H.P. LovecraftFilmography

Cthulhu

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Jason Cottle, Cara Buono, Scott Patrick Green, Robert Padilla, Tori Spelling

Synopsis: Inspired by the works of celebrated horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft, this apocalyptic frightener tells the story of a Seattle history professor who becomes caught up in a frightful and rapidly accelerating series of strange events after returning to his estranged family on the Oregon coast Read More

Colour From the Dark

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: The next generation of Italian horror arrives with Bad Brains director Ivan Zuccon's adaptation of the classic H.P. Lovecraft story The Colour out of Space. It's the 1940s. The entire planet is at war, yet Pietro and Lucia live on a peaceful, isolated farm with Lucia's fifteen year old sister Read More

Chill

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Thomas Calabro, Ashley Laurence, Shaun Kurtz, James Russo

Synopsis: An aspiring writer and inner city grocery clerk discovers a dark secret about the elderly former scientist who employs him in this chilly shocker inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Cool Air. Attempting to make ends meet while he works on his latest novel, Sam Jackson lands a job in a run-down grocery Read More

The Call of Cthulhu

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: H.P. Lovecraft fans rejoice, because the story that spawned an entire mythology finally comes to the silver screen in this visionary feature that would strike terror into the hearts of even the Great Old Ones. A silent film shot in the expressionistic style of F.W. Murnau and Carl Theodore Dryer Read More

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Tom Savini, Rick Dial, Fountain Yount, Kurt Hargan, Rachel Mellendorf, William Sanderson

Synopsis: The brutal murder of a Catskill Mountains family sets into motion a terrifying sequence of events as the horrors of H.P. Lovecraft come to the screen courtesy of directors Barrett J. Leigh and Thom Maurer. The year is 1908, and a mountain man named Joe Slaader has just committed the ultimate Read More

The Shunned House

Crew: Short Story Author

Lurking Fear

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: In this chilling horror movie, loosely based on a tale by H.P. Lovecraft, a group of people in an ancient church find themselves beleaguered by terrifying monsters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Necronomicon

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Tony Azito, Bruce Payne, Juan Fernandez, David Warner, Bess Meyer, Millie Perkins, Richard Lynch

Synopsis: Based on horror author H.P. Lovecraft's writings, Necronomicon: Book of the Dead includes three short stories devoted to the deadly and mysterious "Necronomicon." When Lovecraft (played by Jeffrey Combs) manages to smuggle the legendary book out of a heavily guarded library, he quickly finds Read More

The Unnamable 2: The Statement of Randolph Carter

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Mark Kinsey Stephenson, John Rhys-Davies, Maria Ford, David Warner, Julie Strain

Synopsis: She lives. Deep in the bowels of the underworld Alyda the half-human demon waits to return to the earthy plane. This horror sequel chronicles her blood-soaked ascent. It all begins at Miskatonic University where several gruesome murders have occurred. Two college students, Randolph Carter and Read More

The Resurrected

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: John Terry, Jane Sibbett, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Laurie Briscoe

Synopsis: This low-budget film from Alien scriptwriter Dan O'Bannon (his first film since the 1985 zombie hit Return of the Living Dead) is one of the more loyal adaptations of fantasy author H.P. Lovecraft, taking as its source the short story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Set in Lovecraft's home town Read More

The Unnamable

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Charles Klausmeyer, Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Alexandra Durrell, Laura Albert, Katrin Alexandre

Synopsis: College students from Miskatonic University who retreat to an early 18th-century mansion for a weekend of lust are stalked by a fatalistic female in this horror film taken from a story by H.P. Lovecraft. The demon delights in tearing the limbs off her human victims to carry out a centuries-old Read More

The Curse

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcom Danare, Cooper Huckabee, John Schneider

Synopsis: This awful horror film, the directing debut of actor David Keith, is the second major adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space, first brought to the screen in Daniel Haller's Die, Monster, Die. Wil Wheaton stars as Zack, eternal whipping-boy of a rural farm family headed by his Read More

From Beyond

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Ken Foree

Synopsis: The production team responsible for the twisted cult classic Re-Animator -- including director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yuzna -- returned the following year with this equally depraved (perhaps more so) follow-up, based once again (and very loosely) on the pulp-horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft Read More

Re-Animator

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, Robert Sampson, David Gale

Synopsis: Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a brilliant medical student who has perfected a green-glowing serum for regenerating life into dead things -- or even parts of dead things. But a corrupt superior, Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), assumes control of West's experiments and winds up, by ghastly Read More

The Dunwich Horror

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Sr., Sam Jaffe, Donna Baccala

Synopsis: With a style and tone that wreaks of the late '60s, this cheap-looking adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story plays like an obvious reference to the battle between the establishment and the counterculture. The film stars Dean Stockwell as Wilbur Whateley, a brooding young man who makes a connection Read More

La Invasion Siniestra

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Boris Karloff

Synopsis: One of four low-rent Mexican horror productions from the 1960s which featured an ailing Boris Karloff in supporting roles (and released after his death), this sci-fi/horror quickie features Karloff as a 19th-century scientist who invents a powerful energy device capable of rendering any weapon Read More

The Shuttered Room

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Gig Young, Carol Lynley, Oliver Reed, Flora Robson, William Devlin

Synopsis: Another semi-successful attempt to adapt the works of American fantasist H.P. Lovecraft to the screen, this is loosely based on the short story The Shuttered Room (also an alternate release title for the film), a story which is purported to be more the work of "posthumous collaborator" August Read More

Die, Monster, Die!

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Suzanne Farmer, Terence de Marney

Synopsis: Also known as Monster of Terror, this British-made horror opus is very loosely based on H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Colour Out of Space". The story begins with an American scientist (Nick Adams) paying a visit to the remote estate of his fiancee's family (located in Lovecraft's fictional Arkham Read More

The Haunted Palace

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney, Jr., Frank Maxwell, Leo Gordon

Synopsis: The Haunted Palace is a witches' brew of stories written by Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft--with the fine hand of sinister scenarist Charles Beaumont stirring the pot. Vincent Price plays two roles this time: A New England doctor burned as a sorcerer in 1745, and the dead man's great-grandson Read More