H.P. Lovecraft inspired film
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1. Cthulhu (2007)
R | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reaquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has... See full summary »
Director: Dan Gildark | Stars: Jason Cottle, Casey Curran, Ethan Atkinson, Patrick McKnight
Votes: 2,223 | Gross: $0.02M
2. Dark Intruder (1965)
Approved | 59 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Peter Mark Richman, Judi Meredith, Gilbert Green
Votes: 475
3. La mansión de los Cthulhu (1992)
R | 92 min | Horror
A group of drug dealing petty criminals fleeing from the police take a magician and his daughter hostage; but once they reach his mansion, all hell breaks loose.
Director: Juan Piquer Simón | Stars: Frank Finlay, Marcia Layton, Luis Fernando Alvés, Brad Fisher
Votes: 956
4. Colour from the Dark (2008)
Not Rated | 92 min | Horror
Pietro and Lucia live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia's younger sister. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Pietro is a good worker and a strong man who, unlike his three ... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Zuccon | Stars: Debbie Rochon, Michael Segál, Marysia Kay, Gerry Shanahan
Votes: 899
5. Dark Waters (1993)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.
Director: Mariano Baino | Stars: Louise Salter, Venera Simmons, Mariya Kapnist, Lubov Snegur
Votes: 3,047
6. Die, Monster, Die! (1965)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A young man visits his fiancée's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Haller | Stars: Boris Karloff, Nick Adams, Freda Jackson, Suzan Farmer
Votes: 3,729
7. The Dunwich Horror (1970)
R | 90 min | Horror
Wilbur Whateley travels to the Arkham Miskatonic University to borrow the legendary Necronomicon. But, little does anyone know, Whateley isn't quite human...
Director: Daniel Haller | Stars: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Lloyd Bochner
Votes: 5,183 | Gross: $0.45M
8. Bleeders (1997)
R | 89 min | Horror
A man travels to an island with his girlfriend in search of his relatives, but he finds maybe more than what he wanted to know.
Director: Peter Svatek | Stars: Gillian Ferrabee, Pascal Gruselle, Roy Dupuis, Kristin Lehman
Votes: 3,036
9. From Beyond (1986)
R | 85 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Ted Sorel, Ken Foree
Votes: 30,783 | Gross: $1.26M
10.
Masters of Horror (2005–2007)
Episode:
Dreams in the Witch-House
(2005)
TV-MA | 55 min | Horror
A graduate student questions his sanity after he rents a room in an old boarding house which was the residence of a 17th-century witch, and he discovers that the evil forces still roam within the walls.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Ezra Godden, Campbell Lane, Jay Brazeau, Chelah Horsdal
Votes: 5,381
11. The Mist (2007)
R | 126 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher
Votes: 340,654 | Gross: $25.59M
12. In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
R | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Sam Neill, Jürgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen, David Warner
Votes: 79,378 | Gross: $8.95M
13. The Dunwich Horror (2008 TV Movie)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
A single mother delivers a monstrous baby boy, somehow connected to a dark prophecy involving the Black Brotherhood, a book called the Necronomicon, and a demonic portal.
Director: Leigh Scott | Stars: Sarah Lieving, Griff Furst, Dean Stockwell, Jeffrey Combs
Votes: 1,114
14. The Curse (1987)
R | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a meteorite lands near his family farm during a storm in Tennessee, the son of a struggling farmer believes it's connected to strange plague-like events afflicting the crops, the farm animals and even the family themselves.
Director: David Keith | Stars: Wil Wheaton, Claude Akins, Malcolm Danare, Cooper Huckabee
Votes: 3,886 | Gross: $1.93M
15. Dagon (2001)
R | 98 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A boating accident runs a young man and woman ashore in a decrepit Spanish fishing town which they discover is in the grips of an ancient sea god and its monstrous half human offspring.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Ezra Godden, Francisco Rabal, Raquel Meroño, Macarena Gómez
Votes: 21,056
17. The Whisperer in Darkness (2011)
Not Rated | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Based on the H. P. Lovecraft story of the same name, a folklorist investigates reports of unusual creatures in Vermont only to uncover more than he bargained for
Director: Sean Branney | Stars: Stephen Blackehart, Autumn Wendel, P.J. King, Barry Lynch
Votes: 3,557
18.
Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode:
The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes/Miss Lovecraft Sent Me/The Hand of Borgus Weems/Phantom of What Opera?
(1971)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A boy's gift for prophecy pressures him when he forecasts disaster. / A babysitter fears that the baby is a monster. / Peter Lacland asks a doctor to amputate his possessed hand. / A comic twist on "Phantom of the Opera."
Directors: John Badham, Gene R. Kearney, John Meredyth Lucas | Stars: Michael Constantine, Clint Howard, Joseph Campanella, Sue Lyon
Votes: 480
19. H.P. Lovecraft Volume 2: Dreams of Cthulhu - The Rough Magik Initiative (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 130 min | Fantasy, Horror
Directors: Bob Fugger, Christian Matzke | Stars: Paul Darrow, Gerrard McArthur
Votes: 66
20. H. P. Lovecraft's the Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (2007)
46 min | Animation, Horror
Three classic H.P. Lovecraft stories are brought to life by animated clay puppets and miniatures. They are 'The picture in the house', The Dunwich horror' and 'The festival'.
Director: Ryo Shinagawa | Stars: Mickey Curtis, Tasuku Emoto, Ken'ichi Endô
Votes: 110
21. Untitled H.P. Lovecraft Mini Series
Fantasy, Horror, Mystery | Announced
A series of stories based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft.
22. 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
24. H.P. Lovecraft: Schatten aus der Zeit (1975 TV Movie)
50 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Based on H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, this is the story of a professor who suffers a seizure which results in total amnesia. As he recuperates he is so different his family ... See full summary »
Director: George Moorse | Stars: Anton Diffring, Ingrid Resch
Votes: 15
25.
The Fantasmagori (2017– )
Episode:
The Book by H.P. Lovecraft
(2017)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A dramatized reading of H.P. Lovecraft's short story 'The Book'.
Director: Michael Treder | Star: Alex Goldrich
26. H.P. Lovecraft: Two Left Arms (2013)
80 min | Horror, Thriller
Carter, an art conservator, arrives in Italy to restore a fresco in an old church. He discovers that the strange locals are hiding something and a mystery relating to a nearby lake that legend says was created by a meteor.
Directors: Adam Rehmeier, Domiziano Cristopharo | Stars: Yvonne Sciò, Paolo Stella, Carlo De Mejo, Yuri Antonosante
Votes: 90
27.
R.L. Stine's the Haunting Hour (2010–2014)
Episode:
Lovecraft's Woods
(2013)
TV-PG | 22 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Three kids think they're taking a shortcut through the woods, but a strange force is stalking them and the woods themselves take on a life of their own.
Director: Neill Fearnley | Stars: Jess McLeod, Rowan Rycroft, Joshua J. Ballard, Lani Gelera
Votes: 79
28. The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft
Thriller | Announced
H.P. Lovecraft and gang go on wacky adventures through R'lyeh solving mysteries and making friends.
29. AM1200 (2008)
39 min | Short, Horror
Haunted by recent events and on the run, a man finds himself the unwitting pawn of a possessed evangelical radio station and like his unfortunate predecessor must ask himself whether it is better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Director: David Prior | Stars: Eric Lange, John Billingsley, Ray Wise, Stephanie Venditto
Votes: 1,054
30. 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: 8,900
31. Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)
R | 96 min | Horror
Lovecraft visualizes 3 stories in Necronomicon: The Drowned, The Cold and Whispers, about bringing a dead wife and child back to life, extending life and aliens.
Directors: Christophe Gans, Shûsuke Kaneko, Brian Yuzna | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Tony Azito, Juan Fernández, Brian Yuzna
Votes: 6,958
32. Castle Freak (1995 Video)
R | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A man travels to Italy with his family to live in the castle they have recently inherited. But he soon begins to suspect that they are not the only occupants.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Jonathan Fuller, Jessica Dollarhide
Votes: 10,333
33. 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: 71,539 | Gross: $2.02M
34. Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Doctors Herbert West and Dan Cain discover the secret to creating human life and proceed to create a perfect woman from dead tissue.
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio
Votes: 17,593
35. Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After 13 years in prison, the mad scientist from Re-Animator (1985) gets a new chance to experiment with the arrival of a young prison doctor, who secretly hopes to learn to reanimate dead people. Good intentions turn to horror.
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Tommy Dean Musset, Jason Barry, Bárbara Elorrieta
Votes: 13,035
36. The Burrowers (2008)
R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller, Western
In the Wild West a rescue party sets out to find a family of settlers that has vanished from their home under mysterious circumstances.
Director: J.T. Petty | Stars: Clancy Brown, David Busse, Harley Coriz, Jocelin Donahue
Votes: 9,275
37. The Corridor (I) (2010)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Friends on a weekend excursion take a path into a forest that leads to death and destruction.
Director: Evan Kelly | Stars: Steve Chambers, James Gilbert, David Patrick Flemming, Matthew Amyotte
Votes: 2,875
38. The Color Out of Space (2010)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A boy, looking for his missing father, travels to Germany and uncovers a haunting legacy that a meteorite left behind in the area. Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short novel "The Color Out of Space."
Director: Huân Vu | Stars: Paul Dorsch, Jürgen Heimüller, Ingo Heise, Philipp Jacobs
Votes: 1,765
39. Dark City (1998)
R | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt
Votes: 212,385 | Gross: $14.38M
40. Dirt Dauber (2009)
35 min | Short, Horror
A man awakes naked and confused in a isolated mountainous region, and soon encounters a strange local who offers to help him. The helpful stranger tells the man of local folklore that ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Daniels | Stars: Lyon Forrest Hill, Lee O. Smith
Votes: 50
41. The Last Wave (1977)
PG | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal Persons in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions.
Director: Peter Weir | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil, Frederick Parslow
Votes: 11,037
42. Pickman's Muse (2010)
77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An artist, Robert Pickman, becomes obsessed by visions of unworldly horror, revealed to him through an ancient artifact discovered in an abandoned church.
Director: Robert Cappelletto | Stars: Barret Walz, Maurice McNicholas, Tom Lodewyck, Joyce Porter
Votes: 357
43. The Spider Labyrinth (1988)
Unrated | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Alan Whitmore, a young American researcher, goes to Budapest to visit Professor Roth, with whom he collaborated on a secret project called "Intextus" while a mysterious killer in on the loose...
Director: Gianfranco Giagni | Stars: Roland Wybenga, Paola Rinaldi, Margareta von Krauss, Claudia Muzii
Votes: 928
44. The Creature Below (2016)
83 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A young scientist discovers a malevolent entity which sets her on a bloody descent into the jaws of insanity.
Director: Stewart Sparke | Stars: Anna Dawson, Michaela Longden, Daniel Thrace, Johnny Vivash
Votes: 1,388
45. The Thing on the Doorstep (2014)
89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Fantastic movie about a teleporting witch who uses other peoples life force to do her traveling it is a very different kind of witch story
Director: Tom Gliserman | Stars: David Bunce, Rob Dalton, Susan Cicarelli-Caputo, Ron Komora
Votes: 293
46. The Thing on the Doorstep (2003)
77 min | Horror
Insane asylums, shallow graves and magick of the blackest kind. Maelstrom Productions' newest project is an updated but faithful adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep". ... See full summary »
Director: Eric Morgret | Stars: J.D. Lloyd, Jerry Lloyd, Jamie Morgan, Erick Robertson
Votes: 73
47. Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep (2005)
78 min | Horror, Thriller
Soon after his marriage to the beautiful but mysterious heiress Asenath Waite, poet and scholar Edward Derby exhibits alarming personality changes and mood swings. His graduate advisor, Dan Upton investigates.
Director: Eric Morgret | Stars: Melanie Calderwood, Doug Cartwright, Angelica DiMico, Angela M. Grillo
Votes: 139
48. YellowBrickRoad (2010)
R | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
1940: the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked up a winding mountain trail, leaving everything behind. 2008: the first official expedition into the wilderness attempts to solve the mystery of the lost citizens of Friar.
Directors: Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton | Stars: Michael Laurino, Anessa Ramsey, Alex Draper, Cassidy Freeman
Votes: 6,967
49. Rough Magik (2000 TV Movie)
41 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Plugging nicely into the RPG world of Delta Green, Rough Magik is about The Night Scholars, a clandestine organization setup to monitor the ancient cult of Cthulhu. After decades of ... See full summary »
Director: Jamie Payne | Stars: Paul Darrow, Gerrard McArthur, Tim Kirby, Justine Francesca Glenton
Votes: 93
50. H.P. Lovecraft - The Terror Within (2005)
92 min | Thriller
1997: A student of folklore named Andrea Roberti hypothesizes the possible link between the horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark folk tales of the Po Delta, a mysterious and ... See full summary »
Directors: Federico Greco, Roberto Leggio | Stars: Eraldo Baldini, Alfredo Castelli, Donatella Ceccarello, Chiara Crepaldi
Votes: 248
51. Lurking Fear (1994)
R | 76 min | Action, Horror
The town of Leffert's Corners has been plagued by unearthly beings for decades, and now there is only a few people left... what everyone is not aware of are the humanoid creatures lurking underneath the holy grounds.
Director: C. Courtney Joyner | Stars: Jon Finch, Blake Adams, Ashley Laurence, Jeffrey Combs
Votes: 1,823
52. Seeds of Destruction (2011 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 90 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
When the seeds from the original Garden of Eden are carelessly released into today's toxic climate, the plant is transformed by our contaminated environment into a writhing mass of foliage that wreaks havoc all over earth.
Director: Paul Ziller | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Stefanie von Pfetten, Jesse Moss, Luisa d'Oliveira
Votes: 829
53. Cast a Deadly Spell (1991 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
In a fantastical 40's where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Fred Ward, David Warner, Julianne Moore, Clancy Brown
Votes: 4,844
54. Witch Hunt (1994 TV Movie)
R | 100 min | Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
In a twisted 1950's where everyone does magic, a private detective investigates a murder case without it.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Bogosian, Sheryl Lee Ralph
Votes: 1,715
55. Cool Air (2006 Video)
PG-13 | 78 min | Horror
Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Pyun | Stars: Morgan Weisser, Crystal Laws Green, Jenny Dare Paulin, Norbert Weisser
Votes: 862
56. The Haunted Palace (1963)
Not Rated | 87 min | Horror
Charles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr., Frank Maxwell
Votes: 8,471 | Gross: $2.62M
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