So did haters also consider Lovecraft to be 'boring'?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Absentia
BakuryuuTyranno — 13 years ago(November 28, 2012 12:18 PM)
Or perhaps think Lovecraft's works "aren't horror" on account there's no contribution by the supernatural forces until the last sentence?
Examples include Pickman's Model, possibly Cool Air is the other I'm thinking of, and I have only read maybe 1/4-1/3 of my necronomicon (the big Lovecraft book), so there's many more.
Because this movie is probably for being the closest to capturing how a Lovecraft story feels.
Yes, there's drama in "Absentia" - but, because its story involves people encountering something which fighting is completely hopeless, that's pretty much the only way it can work, for a film anyway. -
BakuryuuTyranno — 12 years ago(April 10, 2013 12:11 PM)
Oh right. "Garbage". I know people think saying something is [synonym for "bad" here] actually amounts to making a point, but it doesn't. Boy, for a movie "discussion" forum, too many people don't know how to discuss things.
This is one of closest movies to a Lovecraft story. None of the ACTUAL adaptations have shown any understanding of how Lovecraft stories work.
Or did you think Lovecraft's stories were like those "Lovecraft for Dummies" movies like From Beyond and In the Mouth of Madness? -
king_of_bob — 10 years ago(September 28, 2015 05:42 AM)
Which Call of Cthulhu? There has been more than one adaptation of that story. I'm partial to this one though:
http://www.imdb.com/board/10478988/
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Reallusion1 — 12 years ago(August 25, 2013 08:39 PM)
Its a very good and very subtle movie. IMDB boards are full of whiny children that love to troll and complain. Theres a difference between respectfully reasoning why you didn't like a film and throwing a sissy fit of insults.
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aastrid — 12 years ago(December 06, 2013 12:38 PM)
Thank you! I couldn't agree more! There is more to critiquing a film than just saying "it sucks". I realize not everyone has the best writing skills, myself included, but come on people, at least TRY to expand on why you think somethings sucks.
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ThatNoodleLizard — 11 years ago(December 09, 2014 10:17 AM)
If you want to see a good recent horror film (with a similarly low-budget) which has Lovecraftian elements, check out The Borderlands from last year. Absentia isn't bad because of the themes it deals with, it's bad because it's appallingly amateurish and the (actually quite large) budget has nothing to do with that, it has to do with incompetent filmmaking.