Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-h.-p.-lovecraft"

1. Aquaman (2018)

PG-13 | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Arthur Curry, the human-born heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, goes on a quest to prevent a war between the worlds of ocean and land.

Director: James Wan | Stars: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Patrick Wilson

Votes: 521,559 | Gross: $335.06M

2. Lovecraft Country (2020)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A young African-American travels across the U.S. in the 1950s in search of his missing father.

Stars: Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett, Courtney B. Vance, Michael Kenneth Williams

Votes: 47,409

3. Incident in a Ghostland (2018)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A mother of two who inherits a house is confronted with murderous intruders on the first night in their new home and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later when the daughters reunite at the house, things get really strange.

Director: Pascal Laugier | Stars: Crystal Reed, Mylène Farmer, Anastasia Phillips, Emilia Jones

Votes: 39,793

4. Pay the Ghost (2015)

Not Rated | 94 min | Horror, Mystery

A professor frantically searches for his son who was abducted during a Halloween carnival.

Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Veronica Ferres, Lyriq Bent

Votes: 18,911

5. The Beast Within (1982)

R | 98 min | Horror

A young woman gets raped by a mysterious man-creature, and years later her son begins a horrific transformation into a similar beast.

Director: Philippe Mora | Stars: Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul Clemens, Don Gordon

Votes: 4,553 | Gross: $7.74M

6. Black Mountain Side (2014)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

At a cold, desolate, northmost outpost in Canada, an archaeological discovery is made. A specialist arrives Nov. 1. Strange things happen. All contact with the outside world is down.

Director: Nick Szostakiwskyj | Stars: Shane Twerdun, Michael Dickson, Carl Toftfelt, Marc Anthony Williams

Votes: 6,220

7. The Pirates of Somalia (2017)

R | 116 min | Biography, Drama

In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself with the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them.

Director: Bryan Buckley | Stars: Al Pacino, Evan Peters, Melanie Griffith, Barkhad Abdi

Votes: 11,173

8. From a Whisper to a Scream (1987)

R | 99 min | Action, Drama, Horror

In a small Tennessee town, a historian relates four horror stories to a reporter.

Director: Jeff Burr | Stars: Vincent Price, Clu Gulager, Terry Kiser, Harry Caesar

Votes: 2,992 | Gross: $1.36M

9. Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)

194 min | Documentary, Horror

A thorough overview and dissection of the subgenre of 'folk horror, ' with contributions from many of the major creators and clips from cinema all over the world.

Director: Kier-La Janisse | Stars: Linda Hayden, Ian Ogilvy, Kevin Kölsch, Sean Hogan

Votes: 1,645

10. The Theatre Bizarre (2011)

Not Rated | 114 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A modern horror omnibus inspired by the over-the-top shocks of Paris' early 20th century 'Theatre du Grand Guignol'. Enola Penny sneaks into an abandoned theater and witnesses six bizarre tales.

Directors: Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Jeremy Kasten, Tom Savini, Richard Stanley | Stars: Udo Kier, Virginia Newcomb, Amanda Marquardt, Amelia Gotham

Votes: 4,479

11. Voodoo Dollz (2008 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 79 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Christina is sent to the Lovecraft School for Girls as punishment for being caught having sex with Meg in a locker room. She finds that she fits in very well.

Director: Fred Olen Ray | Stars: Christine Nguyen, Beverly Lynne, Monique Parent, Charlie Laine

Votes: 416

12. 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

13. Phoenix Point (2019 Video Game)

T | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

Phoenix Point is set in 2047 on an Earth in the midst of an alien invasion, with Lovecraftian horrors on the verge of wiping out humanity.

Director: Julian Gollop | Stars: Izida Auf, Kim Bretton, Thomas G Burt, Yasen Chariyski

Votes: 22

14. The Cry of Mann (2017)

40 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

After patriarch of the rich Mann family, oil magnate Tank Mann disappears, family begins falling apart with the help of mysterious villain Gergiev. An interactive live stream TV series by Wham City Comedy.

Stars: Cricket Arrison, Casper Kelly, Connor Kizer, Taylor McCormick

Votes: 35

15. The Styxhexenhammer666 Channel (2010– )
Episode: Melania Trump Books Rejected Because 'Dr Seuss is Racist' but Remember FDR Is Heroic (2017)

9 min | News

Melania Trump donates Dr. Seuss books to a Cambridge, Massachusetts, library; the head librarian rejects them, claiming that Dr. Seuss is racist. Styx brings FDR into the discussion.

Star: Styxhexenhammer666

16. Pantherion (2012– )

160 min | Mystery

The secret NGO "Pantherion", located deep within the castle mountain of Graz, Austria, a small low-budget-organization for detecting, fighting and researching trans-dimensional threats, ... See full summary »

Stars: Doris Berger, Lea Haslehner, Bernhard Reicher, Jörg Vogeltanz

Votes: 17

17. Chikara: King of Trios 2009 - Night III (2009 Video)

Action, Sport

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Stars: Bryan Danielson, Claudio Castagnoli, Kota Ibushi, Rami Sebei

18. Comedian Richard Sandling and Ashens Explore Bride of Re-Animator (2016 TV Short)

4 min | Short, Comedy

Ashens and Richard Sandling discuss Bride of Re-Animator (1990) and the prominence it had in during initial release.

Director: Bob Pipe | Stars: Richard Sandling, Stuart Ashen, Bruce Abbott, David Gale

19. The Obliteration of the Chickens (2019)

4 min | Short, Horror, Mystery

The universe does not care. The abyss is stupid. Narrated by author Bracken MacLeod, this Herzog-inspired fever dream uses 100% stock footage to reflect on the banality of existence.

Director: Izzy Lee | Star: Bracken MacLeod

Votes: 5

20. Chikara: The Empty Child (2017 Video)

Action, Sport

UltraMantis Black defends the CHIKARA Grand Championship against the vicious Max Smashmaster, "The Ecuadorian Aristocrat" Juan Francisco de Coronado looks to go through "Juke Joint" Lucas ... See full summary »

Director: Mike Spillane | Stars: Mark Angelosetti, Warren Barksdale, Cajun Crawdad, Lucas Calhoun

21. Dominom: The God of the Worms (2017)

92 min | Fantasy, Horror

In the 1980s, in the Argentine Republic, a young journalist (Joaquin Larson) was induced by the teachers of Miskatonic University to make the thesis of the race, on 'exorcisms', in ... See full summary »

Directors: Francisco Bañados, Mónica Luna Bramucci

Votes: 9

22. 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

23. Night Gallery (1969–1973)
Episode: The Return of the Sorcerer (1972)

TV-PG | 26 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Sorcerer John Carnby recruits young Noel Evans to translate an incomplete Arabic source book, whose most fiendish passages involve being flayed over burning coals and slowly dismembered.

Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Vincent Price, Tisha Sterling, Bill Bixby, Rod Serling

Votes: 400

24. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Threads (1997)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Part of an unfinished building inexplicably and violently vanishes along with two construction workers. Lindsay is still dealing with Connor Doyle's tragic death. The O.S.I.R. gets a new lead investigator, Matt Prager.

Director: Milan Cheylov | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 25

25. The Real Ghostbusters (1986–1991)
Episode: Russian About (1990)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

The Ghostbusters visit Russia to give a lecture about their work. They become the scapegoats for the theft of the precious Nameless Book, a link to awakening a great evil.

Directors: Stan Phillips, Will Meugniot | Stars: Dave Coulier, Buster Jones, Maurice LaMarche, Kath Soucie

Votes: 58

26. The Real Ghostbusters (1986–1991)
Episode: The Collect Call of Cthulhu (1987)

TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Action, Comedy

The Ghostbusters are fighting creatures in the sewers, chasing down cults and research comic books to succeed in the their mission - to recover the Necronomicon that gets stolen from the public library.

Stars: Arsenio Hall, Maurice LaMarche, Lorenzo Music, Laura Summer

Votes: 146

27. Warehouse 13 (2009–2014)
Episode: Nevermore (2009)

TV-PG | 42 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

The Warehouse team narrowly misses nabbing McPherson then Myka's father falls under the influence of an artifact that resists the purple goo.

Director: Tawnia McKiernan | Stars: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Genelle Williams

Votes: 612

28. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: Lost Children of the Blood (2010)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When the dead body of a college student is found in her dorm room completely drained of blood, Nichols and Stevens are forced to turn to the dark side of "vampire" culture for answers.

Director: John David Coles | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Saffron Burrows, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Matt Burns

Votes: 255

29. Supernatural (2005–2020)
Episode: The Man Who Knew Too Much (2011)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The wall comes down in Sam's head and all hell breaks loose. Dean and Bobby are, for once, at a total loss on how to help him and are forced to stand by and do nothing while Sam breaks. The battle for heaven comes to a head.

Director: Robert Singer | Stars: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Jim Beaver

Votes: 4,662

30. Warehouse 13 (2009–2014)
Episode: An Evil Within (2012)

TV-PG | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

Pete and Myka investigate a mysterious case where mobs of angry people are hallucinating en masse and attacking innocents.

Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Allison Scagliotti

Votes: 451

31. Batgirl: Spoiled (2012–2013)
Episode: Little Lost (Bat)Girl (2013)

12 min | Action

Batgirl debates her right for vengeance against those who wronged her. Oracle tries to correct her path into darkness, while Harley and Catwoman welcome her with open arms.

Director: Damian Beurer | Stars: Marisha Ray, Jessica Kent, Tara Strand, Robin Sol

Votes: 10

32. NCIS: New Orleans (2014–2021)
Episode: Master of Horror (2014)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

With New Orleans decorated for Halloween, the NCIS team investigates the murder of a Naval Staff Judge Advocate found in a cemetery dressed in a Victorian costume with vampiric puncture ... See full summary »

Director: Terrence O'Hara | Stars: Scott Bakula, Lucas Black, Zoe McLellan, Rob Kerkovich

Votes: 424

33. Pop Culture Beast's Halloween Horror Picks (2014– )
Episode: Castle Freak (2015)

10 min | Documentary

Ryan Stockstad discusses the movie Castle Freak (1995).

Director: Ryan Stockstad | Stars: Ryan Stockstad, Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Jonathan Fuller

Votes: 8

34. Riverdale (2017–2023)
Episode: Chapter Twenty-Three: The Blackboard Jungle (2018)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Tensions mount when Jughead and his fellow students from Southside High transfer to Riverdale High; Betty sets out to find her long-lost brother.

Director: Tim Hunter | Stars: K.J. Apa, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes, Cole Sprouse

Votes: 1,586

35. Vee (2009– )
Episode: Don't Take the Bait (2017)

6 min | News

Los Angeles fights against rudeness on public transportation, and the media uses the issue to bait anti-feminists.

Star: Vee

36. NCIS: Los Angeles (2009–2023)
Episode: Goodbye, Vietnam (2018)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The NCIS team joins Hetty's old friends from the Vietnam War in an off-the-books rescue mission to save her from her captors.

Director: John Peter Kousakis | Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen, Barrett Foa

Votes: 319