The Lovecraft Thread

Started by OmegaZilla, Jan 18, 2011, 06:33:16 PM

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OmegaZilla

OmegaZilla

#45
That painting doesn't do Cthulhu justice. He looks like Treebeard.
This is the best Cthulhu, if you ask me:

Got everything right IMHO, I love the textures on the head.
This one's also very good.

I wonder who are the artists.

Quote from: Space Sweeper on Feb 07, 2011, 08:03:31 AM
Exemplary work, my dear boy.
Oh, thank you. :)

TheMonolith

TheMonolith

#46
Those two are among my favorites as well, but this is number one for mwah.

Space Sweeper

Space Sweeper

#47
Quote from: AvatarIII on Feb 07, 2011, 09:39:20 AM
i just read this, which was really good, or as good as a direct adaptation can be, although i do with the art was a bit more exciting.
http://www.shinyshelf.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/at-the-mountains.jpg
Damn. Sounds good. Could you recommend it for a first-timer?

Aeus

Aeus

#48
There's a comic of ATMOM?

I must have this.

SM

SM

#49
Quote from: TheMonolith on Feb 07, 2011, 08:24:38 PM
Those two are among my favorites as well, but this is number one for mwah.
http://quizilla.teennick.com/user_images/A/AN/ANG/Anglocelt/1144773562_hu-Cthulhu.jpg

That's one of my faves too.

Though I don't think I've ever seen a 'definative' Cthulhu.  Maybe if Giger painted one...

I wrote an adaptation of CoC years ago and you never saw Cthulhu in full frame.  Only bits of him, or a silhouette behind mist.

TheMonolith

TheMonolith

#50
Quote from: SM on Feb 08, 2011, 12:56:21 AM
Quote from: TheMonolith on Feb 07, 2011, 08:24:38 PM
Those two are among my favorites as well, but this is number one for mwah.
http://quizilla.teennick.com/user_images/A/AN/ANG/Anglocelt/1144773562_hu-Cthulhu.jpg

That's one of my faves too.

Though I don't think I've ever seen a 'definative' Cthulhu.  Maybe if Giger painted one...

I wrote an adaptation of CoC years ago and you never saw Cthulhu in full frame.  Only bits of him, or a silhouette behind mist.
So I'm not the only one.

SM

SM

#51
Amongst a squillion others I imagine.

Still dunno if mine would work.  Thurston isn't involved enough in the action going on, and simply finds out what's going on as per Lovecraft's original story.  Which means a stack of annoying flashbacks.  I had the idea at one point to simply present the major events chronologically starting in Greenland in 1860, then through 1907/08 and eventually to 1925, thus making the audience take the place of Thurston, but I'd already spent enough time on a film that was never going to get made.

Shasvre

Shasvre

#52
Quote from: OmegaZilla on Feb 07, 2011, 11:20:33 AMThat painting doesn't do Cthulhu justice. He looks like Treebeard.
This is the best Cthulhu, if you ask me:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_iXi0lcrRTMs/S_P5xt5kytI/AAAAAAAAEdo/b_OiqhGlju0/s1600/cthulhu+!.jpg
Got everything right IMHO, I love the textures on the head.
This one's also very good.
http://correiodofantastico.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/cthulhu.gif?w=367&h=363
I wonder who are the artists.
This is one of my favorites.


SM

SM

#53
I find a lot depictions of Cthulhu too humanoid - despite the descriptions in the story.

Aeus

Aeus

#54
Isn't he meant to be pretty flabby?

SM

SM

#55
Certainly not as ripped as the above pic...

"Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly
into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black
doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness."

"Three men were swept up by the flabby claws before anybody turned. God rest them, if
there be any rest in the universe."

"So only Briden and Johansen reached the boat, and pulled desperately for the
Alert as the mountainous monstrosity flopped down the slimy stones and hesitated,
floundering at the edge of the water."

Shasvre

Shasvre

#56
More to your liking perhaps?



Where did that description come from by the way?

SM

SM

#57
It came from the story.

That pics not too bad.  Though I don't really care for the 'hair'.

DoomRulz

DoomRulz

#58
I just picked this up on Saturday.

I'm gonna read The Rats in the Walls later week. The Outsider really tripped me out; Lovecraft musta led a seriously traumatic childhood to write some of the stuff he did.

And speaking of Lovecraft, this image is equally shocking and as far as I know, it's real.


SM

SM

#59
Not outwardly so.  Though his father went crazy and died from syphilis when he was young.

I think whatever issues he had came more from within than without.  From which of these his racism stemmed I'm not sure, probably the latter.

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