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Theme: Lovecraftian Horror


H.P. (or Howard Phillips) Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a writer who casts a giant shadow over horror fiction. He produced some 60 short stories and novellas and four novels and created a unique vision of horror.

Lovecraft’s work is filled with people questing after forbidden knowledge and enacting rites; of ancient civilisations fallen due to miscegenation with non-human creatures; narrators who encounter horrors that have driven them insane.

Lovecraft’s most important contribution was the invention of the pantheon of Elder Gods (the most famous of which was Cthulhu), all-powerful entities that lie slumbering or waiting to be called and whose very sight alone can drive somebody mad.

The following is a list of adaptations of Lovecraft’s work, pastiches by other writers, works that homage or parody Lovecraft and others that can be said to adopt his ideas.


Army of Darkness (1992)

5 June 200017 May 2023

Rating: ★★

Evil Dead Sequel/War with the Dead/Horror Comedy

Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, …
Category: Horror

Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)

24 March 202322 August 2024

Rating: ★★½

Comic-Book Superhero/Animation

Director: Christopher Berkeley, Sam Liu
Actors: David Giuntoli, Tati Gabrielle, Christopher Gorham, Emily O'Brien, …
Category: Fantasy

Black Site (2018)

13 June 20223 May 2024

Rating: ★★★

Government Agency That Fights Lovecraftian Menaces

Director: Tom Paton
Actors: Samantha Schnitzler, Angela Dixon, Mike Beckingham, Kris Johnson, …
Category: Horror

Blade (1998)

18 April 199921 September 2024

Rating: ★★★

Comic-Book Vampire Hunter

Director: Stephen Norrington
Actors: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, Donal Logue, …
Category: Horror

The Borderlands (2013)

13 November 201424 February 2020

Rating: ★★★

Found Footage/Haunted Church

Director: Elliot Goldner
Actors: Rob Hill, Aidan McArdle, Luke Neal, Patrick Godfrey
Category: Horror

The Breach (2022)

2 September 20249 March 2025

Rating: ★★★

Lovecraftian Horrors

Director: Rodrigo Gudiño
Actors: Allan Hawco, Emily Alatalo, Natalie Brown, Adam Kenneth Wilson, …
Category: Horror

Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

6 September 20015 November 2020

Rating: ★★½

Re-Animator Sequel

Director: Brian Yuzna
Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Fabiana Udenio, Claude Earl Jones, …
Category: Horror

The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

13 May 201221 January 2021

Rating: ★★★½

Meta-Fictional Horror Film

Director: Drew Goddard
Actors: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Fran Kranz, Anna Hutchison, …
Category: Horror

Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014)

18 January 201625 January 2022

Rating: ★★½

H.P. Lovecraft Homage/Parody

Director: Chris LaMartina
Category: Horror

City of the Living Dead (1980)

30 July 200321 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Italian Zombie Film

Director: Lucio Fulci
Actors: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Janet Agren, …
Category: Horror

Cold Skin (2017)

11 March 201820 February 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Remote Lighthouse at Siege from Amphibian Creatures

Director: Xavier Gens
Actors: David Oakes, Ray Stevenson, John Benfield
Category: Horror

Color Out of Space (2019)

24 January 202029 May 2025

Rating: ★★★½

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Mutations from Space

Director: Richard Stanley
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Brendan Meyer, …
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

The Curse (1987)

3 June 20001 June 2020

Rating: 0­

Mutations/H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: David Keith
Actors: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Cooper Huckabee, John Schneider
Category: Horror

Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)

7 August 20038 January 2023

Rating: ★

Witch’s Revenge

Director: Vernon Sewell
Actors: Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff, Barbara Steele, Mark Eden, …
Category: Horror

Dagon (2001)

4 April 20021 April 2025

Rating: ★★½

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Village of Mutants

Director: Stuart Gordon
Actors: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Macarena Gomez, Racquel Morono, …
Category: Horror

The Dark Sleep (2013)

3 February 202124 August 2024

Rating: ★★½

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Other Dimension

Director: Brett Piper
Actors: Ashley Galloway, Taylor Nicole Adams, Steve Disaparra, Ken Vansant, …
Category: Horror

Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

30 June 200124 November 2024

Rating: ★★

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Mutations

Director: Daniel Haller
Actors: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Suzan Farmer, Freda Jackson, …
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

The Dunwich Horror (1969)

30 June 200124 November 2024

Rating: ★★

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Occult Rituals

Director: Daniel Haller
Actors: Dean Stockwell, Sandra Dee, Ed Begley, Sam Jaffe, …
Category: Horror

The Dunwich Horror (2009)

20 August 201220 November 2019

Rating: ★

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: Leigh Scott
Actors: Dean Stockwell, Jeffrey Combs, Griff Furst, Sarah Lieving
Category: Horror

Encounter with the Unknown (1973)

23 February 20166 October 2020

Rating: ★

Horror Anthology

Director: Harry Thomason
Actors: Rod Serling, Rosie Holotik, Gene Ross, Beverly Dixon
Category: Horror

The Endless (2017)

19 November 201816 March 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Strange Cult/Backwoods Reality Bendings

Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Actors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Tate Ellington, Callie Hernandez, …
Category: Horror

Equinox (1970)

30 June 20018 October 2020

Rating: ★★

Backwoods Occultism

Director: Jack Woods
Category: Horror

The Evil Dead (1981)

1 June 200017 May 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Backwoods Possession/Splatter Comedy

Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss
Category: Horror

The Evil Dead II (1987)

1 December 200124 November 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Backwoods Possession/Comedy

Director: Sam Raimi
Actors: Bruce Campbell, Theodore Raimi
Category: Horror

From Beyond (1986)

31 May 20018 March 2025

Rating: ★★

Other-Dimensional Monsters/H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: Stuart Gordon
Actors: Barbara Crampton, Jeffrey Combs, Ken Foree, Ted Sorel, …
Category: Horror

Gate II (1990)

6 August 200121 December 2019

Rating: ★★★

Demonic Wishes

Director: Tibor Takacs
Actors: Louis Tripp, Pamela Segall
Category: Horror

German Angst (2015)

7 January 202021 October 2024

Rating: ★★

German Horror Anthology

Director: Jörg Buttgereit, Michael Kosakowski, Andreas Marschall
Category: Horror

Glorious (2022)

23 April 20238 December 2023

Rating: ★★½

Man Trapped in a Bathroom with a Deity

Director: Rebekah McKendry
Actors: Ryan Kwanten, J.K. Simmons, Sylvia Grace Crim, Andrew Lamar, …
Category: Fantasy, Horror

Gods of the Deep (2023)

5 August 20241 March 2025

Rating: ★★

Underwater Adventure/Lovecraftian Entity

Director: Charlie Steeds
Actors: Derek Nelson, Makenna Guyler, Chris Lines, Kane Surry, …
Category: Horror, Science Fiction

The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival – North (1999)

18 June 199916 September 2021

Rating: ★★★★

Festival of H.P. Lovecraft Short Films

Category: Horror

H.P. Lovecraft’s Monster Portal (2022)

3 July 20236 August 2024

Rating: ★½

Lovecraftian Film

Director: Matthew B.C.
Actors: Sian Altman, Louis James, George Nettleton, Sarah Alexandra Marks, …
Category: Horror

H.P. Lovecraft’s The Deep Ones (2020)

14 November 202320 September 2024

Rating: ★½

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: Chad Ferrin
Actors: Gina La Piana, Robert Miano, Johann Urb, Silvia Spross, …
Category: Horror

H.P. Lovecraft’s The Old Ones (2024)

24 November 20245 February 2025

Rating: ★★

H.P. Lovecraft Film

Director: Chad Ferrin
Actors: Robert Miano, Benjamin Philip, Timothy Muskatell, Cyril O'Reilly, …
Category: Horror

H.P. Lovecraft’s Witch House (2021)

8 January 202325 March 2023

Rating: ★★

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: Bobby Easley
Actors: Michelle Morris, Julie Anne Prescott, Erin Trimble, Andie Noir, …
Category: Horror

The Haunted Palace (1963)

15 December 20021 July 2021

Rating: ★★★

Possession/H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr, Leo Gordon, …
Category: Horror

Hellboy (2004)

5 July 200415 October 2024

Rating: ★★½

Demon Superhero/Comic-Book Adaptation

Director: Guillermo Del Toro
Actors: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, …
Category: Horror, Fantasy

Hellraiser (1987)

25 November 200011 October 2022

Rating: ★★★★

Sadomasochistic Demons

Director: Clive Barker
Actors: Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Oliver Smith, …
Category: Horror

Hemoglobin (1997)

27 April 199910 January 2024

Rating: ★★

Family Secrets/Monsters

Director: Peter Svatek
Actors: Rutger Hauer, Roy Dupuis, Kristin Lehman, Jackie Burroughs, …
Category: Horror

Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom (2016)

6 March 20176 November 2023

Rating: ★★

Animation/Young H.P. Lovecraft’s Adventures

Director: Sean Patrick O'Reilly
Actors: Kiefer O'Reilly, Sean Patrick O'Reilly, Jane Curtin, Summer O'Reilly, …
Category: Fantasy

Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness (2018)

25 January 202213 March 2024

Rating: ★★

Animation/Young H.P. Lovecraft’s Adventures

Director: Sean Patrick O'Reilly
Actors: Kiefer O'Reilly, Jeffrey Combs, Mark Hamill, Christopher Plummer, …
Category: Fantasy

Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom (2017)

8 June 202018 October 2021

Rating: ★★

Animation/Young H.P. Lovecraft’s Adventures

Director: Sean Patrick O'Reilly
Actors: Mark Hamill, Jeffrey Combs, Ron Perlman, Christopher Plummer, …
Category: Fantasy

Howard the Duck (1986)

19 June 200016 September 2021

Rating: 0­

Talking Alien Duck/Comic Book Adaptation

Director: Willard Huyck
Actors: Lea Thompson, Tim Robbins, Jeffrey Jones, Jordan Prentice, …
Category: Science Fiction

In Search of Lovecraft (2008)

2 November 20222 November 2022

Rating: ★★

Modern-Day Lovecraftian Cultists

Director: David J. Hohl
Actors: Renee Sweet, Tytus Bergstrom, Larry Laverty
Category: Horror

In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

17 August 200231 August 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Meta-Fictional Horrors

Director: John Carpenter
Actors: Sam Neill, Jurgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen, Charlton Heston, …
Category: Horror

Intersect (2020)

6 September 20216 September 2021

Rating: ★★

Time Travel Experiments

Director: Gus Holwerda
Actors: Jason Spisak, Leeann Darling, Abe Ruthless, James Morrison, …
Category: Science Fiction

John Dies at the End (2012)

13 November 201217 December 2024

Rating: ★★★★

Reality-Expanding Drugs/Gonzo Supernatural Investigators

Director: Don Coscarelli
Actors: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Paul Giamatti, Glynn Turman, …
Category: Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu (2009)

27 June 20111 May 2024

Rating: ★★½

H.P. Lovecraft Fanboy Comedy

Director: Henry Saine
Actors: Kyle Davis, Devin McGinn, Barak Hardley, Richard Reihle
Category: Horror

Lurking Fear (1994)

24 March 201510 January 2024

Rating: ★★

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Creatures Beneath the Graveyard

Director: C. Courtney Joyner
Actors: Blake Bailey, Jon Finch, Ashley Laurence, Jeffrey Combs, …
Category: Horror

The Lurking Fear (2023)

21 April 202424 November 2024

Rating: ★★

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Abandoned Asylum

Director: Darren Dalton
Actors: Michael Madsen, Robert Davi, Elizabetta Fantone, Jonathan Camp, …
Category: Horror

The Manitou (1978)

17 February 200324 January 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Reincarnated Indian Medicine Man

Director: William Girdler
Actors: Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg, Jon Cedar, …
Category: Horror

Markham (2020)

20 June 202113 April 2025

Rating: ★

H.P. Lovecraft Homage

Director: Matthew Cooper
Actors: Thomas Cody, Tony Coughlan, Ashe Russell, Gareth Parry, …
Category: Horror

Mercy (2014)

30 August 20179 October 2019

Rating: ★★½

Stephen King Adaptation/Sinister Grandmother

Director: Peter Cornwell
Actors: Chandler Riggs, Shirley Knight, Frances O'Connor, Joel Courtney, …
Category: Horror

Messiah of Evil (1973)

26 March 201927 November 2023

Rating: ★★★

The Dead Return

Director: Willard Huyck
Actors: Marianna Hill, Michael Greer, Anitra Ford, Joy Bang, …
Category: Horror

The Mist (2007)

25 May 200920 April 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Creatures in the Fog/Stephen King Adaptation

Director: Frank Darabont
Actors: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, …
Category: Horror

Monstersdotcom (2003)

31 December 200310 January 2025

Rating: ★★★

Horror Anthology

Director: Kevin J. Lindenmuth, Andy Kumpon, Wayne Spitzer, Chris Mack
Actors: Andy Kumpon, Sara Roucloux
Category: Horror

Necronomicon (1993)

13 February 200921 September 2024

Rating: ★★

H.P. Lovecraft Anthology

Director: Brian Yuzna, Christophe Gans, Shusuke Kaneko
Actors: Jeffrey Combs, David Warner, Signy Coleman, Don Calfa, …
Category: Horror

Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King (2006)

16 December 200828 July 2021

Rating: ★★★

Stephen King Anthology

Director: Brian Henson, Mark Haber, Rob Bowman, Mikael Salomon, …
Actors: William Hurt, Bruce Spence, Mia Sara, Claire Forlani, …
Category: Horror

No One Gets Out Alive (2021)

10 October 202228 November 2023

Rating: ★★★

Sinister Boarding House

Director: Santiago Menghini
Actors: Cristina Rodlo, Marc Menchaca, David Figlioli, Claudia Coulter, …
Category: Horror

Off Season (2021)

27 November 202327 November 2023

Rating: ★★★

Ghostly Small Town

Director: Mickey Keating
Actors: Jocelin Donahue, Joe Swanberg, Melora Walters, Jeremy Gardner, …
Category: Horror

Outback Vampires (1987)

29 April 20206 April 2022

Rating: 0­

Vampires in the Australian Outback Comedy

Director: Colin Eggleston
Actors: Richard Morgan, Angela Kennedy, Brett Climo, John Doyle, …
Category: Horror

Re-Animator (1985)

2 January 200128 July 2022

Rating: ★★★★

Resurrection of the Dead/Splatter Black Comedy/H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: Stuart Gordon
Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale, …
Category: Horror

Resolution (2012)

14 April 201426 February 2025

Rating: ★★★

Mysterious Backwoods Happenings

Director: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Actors: Peter Cilella, Vinny Curran, Zahn McClarnon, Bill Oberst Jr., …
Category: Horror

The Resonator: Miskatonic U (2021)

17 April 20228 December 2023

Rating: ★★

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: William Butler
Actors: Dane Oliver, Michael Paré, Christine Braa, Austin Woods, …
Category: Horror

The Resurrected (1992)

1 July 200124 November 2024

Rating: ★★★

Black Magician’s Resurrection/H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: Dan O'Bannon
Actors: Chris Sarandon, John Terry, Jane Sibbett, Richard Romanus
Category: Horror

The Rizen (2017)

20 May 202129 August 2024

Rating: ★★

Labyrinth of Lovecraftian Horrors

Director: Matt Mitchell
Actors: Laura Swift, Patrick Knowles, Christopher Takagh, Bruce Payne, …
Category: Horror

The Shuttered Room (1967)

21 January 2021

Rating: ★★★

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: David Greene
Actors: Carol Lynley, Oliver Reed, Gig Young, Flora Robson, …
Category: Horror

Suitable Flesh (2023)

8 December 202324 November 2024

Rating: ★★★

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation/Bodyswap Horror

Director: Joe Lynch
Actors: Heather Graham, Barbara Crampton, Judah Lewis, Johnathon Schaech, …
Category: Horror

The Theatre Bizarre (2011)

5 August 201330 May 2023

Rating: ★★★

Horror Anthology

Director: Jeremy Kasten, Richard Stanley, Buddy Giovinazzo, Tom Savini, …
Actors: Udo Kier, Catriona MacColl, Debbie Rochon, Tom Savini, …
Category: Horror

Transylvania Twist (1989)

23 April 202012 September 2024

Rating: ★★

Horror Parody

Director: Jim Wynorski
Actors: Teri Copley, Steve Altman, Robert Vaughn, Ace Mask, …
Category: Horror

The Unnamable (1988)

19 October 200324 November 2024

Rating: ★★

Demon in the Attic/H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: Jean-Paul Ouellette
Actors: Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Laura Albert
Category: Horror

The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993)

3 April 200111 June 2024

Rating: ★

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: Jean-Paul Ouellette
Actors: Mark Kinsey Stephenson, John Rhys-Davies, Maria Ford, Julie Strain, …
Category: Horror

The Void (2016)

16 April 201728 November 2024

Rating: ★★★

Hospital of Horrors/H.P. Lovecraft Homage

Director: Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski
Actors: Aaron Poole, Kenneth Welsh, Daniel Fathers, Kathleen Munroe, …
Category: Horror

We Are Still Here (2015)

18 September 201516 March 2025

Rating: ★★★

House of Lurking Evil

Director: Ted Geoghegan
Actors: Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, Lisa Marie, Monte Markham, …
Category: Horror

The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)

15 August 202315 August 2023

Rating: ★★★

H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: Sean Branney
Actors: Matt Foyer, Matt Lagan, Barry Lynch, Stephen Blackehart
Category: Horror

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