The Bible and Lovecraft: The most important works for Movies, music, the arts

[ReAnimator Reagan]

The Bible and the works of H.P. Lovecraft are the most important and influential works that inspired the arts such as music and movies as well as popular culture.
Just posting some examples of this.

In movies, we have Pulp Fiction that is a tale of redemption that could have come straight from the bible---complete with a repeating partially fabricated bible passage and miracle.

Pulp Fiction is about Jules from hitman to redeemed wanderer getting into adventures. He starts off as a Hitman going down in the darkness where he kills the singer from a Flock of Seagulls, experiences an according to Hoyle miracle, gains knowledge, and returns to the light and undergoes a transformation into a kung fu like wanderer or a bum if you want to be a dick about it.


Now for some Lovecraft, we got Alien, which is all about some cosmic alien that can destroy humanity if it comes into contact with us.

This is Lovecraft 101

Then The Thing, where an alien life form who can take any shape is found in Antarctica (think At the Mountains of Madness).


Description of a Shoggoth

It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train — a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.

— H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness

 

[moreorless87]

Supprising really we've had so little in the way of direct Lovecraft adaptations when his influence is clearly so strong over horror cinema, not as good as the two you listed by Carpenters In The Mouth of Madness is about as close to Lovecraft as you'll get from a bigger mainstream film.

 

[sleepwalk]

Good examples. In regards to inspiration for modern story-telling, it's hard to argue for a more influential source than The Bible. I might put military history and Greco-Roman mythology ahead of Lovecraft but, considering the relative timeframe, his impact has been phenomenal.

 

[ReAnimator Reagan]

Supprising really we've had so little in the way of direct Lovecraft adaptations when his influence is clearly so strong over horror cinema, not as good as the two you listed by Carpenters In The Mouth of Madness is about as close to Lovecraft as you'll get from a bigger mainstream film.

That is the best lovecraft movie not based on a LC book...
although the haunter of the dark has a church like the church from the movie


Now, Metallica might be the crowining example of the bible and lovecraft----there would be no metallica without them

Bible




Lovecraft

 

[ReAnimator Reagan]

Supprising really we've had so little in the way of direct Lovecraft adaptations when his influence is clearly so strong over horror cinema, not as good as the two you listed by Carpenters In The Mouth of Madness is about as close to Lovecraft as you'll get from a bigger mainstream film.

lets not forget about Re-Animator!!! Especially since it is half my namesake


And how about some From Beyond