Lovecraft Mythos - Cosmic Horror

The point with Lovecraft stories is that they work from the words, and in the readers heads. Trying to put them on the screen would break this link, and destroy the essence.

Think about the story "The Color out of Space". The book describes it as a color that has never been seen on earth before. This might work in a black and white adaption, but in color, it would be underwhelming to say the least.

I like to think anyone who ever tried it got mad in the process.

I watched "Dagon" recently.

Good effort, they worked hard to stick to the idiom.

Was still "so bad it's good" - clearly neither a Hollywood budget or European art.

Color Out of Space??

I feel that the Lovecraft is not the same than Lovecraft work. RPG, comics, and other stuff that get inspired by Lovecraft rarely depict the impossible to understand unknown. They are more related with an otherness threat. If if those are unbelievable, they are not unconcievable. Moreover, Lovecraft rarely depict antagonists.

I think that the mainstream adaptation of Lovecraft, adapt the mainstream Lovecraft culture.

I feel you; I miss the sens of deep otherness. I think it's may be a subversion and make it a tolerant depiction.

My guess is that it’s hard to separate his setting, and the aura of fear of the vast unknown, from his xenophobia. There’ll always be trace elements of his mindset there, or weird dead spots where the interpretation avoids something everyone knows is there, unless one specifically acknowledges and challenges his racism in a modern interpretation like Lovecraft Country (which is more a deconstruction than the original material). Something like The Call Of Cthulhu or The Shadow Over Innsmouth can too easily feed into metaphors about malevolent foreigners.

If you ask me is just that studios think we are too lazy to be interested in complex themes.