# Lovecraft movies.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 17, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-movies/308643 "2005-06-17T03:13:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-movies/308643/21 "2005-06-17T19:55:20Z")
Let’s not forget the [Cthulhu Tract](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=308141). Don’t know if any of the links are still active. They might have been shut down. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-movies/308643/22 "2005-06-17T19:57:35Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I’ve never been able to get AITD 2 to work past a certain point. No Lovecraft in that one. You spend the game fighting ghost pirates. I was very disappointed in it. There were at least two Cthulhu themed Real Ghostbuster episodes. One ended with Cthulhu being destroyed by an electrified steel-frame rollercoaster (Ray figured out how to kill him by reading back-issues of pulp magazines) and another that I remember much less clearly, except that it had the team climbing down a series of tall ledges to get to the big guy’s resting place. Along the way, a panting Peter says, “Why didn’t somebody put in some stairs, here?” To which Egon replies, “These ARE stairs.” I’ve always felt that the first _Tremors_ movie was a Lovecraft film. The graboids are almost exactly like Cthonians. HBO did a TV movie called _Cast a Deadly Spell_, featuring a hard-boiled, Raymond Chandler-esque detective named Howard Philip Lovecraft, who is looking for a stolen copy of the Necronomicon and ends up foiling a plot to awaken Cthulhu. Lovecraft’s IMDB entry features forty eight “writing” credits, including such gems as _Castle Freak_, _Bleeders_, _Tomb of Terror_, and _Corpse-o-Rama_. Possibly no other author has been as frequently adapted by people who have no freakin’ clue what he was trying to do with his stories. ---
**Author:** ![duality72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duality72/32/3910_2.png) [@duality72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/duality72)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2005, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-movies/308643/23 "2005-06-17T20:19:00Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > There was also a fan-made text game called “Anchorhead” which was even better. Can’t let that go without a [link](http://www.wurb.com/if/game/17). ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-movies/308643/24 "2005-06-18T02:45:45Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > There’s [this](http://www.petting-zoo.org/Movies_Dreamquest.html) adaptation of _Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath_. I can’t vouch for it, but I’ve heard that it’s not too bad. An ex of mine did some work on that film. It’s not too bad, once you realize that it’s basically a reading of the story with static illustrations. I’ve only made it to the [Lovecraft film festival](http://www.hplfilmfestival.com/) once, the year that _Dream Quest_ appeared. The vast majority of the films fell into the “utterly execrable” category. ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-movies/308643/25 "2005-06-18T03:45:27Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > No Lovecraft in that one. You spend the game fighting ghost pirates. I was very disappointed in it. > . Or are they Pirate Ghosts? Or Pirate Gangster ghosts? Or Ghost gangster pirates? I haven’t played much of the the 2nd game, but I recently beat the 1st game for the first time ever(I know, I’m 15 years late on this, but it’s so hard to find these days and I wasn’t interested when it was more available). From what I’ve read about the plot of the 2nd game, it’s pretty close to the first, sans any lovecraftian elements and with much more combat added. The first one had a haunted mansion and pirate ghosts as well, not to mention an evil undead pirate doing occultish things. I don’t see any reason to play the sequels. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-movies/308643/26 "2005-06-18T13:58:34Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > There were at least two Cthulhu themed Real Ghostbuster episodes. One ended with Cthulhu being destroyed by an electrified steel-frame rollercoaster (Ray figured out how to kill him by reading back-issues of pulp magazines) and another that I remember much less clearly, except that it had the team climbing down a series of tall ledges to get to the big guy’s resting place. Along the way, a panting Peter says, “Why didn’t somebody put in some stairs, here?” To which Egon replies, “These ARE stairs.” They need to get The Real Ghostbusters on DVD season sets NOW, dammit. I loved the show so much as a kid, and even then I could tell a lot of the episodes were smarter and better-written than any of the other “action” cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-movies/308643/27 "2005-06-18T14:24:16Z")
I once wrote a text adventure game for the C64 based on “At the Mountains of Madness.” It got third place in a Quantumlink adventure game writing competition. Some of the glory of that win was marred, however, by the fact that there were only four entrants. And I was tied for third. Got a T-shirt out of it, however. I’m also currently working on a parody in which FBI agents whose resemblance to Mulder and Scully are strictly coincidental investigate the goings-on at a remote New England fishing village full of Lovecraftian horror. Yeah, I likes me some Lovecraft. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-movies/308643/28 "2005-06-18T17:21:57Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Or are they Pirate Ghosts? Or Pirate Gangster ghosts? Or Ghost gangster pirates? AFAICT Pirates who made a pact with the devil centuries ago. They’ve kept up with the times and currently carry tommyguns and perform standard mob crimes. > [@](#): > > The first one had a haunted mansion and pirate ghosts as well, not to mention an evil undead pirate doing occultish things. OTTOMH 2 pirates. There’s a pirate spirit you have to fight, and the author of the note I quoted above. Though he was a pirate in life, it’s made clear that he gave all that up when he discovered the mythos. He considered occult knowledge and power far more valuable than gold. Fiend This is a freeware topview shooter. There are some puzzles, but the game focuses largely on action. You’re a company agent sent to look at a mine. Strange drawings were recently uncovered there. Odd things have been reported. Naturally, monsters soon kill everybody but you and you must find out what’s happening and how to stop it. I never encountered any bugs. The gameplay, plot etc tend to be average. But, the game has a few good moments. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lovecraft-movies/308643.md?page=1)