The Lovecraft Thread

[KiramidHead]

Has anyone ever played a Cthulhu boardgame? I was wondering if they're any good.

Arkham Horror was pretty fun.

[426Buddy]

[KiramidHead]

Well that game turned out to be ass.

[Whiskeybrewer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlaPi5v14JU

Well that game turned out to be ass.
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Yay Minx and Sinow

[XenoZipper]

I have the Twilight Creations board game called "Cthulhu!!". It's pretty fun. I also have another called "The Innsmouth Escape" but I haven't played it yet.

[Born Of Cold Light]

A tremendous, eerie cosmic horror rpg was released a while ago called Black Sun Death Crawl, where you literally dig your own graves:
http://www.kickassistan.net/2015/08/BSDC.html

It was recently reviewed on The Lovecraft Ezine:
https://lovecraftzine.com/2016/05/25/soul-crushing-cosmic-horror-on-your-table-top-with-black-sun-deathcrawl/

[genocyber]

Why are Lovecraft films usually shit?

[Deathbearer]

Why are Lovecraft films usually shit?

I think the tone just doesn't translate. It's scarier to read a description of something that's supposed to be impossible to comprehend because your imagination can take over. In a movie you just see it, and if the effects are shit you're laughing at it.

That's just what I think, anyway

[XenoZipper]

Why are Lovecraft films usually shit?

I think the tone just doesn't translate. It's scarier to read a description of something that's supposed to be impossible to comprehend because your imagination can take over. In a movie you just see it, and if the effects are shit you're laughing at it.

That's just what I think, anyway

That's honestly the case most of the time. His stories just don't translate to film well. How I envision monsters like Cthulhu or Nyarlathotep may not be the same way another does depending on how much you let your imagination fly with his stuff. There's that factor, & the fact that no one seems to keep the material to the source. I love movies like Re-Animator, From Beyond but they barely have much to do with the original stories, adding characters that don't exist n such. They're fun movies but not faithful to the stories.

[WIZARDSxNEVERxDIE]

A tremendous, eerie cosmic horror rpg was released a while ago called Black Sun Death Crawl, where you literally dig your own graves:
http://www.kickassistan.net/2015/08/BSDC.html

It was recently reviewed on The Lovecraft Ezine:
https://lovecraftzine.com/2016/05/25/soul-crushing-cosmic-horror-on-your-table-top-with-black-sun-deathcrawl/

I paid $0 to download the .pdf, great find!

[Doctor Ash]

Why are Lovecraft films usually shit?

I think the tone just doesn't translate. It's scarier to read a description of something that's supposed to be impossible to comprehend because your imagination can take over. In a movie you just see it, and if the effects are shit you're laughing at it.

That's just what I think, anyway

But to be fair, we never saw a big budget  rendition of Cthulhu or the other great old ones

[XenoZipper]

We would have if some studio would have let Guillermo make At The Mountains Of Madness like it was planned but got scraped in the end. It's no secret he wants to make a Lovecraft movie but it keeps getting derailed for some reason & we end up getting Hellboy & Pacific Rim instead. Not saying those are bad movies, I just really wish a studio would give him a chance on actual Lovecraft material.

[Doctor Ash]

We would have if some studio would have let Guillermo make At The Mountains Of Madness like it was planned but got scraped in the end. It's no secret he wants to make a Lovecraft movie but it keeps getting derailed for some reason & we end up getting Hellboy & Pacific Rim instead. Not saying those are bad movies, I just really wish a studio would give him a chance on actual Lovecraft material.

I think the same. Instead of always the same boring shit, they should finally give Del Toro a chance to make an worthy lovecraftian movie!

[XenoZipper]

Exactly! There's hints of Lovecraft littered throughout Hellboy, Pacific Rim & definitely Pan's Labyrinth too so I have confidence he'd make a decent adaption. Maybe one day Hollywood will take chances on movies again instead of sticking to the formula they use now. We got the tech now to make some crazy Lovecraft stuff, let's see it! I for one would die happy to see an awesome Shoggoth chasing the 2 guys in the Mountains of Madness story while piping "Tekeli-Li".

[Doctor Ash]

Exactly! There's hints of Lovecraft littered throughout Hellboy, Pacific Rim & definitely Pan's Labyrinth too so I have confidence he'd make a decent adaption. Maybe one day Hollywood will take chances on movies again instead of sticking to the formula they use now. We got the tech now to make some crazy Lovecraft stuff, let's see it! I for one would die happy to see an awesome Shoggoth chasing the 2 guys in the Mountains of Madness story while piping "Tekeli-Li".

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