![]() ![]() ![]() There had been several Lovecraft adaptations made during the 1960s but these seemed only made as distaff cousins to Roger Corman’s cycle of Edgar Allan Poe films. Lovecraft was not much in vogue on cinema screens. ![]() Almost all of these betrayed the intensely paranoid sense of cosmic horror found in Lovecraft and dumped the unspeakable horrors in favour of splattery upfront gross-out effects. The success of the Lovecraft adapted splatter comedy Re-Animator (1985) brought about a host of B-budget Lovecraft adaptations in the 1980s and 90s with the likes of From Beyond (1986), The Curse (1987), The Unnameable (1988), The Resurrected (1992), Necronomicon (1993), Lurking Fear (1994) and Dagon (2001). Lovecraft’s visions of cosmic horror, of elder gods waiting outside time to get back in, of antediluvian races and lost cities, of abominable rituals and experiments, and of people driven insane by contact with these manifestations of the occult that sticks at the back of the mind and survives even Lovecraft’s turgid prose. ![]() Lovecraft (1890-1937) is a horror writer who has developed a cult following. ![]()
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