Depressed about movies

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Was Lumley in the Lovecraft Circle, though, or did he only write a few Cthulhu Mythos stories? I don’t think he’s old enough.

One member of the Circle already got some good movies made: Robert Bloch, who wrote Psycho. The protagonist of HPL’s “The Lurker in Darkness” is named Robert Blake, after him.

I’d like a good Cthulhu movie myself, if it sticks to the book (Dagon, actually “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”, sure didn’t–Imboca, because we randomly moved Innsmouth to Spain?!). Or “Horror at Red Hook” could be good too, although the Hecate litany in it was used by the execrable made-for-TV movie “The Touch of Satan,” in the 70s. Everybody that saw that on MST3K would find it hard to take the film seriously (I couldn’t help laughing when I read the story the first time).

Maybe they can use Mike Mignola’s version from Hellboy.

Lumley wrote a good number of Cthulhu novels back in the 70s. He was too young to have met Lovecraft but he certainly carried on the genre.

Of all of Moorcock’s heros, I liked Dorian Hawkwood the best.

If HBO gets ahold of Martin, it will be like the Dune adaptations.

Last year, however, was terrible for movies. I just wait for them to come out on DVD.