I got exposed to so many amazing movies when I used to torrent stuff before streaming was huge, this was one of them. I'm still unsure of what about it grabbed me the way it did, but holy shit was it great.

I recommend The Void to people all the time. Really good movie for any horror fan.

hell yeah!!!!!

I watch this movie on the reg.

yes , agreed

Good call, while it's a slower burn the payoffs are well worth it. If you weren't aware, it's also a quasi sequel to the also excellent Resolution by the same filmmakers with some clever intersections.

@@CosmicIceCream yeah, I seen Resolution, although not until after I'd seen The Endless. The intertwining story within that shared universe was well crafted . I really liked how you never actually see the entity but the movie still manages to portray it's influance and power it holds over time manipulation. It's very much in the vein of Lovecraftian cosmic horror. That scene with the Civil war guy in the tent caught in a 3 second loop was eerie af. Gave me the chills.

I came here to mention Resolution and The Endless, but I knew in my heart someone already had :)

Ugh. That low budget pos absolutely bored me to tears.

If you enjoyed "The Endless" and "Resolution", be sure to check out "Something in the Dirt" by the same creators - also low-budget and low-key, set in the same shared universe. "Synchronic" and "Spring" are also set in the same universe, and share some characters and plot elements like the "red weed"; "Synchronic" is maybe the most mainstream movie Benson and Moorhead created together so far, while "Spring" is maybe the slowest-moving and most niche, but all of these movies pay off in imagination and wonder for those with the patience for this sort of thing. You might also like "They Look Like People" - different creative team altogether, but very similar in theme, storytelling, and stripped-down production.. For something a little different, there's the much creepier and more intense "Caught" (2018), about a family of journalists held hostage in the rural UK by a very strange, inarticulate, and violent couple who demand something the family accidentally "caught" while filming a nearby military base. As above, the small and relatively unknown cast, low budget, minimalist (in this case generally practical) special effects, lack of hand-holding in the storyline, and sometimes slow pace aren't for everyone, but pays off well enough if this sort of thing works for you.

Other then Chuchutlu literally being there at the end.

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Amazing movie, does a really good job of having an unreliable narrator

I consider it one of the last great movies by Carpenter......,but it probably is not considered that recent by the person that compiled this list.

Maybe in your circle or where you hang around, in mine they're pretty much forgotten, some even unheard of

No, not at all. Everyone who's anyone has at least heard of half of these movies. Movies like in the mouth of madness, or the void should have been in here. Underwater isn't even a cosmic horror.

The Void is not forgotten tho... its one of the best ever made!!!!!

agreed, made me shiver. like......... hell nah!!

Yep. It was terrifying.

it clearly says 'RECENT' Lovecraftian etc etc There are plenty of lists of 100s of other Lovecraftian movies throughout all the decades all over the web, there's even like 3 different ones on this channel...

I didn't like it because one of the women in the movie was actually played by a man in a dress ...very distracting and odd.🫥

The title does say "recent but forgotten" but I certainly would have put the endless in that category. That was bona fide Lovecraftian and a great but underappreciated movie to boot.

Lovecraftian horror is just another name for cosmic horror. Cosmic horror is sci-fi horror that’s based on the theory of cosmicism: the theory that the universe is so massive and expansive that there are things within it mankind cannot comprehend and understand. Lovecraft Cthulhu mythos takes this theory and paints a what if situation. It’s horror based on the theory that there are plains of existence far beyond human comprehension. Lovecrafts brand of cosmic horror mixes mystery, occultist themes, sci-fi, and existential dread and creature horror and tops it with nihilistic themes. Essentially in cosmicism as well: humans are a tiny grain of sand on the cosmic beach. We are so insignificant that anything in a higher existence than us can wipe us out the same way we’d step on an ant and not know it.

Cthulhu*

Its 2020, also rated 3.50/10 on imdb 😬

Wasn't there a deleted scene where they shoehorn in a scene with Klover from the first movie breaking through the cloud cover on the planet?

@@suicidebylifestyle9267 right at the end. A cheap tie-in, indeed

@@suicidebylifestyle9267 speculation is that because the clouds are so tall that was a full grown monster from another version where maybe clover survived or a grown version was teleported instead.

They aren't very recent.

I thought to mention it too. The Void had those elements of Lovecraftian themes that I enjoy watching

The Void is not forgotten tho... its one of the best ever made!!!!!

You forgot the timestamp

While I agree to an extent, it is referred to as "Lovecraftian horror" because he is usually considered the author that, if not created, best exemplified and left the biggest impact on the genre. And also because a lot of the works are either directly adapted from or heavily influenced by his work. I usually use the term "cosmic horror", but I can see why his name is synonymous with the genre considering he's probably both the most famous and important author in the genre.

Omg 😂

Yeah dude. That movie. Uh...it's something else I'll tell ya. Sheesh@@60iger29

I thought it was a huge bait-and-switch. There was really nothing Lovecraftian about it.

It was good acting, but boring as hell, I didn't sleep through it but I can definitely see how one could.

@@napoleonsolo5929 Exactly what i thought The lighthouse was a potentially 'lovecraftian' setting. And the period in time, maybe But calling it 'lovecraftian' would be like calling Shutter Island lovecraftian, just because it's investigative and madness related

I remember thinking it’s one of the worst movies I’d ever watched when I first saw it. Had to give it another go just because i felt like I’d missed something. Still wasn’t great second time around but a lot better. But it is an art house movie where the director was basically smelling his own farts.

@@torque8899 THANK YOU Exactly

This reminds me of a movie called "Dreamcatcher" based of a Stephen King novel

Except in Dreamcatcher, the creatures come out of the butt.

Color out of Space is explicitly Lovecraft - the crash landing meteorite is a direct reference to a short story by the same name written by Lovecraft.

Yes baby, cope with it

It's very lovecraftian. Have you ever read lovecraft?

It actually is. It had a lot of Lovecraftian inspiration. - Unknowable cosmic creatures. Allusion to ancient beings; - Said creatures turn you insane when you look at them; - In relation to above, if you have seen In The Mouth of Madness, Bird Box share a similarity - an apocalyptic scenario where humanity is being decimated through madness; - Some of the people that gazed upon the creatures were somehow "enlightened" (i.e. cult); - The drawings of what the creatures might look like in one of the scenes where actually too on the nose as being Lovecraftian; There are probably a few more as I am just going by memory. The inspirations might be on a superficial level but it's there.

@@ant3352 I have read his stories, poems, essays, and personal letters. What Lovecraft story would you say Bird Box is most akin to?

@@bingerz237 oh babes you’re reaching so far

The empty man is just wow. As the void it’s a must see. I’ve seen annihilation but the only thing I remember is the bear…

@@KevinGoualch I still haven't seen The Empty Man, but I'm looking forward to it. The first time I saw Annihilation, That's all I remembered. I watched it again and got so much more out of it. Great movie. I'd say give it another watch.

It's a clear Cthullu reference. Have you even read Lovecraft?

nobody takes nicholas cage films seriously including himself and that's why we like the guy, he makes us laugh. you get it now?

@@skyhawkslcb18 Except he keeps fucking horror films. So no I dont get it. Horror films are supposed to be scary. Not funny.

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Maybe because he isn't a terrible actor just has a lot of terrible roles

@@drkrazykid or maybe he's in terrible roles because he is a terrible actor. Ever think of that?

Colour out of space

@@waltmorphling4781 thanks

I guess you are in the minority with that opinion 😂

@@60iger29 good taste seems to be in very short demand these days sadly. A quiet place is like the Taylor swift of horror movies. Even that POS annihilation was significantly better than A quiet place.

I hate quite place it was boring I fell asleep half way through...

@@Letsscalpp3d0s Birdbox better than A Quiet Place and EVEN Annihilation (loved by MANY Lovecraft fans)? I wouldn't argue that taste is very subjective but saying that everyone else has no taste while beeing in the clear minority is not helping you 😀

@@60iger29 annihilation had a terrible plot and was part of that white savior complex crap. Yea it makes a ton of sense to send in a team of nothing but women after numerous failed expeditions composed of Tier 1 operators with no contact at all plus they didn’t even send them in with any PPE either. A quiet place had monsters that could easily be killed by some 00 ought buck shot to the open maw yet somehow our military which has Bradley’s, Strykers and Apache gunships weren’t able to put them down. That’s just lazy and dumb writing from jim and his wife. At least Birdbox had a decent plot that made sense as to why just about everyone was killed off aside from the loonies and the blind.