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What is your favorite Lovecraft movie?
This can include everything and anything from direct adaptions of H.P. Lovecraft's work.
Movies involving Lovecraft's universe but not an adaption of his fiction.
Or even movies that are not involving his Cthulhu Mythos directly, but were inspired by Lovecraft.

To go first, I'll say the movie Cthulhu. While this was not a direct adaption in itself, it was in fact inspired by Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

I like John Carpenter's The Mouth of Madness. Not a Lovecraft adaptation but definitely influenced by him.

Re-Animator, hands down, although it doesn't involve the Cthulhu Mythos. I also really like Beyond Re-Animator and Cthulhu. Everyone raves about The Call of Cthulhu, but I found it to be overrated, decent at best.

It's really the unofficial adaptations, however, the films that are not directly based on Lovecraft's writing, that best capture the essence of it. Alien, The Thing, and In the Mouth of Madness are the best of those.

By the way, I reviewed the terrific Lovecraft film book Lurker in the Lobby on Amazon. You can read that here. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in the various film adaptations, both official and unofficial.

Reanimator was great! I've tried to read the Cthulu books but they kinda went in one eye ane out the other. Never seen any films either, other than Reanimator. But I did have a kick-ass character in the RPG. She was a beautiful, wealthy ex-showgirl who bankrolled our group's adventures.

I wanted to put 'Cthulhu' as my religion in the census but they don't accept it

I really enjoyed The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu. It is a little derived in some areas, but hilarious.

Lovecraft is notoriously difficult to adapt to film. Feature length, at least. Here's a really cool short though:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpBDopIMxw[/youtube]