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Who Smites The Tyger?
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Ia Ia Cthulhu Fhtagn!
There's a lot of Lovecraft fan films being made, but not many of them shows the monsters. What's the point of making a Lovecraft film if you won't show the monsters?? I think that's my mission in life -not world peace or stopping polution or anything like that; Just making sure Lovecraft's monsters show up on film.
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Ia Ia Cthulhu Fhtagn!
I think the real Lovecraft fans know very well what's coming if they're watching an adap of a Lovecraft tale. But all the same, they're interested in seeing how it's pulled off.
You can see the same stories being done over and over again: The Outsider, Pickman's Model, The Unnamable. All of these can be made either without showing the monster, or just showing something fleeting passing by. I want to do more than that. That's why I'm sweating away animating the Yith creatures and the flying polyps. Next year I'll do The Hoard of the Wizard Beast, one of his many revisions, which is a humorous fantasy with lots of weird creatures and settings. I think amateurs can do quite elaborate adaptations of Lovecraft, if they just give the projects a little extra thought.
Yeah, that's for sure.
I like the kind of movies (with monsters) where the monster is not shown in the beginning, hinted at in the middle and showed nearer the end. (I want to see it! Just not too early.)
I know, and I love your Yithian!
Hmm... Hoard of the Wizard Beast? Which one is that?
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Ia Ia Cthulhu Fhtagn!
I think ALIEN is one of the best monster movies ever. It may even be THE best -a school example of how to treat the monster in a suspenseful way.
"Hoard of the Wizard Beast" is a revision Lovecraft did of a manuscript written by Robert Hayward Barlow, an author and a poet from Florida, who befriended Lovecraft and R E Howard through correspondence. Lovecraft even visisted Barlow a few times. They collaborated on a few stories, including "Hoard". It's difficult to say how much of that story is Lovecraft, since it's a very unusual form for him. You could say it's cynical fantasy. In short, the hero is the keeper of the city's treasure vault, but since he has neglected his duties terribly, thieves have nibbled away at the treasure until it's completely gone one day. After consulting the the priests of a nearby temple, he is told to fetch the hoard of the wizard-beast, the most fearsome legendary monster on the planet. He reluctantly sets out armed with a magic cloak, a blessed sword, etc, but is promptly eaten by the huge blob-like wizard-beast.
It's very weird and terribly droll -You can, I suppose, see Lovecraft poking fun at the manly adventure tales of R E Howard. It's like Lovecraft saying "Look, this is what would REALLY happen". It's been published as a slim, single volume by S T Joshi in 1994. Here's the full text online:
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I agree there! Best movie(s) ever! I love Aliens more than Alien though and finds it scarier, but that's probably because I saw that one first and had no idea what I was to expect!
*lol* I see. I had never heard of it before. I'll go read it now...
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Ia Ia Cthulhu Fhtagn!