Lovecraft.ĭirector Roger Corman’s The Haunted Palace is based on H. Cosmic Horror Films from the 1900s The Haunted Palace (1963) This film was based on a short story by H. Lovecraft, encompassing a wide range of far-out-there films. Lovecraftian movies or cosmic horror films have a long tradition in Hollywood and have evolved to represent a genre larger than just the writing of H. At The Mountain of Madness written in 1931 is one of H.P Lovecraft’s most famous stories. The scholarly protagonist(s) doomed to an untimely end, an uncanny creature out to kill, and a general sense of terror that when seeking knowledge in the world, all you learn is that you will not survive. One of the earliest examples of a Lovecraftian film, The Trollenberg Terror (1958), includes all the telltale tropes of a weird story. Body horror and scientific exploration gone awry are staples of Lovecraftian movies pictured above is a still from the 1985 film Re-Animator. Cosmic horror showcases our small role in the vast cosmos and explores plots around the dangers of scientific discovery, insanity, body horror, psychedelic/weird monsters, and existence itself as the source of horror. Lovecraft is considered the inventor of cosmic horror, a genre of horror storytelling that focuses on cosmic and existential dread.
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