@Taron:
in your case, You hadn't read Lovecraft's best stuff
, not even remotely his best and most atmospheric ones! "Case of Charles Dexter Ward" is a very good one - and as you could see, he could somehow manage to 'twist and morph' even the cliche zombie horror-supernatural stuff into something uniquely Lovecraftian (...that atmosphere of his depicted supernatural & real world "collisions"). But certainly it is not his most excellently crafted stories. Among few of his excellent "pearls" one would consider "Beyond the mountains of madness" which is astonishingly amazing, original, incredible mixture of visions of sad, unfortunate cosmic-scale tragedy & dreams and hopes of contact with extraterrestrial, intelligent civilisations that possesses deeper knowledge about cosmos. I don't think that even in next 100 years humans will handle a meaningfull and a brave try to depict in a form of accessible cinematic experience all the stuff --> all the originally intended atmosphere and most importantly - the scale and associated required details, landscapes, visions of everything that went into this masterpiece of H.P. Lovecraft the way as he would like it to be seen on big screen (on a reaaally big screen).
Hollywood's "The Thing", while a masterpiece on its own, would be a kind of a small-scale demo-opening-"scene", just a horror-detective-prolog for the more grandiose-scale stuff and events that constitutes a true central topic in H.P. Lovecraft's story that "The Thing" is only looosely, veeery, very distantly related to (in an adjusted way, of course) which is "Beyond the mountains of madness".
@Tartan and Ovn1:
Of course, I was 23+ when I was reading Lovecraft's stories (all of them in one go) - so the mind was more impressionable back then due to youngness, for sure. And I still remember the impressions
The ever prevalent and pervasive presence of cosmic science, astronomy theme and characters representing (in somewhat crudely simplified way) simbolically a man of scientific curiosity, a man of science and objective truth seekers of nature of the cosmos depths!!
It would do more good for humanity (collectively) art-wise if instead of many hundreds (if not thousands) of currently existing and already made up to this day an unintelligent, unnecessarily overfilled with irrelevant violence and gore, garbage, shallow horror-movies there would exist just one (1!) totally and correctly "Lovecraftian" film made on a patiently managed grandiose budget, 25 years of unrushed production length (generational effort) with superb, highest and patiently crafted artistic quality and required magnitude to depict and capture the 'whole deal' of H.P. Lovecraft in his "artistic nutshell", metaphorically speaking.
Kind of imagine if instead of 1000's movies you could get one but of extra-quality - I think, civilisationally it would be a better deal. Hadn't watched since start of 2000's any of Hollywood's or any other modern movie production house's movies and especially horror movies due to them degrading into something unjustifiably violent, shallow and poor in contained 'philosophy' of depicted fictional events.
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