Pacific Rim - well whoda thunk it!?

[Audley Strange]

Have there been any attempts? I can't think of any..

Similarly the Gormenghast books would be close to impossible to film ..

Yeah, there have been quite a few. Re-Animator and The Dunwich Horror were probably the best. So much of the atmosphere in a Lovecraft story is due to his language, dreaming fogbound spires, vile drums and thin wailings of accursed flutes and suchlike. It just doesn't translate to film.

I'm going to have to pull out my Lovecraft anthology.

EDIT I certainly agree about Gormenghast. and for the same reasons.

I think you're right that Lovecraft is tricky, but I don't think it impossible, if anyone here has seen the HPLHS cheap homemade silent version of Call of Cthulhu or their version of The Whisperer in Darkness I think you can see it's not.

Also, if anyone recalls Peter Jackson's execrable King Kong, the ten minutes prior to and approaching skull island is a good template for R'lyeh.

Personally, I think it wasn't made because Promethus basically purloins the concept. However I still hold out faith that some day someone will do a good version of one of his better stories, The Shadow over Innsmouth I think could be done without too much in the way of adaptation drift.

[macdoc]

Going tonight in iMAx 3d

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There's a "Chthulu" video on Netflix, silent with captions.

[Daedalus]

Well, I like Charlie Day, so maybe I'll support this with my custom if it's actually watchable.

[Audley Strange]

There's a "Chthulu" video on Netflix, silent with captions.

That's the one I mentioned I think but there is also another movie called "Cthulhu" which is a bit of a mess. It's a kind of modern retelling of a smattering of his ideas, but I'd not recommend it.

[Animavore]

Boat sword!

[Rum]

Boat sword!

I don't think a ship like that would have the tensile rigidity to do that!

[macdoc]

worth it - decent camp and lots of mayhem