For the longest time, we've all known that Hollywood just can't cut it when it comes to converting a Lovecraft story to the big screen. To compensate for this, our readers' are designing their own films, becoming part-time producers to cast and produce the ultimate Lovecraft movie!
Just select the movie poster to the left to view the movies already submitted. Notice how they're made, and who stars in them. If you have any comments, email me and let me know. If you have an idea for a movie and want to share it with the rest of us, just follow the steps below.
Tell us your version of the perfect Lovecraft movie. If you were a Hollywood producer, which Lovecraft story would you make into a movie and why? Additionally, write a short synopsis of the movie, along with a list of characters you'd use and the stars you'd cast. Have some fun with this one. If you're ready, go to the Movie Producer's Workshop and have at it! Good Luck!
| Pickman's Model | The Lurker at the Threshold (2) |
by Frank Belknap Long
Produced by J.B. LEE
StoOdin101@aol.com
It has all Hollywood wants in a monster movie: intrepid Heroes, plenty of bloodshed, Occult Stuff, Weird Science, rays, disintegrations, mutations and a monster that COULD be designed by H.R. Giger without doing it injustice, unlike most of Lovecraft's menagerie (Mi-Go excepted).
Change one of the characters into a woman for the requisite love interest and that should do it.
THE HORROR FROM THE HILLS
(1998) *** 1/2
Director: Mario Azzopardi
Azzopardi's first feature film (after a long tenure on the new Outer Limits) involves a menacing statue that comes to life and wreaks havoc. Along the way we encounter a sinister cult that worships the statue, a mad scientist with a machine that "reverses entropy", and enough gore for a dozen issues of FANGORIA.
Based on a "Cthulhu Mythos" story by pulp writer Frank Belknap Long. The climactic pursuit of the monster (designed by Alien creator H.R. Giger) will have you on the edge of your seat
Algernon Harris - Alexander Siddig
Clark Ulman - David Warner
Dr. Scollard - Alan Scarfe
Carol Imbert - Melissa Gilbert
(HENRY Imbert in the novel, but we must make our Hollywood concessions)
Roger Little - Jeffrey Combs
Chaugnar Faugn designed by H.R. Giger from a description by F. B. Long.
Produced by Justin Van Wormer
It's one of the longer ones and it switches points of view. The constant change in storytellers would make it more interesting. Of course it was my first Lovecraft book, so I'm a little partial.
Produced by John Freeman
s9510486@chelt.ac.uk
It's possibly the most warped Cthulhu that I've ever read, and therefore should appeal to a wide audience. Plus, it has the kind of sick sense of humor, though not violence, that we've come to love about horror stories on the big screen. Also, as such a short story (2000 words?) it leaves the scriptwriter/ director a lot of freedom. Think about Poe's 'Masque of the Red Death', or 'Fall of the House of Usher'. Both were short and of questionable literary value, but made superb films,
Cheers,
Johnny Boy
Girl meets fish, fish meets chainsaw, fish takes chainsaw, fish massacres restaurant, girl becomes fish and they both live happily beneath the waves of Innsmouth.
Boris Karlov as an old fish
The Spice girls as innocent bystanders
Tom Cruise as a very fishy fish
That girl off live T.V that reads the financial news, as girl who becomes a fish.
Me as the waiter, 'cos I'm an out of work actor -hint, hint -
And lastly, my mate Chris as the chainsaw, 'cos he'll do anything to get to America!
Produced by Mark Leforte
leforte@uakron.edu
It has all the things in it that would make a good movie. It's got man-eating ghouls. A truly twisted and demented villain. What more could you ask for.
Well it would be very similar to the way the book went. There would be this artist who is on the rise and someone is trying to find out where he gets the motivation for the works that he makes. And in the end the main character finds out, unfortunately for him.
I would cast Bruce Campbell as Richard Pickman. He just has that ability to look like he is nuts. Now for the protagonist it would have to be someone not very physically intimidating like Emilio Estevez.
It's a long novella with a fairly detailed plot.
They should make it as a period piece set in the time it was written. They must stick to the original plot.
Jeffery Combs as the main character
John Ryes-Davis as a supporting character