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⌈ Secret Post #3939 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't actually think a Lovecraft adaptation would bring anything new to the table. There are adaptations of Stephen King etc. with cosmic horror and alien threat themes, and movies about cults and creepy towns. Lovecraft was hugely influential, but there's little that's unique to his work other than the constant racial coding of "alien threat", and even that unfortunately permeated the genre.
That said, wasn't there a silent black and white adaptation of Call of Cthulhu made in the early 2000s? That's something that probably works well. You'd have to punch the story up a lot for a 2.5 hour blockbuster to not be accused of overreliance on effects, but with a short stylized movie it won't matter if it's a little cliché because it would read as the genre-codifier that it is.
And there was another effects-free indie Lovecraft adaptation that went for the Shadow over Innsmouth cult angle that also worked pretty well IIRC, because it blended very trite satanic cult movie stuff with the experience of a gay person coming back to their shitty home town and family.
Point is, as people in the thread said: Lovecraft wouldn't work for a CGI monster movie, you have to have an interesting gimmick to fill a movie with his stories.