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Originally Posted by montycircus  The best Lovecraftian movie is Ghostbusters.
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Worshippers from an ancient cult construct a gate to another dimension. There they worship to gather spiritual energy in order to summon an ancient god and draw it into our dimension which they hope will then bring about the end of the world.
Ghosts, cultists, ancient god-creatures, end-of-the-world. It's Lovecraft straight up and down.
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Funny, I was recently watching Ghostbusters - I was 10 when it came out - and thinking about how Lovecraftian the premise was. None of the mood, of course, but the background was there. The main difference is that Gozer and all that had some inkling of care about humanity, whereas Lovecraft's entities were usually kind of indifferent.
Actually, the cartoon was much more Lovecraftian. I believe Cthulhu even made an appearance in it.
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Incidentally, I bought the silent Call of Cthulhu flick...and honestly I couldn't wait for it to end. Maybe it's the fact that it was silent, or the budget, I'm not sure. But I really hated it.
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Well, for a Lovecraft fan hungry for a decent film adaptation, it's something. Personally, I thought they did a great job. But you have to be willing to put aside a lot in order to watch it and like it, I think.