Andrew Leman
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Filmography
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Color Out of Space (2020)
Directed by Richard Stanley
influenced by The Call of Cthulhu (2006)
Themes
In works like The Call of Cthulhu and The Colour Out of Space, the writer conjures unfathomable terrors, with madness as the only logical recourse for the characters who encounter them.
Once you narrow the field down to Lovecraft films that are actually any good (an act similar to flipping down 90% of the Guess Who tiles), you’re left with films which use Lovecraft’s basic plots as a jumping-off point for something altogether different (Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator and From Beyond), a handful of impressively reverent but necessarily niche-y fan films (2005’s silent short The Call of Cthulhu), and a number of titles which adopt the author’s aesthetic and mythos without actually adapting a specific work (John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and arguably The Thing).