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2020-05-24, 04:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
He was the inspiration for Alien and the film version of Annihilation.
Style changes, and it's been nearly ninety years since most of his stuff was written - closer to a hundred in a few cases - and there aren't many authors who can persist through four generations without seeming more than a little old-fashioned.
If you want a quick sample, try "From Beyond", or even "Ex Oblivione", to see if anything interests you.Alignments are objective. Right and wrong are not.
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2020-05-24, 05:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
Alien is deservedly a classic, but I thought Annihilation was absolutely terrible. Virtually no plot, cardboard characters, and an extremely cheesy and disappointing ending. Even the CGI for the final creature looked cheap and artificial.
None of which reflects on Lovecraft, of course; but after all the hype about Annihilation, I was severely underwhelmed.
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2020-05-24, 05:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
Wow, we have entirely different opinions about that movie. Either we must agree to disagree, or fight to the death with knives.
How about the German version of The Color Out of Space, Die Farbe? Much less cheesy than the recent American adaptation, but just as creepy.
"It's only a color... but it burns..."Alignments are objective. Right and wrong are not.
Good: Will act to prevent harm to others even at personal cost.
Evil: Will seek personal benefit even if it causes harm to others.
Law: General, universal, and consistent trump specific, local, and inconsistent.
Chaos: Specific, local, and inconsistent trump general, universal, and consistent.
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2020-05-24, 05:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
Knives it is. Your continent or mine?
I'd never heard of the German version of Color, but if it's less cheesy and still creepy, that sounds promising.
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2020-05-24, 07:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
What are your feelings on John Carpenter's The Thing? Technically based on Who Goes There? by John Campbell Jr., the movie draws a great deal from At the Mountains of Madness in tone, if not plot.
Alignments are objective. Right and wrong are not.
Good: Will act to prevent harm to others even at personal cost.
Evil: Will seek personal benefit even if it causes harm to others.
Law: General, universal, and consistent trump specific, local, and inconsistent.
Chaos: Specific, local, and inconsistent trump general, universal, and consistent.
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2020-05-24, 08:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
Haven't actually seen that one. I usually don't watch a lot of horror, but if it traces its lineage back to Lovecraft, that's certainly worth a look.
Speaking of which, the trailer for the German version of Color was definitely effective. I have a feeling that's much better than the Nicholas Cage version.
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2020-05-25, 02:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
Die Farbe I would call better than the Cage movie, yes. Very different, though. For starters, not set in a modern setting.
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2020-05-28, 02:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
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2020-05-28, 10:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
(emphasis mine)
I assume you're referring to "Facts concerning the late Arthur Jermyn and his family?" The reveal is not that he is one-hundred-twenty-eigth Congolese, but that Jermyn's great-great-great-grandmother was an actual ape (not that Lovecraft saw much difference between ape and person of color, mind you). That said, it's not a very good story and probably Lovecraft's most blatantly racist one, so you're still right.
Personally I vastly prefer the stories that don't use the supernatural as a thinly veiled stand-in for non-white people (looking at you, "Shadow over Innsmouth"), with "Colour out of Space" and "Mountains of Madness" being my favorites.What did the monk say to his dinner?
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2020-05-28, 11:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
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2020-05-28, 01:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
Actually I got it mixed up with Medusa’s coil where the twist is about the titular woman, not the narrator and it definitely isn’t a supernatural ape but actual people of colour. Which probably means it beats Arthur Jermyn as most racist. As does The Street, I would say.
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2020-05-28, 02:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
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2020-05-29, 08:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Travel Between Worlds in the Lovecraft Mythos
None of the stories HPL wrote by himself are extraordinarily racist. You have to go to his letters to find the truly offensive stuff.
Alignments are objective. Right and wrong are not.
Good: Will act to prevent harm to others even at personal cost.
Evil: Will seek personal benefit even if it causes harm to others.
Law: General, universal, and consistent trump specific, local, and inconsistent.
Chaos: Specific, local, and inconsistent trump general, universal, and consistent.