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Daisy Jane - Sep 17, 2009 5:35:01 am PDT #4181 of 30000

"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

So I've got this great idea for a movie. An alien crashes in the desert behind this kid's house and they befriend each other, maybe even start to share some kind of physical bond. The kid tries to help the alien get back to his home planet (we could have some corporate tie ins here. Say Verizon and the alien could be all "Can you hear me now?" maybe even with a candy company like Skittles or something). It'll be brilliant-make a million, billion dollars.

Imma call it A.B.-Alien Being.

Whatta ya think?

tommyrot - Sep 17, 2009 5:35:56 am PDT #4182 of 30000

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Who are the bad guys?

Jessica - Sep 17, 2009 5:37:07 am PDT #4183 of 30000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Say Verizon and the alien could be all "Can you hear me now?"

Bwahaha!

Who are the bad guys?

I'ma guess Steven Spielberg's lawyers.

tommyrot - Sep 17, 2009 5:40:14 am PDT #4184 of 30000

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Wait, in this version would Spielberg's lawyers have guns or walkie-talkies?

Aims - Sep 17, 2009 6:05:59 am PDT #4185 of 30000

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Neither - they'll carry copies of NCLB.

DavidS - Sep 19, 2009 5:37:33 am PDT #4186 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Anybody seen the movie The Haunted Palace with Vincent Price?

It's in the series of Poe movies he made with Roger Corman but is actually based on the Lovecraft story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward."

I think I have to track this down. It's got an elder horror in the basement and everything.

The plot is weirdly similar to the Barbara Steele classic Black Sunday. Price is a warlock who's burned alive in the 1700s and puts a curse on the village (causing many deformed mutations) and when his ancestor comes back to take over the property in the 20th century the ancient evil spirit tries to take over his soul. (There should be a short hand name for this recurring trope.)

Haunted Palace trailer.

There don't seem to be a lot of Lovecraftian movies: Haunted Palace, Call of Cthulu (the recent silent one); Re-animator, The Dunwich Horror...

-t - Sep 19, 2009 5:51:55 am PDT #4187 of 30000

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Does In the Mouth of Madness count?

DavidS - Sep 19, 2009 5:55:04 am PDT #4188 of 30000

"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Yeah, that counts.

Did anybody see the silent Call of Cthulu? Looks cool.

Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 19, 2009 6:58:22 am PDT #4189 of 30000

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Yeah, it was very atmospheric and nicely done.

Chthulhu Mansion, not so much.

Frankenbuddha - Sep 19, 2009 7:11:23 am PDT #4190 of 30000

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

There don't seem to be a lot of Lovecraftian movies: Haunted Palace, Call of Cthulu (the recent silent one); Re-animator, The Dunwich Horror...

There was a Boris Karloff one that was an adaption of The Colour Out of Space, but it was called something else. Also, From Beyond may as well have been Lovecraft (it was more true to the spirit of Lovecraft than Re-Animator, love that film though I do).

Night Gallery did a version of Cool Air.

And lord knows the Evil Dead movies put Lovecraft in a blender with Looney Tunes and The Three Stooges and hit frappe.

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