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It's awesome seeing such low budget movies be more impactful than big budget jump scare fests
Yeah, that's usually been the case with some horror filmsthe little unknown low-budget horror flicks influencing (and being ripped off sometimes) by the bigger budgeted ones that get more hype. I love well-made low budgets films on any genre. I came here mainly because I just recently saw a good horror film called HUSH, looked up the director's work to see what else he'd done, and this film sounds interesting from all the descriptions I've read so far. I also used to be into Lovecraft stories back in the day, so all these comparisons of the film to his stories definitely make it sound even more interestingenough for me to want to check it out.

Jug Face is another indie horror Lovecraftian themed movie that I've seen recently and was really impressed.
It's awesome seeing such low budget movies be more impactful than big budget jump scare fests

They've likely no idea who Lovecraft is.
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If anything, the last ten years have seen a big resurgence of Lovecraft in pop culture - but thanks for your contribution.

Lovecraft is the king of horrors, he has inspired numerous great minds diluted minds cannot understand his works
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I didn't find this "extreme" and plenty of people still read Lovecraft & will keep doing so. So your wrong!

Lovecrafts works are complete trash. No one reads anymore especially in 2015. But Absentia is a legend to any extreme horror fan!

"Actually quite large budget"
Yup, $70k is a pretty big budget.

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.

This was definitely lovecraftian for sure. Excellent flick.

That's one I enjoyed. I only wish one of the crews who updated Sherlock Holmes ( Sherlock or Elementary) who turn there hands to Lovecraft.

There's an early 2000's Japanese movie "Uzumaki," about a town transformed by a mysterious force that is also quite Lovecraftian.

IMHO 2 Asian Horror films get closest to the Lovecraft vibe are Occult:The Unidentified and MarebitoDagon and The Call Of Cthulu were fun though

Dagon was good but didn't feel like a Lovecraft story.

Oh and a good lovecraft inspired film is Dagon.

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.

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.

Seen it now.The feel is much more Arthur Machen secret horror than it a Lovecraftian cosmic horror!

I have not seen this film yet (but I will) I came across it through one of the Lovecraft fanzene sights (Lovecraft eZene). The person who runs the sight seems very taken wth it.

Lovecraft knew how to use suspense. This film didn't

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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Haven't seen that one.

I thought the call of cthulhu (hplhs) got it right. So when you say none of the adaptions what do you mean?

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?