Pleasantville and the Cthulhu Mythos.
This thought is not mine, but Ken Hite’s. It’s part of his bloody marvelous Tour de Lovecraft, which should be on everybody’s short list of horror-genre analysis books to buy, but the relevant bit is...
View ArticleMovie of the Week: Pleasantville.
As I’ve noted before, Pleasantville is one of the best Cthulhu Mythos movies ever made. Which is why I’m replacing Zardoz with it. Moe Lane
View ArticleMovie of the Week: Paranormal Activity.
It’s odd: I like horror movies, but I’m not often scared by them – at least, in the ‘cosmic terror and dread’ sort of way that a good horror novel can scare me*. So I didn’t have the reaction to...
View ArticleOn the Lovecraftian nature of United 93.
There have been sufficient people asking about my observation here that the most successful Lovecraft/Mythos movies made were Alien, Pleasantville, and United 93 – particularly the last one – that I...
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