>> ^noims:

H.P. Lovecraft, eat your heart out!


Didn't he?

H.P. Lovecraft, eat your heart out!

The guy to the far left at :10 was my best friend's boyfriend. Weird to see him go on to have a movie career. His best friend went on to have a bigger career -- character actor in all the Star Trek series plus he is something of an HP Lovecraft icon -- he was the lead in the original Reanimator movies.

My brush with fame.... kids from my clique in high school going on to Porky's Stardom and Trek geekdom.

H.P. Lovecraft's novella is titled "Mountains of Madness" and as far as I know, "moutain" is not a word in any language. The French word for mountain is "montagne" and the Italian word for mountain is "montagna," which appears in the title card of this short film.

>> ^Drax:

I only downvoted ant's comment for the sake of irony...
walks off cackling madly


And I upvoted it for the sake of vaginas...

Thank you!

In reply to this comment by moodonia:


*promote

>> ^Payback:

When I was that age, I'd say "vagina vagina vagina..." in math class. And home room. and social studies. during lunch... crap, I guess it was like every other word. Vagina at least I vagina got over vagina it.


Vagina! Vagina! Vagina!

>> ^mindbrain:

>> ^luxury_pie:
Despite the name of the teacher, what reference is there to Mr. Lovecraft?

Many. The last names of the students reference some of his tales: Noreen Dunwich (Dunwich Horror) Larissa Insmouth (Shadow Over Insmouth) and Jimmy Pickman (Pickman's Model). The principal's last name is Peters, but my knowledge of Lovecraft is not specific enough to pick up on a common name like that. Anyone? Bueller?
Also his stories are almost always first hand accounts which usually end up revealing the doom and/or madness of the story-teller. Several notable creature names/aliases were spoken during the incantation.
Finally the method of descriptive prose used in this piece is heavily inspired by Lovecraft.


I think there are some Call of Cthulhu references too (it looks like an octopus)...

I just started reading Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft and it is an AWESOME book.

>> ^luxury_pie:

Despite the name of the teacher, what reference is there to Mr. Lovecraft?


Many. The last names of the students reference some of his tales: Noreen Dunwich (Dunwich Horror) Larissa Insmouth (Shadow Over Insmouth) and Jimmy Pickman (Pickman's Model). The principal's last name is Peters, but my knowledge of Lovecraft is not specific enough to pick up on a common name like that. Anyone? Bueller?

Also his stories are almost always first hand accounts which usually end up revealing the doom and/or madness of the story-teller. Several notable creature names/aliases were spoken during the incantation.
Finally the method of descriptive prose used in this piece is heavily inspired by Lovecraft.

Despite the name of the teacher, what reference is there to Mr. Lovecraft?

that was awesome.
i am so promoting this when i am able.
anything lovecraft gets a vote from me.

>> ^AdrianBlack:

King in interviews and in the book itself said the story was inspired by Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan stating: "Not Lovecraft; it’s a riff on Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan,” which is one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language. Mine isn’t anywhere near that good, but I loved the chance to put neurotic behavior—obsessive/compulsive disorder—together with the idea of a monster-filled macroverse." So, if anything, "Patterns" ripped off Machen.


Actually no. Patterns is just this WITHOUT the monster stuff - so it didn't rip off Machen and King definitely ripped it off Patterns. Watch it and see for yourself.

King in interviews and in the book itself said the story was inspired by Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan stating: "Not Lovecraft; it’s a riff on Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan,” which is one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language. Mine isn’t anywhere near that good, but I loved the chance to put neurotic behavior—obsessive/compulsive disorder—together with the idea of a monster-filled macroverse." So, if anything, "Patterns" ripped off Machen.

King in interviews and in the book itself said the story was inspired by Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan stating: "Not Lovecraft; it’s a riff on Arthur Machen’s “The Great God Pan,” which is one of the best horror stories ever written. Maybe the best in the English language. Mine isn’t anywhere near that good, but I loved the chance to put neurotic behavior—obsessive/compulsive disorder—together with the idea of a monster-filled macroverse." So, if anything, "Patterns" ripped off Machen.

In reply to this comment by NaMeCaF:
Wow, I really thought Stephen King was original, but this is a blatant rip off of an episode of Night Visions from 2002 called "Patterns".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0660998/

I wish I could downvote.

And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences - of electricity and psychology - and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of a nightmare.

-- Howard Phillips Lovecraft, "Nyarlathotep"