer limits ..Some of my favourites featured Great Vid..

I would also like to point out the adaptation of "The thing on the doorstep" created by an Italian troupe (RAI), present in the episode collection entitled "THE CHARM OF THE UNUSUAL" (il fascino dell'insolito). it is possible to find it on youtube only in Italian without subtitles.

The endless was great! I want to see more from these two!

Great great list w/ a ton of excellent movies I've seen, and some I haven't yet (yay). Also I like this narrator a lot..much better than some of the others. Still, more inflection would be welcome and add to the experience. I'll be saving this list for movies to watch. Thanks! 1/15/23.

did anyone sit and watch the whole video?

I always considered Event Horizon to be in the Grim Dark universe of Warhammer 40K. Of course many elements of Warhammer 40K are also very heavily inspired by Lovecraft.

28 Weeks Later's opening scene is widely regarded as one of the greatest opening scenes ever.

call of cthulhu and the whisperer in darkness are in my opinion BY FAR the best adaptations of any lovecraft story ever it's not even a bad thing they "extended" the story in the whisperer in darkness towards the ending with their black and white settings they perfectly capture the time in which those stories were created

Several episodes of Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" television series were Lovecraft adaptations (Cool Air, Pickman's Model).

I was so lucky to see Event Horizon in a cinema. It deserves to be watched on the big screen.

watched 'The Empty Man' by chance yesterday and instantly thought of this list. Yep, it's on here.

All vids in this vid, and I already saw in the past, 're very good. So, vids I didn't see yet in this vid, must be very good, too!

The Lost Continent has a squid-octopus type creature that scared the crap out of me and my siblings when were little kids. Very strange Hammer film.

Carpenter's apocalypse trilogy is truly a masterpiece.

Event Horizon stuck with me a few days after watching. That end scene >

I have to admit, the Unnameable II is one of my all time favorite Lovecraftian movies. The separated human woman from the demon "adjusting" to the world is some of the most fun writing I've seen in these movies. It's much better than the previous movie.

The Lovecraftian movie we never got, "At the Mountains of Madness" that was to be directed by Guillermo del Toro and headed by Tom Cruise. It was deep sixed by the studio when they saw it supposedly would have costed over 200 million.

Nice list. I know some of the films, I especially adore The Haunted Palace and Dagon, and never thought to categorize some of the science fiction films as mythos related. What irks me a bit is that you left out Die Farbe, another Colour adaptation wouldn't hurt, as there are three Charles Dexter Ward versions on here. 😉

The movie "Phantoms" (Ben Affleck, Liev Schreiber ).is definitely an homage to Lovecraft. Also the movie "Altitude" is about an elder god or Old One terrorizing an airplane in the sky.

There was another movie. A daughter went looking for her father, a sculptor living by the shore in an actual famous house with silhouettes painted on walls. An entity from the water has been subtly controlling people in the area, creating cultists that prepare for the entities rising. The whole movie carried an eerie vibe and is freaky just for being so 70s. I wish I could recall the name. Very artsy but very Lovecraftian.

He is ALWAYS my 'roining all day' time for Lovecraft, "Shadow Over Innsmounth" is probably my favorite. The scene when the narrator is hiding in the gulley as the search party is shuffling along above him is honestly terrifying.

BLEEDERS is such an underrated film. I still own the VHS copy with ‘flowing blood’ when you run your fingers across the slipcase.

I really like this video sir; I really appreciate these kinds of movie, but I rarely find others to watch them (my wife hates them...) Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of curiosities is REALLY good! Pandorum is a gem!

Justin/Aaron of The Endless (Awesome) are also behind Spring (excited to see)

"The Beach House" (2019) still seems to get overlooked for its Lovecraftian aspects.

It's been a very loooooooong time since I heard this mention you right " in space no one can heard you scream "...😌

The Bird Box was an outstanding rendition in the style of his writings.

Great list. I would add "in the tall grass" from 2019.

AM1200 is a superb short film thats worth a mention. Perfect in every way IMHO :)

That bit with Barbara Crampton in From Beyond......you know the bit

Yeah, the mermaid in the Lighthouse put it over the top as a movie I never want to watch again. You just can't unsee that.

The Lighthouse and Event Horizon. Two of my favourite movies😊

Haunted Palace is a great flick. I miss the old horror films with greats like Vincent Price and Lon Cheney Jr.... Great stuff. I grew up watching stuff like that. Friday and Saturday nights were strictly horror back then. Around here in the Philly area back in the 80s they had Saturday Night Dead with Stella. Sort of like an Elvira type. It was awesome.

The Lighthouse performances by Pattinson and Dafoe are brilliant.

Event Horizon still holds up as one of the best sci-fi thriller/horror movies ever made.

Lovecraftian movies mostly has two things in it. Another dimension and/or Sliney Tenticles...

Finished watching the whole thing while munching on my cheese & lettuce sandwich. 🥪😖 Will rewatch a second time soon! PS. What brilliant writing this video has! ✨🥪✨🥪✨🥪✨🥪✨

Cast a Deadly Spell isn't meant to be horror. However, the fantastic cast and great music make it a lot of fun. Highly recommended.

Back in the 60s My Gran used to say "Everytime the World Opens itself to us, it swallows a few". I never did get past how absolutely CREEPED out it made me feel, as She'd WINK as she said it...... It always made me think of those horrid fish. Down in the darkness, with their luminescent LURES, just waiting.

Don't know why so underated

I would add the following movies: Horror Express (1972): Taking place in 1906, with passengers trapped on a train, it deals with timeless cosmic horror. Prince of Darkness (1987): A group of investigators trapped in a church try to stop a timeless cosmic horror. Shadowzone (1990): A research in deep sleep, showing that at a certain level of deep sleep, monsters live in the Dreamlands, and a gateway is formed to enter the real world through the sleeping subjects. Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell Trilogy (City of the Living Dead - 1980 / The Beyond - 1981 / The House by the Cemetary - 1981): A trio of films heavily influenced by Lovecraftian horror. Phantoms (1998): Heavily influenced by Lovecraft's Shoggoth monsters, or, more likely, by Shoggoth Lords in Michael Shea's Mythos story, Fat Face, which seems closer to the depiction of the monster, although Shea's novel was from 1987 and Koontz's Phantoms novel from 1983.

*The Ritual* and *Annihilation* were really good ones

Very cool video, although I think the first Guillermo Del Toro Hellboy and some episodes of Love, Death and Robots are definitely missing here.

I was sitting here watching this last night and I actually stopped so I could watch Spring in its entirety before bedtime. It was a lovely movie, almost more of a love story than a horror. I thought the ending was very touching and I didn't mind the ambiguity.

I notice how he seems to have an obsession with the ocean and tentacled sea monsters.

was the clip 15sec in from anything or is it just some art?

Very good list but not including Messiah of Evil and Dark Waters (1993) is beyond me. Those are quintessential lovecraftian horror films every fan should check out

So sad that the Empty Man didn't get a physical release. Hopefully someone makes it happen someday.

I simply HAVE to see The Call of Cythulu. It looks fantastic. Personally, I love stop-frame animation. It has an otherworldleness about it which CGI just cant seem to deliver. Also, the cinematography looks amazing and, if the film is true to the source material, is an absolute must watch for me.

"You're not fond of me lobster?"

I like Pandorum. Cthulhu but in Space. So genius.

Great list, there's a french movie called "Malefique" wich use lovecraftian ambient and lore, a must watch.

Rotten Tomatoes has no credibility in my opinion. There's a ton of movies I love that have been skewered by RT. Don't be deterred by poor RT scores everyone! 👍🏻

Wasn't the movie The Lighthouse based on the last novella written by E A Poe? According to some reviewers, the tale had a Lovecraftian feel to it.

Is there an IMDb list or similar with a list of these type of movies? I’d love that ❤

Watching and putting on the downloading list the ones i didn't knew!

Does "Baskin"(Turkey, 2015) fit into this HP Lovecraft influenced horror film montage? Ooooh creepy movie, the usual cult, distorted time and space, and gore... has a slight Lovecraftian vibe, no Cthulhu but it has the creepy atmosphere.

I think the movie "The skeleton key" was inspired by "the thing on the doorstep," both stories have a very similar twist.

I'm not sure if you guys covered it or not already, I looked and didn't see anything like it but you guys should do a video on Lovecraft video game adaptations, there are a good amount like "Call of Cthulhu" "The Sinking City" "The Shore" and my personal favorite game of all time that on the surface you would have no idea its Lovecraftian but "Bloodborne" Bloodborne is a souls game so it's in the same vein as Dark Souls difficulty wise. It starts out with you in a gothic era city over run by what seem to be wearwolves and something called "The Hunt" is going on and you're basically going through the city fighting wolf people and wolf type bosses but as you progress you start to collect items called "insight" and you start to notice as you collect and use more of it things begin to appear all over the city that weren't there before... well they were but we just couldn't percieve them because our "insight" was too low. You start to see giant Cthulhu type horrors as tall as dinosaurs gripping on to the sides of tall buildings, the monsters take a shift from beast to tentecled horrors. I don't wanna give away too much because even though its rather difficult its well worth the play. The omage to H.P Lovecraft is huge especially in the DLC content you get to a seaside fishing hamlet full of those creatures. Anyways highly highly highly reccomend to any Lovecraft fan, if it's too hard I'm sure UKposts has commentary free playthoughs somewhere.

Some hits and misses but sweet list

I think this video should have been subtitled, “The collaborative efforts between HP Lovecraft and John Carpenter.”

When will the late Dan O'Bannon get the respect he deserves for ALIEN? It was HE who wrote, titled and CREATED it. The fact that it is Lovecraftian was because he himself said that he was inspired by H.P. Lovecraft as he was reading it at the time, on top of also being inspired by H.R. Giger's work as both met and worked previously on the failed Alejandro Jodorowsky DUNE film. O'Bannon said on interviews that he was adamant in writing and making "a Giger Monster film"because of the morbid beauty of Giger's work, and when the film started production it was O'Bannon who introduced Giger's work and Giger to Scott. Ridley Scott was just a last minute director, he did good on his approach on the way of filming, but O'Bannon was not just the writer and creator, he was the Supervising Visual Consultant, and he was in every department overseeing the making of the film and giving instructions to the chagrin of the would be thieves Producers of the film. O'Bannon needs to be honored more for HIS creation, HIS story, HIS ALIEN, not just Ridley Scott.

I almost wish this video was like 2 more hours long…I can’t turn away. And surprisingly, there are a handful of these films I haven’t seen or even ever heard of…I have some movie I need to track down…

"The Void" was very interesting. As long as you expect all the endings to be depressing you'll be fine in this genre. Just try to enjoy the horror.

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