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Map showcasing the race classification of Europeans according to Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin is often remembered as a Founding Father, inventor, and diplomat, but some of his views reflected the prejudices of his era.
In a 1751 essay, he argued that only the English and Saxons were truly "white," describing many other Europeans, including the French, Spaniards, Italians, Swedes, Russians, and most Germans, as "swarthy." He worried that large numbers of non-English immigrants would change the character of Britain's North American colonies.
This map illustrates Franklin's personal opinions, not accepted science or a universal belief of the era.
Lovecraft on-screen: a non-exhaustive list up to 2004
Here's a list I used to keep about all things Lovecraftian in cinema, TV, and whatever else having to do with moving pictures.
I have watched very little of the material listed, in part because by 2004 (or 2007, when I archived the file) I had no means of doing so. I built the list through info found on cinema magazines, the Internet, word of mouth, films I ran into while I was looking for another stuff, you name it. The good, the bad and the ugly are here, including films based on tales written by authors in H.P. Lovecraft's literary circle and not by him.
It probably needs corrections, besides the fact that it was closed 20-ish years ago.
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Film: full-length movies
- The Haunted Palace (Roger Corman, 1963)
- Die, Monster, Die! (Daniel Haller, 1965)
- Dark Intruder (Harvey Misbach, 1965), originally a pilot for a TV series
- The Shuttered Room (David Greene, 1967), based on texts by August Derleth
- Curse of the Crimson Altar (aka The Crimson Cult, Vernon Sewell, 1968)
- The Dunwich Horror (Daniel Haller, 1970)
- Paura nella città dei morti viventi (aka City of the Living Dead / The Gates of Hell, Lucio Fulci, 1980)
- The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)
- Re-Animator (Stuart Gordon, 1985)
- From Beyond (Stuart Gordon, 1986)
- Evil Dead II (Sam Raimi, 1987)
- The Curse (David Keith, 1987)
- Forever Evil (Roger Evans, 1987)
- The Unnamable (Jean-Paul Ouellette, 1988)
- Curse of the Blue Lights (John Henry Johnson, 1988)
- Dark Heritage (David McCormick, 1989)
- Bride of Re-Animator (Brian Yuzna, 1990)
- La mansión de los Cthulhu (aka Cthulhu Mansion, Juan Piquer Simón, 1990)
- The Resurrected (Dan O'Bannon, 1992)
- The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (Jean-Paul Ouellette, 1993)
- Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi, 1993)
- Lurking Fear (C. Courtney Joyner, 1994)
- Necronomicon (Christophe Gans, Shusuke Kaneko & Brian Yuzna, 1994)
- In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter, 1995)
- Castle Freak (Stuart Gordon, 1995)
- Bleeders (Peter Svatek, 1997)
- Eko eko azaraku III (aka Misa the Dark Angel, Katsuhito Ueno, 1998)
- Return to Innsmouth (Aaron Vanek, 1999)
- L'Altrove (aka The Beyond, Ivan Zuccon, 2000)
- Dagon (Stuart Gordon, 2001)
- Le peuple ancien (aka The Ancients, Julien Lacombe & Pascal Sid, 2001)
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Barrett J. Leigh & Thom Maurer, 2001)
- Beyond Re-Animator (Brian Yuzna, 2003)
- La casa sfuggita (aka The Shunned House, Ivan Zuccon, 2003)
- An Imperfect Solution: A Tale of the Re-Animator (Christian Matzke, 2003), in black and white
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (Edward Martin III, 2003), animation
Unfinished or not premiered full-length movies
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Stuart Gordon, in production by 1994, probably abandoned)
- The Thing on the Doorstep (Eric Morgret, 2003)
- The Unnamable (Sascha Renninger, 2004)
- The Haunter of the Dark (Alex Weimer & Christian Giegerich, in production by 2004)
Film: shorts
- The Music of Erich Zann (John Strysik, 1980)
- The Outsider (Aaron Vanek, 1994)
- Cool Air (Bryan Moore, 1999), in black and white
- Babylon Park: Frightspace (Christopher Russo, 1999), animation
- Chilean Gothic (Ricardo Harrington, 2000)
- Corpse-O-Rama, segment “Six Shots at Dawn” (Vince D'Amato, 2001)
- Nyarlathotep (Christian Matzke, 2001), in black and white
- Pulse Pounders, segment “The Evil Clergyman” (Charles Band, 2002)
- Pickman's Model (Rick Tillman, 2003), in black and white
TV productions (including documentaries)
- Professor Peabody's Last Lecture (Jerrold Freedman, 1971), episode #42 in NBC's Night Gallery series
- Pickman's Model (Jack Laird, 1971), episode #49 in NBC's Night Gallery series
- Cool Air (Jeannot Szwarc, 1971), episode #52 in NBC's Night Gallery series
- Return of the Sorcerer (Jeannot Szwarc, 1972), episode #80 in NBC's Night Gallery series (based on a short story by Clark Ashton Smith)
- Cast a Deadly Spell (Martin Campbell, 1991), HBO TV series (the idea was revisited less successfully in HBO's Witch Hunt (Paul Schrader, 1994)
- Innsmouth wo oou kage (Nasuda Jun, 1992), TBS studios
- Un siècle d'écrivains: Le cas Howard Phillips Lovecraft (aka The Case of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Patrick-Mario Bernard & Pierre Trividic, 1998), documentary
- Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (Raymond Saint-Jean, 1998), dramatized documentary
- Rough Magik (Jamie Payne, 2000), TV pilot
Documentaries for cinema
- The Eldritch Influence: The Life, Vision, and Phenomenon of H.P. Lovecraft (Shawn R. Owens, 2003)
Super 8 films
- Necronomicon (S. Wathers)
- The Whisperer in the Darkness (D. Smith)
Stupid cultist waking up a skaptodon
Did you know?
- The skaptodon has massive incisive teeth for digging; its mouth can close behind them so it doesn't swallow dirt. It has also fangs, which are mainly defensive—but who knows, they might also act as probes for the softness, temperature or composition of the ground.
- The claws are useful for digging and for attack and defense, but being so long they are obstacles for walking, so the beast walks on its knuckles or with the aid of a special lateral paw pad, a bit like a giant anteaters do.
- The thumb claws are used for grooming.
- It has long and numerous vibrissae for feeling its way in the dark tunnels. Its eyes aren't very helpful in this respect.
- The tympanus of the ear is situated in a hole that opens just below the external ears, which are small.
- I was going to add feline markings, like stripes or spots, but being an underground creature I don't think it needs them. It should be gray or brown all over.
- Stupid cultist added for scale.