It's Deep Ones that we must appease

[teenybuffalo]

Oh, and speaking of Providence: the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's performing wing, Dark Adventure Radio Theatre, is offering a free download of their radio play of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." It'll be free only till the end of August 21, so if you happen to see this post before midnight, and like weird radio theater, jump on board

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[sovay]

I don't actually want a film of "The Outsider," for example. (I saw one once and hated it.) The movie in my head is better.

I can't actually imagine a film of "The Outsider" unless it was a first-person camera à la Dark Passage (1947) or Lady in the Lake (1947) because it matters so much that the audience make certain assumptions about the appearance of the narrator-as does the narrator himself-which the finale overturns. I like the recorded version I have by Roddy McDowall precisely because it's all in the mind.

I'd like to see "The Dunwich Horror" made into a movie (I understand that's already been done, but it doesn't sound like a great version)

It's . . . not. I give it a brief gloss of snark at the end of my previous link about the HPLHS' movies. It was tremendously entertaining, but almost certainly terrible.

I'd like to see "The Lurking Fear" because I don't have a strong mental image of the landscape, the creatures, or the people and buildings, and I'd like to see a building give me one.

And it's a story in which the landscape is important, I think even more so than "The Whisperer in Darkness," so even though I don't have much of a stake in the story itself, I'd love to see a director known for very reality-grounded, sense-of-place Americana take it on. I'm not sure it's Jeff Nichols' kind of thing, but that kind of artistic vision. (Speaking of which, if you have not seen Midnight Special (2016), you might like it very much. I caught it earlier this year during its week in theaters and it surprised me.)

I'd like to see "The Horror at Red Hook" done by a director who is capable enough to challenge the racism in an interesting way.

So, like a filmed blend of "The Horror at Red Hook" and The Ballad of Black Tom?

[moon_custafer]

It's . . . not. I give it a brief gloss of snark at the end of my previous link about the HPLHS' movies. It was tremendously entertaining, but almost certainly terrible.

Last time I watched it, I decided Dean Stockwell's version of Wilbur was creepier than most, but that was because he pretty much played him as a sleazy pick-up artist.