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Necronomicon is kinda silly but I do admit to enjoying it too...
Here's a list (from another board) that I made:
The Call of Cthulhu (the recent Silent filmby the HPLS) is by far the best adaptation of his work ever. Very close to the story in both plot and mood. An amazing piece of work..Also there is all the short films the HPLS made - there is a great From Beyond and a decent (modern era) Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep but most of them suffer from a complete lack of budget..
I already mentioned the amazing Haunted Palace , The Resurrected is another excellent and more faithfull adaptation of the Charles Dexter ward.
Though Re-Animator and (too a much lesser degree) From Beyond are enjoyavle and fun movies they would have Lovecraft spinning in his grave...Nudity and girls for gods sake..LOL
The forementioned Beyond the Wall of Sleep was to see the great William Sanderson once again but that was about it..
Stuart Gordon's Dargon is a pretty decent adaptation of The Shadow over Innsmouth (despite the title) - Its weird how the lead looks like COmbs. Gordon version of Dreams in the Witch-House in the 1st series of Masters of Horror is excellent but the creature Brown Jenkin doesn't really translate well from paper to video. . The Crimson Cult was another poor but enjoyable all star cast version of Witch House too..CTHULHU (the 2007 film): IS another version of SHADOW OVER....its not as bad as i expected and the atmosphere is pretty good.
I enjoyed the DUNWICH HORROR - it did capture a little of the original story but not having Wilbur Whatley as the offspring of the Goat of 1000 young was dissapointing..Another version was made in 2009 which weirdly enough also stars Dean Stockwell.Its a complete mess but slightly closed to the story than the other 70's version..Jeffrey Combs plays Wilbur.
The Curse and Die Monster Die are both versions of The Color out of space and both are pretty lame despite the latter having the great boris Karloff in it.
Dark Heritage, The Lurking Fear and Hemoglobin are also sorta adaptions of Lovecraft's LURKING FEAR. The last film mentioned (with Rutger Hauer) is prolly the closet in my opinion despite never seeing a reference to it as such.
The Night gallery series has done a few good adaptations - Pickman's Model, Professor Peabody's Last Lecture and Cool air. There is another feature length version of Cool Air called 'Chill' though I've not seen it.
The Shuttered Room has mention of the Whatleys/Dunwich as well as been titled to the Lovecraft collaborator August Derleth.
Lemora, A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural, though not an adaptation has a lot of Lovecraft aspects including the Busride scene straight out of Innsmouth..Good film too..
Alot of other films have Lovecrafts influence:
Castle Freak - Similaritys to the Outsider
Necronomicon - Has Lovecraft as a character in it and The Evil Dead also has the Necronomicon as the cause of all the problems..
Cast a Deadly Spell - Also has Lovecraft as a character but this time he's a hardboiled detective in a fantasy world. It was folled with a sequal, Witch Hunt.
The Maze is another influenced with a man trying hide his family secret of tainted genes..
In the Mouth of Madness always seems to come up too..
Island of Fishmen - Vague Shadow influence.
Collect Call of Cthuhu - Excellent Real Ghost busters episode
The Unnamable is full of Lovecraft name dropping - Randolph Carter/Miskatonic University etc etc...and is crap..As was the sequal.
Sorry if i repeated my self a little.
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