Sort by IMDb Rating - Highest Rated Movies and TV Shows With H.P. Lovecraft
- Job Types
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. Dead Meat Podcast (2018 Podcast Series)
Talk-Show
The Dead Meat Podcast is your horror safe haven. Reviews, film history, and all things that make your skin crawl.
Stars: Chelsea Rebecca, James A. Janisse, Molly, James Graessle
Votes: 181
2. Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2021)
9 min | Short, Horror, Mystery
Based on the short story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft, "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" follows a young doctor who believes, based on a few experiments on his patient Joe Slater, to uncover... See full summary »
Director: Marc Goldbach | Stars: Cyrill Heinen, Amrit Sandhu, Marc Goldbach
Votes: 8
3. Justice League (2001–2004)
TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Seven of the most formidable heroes form arguably the most powerful team ever.
Stars: Carl Lumbly, Phil LaMarr, Michael Rosenbaum, George Newbern
Votes: 51,709
4. Ancient Lore (2023)
6 min | Short, Horror
Troubled waters and accursed thaumaturges: Lovecraft's haunting vision of the sea and the unfathomable mysteries that lie within its depths, but also the ancient lore hidden beneath the waters.
Director: Patrick Müller | Star: Bernhard Plank
Votes: 10
5. Ctulhu 2. Battle for the future (2021)
6 min | Short, Action, Comedy
Cthulhu returned to strike again, and this time directly to the tourist colony of Russian tourists - Turkey.
Director: Sergey A. | Stars: Sergey A., Vadim Berdyshev, Sergey Newnoir, German Niko
Votes: 27
6. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Set mostly in the year 1922, Jack Walters, a mentally unstable private detective is hired to investigate in Innsmouth, a strange and mysterious town that has cut itself from the rest of the United States.
Stars: Marc Biagi, Deem Bristow, Brook Chalmers, Scott Dreier
Votes: 876
7. Calls for Cthulhu (1996 Video)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
The ultimate horror which, trapped beneath the ocean, awaits the time when the stars are right, to wreak destruction upon mankind. While he waits, he takes your calls.
Director: Brand Gamblin | Stars: Brand Gamblin, Paul Pawluk, Tori Spelling
Votes: 35
8. Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet (1993 Video Game)
Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
In 1910 photographer John Parker travels to the isolated town of Illsmouth to witness the passing of Halley's Comet. When his photographs show something both impossible and horrifying, Parker has to face the dark secrets of Illsmouth.
Director: Norbert Cellier
Votes: 119
9. Chaos from the Old World. Part II (2020)
Fantasy
Director: Paul Miloslavsky | Stars: Daria Chodacova, Vladimir Gorin, Dmitry Ikonnikov, Paul Miloslavsky
Votes: 10
10. Lake Vostok: At the Mountains of Madness (2017)
90 min | Documentary
More than 100 years ago, explorers raced to discover the South Pole. Now scientists are racing to discover the secret subterranean world of rivers and lakes buried miles beneath it. In 1974... See full summary »
Director: Ekaterina Eremenko
Votes: 15
11. The Pain of Creation (2011)
25 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Elias has to check the heritage of Till Hanson, but things won't go as easily as one would expect because someone has to finish Hanson's work.
Director: Jarno Harju | Stars: Kimmo Aho, Jarno Harju, Toni Luoma-Nirva
Votes: 24
12.
Justice League (2001–2004)
Episode:
The Terror Beyond: Part II
(2003)
TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Fate and Aquaman wanted to sacrifice Grundy to prevent the return of a mystic being. The being has arrived; Aquaman leaves to protect Atlantis. Hawkgirl finds out the being had visited her homeworld long ago.
Director: Butch Lukic | Stars: Maria Canals-Barrera, Susan Eisenberg, George Newbern, Scott Rummell
Votes: 662
13. The Mountains of Madness (2006 Video)
64 min | Music
Are the peaks worth climbing? A musical journey through the world of H.P. Lovecraft, told by through the illustrations of Picciotto, the music of The Tiger Lillies and the soundscapes and ... See full summary »
Directors: Danielle de Picciotto, Alexander Hacke | Stars: Alexander Hacke, The Tiger Lillies
Votes: 42
14. Night Gallery (1969–1973)
TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Rod Serling presents tales of horror illustrated in various paintings.
Stars: Rod Serling, Larry Watson, Joanna Pettet, Matt Pelto
Votes: 6,177
15. Alone in the Dark (1992 Video Game)
T | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Jeremy Hartwood, owner of Derceto has died recently. As either Edward Carnby or Emily Hartwood, explore the now abandoned mansion to discover why Jeremy committed suicide and what terrible secret lies within the walls.
Directors: Frédérick Raynal, Franck de Girolami, Kiyoshi Ohkawa, Chuck Willen
Votes: 388
16. Scary Stories Around the Fire (2021– )
Short, Drama, Fantasy
A horror anthology featuring world premieres and new adaptations. Listen at your own risk.
Stars: Bryan Renaud, Terri Lynne Hudson, Shannon Leigh Webber, Aaron Holland
Votes: 9
17. Splatterhouse 3 (1993 Video Game)
MA-13 | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Third entry in the Lovecraftian horror series.
Director: Sammy Shimotsuma
Votes: 118
18. El modelo de Pickman (2014)
10 min | Animation, Short, Drama
In his quest to obtain a picture by his favorite macabre art painter, Richard Pickman, collector Thurber Phillips discovers the secret behind the artists work.
Director: Pablo Angeles
Votes: 90
19.
Justice League (2001–2004)
Episode:
The Terror Beyond
(2003)
TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Solomon Grundy attacks a harbor. After the military has him contained, Aquaman arrives and steals Grundy. When the League finds out Aquaman is involved, they head to Dr. Fate to get some answers.
Director: Butch Lukic | Stars: Maria Canals-Barrera, Susan Eisenberg, George Newbern, Scott Rummell
Votes: 643
20. Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti (1989 Video Game)
Action, Fantasy, Horror
The first Splatterhouse game to be released on a home console featuring the usual mayhem.
Votes: 54
21.
Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode:
Cool Air/Camera Obscura/Quoth the Raven
(1971)
TV-PG | 59 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A Gothic love story about a woman and a man who lives in a refrigerated apartment. / Miserly banker Sharsted finds himself trapped after viewing his client's strange optical device. / Edgar Allan Poe can't get the first line down on paper.
Directors: John Badham, Jeff Corey, Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Marty Allen, Ross Martin, Barbara Rush, Rene Auberjonois
Votes: 408
22. The Garden (I) (2019)
5 min | Short, Horror
Strange blossoms, sunken pathways, déjà vus: A hike through H. P. Lovecraft's most personal garden.
Director: Patrick Müller | Star: Bernhard Plank
Votes: 30
23. Vägen till Necronomicon (2017 Video)
12 min | Animation, Short, Horror
H.P. Lovecrafts character Abdul Alhazred and the journey that leads him to writing the infamous tome, Necronomicon.
Director: Henrik Möller | Star: Henrik Möller
Votes: 6
24. Ctulhu. Rise from the sea (2021)
6 min | Short, Action, Comedy
April 2021. Cthulhu rose from the sea near the city of Sochi, but a hero was found on a huge robot. An epic confrontation is inevitable.
Director: Sergey A. | Stars: Sergey A., Evgeniy Mishukhin, Sergey Newnoir
Votes: 425
25. The Oohs (2012)
Animation, Short, Drama
An interview subject recounts his childhood abduction by mysterious shadow people.
Director: Ali Villavicencio | Stars: Chris Rydo, John-Wayne Gonzales
Votes: 25
26. Muerte cerebral (2012)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
Freddy is a young writer of horror stories for children. Looking for inspiration, he enters in the most unusual places. But Freddy never imagined that his search will take him to live his own horror story.
Director: Nicolás Biscardi | Stars: José Gaud, Nicolás Biscardi, José Marsellá, Abelardo Ainora
Votes: 14
27. Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
TV-MA | 1,531 min | Horror
Anchor Bay's collection, which has amassed some of the best horror film anthologies.
Stars: Karen Elizabeth Austin, J. Winston Carroll, Miho Ninagawa, Anthony Harrison
Votes: 13,275
28. Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (2006 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
An investigation leads the most famous detective of all time to the edge of the irrational as he thwarts the designs of a sect of the disciples of Cthulhu.
Stars: Rick Simmonds, David Riley, Andy Hoyle, Andy Turvey
Votes: 160
29. The Black Tome of Alsophocus (2020)
10 min | Animation, Short, Horror
Directors: Nicolas Leandro Montes, Alan Slavutzky
Votes: 11
30. The Greater Evil (2015)
Not Rated | 8 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A jaded political campaign operative gradually realizes the horrific true nature of the popular yet brash candidate she is working for.
Director: William R. Coughlan | Stars: Jennifer Massey, Michael Gabel, Nick DePinto, Nello DeBlasio
Votes: 12
31. Re-Animator (1985)
Unrated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale
Votes: 71,475 | Gross: $2.02M
32. Azathoth (2016)
8 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Director: Ivan Lachance | Star: Ivan Lachance
Votes: 35
33. Splatterhouse 2 (1992 Video Game)
Not Rated | Action, Fantasy, Horror
Blood-soaked sequel to Splatterhouse with Rick Taylor returning to the West Mansion.
Votes: 130
34.
Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode:
Pickman's Model/The Dear Departed/An Act of Chivalry
(1971)
TV-PG | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Lovelorn Mavis Goldsmith ignores her reclusive art teacher Pickman's warning not to follow him home. / A fake fortune-telling racket is disrupted by adultery. / When a woman enters an elevator, a ghoul is asked to remove his hat.
Directors: Jeff Corey, Jack Laird | Stars: Bradford Dillman, Louise Sorel, Steve Lawrence, Maureen Arthur
Votes: 349
35. The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Not Rated | 47 min | Horror, Mystery
While sorting the affairs of his late Uncle, a man accidentally stumbles across a series of dark secrets connected to an ancient horror waiting to be freed.
Director: Andrew Leman | Stars: Matt Foyer, John Bolen, Ralph Lucas, Chad Fifer
Votes: 8,890
36. Psychopompos (2018)
16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
A tragedy strikes the family of widow Svetlana (Michaela Dolinová) and her two sons, Jan and Maxmilián. The villagers believe that the hated nobles surrounded by myths and superstitions - Madam and Sir De Blois - are responsible for it.
Director: Lucie Gukkertová | Stars: Martin Hudec, Michaela Dolinová, Jared Doreck, Riwaa Nerona
Votes: 45
37. Angry and Moist: An Undead Chronicle (2004)
23 min | Horror, Short, Comedy
Herbert West's half brother continues his bid to conquer brain death.
Director: James Raynor | Stars: Scarlett Victoria Carson, Alex Eamonson, Nick Thompson, Nicola Ford
Votes: 60
38. The Music of Jo Hyeja (2012)
21 min | Short, Horror
A young woman in a Seoul suburb finds herself captivated by the strange music of an old woman named Jo Hyeja, who is living in poverty upstairs from her. Her investigations into the music reveal a terrifying secret.
Director: Jihyun Park | Stars: Deokjoong Kang, Pureum Kim, Soo-Hyun Kim, Bunhong Lee
Votes: 9
39. Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities (2022)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Bizarre nightmares unfold in eight tales of terror in a visually stunning, spine-tingling horror collection curated by Guillermo del Toro.
Stars: Lize Johnston, Kevin Keppy, Tim Blake Nelson, F. Murray Abraham
Votes: 56,468
40. Call of Cthulhu: The Official Video Game (2018 Video Game)
M | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A Private Detective, Edward Pierce is a mission to find the truth behind the death of an acclaimed artist and her family on a Darkwater Island in Boston.
Directors: Jeremie Monedero, Justin Villiers | Stars: Anthony Howell, Christina Cole, Emerald O'Hanrahan, Antony Byrne
Votes: 717
41. The Creepypasta Episodes (2012–2019)
Horror
A horror anthology series that adapts Creepypastas into short films.
Stars: Jacob Rohrbach, Drake Dalgleish, Ashton Ruiz, Maddie Baker
Votes: 11
42. Insumasu o ouu Kage (1992 TV Movie)
Horror
An one hour made for TV special. Set in modern Japan, a journalist goes Insumasu to investigate people with deformation.
Director: Chiaki Konaka | Stars: Renji Ishibashi, Michiko Kawai, Naomasa Musaka, Yôsuke Saitô
Votes: 19
43. Il fascino dell'insolito (1980–1982)
Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Presents a rare selection of innovative stories in literature from gothic to science fiction.
Stars: Franco Angrisano, Bruno Corazzari, Gino Maringola, Daniele Dublino
Votes: 13
44. In Between (IV) (2012)
14 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
After a routine CERN experiment goes horribly wrong, Dr. William Dyer must face a race against time and himself to avoid an unimaginable Armageddon.
Director: José Luis Martínez Díaz | Stars: Jonathan D. Mellor, Annimaija Raunio
Votes: 25
45. From Beyond (2006)
10 min | Animation, Short
An unsuspecting man falls into an otherworldly trap set by a psychotic genius in this spine-tingling animated film based on the short story by H.P.Lovecraft.
Director: Michael Granberry | Star: Michael Granberry
Votes: 107
46. Pickman's Model (2003)
40 min | Short, Horror
Little did Elliot know what lay in store when he called upon his distraught friend, Thurber, in this faithful adaptation of the Lovecraft classic. Thurber relates with horror the tale of ... See full summary »
Director: Rick Tillman | Stars: John Williams Lynch, Rick Tillman, Don Lapora, Mary J. Hiney
Votes: 36
47. Portal to Hell!!! (2015)
12 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
A crusty and recluse superintendent is thrown into the ultimate fight against evil when a pair of cultists open a portal to the ancient and mystical city of R'lyeh, awakening a slumbering god.
Director: Vivieno Caldinelli | Stars: Roddy Piper, Laura Robinson, Matt Watts, Jordan Todosey
Votes: 336
48. Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998 TV Movie)
56 min | Horror, Fantasy
Haunted by disturbing dreams from an inherited book, a young man becomes interested in the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.
Director: Raymond St-Jean | Stars: Christopher Heyerdahl, Peter Farbridge, Art Kitching, Michael Sinelnikoff
Votes: 315
49. The Stranger Who Came from the Deep (2015)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Spain, 1918. During the Spanish flu, a landowner loses his beloved wife - and will do whatever it takes to get back to see her alive, even if it means a pact with the devil - literally.
Director: Rubén Arnaiz | Stars: Crimsaiz, Diana López, José Antonio López Alcántara, Emma Caballero
Votes: 167
50. The Music of Erich Zann (II) (2009)
38 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A student is intrigued by the hauntingly beautiful music coming from the room above his. He finds that an eccentric German violinist, Erich Zann, is responsible but that there is a terrible secret behind his music.
Director: Jared Skolnick | Stars: Bob Diamond, Christopher Shelton, Ronald E. Giles, Francesca Genovesi
Votes: 54