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pogonrudie:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 06 Oct 2009, 09:27 ---But even that produced some fun (Vampires) along with the genuinely awful (In The Mouth Of Madness)
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What. I think you have this backwards...
a pack of wolves:
Admittedly it's been years since I saw In The Mouth of Madness, but I remember it as turgid mess where Sam Raimi tries his damnedest to make you think you're watching something compelling instead of half-baked. Vampires I have seen reasonably recently, and it's good fun. Not up to the standards of his early work by any stretch, but it's a fun enough little romp.
pogonrudie:
...Sam Raimi?
And I'd cite In The Mouth Of Madness as one of the best Lovcraftian horror films. It's not based directly on anything he wrote, but his fingerprints are all over the flick.
edit: oh, and I second the love for his Masters Of Horror episode, "Cigarette Burns". Truly clever stuff.
Vendetagainst:
I saw The People Under the Stairs on Svengoolie once and it was so unbelievably bad. I mean it has to be one of the worst modern films. I do not watch that many movies though so I might be underestimating how bad they sometimes get. I haven't seen most of the other films in the OP though, but the couple others that I have seen have been bad.
KvP:
I guess if you like Lovecraft, Stuart Gordon's a pretty ace director. I think he did Dreams in the Witch House for the Masters of Horror collection, he directed Reanimator and outside of Lovecraft he made the awesome black (black black) comedy Stuck, which is based on that story some years ago of the woman who ran someone over with her car and left him to die lodged in the windshield of her car for several days. It takes a bleak story and just makes it so much meaner.
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