List of filmed works by HP Lovecraft
This list contains a selection of film adaptations based on stories by the American writer HP Lovecraft .
| year | title | Original title | Director | Template (German title) | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 |
The witch hunter's torture chamber |
The Haunted Palace | Roger Corman | The Charles Dexter Ward case | Probably the first ever Lovecraft film adaptation. Officially marketed as part of Roger Corman's Poe cycle (the original title is borrowed from a poem by Poe ). |
| 1965 |
The horror at Witley Castle |
The, monsters, the | Daniel Haller | freely based on motifs from The Color from Space | The first film as a director by Daniel Haller, who had previously only worked as a film architect, including for Corman's The Torture Chamber of the Witch Hunter |
| 1967 |
The locked door |
The Shuttered Room | David Greene | after The Boarded Up Door by Lovecraft and August Derleth | The only theatrical adaptation of one of the stories that emerged from the posthumous "collaboration" between Lovecraft and Derleth. The original director was Ken Russell , but canceled |
| 1968 |
Count Dracula's witch |
Curse of the Crimson Altar | Vernon Sewell | freely based on motifs from dreams in the witch's house | |
| 1970 | Voodoo Child |
The Dunwich Horror | Daniel Haller | freely based on motifs from The Dunwich Horror | |
| 1981 |
dance of the Devil |
The Evil Dead | Sam Raimi | Not a direct Lovecraft film adaptation, but the Necronomicon has a central role in the plot. | |
| 1985 |
The re-animator |
Re-animator | Stuart Gordon | Herbert West - the reawakening | First Lovecraft film by Stuart Gordon. Has resulted in several sequels, starting with Bride of Re-Animator , which apart from the title character have little to do with Lovecraft. |
| 1986 |
From Beyond - Aliens of Horror |
From beyond | Stuart Gordon | From the hereafter | |
| 1987 | The Curse - The farm of horror |
The Curse | David Keith | The color from space | |
| 1988 | White monsters |
The Unnamable | Jean-Paul Ouellette | The unnamable | |
| 1991 | Evil Dead - The seeds of evil |
The Resurrected | Dan O'Bannon | The Charles Dexter Ward case | |
| 1992 |
The demon wakes up |
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter | Jean-Paul Ouellette | The statement of Randolph Carter | Sequel to White Monster |
| 1993 | HP Lovecraft's Necronomicon episode film |
Necronomicon | Brian Yuzna , Christophe Gans , Shûsuke Kaneko | freely based on The Rats in the Walls , Cool Air and The Whisperer in the Dark | HP Lovecraft himself plays the main role in the framework. Director Yuzna had also previously worked as a producer and screenwriter on some of Stuart Gordon's Lovecraft films. |
| 1994 | Shocking fear |
Lurking Fear | C. Courtney Joyner | freely after The lurking fear | |
| 1994 |
The forces of madness |
In the Mouth of Madness | John Carpenter | freely based on motifs by HP Lovecraft | Not an official Lovecraft film adaptation, but full of allusions to his work. The excerpts from Sutter Cane's stories are actually Lovecraft quotes. The original title is a paraphrase of Shadow over Innsmouth and Mountains of Madness |
| 1995 |
Castle freak |
Castle freak | Stuart Gordon | very freely based on The Outsider | |
| 1997 |
Hemoglobin |
Bleeders | Peter Svatek | The lurking fear | Script: Dan O'Bannon, who directed Evil Dead in 1991 |
| 1998 | (No German title) TV film |
Out of Mind: The Stories of HP Lovecraft | Raymond Saint-Jean | based on the motifs of several stories, using excerpts from letters from Lovecraft | HP Lovecraft himself is one of the main characters in this film, which takes place in several interpenetrating time and dream levels. The focus is on a. the Necronomicon and the figure of Randolph Carter |
| 2001 |
Dagon |
Dagon | Stuart Gordon | after motifs of shadows over Innsmouth and Dagon | |
| 2004 | Marebito |
Marebito | Takashi Shimizu | using some motifs from Mountains of Madness | |
| 2005 | The Call of Cthulhu |
The Call of Cthulhu | Andrew Leman | Cthulhu's reputation | Silent film in black and white, in the style of the 20s. HP Lovecraft Historical Society (HPLHS) first film |
| 2005 | Dreams in the Witch-House TV episode |
Dreams in the witch house | Stuart Gordon | Dreams in the witch house | Episode 2 in season 1 of the horror series Masters of Horror |
| 2008 | HP Lovecraft's Seed of Evil |
Color from the dark | Ivan Zuccon | The color from space | |
| 2009 | (no German title) TV film |
The Dunwich Horror | Leigh Scott | after The Dunwich Horror | Partly remake of Voodoo Child (1970). Dean Stockwell , then seen as Wilbur Whateley, now plays Dr. Henry Armitage |
| 2010 | (No German title) Film in two parts |
La herencia Valdemar /
La herencia Valdemar II - La sombra prohibida |
José Luis Alemán | freely based on motifs from various stories by Lovecraft | Pickman's model and Cthulhu's reputation are cited, among others . Cthulhu himself makes an appearance at the end of the second part. The author Lovecraft also appears. |
| 2010 | The color |
The color | Huan Vu | The color from space | |
| 2011 | The Whisperer in Darkness |
The Whisperer in Darkness | Sean Branney | The whisperer in the dark | Second film from the HP Lovecraft Historical Society (HPLHS) , this time with sound, but again in black and white, in the style of horror films from the 1930s |
| 2017 | (no German title) |
Herbert West: Re-Animator | Ivan Zuccon | Herbert West - the reawakening | The now fifth Lovecraft film adaptation by the Italian director Zuccon |
| 2019 |
The color from space |
Color out of space | Richard Stanley | The color from space |
Web links
HP Lovecraft in the Internet Movie Database (English)