09-15-2020, 11:32 AM
(09-14-2020, 02:16 PM)Slamz Wrote: I've been enjoying Lovecraft Country though so far (ep 1-3) it does not really have much Lovecraftian horror to it. Granted it's been a long time since I read his stuff but I recall him being far more oriented around playing with space/time/dimensions and incomprehensible horrors whereas the show so far is based around the horrors of racism, magic, conventional monsters, zombies and ghosts in roughly that order of priority.
I could tell from the ads for that show that it wasn't even close to Lovecraft. Shame really because nightmarish, mind losing, alien-like rabbit hole horror is lacking. I think the closest movie I saw recently was Oculus but that still was more conventional horror. I also think placing a large focus on identity for Lovecraft is a mistake because him and Robert Howard were not ideal people for that sort of thing. Ironically, people who might like the show could easily go out and read his old stories and get turned off by some of the early 1900's jargon. It just feels like a lot of other stuff in the entertainment industry which is to regurgitate some successful thing from 20+ years ago and rebrand it and sell.