THE WHISPERER IN THE DARKNESS TRAILER MOVIE

Is there something in these stories specifically that makes them more likely to adapt?įor Leman and Branney, it might be as simple as some very basic story and narrative functions. There have also been a few prominent adaptations of The Shadow over Innsmouth. Others like The Unnamable, The Colour Out of Space, and The Lurking Fear have all been made a few times.

THE WHISPERER IN THE DARKNESS TRAILER MOVIE

Leman also recommended Dan O’Bannon’s 1991 movie The Resurrected, another adaptation of Charles Dexter Ward. To date, there have been three Re-Animator films. It was probably purely out of shock value, but it was something that was talked about.” But I think Re-Animator reached a much wider audience than a lot of the earlier films did. “With the Roger Corman and AIP films, unless you really knew what it was The Haunted Palace was not The Haunted Palace. “Some of the earlier films, people were seeing Lovecraft and not knowing it,” Branney explained. They’ve even made a few films themselves, so if anyone would know why there are so few Lovecraft films, it would be them.įor both Branney and Leman, Stuart Gordon’s 1985 film Re-Animator was the first Lovecraft film they remember seeing, which was probably true for a lot of people. They’ve spent their adult lives studying and creating works based on the author’s fiction. In order to get to the bottom of this, I decided to turn to some honest-to-Azathoth experts in the work of Lovecraft, Sean Branney and Andrew Leman, the co-founders and proprietors of the H.P. Since then, a surprisingly small number of feature films have been produced on a large scale, which seems unthinkable given the author’s prevalence. Though named after a Poe story, it was based on Lovecraft’s only full-length novel, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, published after the author’s death. So then why aren’t we flooded with big studio movies based on Lovecraft stories? The very first feature film based on a Lovecraft story was the 1963 Roger Corman movie, The Haunted Palace. All of those people have made movies and written novels that draw from the prolific author’s work. Lovecraft‘s brand of cosmic horror has been indelibly influential to modern horror just look at writers like Stephen King and filmmakers like John Carpenter and Sam Raimi.

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