i got in to making a list of the various Lovecraft inspired and/or cosmic horror movies I could think of.
Event Horizon, Alien, The Thing.
Annihilation draws on a lot of Lovecraft, or just Cosmic Horror, themes.
Hellraiser fits; Bizarre aliens from an alternate dimension come unexpectedly to drag unsuspecting people in to their reality. Their motives are strange bordering on incomprehensible (unless you're really kinky). Clive Barker's Undying (the video game) is very much an homage to Lovecraft and contemporary weird fiction authors.
The new game Scorn owes a lot to Lovecraft's writing as well as the visual style of Geiger and the Alien movie.
The Mist by Stephen King definitely hits some Cosmic Horror vibes. One day for no obvious reason a thick mist overtakes, as far as anyone can tell, the whole world. Then the creatures appear. The end of the movie is notably one of the bleakest conclusions to a piece of fiction I've ever seen.
The Descent has strong Lovecraft vibes. A group of women rock climbers descend in to the hostile and alien environment of a deep unexplored cave. Trauma inspired psychological horror and hilarious hijinks ensure.
While looking this up I found that the panned "Underwater" movie with Kristen Stewart from a few years ago features, no shit, Cthulhu as the big bad guy.
A Quiet Place is a kind of a Lovecraft Light story in so far as the hostile creatures just kind of come out of nowhere and apparently easily destroy humanity.
Same with The Bird Book. Inexplicable creatures or phenomena appear from nowhere and cause deadly insanity in anyone who sees them.
Pacific Rim is a wild mash-up of Cosmic Horror, Real Robots, and Kaiju films full of references and nods to all three genres that you'll pick up on if you're a fan. Features 20 story tall robots and kaiju beating the living hell out of each other. One of my favs.
The Cabin In The Woods is a like a meta-cosmic horror story. I guess talking about it too much gives away the plot but it starts out as a really by the numbers cabin horror story and then gets weirder and more inventive as it goes on.
Tremors, for all that it's a fairly light hearted and goofy horror comedy, draws on some Lovecraft tropes with it's monsters being bizarre survivors of the pre-Cambrian age.
Hellboy, both comics and movies, show a deep love for the wierd fiction, pulp fiction, and cosmic horror genres.
John Dies at the End is a wacky horror-comedy entry in to the Cosmic Horror spehre.
Sphere is also a cosmic horror film, though the real villain is the shlocky self-righteous and entirely serious 90s psychobabble from the main character.
True Detective from back in 2014 was kind of famous for having some Lovecraft Light/Cosmic Horror themes.
Who Goes There? Is the 1938 novella that directly inspired The Thing
i got in to making a list of the various Lovecraft inspired and/or cosmic horror movies I could think of.
Event Horizon, Alien, The Thing.
Annihilation draws on a lot of Lovecraft, or just Cosmic Horror, themes.
Hellraiser fits; Bizarre aliens from an alternate dimension come unexpectedly to drag unsuspecting people in to their reality. Their motives are strange bordering on incomprehensible (unless you're really kinky). Clive Barker's Undying (the video game) is very much an homage to Lovecraft and contemporary weird fiction authors.
The new game Scorn owes a lot to Lovecraft's writing as well as the visual style of Geiger and the Alien movie.
The Mist by Stephen King definitely hits some Cosmic Horror vibes. One day for no obvious reason a thick mist overtakes, as far as anyone can tell, the whole world. Then the creatures appear. The end of the movie is notably one of the bleakest conclusions to a piece of fiction I've ever seen.
The Descent has strong Lovecraft vibes. A group of women rock climbers descend in to the hostile and alien environment of a deep unexplored cave. Trauma inspired psychological horror and hilarious hijinks ensure.
While looking this up I found that the panned "Underwater" movie with Kristen Stewart from a few years ago features, no shit, Cthulhu as the big bad guy.
A Quiet Place is a kind of a Lovecraft Light story in so far as the hostile creatures just kind of come out of nowhere and apparently easily destroy humanity.
Same with The Bird Book. Inexplicable creatures or phenomena appear from nowhere and cause deadly insanity in anyone who sees them.
Pacific Rim is a wild mash-up of Cosmic Horror, Real Robots, and Kaiju films full of references and nods to all three genres that you'll pick up on if you're a fan. Features 20 story tall robots and kaiju beating the living hell out of each other. One of my favs.
The Cabin In The Woods is a like a meta-cosmic horror story. I guess talking about it too much gives away the plot but it starts out as a really by the numbers cabin horror story and then gets weirder and more inventive as it goes on.
Tremors, for all that it's a fairly light hearted and goofy horror comedy, draws on some Lovecraft tropes with it's monsters being bizarre survivors of the pre-Cambrian age.
Hellboy, both comics and movies, show a deep love for the wierd fiction, pulp fiction, and cosmic horror genres.
John Dies at the End is a wacky horror-comedy entry in to the Cosmic Horror spehre.
Sphere is also a cosmic horror film, though the real villain is the shlocky self-righteous and entirely serious 90s psychobabble from the main character.
True Detective from back in 2014 was kind of famous for having some Lovecraft Light/Cosmic Horror themes.
Who Goes There? Is the 1938 novella that directly inspired The Thing
Ill add The Void and Color out of Space too
Oh crap! Scorn came out!