H.P. Lovecraft in Film and Series - The Big Lovecraftian Movie List
A list of titles based on, inspired by, or with echoes of H.P. Lovecraft's works. Adaptations as well as Lovecraftian works in chronological order. The list is a constant work in progress as I'm adding new titles and notes regularly.
I've also started adding a score from 1-5 to the films I've watched, 5 points being the most Lovecraftian in my humble opinion (mostly direct adaptations). The HPLP (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Points) rating has nothing to do with the quality or enjoyment factor of the films, just the amount of 'Lovecraft' I experienced and found in them. Anthologies and series are purely rated on the segments and episodes noted in the commentaries. And again, it's just what I got out of the works. Also a work in progress, some titles I have yet to see, others I should rewatch through a Lovecraftian lens I guess, before adding a score.
I've also started adding a score from 1-5 to the films I've watched, 5 points being the most Lovecraftian in my humble opinion (mostly direct adaptations). The HPLP (Howard Phillips Lovecraft Points) rating has nothing to do with the quality or enjoyment factor of the films, just the amount of 'Lovecraft' I experienced and found in them. Anthologies and series are purely rated on the segments and episodes noted in the commentaries. And again, it's just what I got out of the works. Also a work in progress, some titles I have yet to see, others I should rewatch through a Lovecraftian lens I guess, before adding a score.
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- DirectorLeopold WhartonTheodore WhartonStarsJean SothernHoward EstabrookAllan MurnaneMyra Maynard, is plagued by a wide variety of metaphysical assaults by the corrupt Black Order, a secret organization which uses magic, curses and any supernatural means possible to achieve its ends.Occult mysteries in the era of H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Aleister Crowley stars in this serial.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorDuke WorneStarsBen F. WilsonNeva GerberWilliam DyerCarter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!Occult mysteries in the era of H.P. Lovecraft. If Lovecraft ever saw these is unlikely but they do have a lot of themes Lovecraft used in his work.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorWill S. DavisFred SittenhamStarsJ. Robert PaulineViolet MacMillanPaul PanzerA murderous gang of mysterious creepy killers mark a young heiress for death. They are led by a ghostly voice known only as the "The Mystery Mind." Will her finance save her just in time, and stop the gang from finding the lost Treasure of Atlantis? Who is "The Mystery Mind"? Alas, we will never find out the answers, as the serial is believed lost. Or will we? Stay tune.Occult mysteries in the era of H.P. Lovecraft. If Lovecraft ever saw these is unlikely but they do have a lot of themes Lovecraft used in his work.
- DirectorStuart PatonStarsGrace DarmondHarry CarterGeorge ChesebroThe true story of Lord Francis Hope, who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe'. Lord Francis Hope gambles away the family fortune and May Yohe' leaves him--another suspected curse of owning the Hope Diamond.Occult mysteries in the era of H.P. Lovecraft. If Lovecraft ever saw these is unlikely but they do have a lot of themes Lovecraft used in his work.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsLeslie HowardHeather AngelValerie TaylorA young American man comes to believe that he can will himself back to London in the time of the American Revolution and meet his ancestors, who lived in the house he has just inherited.Of Lovecraftian interest. Supposedly inspired H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow out of Time.
- DirectorChristian NybyHoward HawksStarsKenneth TobeyMargaret SheridanJames ArnessScientists and American Air Force officials fend off a bloodthirsty alien organism while at a remote arctic outpost.Echoes of At the Mountains of Madness. John Carpenter based the 1982 The Thing on this film. Adaptation of Who Goes There? (John W. Campbell).
- DirectorWilliam Cameron MenziesStarsRichard CarlsonVeronica HurstKatherine EmeryA Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he has suddenly aged. Some mysterious things happen in a maze made from the hedges adjoining the castle.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. A bit of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider and Clark Ashton Smith's Tsathoggua.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorJack ArnoldStarsRichard CarlsonJulie AdamsRichard DenningA strange prehistoric beast lurks in the depths of the Amazonian jungle. A group of scientists try to capture the animal and bring it back to civilization for study.Lovecraftian creature mostly (The Gill-man resembles a Deep One).
- StarsReginald TateIsabel DeanHugh KellyFollows the first manned space flight from Australia. In its return to Earth, from the crew of 3, only Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Examinations reveal that something attacked the crew as they were on course back to Earth.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Only the first two episodes of this serial survived.
HPLP: 1/5 - StarsJohn RobinsonMonica GreyHugh GriffithProfessor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his soon-to-be son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
- DirectorVal GuestStarsBrian DonlevyJack WarnerRichard WordsworthProfessor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorJack ArnoldStarsJohn AgarLori NelsonJohn BromfieldMen capture the Creature from the Black Lagoon and make him an aquarium attraction, from which he escapes.Lovecraftian creature mostly (The Gill-man resembles a Deep One).
- DirectorLeslie NormanJoseph LoseyStarsDean JaggerEdward ChapmanLeo McKernA radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Colour Out of Space.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorVirgil W. VogelStarsJohn AgarCynthia PatrickHugh BeaumontA party of archaeologists discovers the remnants of a mutant five-millennia-old Sumerian civilization living beneath a glacier atop a mountain in Mesopotamia.Echoes of The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Lurking Fear and At the Mountains of Madness. Eventually more Jules-Vernesque though.
HPLP: 1/5 - DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsChester MorrisTom ConwayCathy DownsA mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.Lovecraftian creature mostly (The She-Creature resembles a Deep One).
- DirectorJohn SherwoodStarsJeff MorrowRex ReasonLeigh SnowdenA scientist captures the Creature and turns him into an air-breather, only for him to escape and start killing.Lovecraftian creature mostly (The Gill-man resembles a Deep One).
- DirectorJohn SherwoodStarsGrant WilliamsLola AlbrightLes TremayneRocks from a meteor which grow when in contact with water threaten a sleepy Southwestern desert community.Echoes of The Colour Out of Space. Big monoliths instead of an alien colour.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorVal GuestStarsBrian DonlevyJohn LongdenSidney JamesProfessor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorJacques TourneurStarsDana AndrewsPeggy CumminsNiall MacGinnisAmerican professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshipper Julian Karswell.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Adaptation of Casting the Runes (M.R. James).
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorRoger CormanStarsPaul BirchBeverly GarlandMorgan JonesAn alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to Earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There, he terrorizes Southern California in an attempt to acquire blood for his dying race, the result of a devastating nuclear war.Lovecraftian creatures mostly.
- DirectorQuentin LawrenceStarsForrest TuckerLaurence PayneJennifer JayneA series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of At the Mountains of Madness.
HPLP: 3/5 - StarsAndré MorellCec LinderAnthony BushellA team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorIrvin S. Yeaworth Jr.Russell S. Doughten Jr.StarsSteve McQueenAneta CorsautEarl RoweAn alien lifeform consumes everything in its path as it grows and grows.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Colour Out of Space.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorArthur CrabtreeStarsMarshall ThompsonTerry KilburnMichael BalfourA scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of From Beyond.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorRiccardo FredaMario BavaStarsJohn MerivaleDidi SullivanGérard HerterA team of archaeologists in Mexico encounter an amorphous, blob-like monster that appears to be connected with the collapse of the Mayan civilization.Inspired by The Call of Cthulhu.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorMonte HellmanStarsMichael ForestSheila NoonanFrank WolffA group of gold thieves pull of a heist and flee into the snowy wilderness, only to be pursued by a horrible, spider-like monster.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Beast in the Cave.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsElizabeth TaylorKatharine HepburnMontgomery CliftA surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorWilliam CastleStarsVincent PriceJudith EvelynDarryl HickmanAn obsessed pathologist discovers and captures a parasitic creature that grows when fear grips its host.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 1/5 - DirectorSpencer Gordon BennetStarsArthur FranzDick ForanBrett HalseyShips mysteriously disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a specially-equipped submarine is sent to investigate.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
- DirectorIrvin BerwickStarsLes TremayneForrest LewisJohn HarmonThe monster, which looks like a snarling "Creature from the Black Lagoon," invades a sleepy seaside town. The lighthouse keeper, widowed and estranged from the town folk, has been secretly leaving food out for the monster for years, unaware of its blood lust. When the monster's appetite outstrips the keeper's ability to serve it, bloodless decapitated corpses start to show up.Lovecraftian creature mostly (The Monster resembles a Deep One).
- DirectorJohn Llewellyn MoxeyStarsPatricia JesselDennis LotisChristopher LeeA young college student arrives in a sleepy Massachusetts town to research witchcraft; during her stay at an eerie inn, she discovers a startling secret about the town and its inhabitants.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Dunwich Horror.
HPLP: 3/5 - StarsBoris KarloffRichard PeelHenry DaniellExperience the complete series of the show that was hailed as the most frightening ever created for television--now available for the first time.Episodes: The Weird Tailor (Robert Bloch), Pigeons From Hell, The Extra Passenger, The Incredible Doktor Markeson (August Derleth).
- DirectorMario BavaStarsBarbara SteeleJohn RichardsonAndrea ChecchiA vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and The Thing on the Doorstep.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsPierre BriceScilla GabelWolfgang PreissIn 19th century Holland, a professor of fine arts and an unlicensed surgeon run a secret lab where the professor's ill daughter receives blood-transfusions from kidnapped female victims who posthumously become macabre art.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of Herbert West Re-Animator.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsDennis HopperLinda LawsonGavin MuirA young sailor is attracted to a mysterious mermaid performing at a carnival, but soon suspects that the girl is actually a siren who draws men to their watery deaths during the full moon.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Shadow over Innsmouth.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorJulian RoffmanStarsPaul StevensClaudette NevinsBill WalkerA young archaeologist thinks he is cursed by an Aztec mask that makes him have strange nightmares. Before committing suicide, he sends the mask to his psychiatrist, who soon plunges into the mask's nightmarish world.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorFernando CortésStarsFernando CasanovaSonia FurióRosa María GallardoMad scientist brings his dead mad scientist grandfather back to life and makes a Frankenstein-type monster out of him.Adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
HPLP: 4/5 - DirectorSidney HayersStarsPeter WyngardeJanet BlairMargaret JohnstonA woman who may be a witch defends her husband from forces attempting to harm him.Of Lovecraftian interest. Adaptation of Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber.
HPLP: 1/5 - DirectorJoseph GreenStarsJason EversVirginia LeithAnthony La PennaA doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.Inspired by Herbert West - Reanimator.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsVincent PriceNancy KovackChris WarfieldAn evil spirit leaves the body of his human host, a criminal on death-row, and sneaks into the body of his next human host, a French magistrate.Of Lovecraftian interest. Based on The Horla by Guy de Maupassant which supposedly inspired Lovecraft to write The Call of Cthulhu.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorRoger CormanStarsVincent PriceDebra PagetLon Chaney Jr.Charles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago.Adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Edgar Allan Poe's name was used for sales purposes.
HPLP: 5/5 - DirectorRoger CormanStarsRay MillandDiana Van der VlisHarold J. StoneA Roger Corman tale of Dr. James Xavier's devastating experiments on himself and the unforeseen.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of From Beyond.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorIshirô HondaStarsAkira KuboKumi MizunoHiroshi KoizumiShipwrecked survivors slowly transform into mushrooms.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorRobert HuttonStarsRobert HuttonLes TremayneRobert BurtonAfter Los Angeles is invaded by an army of subterranean monsters, a small group of people must fight for survival in the deserted metropolis.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. The Slime People are highly reminiscent to the non-human races that serve the Old Ones.
- CreatorLeslie StevensStarsBob JohnsonBen WrightWilliam DouglasAn anthology series of insightful science fiction tales.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Episodes: Don't Open till Doomsday, Cry of Silence, Production and Decay of Strange Particles, The Forms of Things Unknown.
- DirectorIshirô HondaStarsYôsuke NatsukiYôko FujiyamaHiroshi KoizumiAn amorphous cellular life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.Lovecraftian creatures and influences. A Kaiju movie in essence but Dogora itself is very Lovecraftian in appearence.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorDaniel HallerStarsBoris KarloffNick AdamsFreda JacksonA young man visits his fiancée's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.Adaptation of The Colour Out of Space.
HPLP: 5/5 - DirectorHarvey HartStarsLeslie NielsenPeter Mark RichmanJudi MeredithPolice call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.Uses ingredients from the Cthulhu Mythos. Was supposed to be a series but that unfortunately never happened.
HPLP: 5/5 - DirectorJacques TourneurIshirô HondaStarsVincent PriceTab HunterDavid TomlinsonIn 1903 Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Shadow over Innsmouth.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorMichael A. HoeyJon HallArthur C. PierceStarsMamie Van DorenAnthony EisleyBilly GrayBeware of the Night Crawlers ... their clutches will disintegrate you!Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of At the Mountains of Madness.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorJosé Antonio Nieves CondeStarsJames PhilbrookArturo FernándezSoledad MirandaWhen a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons.Lovecraftian themes and overtones (ancient otherworldly entity awoken after eons of slumber). Echoes of History of the Necronomicon.
HPLP: 1/5 - DirectorFrancis D. LyonStarsScott BradySheree NorthGary MerrillA group of scientists working in a deep-sea research station discovers a strange craft of extraterrestrial origin.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
- DirectorDavid GreeneStarsOliver ReedGig YoungCarol LynleyA series of horrific murders is traced to a creature that inhabits a very strange house.Adaptation of The Shuttered Room.
HPLP: 4/5 - DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsJames DonaldAndrew KeirBarbara ShelleyA mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called in to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 4/5 - DirectorVernon SewellStarsBoris KarloffChristopher LeeMark EdenRobert Manning visits the remote country house where his brother Peter was last seen. While his host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, Robert detects a feeling of menace in the air.Adaptation of Dreams in the Witch House.
HPLP: 5/5 - DirectorJesús FrancoStarsJanine ReynaudJack TaylorAdrian HovenA performer at an S&M nightclub begins to lose her grip on reality, and is plunged into a nightmarish mental landscape.Succubus also called Necronomicon - Geträumte Sünden. The story has nothing to do with any of Lovecraft's work.
HPLP: - - DirectorJonathan MillerStarsMichael HordernAmbrose CoghillGeorge WoodbridgeClassic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a skeptical professor on vacation in Norfolk who finds a cursed whistle. Unlike most other episodes of this documentary series about music, this one is live action folk horror.Adaptation of Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad by M. R. James.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorKinji FukasakuStarsRobert HortonLuciana PaluzziRichard JaeckelAfter destroying a giant asteroid heading towards Earth, a group of scientists unknowingly bring back a strange green substance that soon mutates into a monster.Lovecraftian creatures mostly.
HPLP: 1/5 - DirectorMichael CarrerasLeslie NormanStarsEric PorterHildegard KnefSuzanna LeighThe captain, crew, and passengers of an old freighter-all of them with dark secrets to keep-find themselves adrift in a mysterious land full of monsters, conquistadors, and killer seaweed.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Has some faint echoes of The Call of Cthullhu and At the Mountains of Madness. Eventually more Jules Verne though. Based on Dennis Wheatley’s 1938 novel Uncharted Seas.
HPLP: 1/5 - CreatorRod SerlingStarsRod SerlingLarry WatsonJoanna PettetRod Serling presents tales of horror illustrated in various paintings.Uses ingredients from the Cthulhu Mythos. Episodes: Cool Air, Pickman's Model, Professor Peabody's Last Lecture and The Return of the Sorcerer (Clark Ashton Smith).
HPLP: 5/5 - DirectorDaniel HallerStarsSandra DeeDean StockwellEd BegleyWilbur Whateley travels to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon. But, little does anyone know, Whateley isn't quite human...Adaptation of The Dunwich Horror.
HPLP: 5/5 - DirectorJack WoodsDennis MurenMark Thomas McGeeStarsEdward ConnellBarbara HewittFrank BonnerFour friends are attacked by a demon while on a picnic, due to possession of a tome of mystic information. Told in flashbacks by the sole survivor.Uses ingredients from the Cthulhu Mythos (The Necronomicon). Stars Fritz Leiber.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorJack HillJuan IbáñezStarsBoris KarloffJulissaCarlos EastA scientist notices strange frequencies coming from within the Earth. He and his assistants discover a living rock underneath a volcano. They bring the rock to their lab and discover that in order to survive, it needs the hormones that are produced by humans when they are afraid. They then abduct and sacrifice young girls to keep the living rock alive.Lovecraftian themes, overtones and creature.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorHarry KümelStarsOrson WellesSusan HampshireMichel BouquetA young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Adaptation of Malpertius (Jean Ray). There are two cuts of the film, director Harry Kümel's version is most Lovecraftian.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorJack HillJuan IbáñezJosé Luis González de LeónStarsBoris KarloffEnrique GuzmánChrista LinderIn the European village of Gudenberg in 1890, Prof. Mayer and his assistant Isabel have created a powerful ray machine. One of the powerful rays is shot into space and attracts a flying saucer. The alien pilot decides that the ray poses too great a threat to the universe and must be destroyed. Sex murderer Thomas is possessed by an alien intelligence and infiltrates Mayer's household; Mayer himself is later taken over by an alien mind. Paul Rosten, a young scientist who is in love with Mayer's niece Laura, arrives. The alien "Mayer" and "Thomas" rig the ray gun to explode, killing all who know its secret. Thomas kills Isabel, but before he can murder Laura, Mayer throws off the alien intelligence and she is saved. Mayer realizes that the ray is too powerful for human use, and he destroys it. The flying saucer departs.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Thing on the Doorstep.
- DirectorEugenio MartínStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingAlberto de MendozaWhile on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic life-form.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of At the Mountains of Madness.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorPeter SasdyStarsMichael BryantJane AsherIain CuthbertsonA research team from an electronics company moves into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but also to exorcise it--with terrifying results.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorRoy Ward BakerStarsBarbara ParkinsRichard ToddSylvia SymsIn order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.Uses ingredients from the Cthulhu Mythos. Segments: The Return of the Sorcerer (Frozen Fear) by Clark Ashton Smith, The Weird Tailor by Robert Bloch.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorJim O'ConnollyStarsBryant HalidayJill HaworthMark EdwardsA group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...Lovecraftian themes, overtones and creature (ancient artifacts, cephalopodic creature).
HPLP: 4/5 - DirectorLarry HagmanStarsRobert Walker Jr.Gwynne GilfordRichard StahlA technician brings a frozen specimen of the original Blob back from the North Pole. When his wife accidentally defrosts the thing, it terrorizes the populace, including the local hippies, kittens, and bowlers.Echoes of The Colour Out of Space. Sequel to the 1958 movie The Blob.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorPeter NewbrookStarsRobert PowellRobert StephensJane LapotaireEnglish country squire Sir Hugo Cunningham searches for immortality by literally 'bottling up' the Spirit of the Dead, or Asphyx.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. "That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingLorna HeilbronA Victorian-age scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones unleashing a malevolent being on the scientist's family and friends.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorWillard HuyckGloria KatzStarsMichael GreerMarianna HillJoy BangA young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Shadow over Innsmouth.
HPLP: 4/5 - DirectorDan CurtisStarsRoy ThinnesDon PorterAngie DickinsonAn investigative reporter stumbles onto an artist that has made a pact to come back after his death to sculpt a statue of a demon using human blood and clay. Once the demon is awakened he will be granted immortality.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 4/5 - DirectorRichard BlackburnStarsLesley TaplinCheryl SmithWilliam WhittonA young girl who returns to her hometown to see her dying father finds herself being drawn into a web of vampirism and witchcraft.Adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth. The Deep Ones are replaced with vampires here.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorCurtis HarringtonStarsMeredith BaxterDavid HedisonGale SondergaardA deceased rich man's collection is the key to solving a string of murder committed by a mysterious black catLovecraftian themes and overtones. Written by Robert Bloch.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorDavid Lowell RichStarsChuck ConnorsBuddy EbsenTammy GrimesAn invisible demon in the cargo hold of a jet airliner terrorizes the passengers.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. The Old Ones are mentioned.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsTony KendallHelga LinéSilvia TortosaThe legendary Loreley has been living for centuries in a grotto beneath the river Rhein in Germany. Every night when the moon is full, she turns into a reptile-like creature craving for human blood. When one girl after another of a nearby boarding school is killed by her, a hunter named Sirgurd is engaged to kill the monster.Lovecraftian creature mostly (Lorelei resembling a Deep One).
- DirectorTom DonovanStarsLois NettletonBradford DillmanPaul HardingA woman tries to protect her family from supernatural forces who are trying to take control.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
- DirectorAmando de OssorioStarsVíctor PetitMaría KostySandra MozarowskyIn this final installment of the Blind Dead series, a doctor and his wife move to a small inhospitable coastal village where he plans to start a practice only to discover that undead demon-worshiping Templar Knights haunt the place.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Shadow over Innsmouth.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorGeorge MoorseStarsAnton DiffringIngrid ReschBased on H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, this is the story of a professor who suffers a seizure which results in total amnesia. As he recuperates he is so different his family deserts him. He gathers knowledge of things outside his specialty for five years, then has another seizure. When he reawakens he is himself again, but now he has no memory of the five years between the attacks. He begins having bizarre dreams, and tries to find out what he was doing during the five years he can't remember. What he discovers, combined with the growing reality of his dreams, convinces him that something much darker than a mere personality shift was going on.Adaptation of The Shadow out of Time.
HPLP: 5/5 - DirectorPeter WeirStarsRachel RobertsAnne-Louise LambertVivean GrayDuring a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 1/5 - DirectorDavid C. SmithStarsDavid ClementRon KoloskeeBarry MeshelThe Whisperer in Darkness is strongly based on Lovecraft's story of one man's battle with strange creatures in the Vermont woods, and the Folklorist who wouldn't believe, until it was too late.Adaptation of The Whisperer in Darkness.
HPLP: 5/5 - DirectorH.R. GigerJ.J. WittmerStarsH.R. GigerGiger showcases his art along with some of his thoughts and reactions from some of his customers and his parents.Of Lovecraftian interest. Documentary on H.R. Giger.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsLino CapolicchioFrancesca MarcianoGianni CavinaStefano, a young restorer, is commissioned to save a controversial mural located in the church of a small, isolated village.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of Pickman's Model.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorJeff LiebermanStarsDon ScardinoPatricia PearcyR.A. DowA storm causes some power lines to break and touch the ground, drawing millions of man-eating worms out of the earth, and into town where they quickly start munching on the locals.The director was initially very inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the story of an isolated, coastal township battened-down by secrets and deep desires and then assailed by millions of flesh-stripping worms. He always adhered to the idea that Man was but food for some elder form of heartless cruelty. Squirm may seem like just another slant on the creature-feature, but this Lovecraftian element is still there in abundance.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorPeter WeirStarsRichard ChamberlainOlivia HamnettDavid GulpililA Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of the Call of Cthulhu.
HPLP: 4/5 - DirectorClive DonnerStarsRobert CulpGig YoungJohn HurtA criminologist and occult investigator recruits an old friend to assist in his current case. A sister of a prominent British businessman believes her brother dabbles in the black arts. The two investigate the matter.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
- DirectorWilliam GirdlerStarsTony CurtisSusan StrasbergMichael AnsaraA psychic's girlfriend finds out that a lump on her back is a growing reincarnation of a 400-year-old demonic Native American spirit.Uses ingredients from the Cthulhu Mythos (Great Old Ones and Misquamacus from Lovecraft and Derleth's 'Of Evill Sorceries Done in New-England of Daemons in no Humane Shape'). Adaptation of the novel by Graham Masterton.
HPLP: 4/5 - DirectorNoel BlackStarsGranville Van DusenJoBeth WilliamsBarnard HughesA golem made of mud terrorizes a couple on a remote Maine island. An episode called "Monster" from the TV-series "The World Beyond".Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 1/5 - DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn HurtThe crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 3/5 - StarsJohn MillsSimon MacCorkindaleRalph ArlissIn the distant future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
- DirectorPiers HaggardStarsJohn MillsSimon MacCorkindaleBarbara KellermanA separate screenplay by Nigel Kneale for theaters, parallel to the 1979 Quatermass 4-part miniseries. The story, set in the near future, involves influences from outer space that are possessing people. Professor Quatermass must save his granddaughter from the clutches of a popular, sinister cult called "Planet People" that "performs raptures."Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
- DirectorDon CoscarelliStarsA. Michael BaldwinBill ThornburyReggie BannisterA teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Nyarlahotep is described as a 'Tall man' causing madness.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorAndrei TarkovskyStarsAlisa FreyndlikhAleksandr KaydanovskiyAnatoliy SolonitsynA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Colour Out of Space.
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorSergio MartinoStarsBarbara BachClaudio CassinelliRichard JohnsonAquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Shadow over Innsmouth.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorLucio FulciStarsChristopher GeorgeCatriona MacCollCarlo De MejoA reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.Uses ingredients from the Cthulhu Mythos (Takes place in Dunwich).
HPLP: 2/5 - DirectorJohn StrysikStarsRobert RothmanRobert AlexanderDarryl WarrenThis story revolves around a student of metaphysics, Charles Dexter Ward who befriends Erich Zann an aging violinist who lives on the floor above him. Charles is fascinated and then drawn to Zann's sinister yet wonderful music that he hears late at night drifting down from above. He, of course, discovers more then he bargains for when he peers at what beckons beyond that strange curtained window in Zann's room.Adaptation of The Music of Erich Zann.
HPLP: 5/5 - DirectorBarbara PeetersJimmy T. MurakamiStarsDoug McClureAnn TurkelVic MorrowHumanoid sea creatures start killing a fishing town's residents, and raping their women. It's up to the townsfolk and a visiting biologist to fight back and fend them off.Lovecraftian themes and overtones. Echoes of The Shadow over Innsmouth.
HPLP: 3/5 - DirectorKen RussellStarsWilliam HurtBlair BrownBob BalabanA psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.Lovecraftian themes and overtones.
HPLP: 3/5