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Originally Posted by brsrkrkomdy  LOVECRAFTIAN:
The Thing From Another World
Rosemary's Baby
Black Sunday (Mario Bava film)
Suspiria (slightly Lovecraftian) |
I don't know all the films of your list but these are definitely not Lovecraftian. Especially Rosemary's Baby with its central concept of Anti-Christian evil is exactly what Lovecraft was determined to avoid in his brand of fiction. Black Sunday is an archetypal Gothic, with more to owe to say, Le Fanu and M.R. James than Lovecraft. Thing from another world is a campy alien movie. Suspria with its rootings in witchcraft again has more to do with James and Blackwood (or perhaps atleast Thomas De Quincey's poem of Levana and our Sisters of sorrow) than the cosmic unreasoning evil of Lovecraft's major oeuvre.