List of Lovecraftian Horror Movies Part 1

films and television shows with Lovecraftian references and themes

This list of Lovecraftian movies is so exhaustive I've had to split it into four parts as follows:

1 - those that are direct adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft's fictional works ... these are HERE on this page below.

2 - those that are inspired by the fiction of Lovecraft, incorporating elements of his Cthulhu Mythos or other aspects of his fiction, and that could feasibly be set within the same fictional world or universe ... HERE.

3 - those that are influenced by the fiction of Lovecraft, making reference to Lovecraft or his Yog-Sothothery, but that aren't feasibly set directly within his fictional universe ... HERE.

4 - and finaly a list of documentaries about either the man himself or his wider legacy ... HERE.

The term Lovecraftian Horror is often used when describing a wider sub-genre of horror better termed Cosmic Horror, that emphasizes puny humanity's helplessness in the face of an unknown (or unknowable) malevolence (or indifference) at a cosmic (or universal) level. Much of Lovecraft's fiction falls into this wider sub-genre and he was very much among it's pioneers. This sub-genre will be explored in our Cosmic Horror section HERE soon. Some of Lovecraft's fiction also falls under the umbrella of the wider Body Horror sub-genre which can soon be explored HERE.

Read our summaries and reviews with confidence - this is a NO SPLOILER zone!

1: Movie & TV adaptations of H. P. Lovecraft Stories

A chronological list of films that are direct adaptations of stories written by H. P. Lovecraft.

1.001: The Haunted Palace (Roger Cormen, USA. 1963)
Tagline: A warlock's home is his castle...Forever!
Although marketed as Edgar Alan Poe's The Haunted Palace this movie, directed by Roger Cormen, is actually based on Lovecraft's short novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward with the screenplay adapted by Charles Beaumont. It's not an entirely faithful adaptation of the short novel but it does have Vincent Price in dual roles as Joseph Curwen and Charles Dexter Ward.
      In 1875, Charles Dexter Ward inherits a Gothic castle-like Palace that, about 110 years earlier, had been brought over stone by stone from Europe and re-built overlooking the New England town of Arkham by his great great grandfather, Joseph Curwen. Curwen was effectively burned at the steak by the town's people for being a Necromantic Sorcerer (responsible for the impregnating of local young women by demonic entities) who cursed them all before he died - he vowed to return from death and get revenge on each of those responsible and all their descendants.
      Curwen apparently had a back up plan ready to go should an angry mob end up murdering him, using his Necromantic Sorcery he ensured that his disembodied Spirit would remain "vital" within the Palace till he could find a suitable victim to possess and through whom he would be able to exact his revenge. Ignorant of his ancestor's history Ward decides to move to Arkham and into the Palace with his wife Anne, played by Debra Paget... big mistake.
      Cue 60s Gothic Horror Movie melodrama hardened by a dark Lovecraftian weirdness. It has a good solid cast, that includes Lon Chaney Jr as Simon Orne - a loyal cultist/servant of Curwen's, and a sumptuous look typical of Roger Cormen's "Poe Cycle" for American International Pictures. The film itself is titled after an Edgar Alan Poe poem and in the closing scenes the final verse of that poem is narrated - '...While, like a ghastly rapid river, through the pale door, a hideous throng rush out forever and laugh - But smile no more'
      The Haunted Palace marks the first time actual names of Lovecraftian Monstrosities, such as the Elder Gods Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth, are uttered on celluloid. It is also the first time Lovecraft's legendary black magic book, the Necronomicon, is not only mentioned but also makes its premier appearance in the history of motion-picture tropes as an integral prop and plot-device.
Runtime: 87 min - Colour - English.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 7/10 (Good) - not one of Cormen's best but certainly his most Lovecraftian. Vincent Price's performance is, as ever, a delight to watch.
Buy The Haunted Palace on DVD or Blu-ray at Amazon.com
Buy The Haunted Palace on DVD or Blu-ray at Amazon.co.uk

1.002: Die, Monster, Die! (Daniel Haller, UK/USA. 1965)
AKA: Monster of Terror (UK) | Colour Out of Space (USA working title) | The House at the End of the World (UK working title)
Tagline: can you face the ULTIMATE in DIABOLISM!... can you face PURE TERROR!
Loosely based on Lovecraft's short story The Colour Out of Space (and possibly conflating some elements of The Dunwich Horror i.e. the Witley family history having similarities to the Whateley's - among some other Lovecraftian tropes) this movie directed by Daniel Haller transposes the action to a small country village named Arkham in contemporary England. Stephen Reinhart (Nick Adams) is an American scientist come to visit his girl-friend Susan Witley (Suzan Farmer) at her family's estate at the invitation of her mother, Letitia (Freda Jackson). On arrival at the village Reinhart is treated with suspicion as soon as it becomes known that he's looking for the Witley Estate, where none of the villagers will go, and is forced to make his own way on foot across the heath to the house.
      While on the heath he passes a huge crater surrounded by a large area of scorched earth and the dessicated remains of burnt vegetation. Moving on he comes to the forbidding grounds of the Witley house - liberally posted with "No Trespassing" signs and guarded by at least one man-trap - persevering on he finally gets to the house itself where he is confronted by Susan's father Nahum Witley (Boris Karloff) and bluntly told to leave - but, of course, he doesn't - especially when Susan appears immediately and greets him with welcoming and open arms.
      Cue lots of mysterious shenanigans involving weird illnesses, unearthly noises, missing and dying servants, a family history of sorcery, a locked and glowing green-house with mutated plant life leading to a glowing potting shed full of strange mutated creatures of indeterminate origin... and, lets not forget, the large luminescent meteorite in the cellar radiating the purest green.
      Lovecraftian trivia; Reinhart finds a book in Witley's library entitled "Cult of the Outer Ones" - a passage from which reads, "Cursed is the ground where the Dark Forces live, new and strangely bodied... he who tampers there will be destroyed..."
Runtime: 80 min - Colour - English.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 5/10 (Mediocre) - for the most part an interesting blend of Gothic and Science Fiction horrors but unfortunately it really gets into the realms of the ridiculous toward the end.
Buy Die, Monster, Die! on DVD or Blu-ray at Amazon.com
Buy Die, Monster, Die! on DVD or Blu-ray at Amazon.co.uk

1.003: Curse of the Crimson Altar (Vernon Sewell, UK. 1968)
AKA: The Crimson Cult (USA) | The Crimson Altar (USA poster title)
Tagline: What obscene prayer or human sacrifice can satisfy the Devil-God?
Very loosely based on Lovecraft's short story The Dreams in the Witch-House - and we do mean loosely, the only connections we could see are the facts that there are dreams and they are indeed experienced in a witch-house. This was the last film featuring Boris Karloff to be released during his lifetime.
      Set in contemporary England an antiques dealer, Mark Eden (Robert Manning), searching for his missing brother is led to a large and Gothic country house occupied by J. D. Morley (Christopher Lee) and Eve (Virginia Wetherell) his niece - descendants of the infamous Black Witch of Greymarsh Lavinia Morley (Barbara Steele) who was burned at the stake by the local villagers three hundred years earlier. The obligatory creepy butler, named Elder, is played very well by the excellently doomy Michael Gough while an elderly Karloff appears as the dour and forbidding wheel-chair bound expert on witchcraft, Professor Marsh.
      The drug induced dream sequences have to be seen to be believed - they're both trippy and kitsch and some of the costumes are in turn awesome (the green/blue skinned Lavinia's regalia), sinister (the animal-masked jurors) and sometimes hilarious (the PVC bondage-esque blacksmith/torturer's outfit for example).
Content Warning: There are some brief scenes of mild nudity... and the sight of the middle-aged Eden leching and pawing at the lovely young Eve in the supposed romantic angle of the story is quite literally stomach churning.
Runtime: 89 min - Colour - English.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 6/10 (Pretty Good) - benefits from a strong cast, a terrific setting and a some-what psychedelic sixties vibe but is otherwise pretty lacklustre... especially the rather perfunctory ending.
Buy Curse of the Crimson Altar on DVD or Blu-ray at Amazon.com
Buy Curse of the Crimson Altar on DVD or Blu-ray at Amazon.co.uk

1.004: The Dunwich Horror (Daniel Haller, USA. 1970)
Tagline: A few years ago in Dunwich a half-witted girl bore illegitimate twins. One of them was almost human!
A contemporary and not entirely faithful adaptation of Lovecraft's short story of the same name with some 70s counter-culture and Crowley-esque occult-ness added for good measure.
      The enigmatic young warlock Wilbur Whateley (Dean Stockwell) is twin to a monstrous entity locked in the attic of his family's Dunwich farm house. The pair were born to Lavinia Whateley (Joanne Moore Jordan) who was driven insane by the trauma of the birth and (presumably) by their conceiving - since the father of the "brothers" was Yog Sothoth, an Outer God summoned briefly by Lavinia's own father Old Whateley (Sam Jaffe) twenty five years earlier.
      Wilbur wants to get his hands on a copy of the Necronomicon and a virgin so he can perform a ritual to open the trans-dimensional door that will let the Old Ones, heralded by Yog Sothoth himself, through to this world and bring about their dominion over humanity. At the Miskatonic University in Arkham he finds both the eldritch tome he's looking for and a suitable young virgin, Nancy Wagner (Sandra Dee). He successfully ensnares Nancy but the book proves to be a bigger problem as a suspicious Dr. Henry Armitage (Ed Begley) refuses to "lend" it to him.
      After getting Nancy ensconced, drugged and mesmerised at his Dunwich home Wilbur sets out to steal the Necronomicon. Meanwhile, Dr Armitage sets out to rescue Nancy from the warlock's influence and then slowly realises it will fall to him to prevent any magical skulduggery from coming to fruition.
      Pedagogic nit-picking - everyone in this movie pronounces the town's name as "Dun-witch" when in fact it should be pronounced "Dun-itch".
Content Warning: some nudity, sexual situations and orgiastic scenes.
Runtime: 90 min - Colour - English.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 7/10 (Good) - an underrated (by most) minor classic of Lovecraftian cinema that is very entertaining, even if the ending is a bit rushed.
Buy The Dunwich Horror (1970) on DVD or Blu-ray at Amazon.com
Buy The Dunwich Horror (1970) on DVD or Blu-ray at Amazon.co.uk

1.005: Pickman's Model (Jack Laird, USA. 1971)
Segment 1, Episode 11, Season 2 of Rod Serling's Nignt Gallery TV series. Loosely based on the story of the same name; lovelorn Mavis Goldsmith ignores her reclusive art teacher Pickman's warning not to follow him home.

1.006: Cool Air (Jeannot Szwarc, USA. 1971)
Segment 1, Episode 12, Season 2 of Rod Serling's Nignt Gallery TV series. Loosely based on the story of the same name; a Gothic love story about a woman and a man who lives in a refrigerated apartment.

1.007: The Whisperer in Darkness (David C. Smith, USA. 1975)
This 32 minute short film is based on Lovecraft's story of one man's battle with strange creatures in the Vermont woods, and the Folklorist who wouldn't believe, until it was too late. The first fan "amateur" adaptation of Lovecraft's work... many would follow with wildly varying degrees of competence/success. Made with an 8mm camera, a few friends, including author J. Vernon Shea, and a lot of passion. At the time it was only shown at some local festivals, but was later restored from the original 8mm reels by Brian Callahan at Arkham Bazaar/Sigh Co. Graphics, and recieved a limited release to the big screen in 2021.

1.007: H.P. Lovecraft: Schatten aus der Zeit (George Moorse, West Germany. 1975)
A 50 minute TV movie based on The Shadow Out of Time. A professor wakes up after a seizure with no memory of the last five years... the same period of time since his initial seizure. As he investigates this missing time and as his dreams become increasingly real and disturbing, a dark truth slowly dawns on him.

1.008: The Music of Erich Zann (John Strysik, USA. 1980)
A faithful adaptation of Lovecraft's short story of the same name.
Runtime: 17 min - Colour - English.
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 3: Out of Mind (2005).

1.009: Pickman's Model (Cathy Welch, USA. 1981)
Based on Lovecraft's short story of the same name.
Runtime: 32 min - B&W - English.
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 4: Pickman’s Model (2007).

1.010: La chiave d'argento (Ciriaco Tiso, Italy. 1982)
A 1 hour 15 minute TV movie based on The Silver Key short story.

1.011: La cosa sulla soglia (Andrea Frazzi & Antonio Frazzi, Italy. 1982)
Episode 4, Season 3 of the Il fascino dell'insolito TV series, based on The Thing on the Door Step.

1.012: Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, USA. 1985)
Tagline: Herbert West Has A Very Good Head On His Shoulders... And Another One In A Dish On His Desk
An adaptation of (the first two parts of) Lovecraft's short story Herbert West - Reanimator but updated to a more contemporary setting and infused throughout with some very campy and decidedly black humour. All the actors involved play it entirely straight and the dry jokes are delivered so dead-pan that it just makes this movie even funnier.
      Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a very intense, dedicated and some-what weird medical student who comes to the Miskatonic University in New England in order to further his studies after an unfortunate incident at the University of Zurich's Institute of Medicine in Switzerland, resulting in a(n un)dead professor, caused him to leave there rather unceremoniously.
      West rents a room and basement space (for his experiments) from fellow student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbot) who eagerly takes him in for the extra income and despite his girl-friend Megan Halsey (Barbara Crampton)'s reservations that West is too "creepy" for a house-mate. Soon after, Dan's pet cat Rufus goes missing so he and Megan search the house top to bottom and finally find its corpse in West's refrigerator... along with some mysterious vials of strangely glowing green liquid. Dan later confronts West about the dead cat and West explains that the cat was already dead when he found it but didn't want Dan or Megan finding it in such a condition so he refrigerated it till he could break the bad news to them gently.
      Dan then asks West to explain the green liquid and West tells him that it is the result of his ongoing experiments to find a cure for death itself. Dan, of course, is sceptical so West proves the efficacy of his "reagent" by injecting it into the dead cat. Rufus is reanimated and immediately goes crazy - attacking them both - so they kill the cat a second time. Both shocked and exited by this event Dan agrees to assist West in his experiments and the pair decide to try to perfect the reagent by experimenting on corpses stored in the University's morgue. The chaos resulting from this experiment causes the medical school's Dean Halsey (Robert Sampson), Megan's father, to stumble into the pair in the morgue but the Dean is killed by a reanimated corpse - which West re-kills with a bone-saw.
      Realising the Dean's corpse is the freshest they're likely to get, West injects it with the reagent and it too is reanimated... but it too behaves violently toward them. When police and security officers arrive and subdue Halsey, West and Dan - to explain the scene of carnage - claim that the Dean simply went crazy and attacked both them and the corpses in the morgue. The reanimated Dean is strapped into a straight-jacket and taken away - put into the care of his brain specialist colleague Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale). After lobotomising Halsey, Dr. Hill soon realises that the Dean is in fact dead and reanimated. Realising that West must be onto something with his research, which the doctor had earlier scoffed at, Hill determines to get West's secrets for himself.
      Little does Hill realise quite how unhinged Herbert West was becoming with each increasingly disastrous and chaotic experiment. Hill tries to blackmail West into handing over his secrets, West plays along just long enough to decapitate Hill with a shovel... and then West wonders how his reagent will work with body parts...
Content Warning: be prepared for very dark humour with very gruesome and bloody scenes... also some nudity and a particularly controversial depiction of a sexual assault (that gives new meaning to the phrase "giving head").
Runtime: 86 min (unrated) / 95 min (R-rated) / 106 min (extended cut) - Colour - English.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 9/10 (Extremely Good) - this might be schlock, but it is schlock of the highest order - a very funny and gory horror comedy. Jeffrey Combs' performance is particularly brilliant and it cements in place the foundation for his (as well as director Stuart Gordon's and producer Brian Yuzna's) prominent position in Lovecraftian cinema history.
Buy Re-Animator on DVD or Blu-ray at Amazon.com
Buy Re-Animator on DVD or Blu-ray at Amazon.co.uk

1.013: From Beyond (Stuart Gordon, USA. 1986)
Fresh from his triumphant Re-Animator this higher budget horror comedy adaptation by Stuart Gordon of another Lovecraft story is a bit of a let down.
Content Warning: quite a gruesome body-horror with some nudity and sexual situations.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 5/10 (Mediocre) - with some very ropey SFX (admittedly mixed in with some quite good ones) and being mostly humourless (for a comedy) it fails to rise above its exploitative elements and is, in essence, just another 80s gore-fest.

1.014: The Curse (David Keith, USA. 1987)
AKA: The Farm | The Well (original script title)
Tagline: From the darkest part of the heavens, terror has arrived.
An adaptation of Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space set in contemporary Tellico Plains, Tennessee. Starring Will Wheaton and featuring his sister Amy as Zack and Alice, the step children to bible-thumping farmer Nathan Crane (Claude Akins). A strange meteorite crash-lands into Crane's farmland. It starts out as a large glowing ball of indeterminate material but soon melts away into the ground and, unbeknownst to the Crane family, infects the farm's water supply.
Content Warning: some gross-out moments and some sexual scenes... there's also a particularly gross and offensive display of thick male chest, back, shoulder and upper arm hair during a sex scene.
Runtime: 92 min - Colour - English.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 3/10 (Bad) - this movie is so inept you'll find yourself wondering if it's been made purposefully so for the laughs... but there aren't any laughs.

1.015: The Testimony of Randolph Carter (Andrew Leman, USA. 1987)
A 50 minute micro-budget indie adaptation of The Statement of Randolph Carter with elements from Through the Gates of the Silver Key. Often touted as the first "amateur" Lovecraft adaptation, but it's not - see The Whisperer in Darkness (1975) above.

1.016: The Unnamable (Jean-Paul Ouellette, USA. 1988)
AKA: H. P. Lovecraft's The Unnamable | The White Monster
Content Warning: some bloody violence and brief scenes of a sexual nature.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 6/10 (Pretty Good) -

1.017: Pulse Pounders (Charles Band, Italy. 1988)
A portmanteau of three stories, one of which is an adaptation of The Evil Clergyman featuring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton.

1.018: Epikindyni Zoni (Nikos Grammatikos, Greek. 1988)
AKA: Danger Zone (English translation) - a 30 minute short. If anyone knows which Lovecraft story this is based on, please enlighten me.

1.019: Dark Heritage (David McCormick, USA. 1989)
AKA: Dark Heritage: The Final Descendant (UK)
An uncredited low budget adaptation of the story The Lurking Fear. Reporter Clint Harrison is sent to investigate a massacre at a Louisiana campground and finds that it may be linked to the Dansen clan an old local family thought to have died out years ago.

1.020: Bride of Re-Animator (Brian Yuzna, USA. 1989)
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 8/10 (Very Good) - not quite as good as the first Re-Animator movie but still very entertaining.

1.021: The Resurrected (Dan O'Bannon, USA. 1991)
Movie based on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward with John Terry and Chris Sarandon. Charles Dexter Ward's wife enlists the help of a private detective to find out what her husband is up to in a remote cabin owned by his family for centuries.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 7/10 (Good) - well made but a little lifeless and lacking suspense.

1.022: Insumasu o ouu Kage (Chaiki Konaka, Japan. 1992)
A 1 hour TV movie adaptation of Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth that is transposed to the coast of modern-day Japan.

1.023: Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (Jean-Paul Ouellette, USA. 1993)
AKA: The Unnamable Returns (UK)
Continuing directly from Ouellette's The Unamable (1988) this movie incorporates a loose adaptation of Lovecraft's short story The Statement of Randolph Carter - the events of which, in Lovecraft's fictional chronology, probably occurs before those in his The Unnamable short story.
Content Warning: some bloody violence and nudity.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 6/10 (Pretty Good) -

1.024: Necronomicon (Brian Yuzna, Christophe Gans & Shusuke Kaneko, USA. 1993)
AKA: H.P. Lovecraft's: Necronomicon | Necronomicon: Book of the Dead | Necronomicon: To Hell and Back.
Portmanteau movie of three stories, each based on a Lovecraft short story: "The Drowned" is based on The Rats in the Walls; "The Cold" is based on Cool Air; and "Whispers" is based on The Whisperer in Darkness. The wraparound framing story features Lovecraft finding the titular book in a monastery library. Jeffrey Combs plays Howard Philips with a prosthetic chin that makes him look uncannily like Bruce Campbell.
Content Warning: some mild nudity and scenes of a sexual nature.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 5/10 (Mediocre) - a bit of a mixed bag. Some good, some bad.

1.025: The Outsider (Andrew Hooks, USA. 1993)
A 9 minute short film adapting the story of the same name.

1.026: Lurking Fear (C. Courtney Joyner, USA. 1994)
A very loose bargain-basement B-movie adaptation of the HP Lovecraft story. Worth seeing, but a decent cast (featuring Jeffrey Combs) is let down by a weak script and bad production, which is a shame for there is potential here. The dwellers underground are quite effective.

1.027: The Outsider (Aaron Vanek, USA. 1994)
An 8 minute short film adapting the story of the same name.
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 3: Out of Mind (2005).

1.028: Castle Freak (Stuart Gordon, USA. 1995)
Lovecraft's short story The Outsider gets the full feature length treatment here, though its a fairly loose retelling mixed in with elements of The Rats in the Walls. It was released direct-to-video. Stars Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. Be prepared for graphic violence and gore.

1.029: Bleeders (Peter Svatek, Canada. 1997)
AKA: Hemoglobin
Loosely based on The Lurking Fear, this feature length adaptation has Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett among its writers. A man travels to an island with his girlfriend in search of his relatives, but he finds maybe more than what he wanted to know. Rutger Hauer gets top billing, but is in a relatively minor role. It's slow, the two leads are pretty nondescript and the direction is hackneyed at best. I'd say it's missable.

1.030: The Hound (Anthony Penta, USA. 1997)
An 18 minute short based on the story of the same name. Two grave-robbers enter an old cemetery on an island and break into one of the tombs. They steal a mysterious amulet, thus, activating a centuries old curse.
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 1: Cool Air (2004).

1.031: From Beyond (Ken Avenoso & Andrew Migliore, USA. 1997)
A short 11 minute adaptation of the Lovecraft story.

1.032: The Outsider (John Allen, USA. 1998)
An animated short film, based on the story of the same name.

1.033: Between The Stars (Djie Han Thung, Netherlands. 1998)
A five minute black and white short inspired by a fragment from an incomplete story.
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 4: Pickman’s Model (2007).

1.034: The House on Dame Street (Ruairi Robinson, Ireland. 1999)
A 5 minute short based very loosely on The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. An investigator looking into the disappearance of a colleague runs into a spot of bother involving things that are not quite dead.

1.035: Return to Innsmouth (Aaron Vanek, USA. 1999)
In this 20 minute short, a young graduate student must decide his own fate when he discovers he is related to a race of monsters. Loosely based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

1.036: From Beyond (Bob Fugger, USA. 1999)
A faithful adaptation of Lovecraft's story, in which a mad scientist inflicts the strange effects of his invention upon his detractor, revealing the loathsome, hidden extra-dimensional life that teems unsuspected in the spaces between matter all around us.
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 2: Rough Magik (2004).

1.037: Cool Air (Bryan Moore, USA. 1999)
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 1: Cool Air (2004).

1.038: Cthulhu (Damian Heffernan, Australia. 2000)
mostly based on The Thing on the Doorstep and The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

1.039: Chilean Gothic (Ricardo Harrington, Chile. 2000)
A 45 minute film based on Pickman's Model. A journalist sets out to uncover the truth about the death of his colleague who was researching an American artist, Richard Upton Pickman. When he discovers the artist is in Santiago he goes to pay him a visit.
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 4: Pickman’s Model (2007).

1.040: Le Peuple Ancien (Christian Matzke, France. 2001)
A 14 minute short based on The Very Old Folk. An archaeological excavation uncovers a manuscript written by a Roman commander in Gaul. Most of the local tribes have been pacified but every year terrible hill people ravage the area. The Romans set out to crush them.

1.041: Nyarlathotep (Christian Matzke, USA. 2001)
A 13 minute short based on the story of the same name.
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 1: Cool Air (2004).

1.042: The Terrible Old Man: H.P. Lovecraft (Bob Fugger, Canada. 2001)
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 2: Rough Magik (2004).

1.043: Dagon (Stuart Gordon, Spain. 2001)
Feature length film that's more based on The Shadow over Innsmouth than it is Dagon, but it's a very engaging and entertaining adaptation of that oft told tale.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 8/10 (Very Good) -

1.044: The Music of Erica Zann (Jeremy Hechler, USA. 2002)
based on The Music of Erich Zann.

1.045: The Evil Clergymen (Bill Kelley, USA. 2002)

1.046: The Picture in the House (Gant Haverstick, USA. 2003)

1.047: An Imperfect Solution: A Tale of the Re-Animator (Christian Matzke, USA. 2003)
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 1: Cool Air (2004).

1.048: The Thing on the Doorstep (Eric Morgret, USA. 2003)

1.049: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (Edward Martin III, USA. 2003)

1.050: The Statement of Randolph Carter (Jane Rose, USA. 2003)

1.051: Pickman's Model (Rick Tillman, USA. 2003)

1.052: Pickman's Model (Giovanni Furore, Italy. 2003)
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 4: Pickman’s Model (2007).

1.053: The Shunned House (Ivan Zuccon, Italy. 2003)

1.054: 13:de mars 1941 (Robert P. Olsson, Sweden. 2004)
AKA: March the 13th, 1941 (USA) | The Hole (UK)
based on Lovecraft's The Statement of Randolph Carter

1.055: Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep (Eric Morgret, USA. 2005)
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 5: Strange Aeons (2008).

1.056: The Statement of Randolph Carter (Edward Martin III, USA. 2005)

1.057: The Call of Cthulhu (Andrew Leman, USA. 2005)
A faithful adaptation by The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society of one of Lovecraft's best, and most famous, short stories that imitates the type of movie that would have been made at about the time of the tale's writing.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 6/10 (Pretty Good) - suffers somewhat from the silent-movie format but a sterling effort to bring an accurate depiction of Lovecraft's fiction to the screen.

1.058: Die Musik des Erich Zann (Anna Gawrilow, Germany. 2005)

1.059: H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House (Stuart Gordon, USA. 2005)
Episode 2 in Season 1 of The Master's of Horror TV series.

1.060: Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Barrett J. Leigh & Thom Maurer, USA. 2006)

1.061: From Beyond (Michael Granberry, USA. 2006)
A short 10 minute animated adaptation using puppets.
Featured in The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, Volume 5: Strange Aeons (2008).

1.062: The Rats in the Walls (Tim Uren, USA. 2006)

1.063: Cool Air (Albert Pyun, USA. 2006/2013)
Feature length version of the short story by Lovecraft, Although released in Portugal in 2006/2007, this movie did not recieve a wider release till 2013. Clearly, Lionsgate had little faith in it... if you manage to find a copy of this and watch it, you'll see why.

1.064: The Other Gods (Peter Rhodes, USA. 2006)

1.065: The Terrible Old Tran (Armando Muñoz, USA. 2006)
kinky parody of The Terrible Old Man

1.066: Dunwich (Christian Matzke & Sarah Tarling, USA. 2006)

1.067: Chill (Serge Rodnunsky, USA. 2007)
based on Cool Air

1.068: Cthulhu (Dan Gildark, USA. 2007)
loosely based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

1.069: Nyarlathotep (???, USA. 2007)

1.070: H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (Ryo Shinagawa, Japan. 2007)
portmanteau of three animated Lovecraft tales: The Picture in the House, The Dunwich Horror and The Festival.

1.071: H.P. Lovecraft's The Terrible Old Man (Sean Kearney & Doug Simon, USA. 2007)

1.072: The Statement (Kurt Dudley, UK. 2007)
adaptation of The Statement of Randolph Carter

1.073: The Whisperer in Darkness (Matt Hundley, USA. 2007)

1.074: Pickman's Model (Gary Fierro, USA. 2008)

1.075: The Book (James Raynor, UK. 2008)
based on the short stories "The Book" and "The Descendant"

1.076: Colour from the Dark (Ivan Zuccon, Italy. 2008)
adaptation of The Colour Out of Space

1.077: The Statement of Randolph Carter (John Morehead, USA. 2008)

1.078: A Lovecraft Dream (Michele Botticelli & Leonardo Manna, Italy? 2008)
In this animated short H.P.Lovecraft has nightmares featuring excerpts of The Crawling Chaos, Nyrlathotep, The Call of Cthluhu, The Shadow Out of Time, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and Azathoth.

1.079: The Statement of Randolph Carter (Michael Sparks, USA. 2009)

1.080: The Statement of Randolph Carter (Kyle Aldrich, USA. 2009)

1.081: Lovecraft Paragraphs (Reber Clark, USA. 2009)
A unique presentation of selected paragraphs from Lovecraft's work.

1.082: The Picture in the House (Christopher James Jordan & Gary Lobstein, USA. 2009)

1.083: Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Nathan Fisher, USA. 2009)

1.084: Dagon (Nathalie Magri, USA. 2009)

1.085: The Music of Erich Zann (???, USA. 2009)

1.086: The Music of Erich Zann (Jared Skolnick, USA. 2009)

1.087: The Dunwich Horror (Leigh Scott, USA. 2009)
SyFy Channel TV movie

1.088: Ex Oblivione (Jack Feldstein, Australia. 2009)
animated adaptation of Lovecraft's poem of the same name

1.089: The Silver Key (Gary Fierro & Conor Timmis, USA. 2010)

1.090: Vigor Mortis (Kristof Mateusen, Belgium. 2010)

1.091: Pickman's Muse (Robert Cappelletto, USA. 2010)
based on Haunter of the Dark

1.092: The Picture in the House (Miles Finlayson, Canada. 2010)

1.093: The Color Out of Space (Huan Vu, Germany. 2010)
AKA: Die Farbe (German original)

1.094: Nekromania (Aksel Dalili, Sweden. 2010)

1.095: Innsbay (Sylvain Brunerie, France. 2010)
loosely based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth

1.096: Mr. Noyes (Gary Fierro, USA. 2010)
a short adaptation of just one scene from The Whisperer in Darkness

1.097: The Music of Erich Zann (Kyle McCloskey, USA. 2010)

1.098: The Music of Erich Zann (Michael Chase, Canada. 2010)

1.099: The Call of C'Thulhu (Michael Chase, Canada. 2010)

1.100: The Dunwich Horror (Michael Chase, Canada. 2010)

1.101: Dagon (Michael Chase, Canada. 2010)

1.102: The Rats in the Walls (Alastair Macleod, Canada. 2010)

1.103: The Whisperer in Darkness (Andrew Leman, USA. 2011)
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 8/10 (Very Good) - well made with good performances and some clever visual effects.

1.104: The Curse of Yig (Paul von Stoetzel, USA. 2011)

1.105: Shadow of the Unnamable (Sascha Renninger, Germany. 2011)
adaptation of The Unnamable

1.106: Shadow Beyond Time (John Tzouvelekis, Greece. 2011)
based on The Shadow Out of Time and The Shadow Over Innsmouth

1.107: H.P. Lovecraft's The Silver Key (Philip Tolin, USA. 2011)

1.108: The Music of Erich Zann (Victoria Zika, USA. 2011)

1.109: The Evil Clergyman (Anita Meinken & John Meinken, USA. 2011)

1.110: Nightgaunts (Richard Svensson, Sweden. 2011)
Short animation based on Lovecraft's poem Night-Gaunts.

1.111: Cthulhu (Lindy Lou, Australia. 2011)
according to the IMDB this short is based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth?

1.112: The Terrible Old Man (Stuart Linver, USA. 2012)

1.113: The Shadow Out of Time (Daniel Lenneér & Richard Svensson, Sweden. 2012)

1.114: The Music of Jo Hyeja (Jihyun Park, South Korea. 2012)
based on The Music of Erich Zann

1.115: Muerte Cerebral (Nicolás Biscardi, Argentina. 2012)
AKA: Brain Dead (English translation) loosely based on Herbert West: Re-Animator

1.116: Pickman's Model (Mark Philip Lichtenstein, UK. 2012)

1.117: The Statement of Randi Carter (Michael Alan Fitzgerald, USA. 2012)

1.118: The Dark Sleep (Brett Piper, USA. 2012)
loosely based on The Dreams in the Witch House

1.119: The Statement of Randolph Carter (Max Hannam, USA. 2012)

1.120: Picture in the House (Sean Quillen, USA. 2012)

1.121: Pickman (Colin Fong, Australia. 2013)
a re-imagining of HP Lovecraft's story Pickman's Model, with an all-puppet cast

1.122: The Picture in the House (R. Clay Ayers, USA. 2013)

1.123: Banshee Chapter (Blair Erickson, USA. 2013)
This horror movie, loosely based on From Beyond, starts off well - it involves an investigative journalist trying to find out what happened to a friend who has mysteriously disappeared after trying a new rare and illicit drug. Real world phenomena like the CIA's experiments with MK-Ultra and the mysterious short-wave radio broadcasts from unidentified so-called Number Stations are successfully interwoven with Lovecraft's story about broadening perception through stimulation of the pineal gland allowing a person to "see"... BEYOND.
      There are some moderately effective (though kind of predictable) scares to be had, unfortunately they rely a little too heavily on sudden and very loud noises to shock the audience rather than building fear and delivering truly scary moments.
The Lovecraftian's Rating: 6/10 (Pretty Good) - a good set-up is ultimately let down by too many puzzling and unexplained occurrences - chief of which, what was the thing in the tank supposed to be and why had it been left in the deserted CIA testing facility?

1.124: Transcendent (Mars Homeworld, USA. 2013)
very loosely based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth

1.125: Re-Animator (Matthew Kalan, USA. 2013)

1.126: Dreams in the Witch House (Jerry Williams, USA. 2013)

1.127: El modelo de Pickman (Pablo Ángeles Zuman, Mexico. 2014)
short animation based on Pickman's Model

1.128: Memory (Andrew Robinson, UK. 2014)
short animation based on Lovecraft's poem of the same name

1.129: From Beyond (Andrew Robinson, UK. 2014)
short animation based on Lovecraft's short story of the same name

1.130: From Beyond (Darren Way, USA. 2014)
short adaptation using intricately carved wooden puppets and stop motion animation.

1.131: The Music of Erich Zann (Erick Wofford, USA. 2014)

1.132: The Terrible Old Man (Ryan Smith, USA. 2014)

1.133: Innsmouth (Martin Constable, Singapore. 2014)
A short animation loosely based on The Shadow over Innsmouth.

1.134: The Thing on the Doorstep (Tom Gliserman, USA. 2014)
Slow and punderous low budget psychological horror film based on the short story of the same name.

1.135: Strange Aeons (James Latter, USA. 2014-15)
A short four part web-series based on The Shadow over Innsmouth... start watching on vimeo.com HERE.

1.136: The Haunter of the Dark (Dmitry Chmelyov, Russia. 2015)
A somewhat loose feature length "found footage" adaptation of the Lovercraft story. Alexey "Blake" Blochenkov goes to an old abandoned sanatorium to film a video for his blog. There, he lets out something horrible. An ancient evil. The Haunter Of The Dark.

1.137: Azathoth (Ivan Yakovidish, Russia. 2016)
An 8 min short.

1.138: H.P. Lovecraft's the Beast in the Cave (Cameron McCasland, USA. 2016)
Short

1.139: At the Mountains of Madness (Ethan Miller, USA. 2016)
Animated Short

1.140: The Music of Erich Zann (Reuben Baron, USA. 2016)
Short

1.141: The Haunter of the Dark 2 (Dmitry Chmelyov, Russia. 2017)
Another feature length adaptation of The Haunter of the Dark from director Khmelyov, this one sees a young writer from Tver, Yuri Kartenko, who had nightmares in which the city of "Providensk" appears. In search of answers to his questions, he decides to go to this city, where soon begins a strange series of murders and disappearances.

1.142: The Book by H.P. Lovecraft (Michael Treder, USA. 2017)
Episode 7, Season 1 of The Fantasmagori TV Series.
A dramatized reading, by Alex Goldrich, of H.P. Lovecraft's short story 'The Book'.

1.143: The Colour Out of Space (Patrick Müller, Germany. 2017)
A very short interpretation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story.

1.144: Herbert West: Re-Animator (Ivan Zuccon, Italy. 2017)
Another adaptation of Lovecraft's famous tale of reanimaating the dead, but straight and serious this time.

1.145: The Transition of Juan Romero (Whitney Ellis, USA. 2017)
Very brief adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name.

1.146: H.P. Lovecraft's the Terrible Old Man (Sheridan Sinclair, UK. 2017)
Short film version of the H.P. tale. Two petty criminals ask their unemployed friend if he would like to make some easy money by robbing a mysterious old man. Despite the warnings of an old family friend, he agrees.

1.147: At the Mountains of Madness (Matthew Jarjosa, USA. 2018)
Short film adaptation of Lovecraft's famous cosmic horror novel set in Antarctica.

1.148: The Terrible Old Man (Tyler McAlister, USA. 2019)
Another short film adaptation of Lovecraft's tale about thieves plotting to rob a well-healed old man with a storied history.

1.149: The Statement of Randolph Carter (Tyler McAlister, USA. 2019)
A short film based on the short novel of the same name. Two detectives in search of a missing man, must get the story from the last person who saw him.

1.150: The Terror at Blue John Gap (Ross K. Foad, UK. 2019)
Short film based in part on a premise by Lovecraft.

1.151: Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley, Malaysia/Portugal/USA. 2019)
Big budget stab at possibly Lovecraft's most oft filmed short story with Nicolas Cage and Joely Richardson. It's entertaining enough.

1.152: Psychopompos (Lucie Gukkertová, Czech Republic. 2019)
Short based on a dramatic poem by Lovecraft.

1.153: The Music of Erich Zann (Jesse Keller, USA. 2019)
A short updated take on the classic Lovecraft story.

1.154: The Backwoods (Ryan Mackfall, UK. 2019)
Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Picture in the House". A scholar drifts from his path and finds himself in a house he takes for deserted.

1.155: Innsmouth X (David Banta-Garcia/Paul DeSimone, USA. 2019)
A short film. A traveller finds himself on a dark, strange journey in the town of Innsmouth, MA.

1.156: The Outsider (Ludvig Gür, Sweden. 2019/20)
A short film interpretation of Lovecraft's story.

1.157: Castle Freak (Tate Steinsiek, Albania/USA. 2020)
A remake of Stuart Gordon's 1995 film, which was largely based on Lovecraft's The Outsider, but now with elements of The Dunwich Horror added in for good measure.

1.158: The Haunter of the Dark 3 (Dmitry Chmelyov, Russia. 2020)

1.159: The Black Tome of Alsophocus (Nicolas Leandro Montes/Alan Slavutzky, Argentina. 2020)
Very short film based on Lovecraft's short story of the same name.

1.160: Markham (Matthew Cooper, UK. 2020)
Low budget indie movie based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth among others. A man struggles to survive a night filled with strange and deadly occurrences in a small fishing village in the north of England.

1.161: Haunters of the Dark (Dmitry Chmelyov, Russia. 2021)

1.162: At the Mountains of Madness (Matthew Cooper, UK. 2021)
A group of scientists studying climate change discover untold horrors on a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic in September 1992. Based on the H.P. Lovecraft tale.

1.163: Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Marc Goldbach, Germany. 2021)
Based on the story of the same name, this short movie follows a young doctor who believes he can uncover the mystery of dreams and wishes to break the wall that separates people from this unreal world. He finds way more than he hoped for.

1.164: At the Mountains of Madness (Francesco Tedde, Italy. 2022)
This short adaptation details the events of the disastrous expedition to Antarctica in September 1930, and what is found there by a group of explorers led by Professor William Dyer of Miskatonic University.

1.165: The Hound (Melissa Arcak, Germany. 2022)
A 17 minute short set in 1982, somewhere in Germany. In search of a mysterious jade amulet, two grave robbers encounter a sinister beast that will protect its possessions at all costs..

1.166: Pickman's Model (Keith Thomas, USA/Mexico. 2022)
Episode 5, Season 1 of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities.

1.167: Dreams in the Witch House (Catherine Hardwicke, USA/Mexico. 2022)
Episode 6, Season 1 of Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities.

1.168: When the Earth Gives Up the Dead (Matthew Cooper, UK. 2022)
Another micro-budget opus from Cooper, this one is an adaptation of The Dunwich Horror among other Lovecraft tales.

1.169: Dissociation (Clayton Orgles, Australia. 2023)
A 20 minute short film based on The Picture in The House.

1.170: Ex Oblivione (Andrew Ellingson, USA. 2023)
A 6 minute short film based on the poem by H.P. Lovecraft, it tells the tale of a dying man who slowly enters a strange dream world and fades into oblivion.

1.171: H. P. Lovecraft's Celephaïs (Michael Neel, USA. 2023)
A 34 minute short film taking inspiration from Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. Special and visual effects are all practical, including puppetry, latex, and miniatures... oh, and it feature Tony Todd.

1.172: Suitable Flesh (Joe Lynch, USA. 2023)
A big budget feature film loosely based on The Thing On The Doorstep, this is a fun and exploitative revival of sorts of the classic 80s and 90s Gordon/Yusna Lovecraft movie adaptations.

1.173: Night-Gaunts (Monstark, USA. 2023)
A traveler is snatched away on a monstrous voyage in this 3 minute handmade puppet horror film based on the poem by H.P. Lovecraft.

1.174: Ancient Lore (Patrick Müller, Germany. 2023)
A 6 minute short based on the poem Oceanus.

1.175: H. P. Lovecraft's The Old Ones (Chad Ferrin, USA. 2024)
A low-budget contemporary mash-up of various Lovecraft stories and characters ... it almost throws everything in but Cthulhu's kitchen sink. Includes Old Ones, Deep Ones, Nyarlathotep, Randolph Carter, Crawford Tillinghast and a Shoggoth, among other entities. It's ambition far outways it's means, however... though it still manages to be somewhat entertaining.

1.176: Unspeakable: Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Chad Ferrin, USA. 2024)

1.177: The Outsider (Monstark, USA. 2024)
An isolated woman in a shadowy realm braves the unknown and discovers her true nature in a dark revelation that changes her world forever. A 16 minute handmade puppet film based on the story by Lovecraft.

1.178: H. P. Lovecraft's the Shadow Over Innsmouth (Matthew Cooper, UK. 2024)
Cooper returns with another adaptation of perhaps the most popular of Lovecraft's tales.

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