H.P. Lovecraft

Never read them, but I've heard quite a bit about them from the members on a SFF forum I'm active on. I'm thinking of buying as many of his books as I can when I've got the money.

Oh, and this might interest you - someone's making a film about Lovecraft called Cthulhu. There's also a J. J. Abrams film with the project name Cloverfield coming out in January that is rumoured to be about the awakening of Great Cthulhu.

http://cthulhuthemovie.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloverfield

Interesting movies. I might have to watch them.

Cthulhu looks terrible, Lenny. I watched the trailer maybe a year ago, and it just looks kinda dull.

Cloverfield looks fucking amazing, and I would DIE if it turned out to be a Cthulhu movie, but the chances of that are just about zero. Nobody wants to make a Lovecraft film, and most of the fanbase doesn't want to see a Lovecraft film.

The reason is inherent in the very nature of his stories. If the things he writes about are so unimaginable, so groutesque, so weird and irrational, how do you re-create them in a visual medium and do them justice? Cthulhu himself is supposed to be capable of driving men insane just because of the way he looks. That would take a superhuman feat of visual creative genius, to concieve and reproduce the inconcievable. That's like inventing a color nobody's seen before.

In other words, a movie would be hard-pressed to ever truly do Cthulhu justice. Sure, you could stick a colossal, squid-faced, dragon-winged monstrosity into your movie, but it would always be just a little bit less grand and horrible than any given Lovecraft fan has imagined.

Cloverfield's creators were handing out t-shirts with the name "Sluggo" on them. What the fuck?

"Slusho", not "Sluggo". It's because the director was the guy who created and directed the TV show Alias, and Slusho is a some sort of fictional consumer product that shows up a lot in the series. Slusho is one of the codenames for the project, alongside "Cloverfield".

Oh yea, Slusho. Either way it's a pretty weird name x_X.

I think I agree with you on both films. To me, Cthulhu looks like a generic lad-goes-back-home-finds-problem-sorts-it-out film.

Cloverfield does look brilliant. Especially after seeing the trailer - starts off as a home video of a leaving party for some fella. Ends with the head of the Statue of Liberty smashing into the street in front of the apartment.