![]() ![]() Today’s Blu-Ray release of a clever new take on Lovecraft’s “The Whisperer in Darkness” inspires this list of the most eerily effective adaptations on the big and small screen to date.Ħ. To date, the films that best capture Lovecraft’s spirit of apocalyptic dread aren’t adaptations but such original works as Peter Weir’s The Last Wave or John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness. Lovecraft fans tasted keen disappointment last year when director Guillermo del Toro failed to secure a green light for his epic adaptation of the novella At the Mountains of Madness, despite the participation of Tom Cruise and director James Cameron. Second only to Edgar Allen Poe as American literature’s most influential horror writer, Lovecraft penned macabre tales involving unhinged narrators and unspeakable god-demons that, until the advent of CGI, defied cinematic special effects. ![]()
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