H P Lovecraft's The Thing In the Moonlight
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- From a very weird story by J Chapman Miske, based on a very weird nightmare by H P Lovecraft.
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The more I watch these, the more I yearn for the days when the librarian had us watch these old stop-motion movies back in elementary school. This is definitely a lost art.
Sounds like you had a great school librarian! :D It seems that there are quite a few amateur or non-commercial filmmakers who use stop-motion, but in commercial TV and cinema there are hardly any stop-motion artists anymore. Of course, we have that bunch of UK children's TV -Bob the Builder, Postman Pat, etc.
G1ingy definitely definitely so
i started school in 1960...i loved those films, we watched....i can still watch many of them on YT....
Never stop doing what you're doing.
Thanks! :) This is what makes my life go around, so I'll keep at it for as long as I can.
This has always been one of my favorite Lovecraft dream-fragments - you captured the nightmarish atmosphere of dread really well!
Thanks! I think it's really interesting, and a little bit of world-building on its own.
Glad to see what you put in the description; it clarifies for people that this is *not* entirely HPL's own work -- something Derleth was aware of (as Miske, seeing it included in MARGINALI, notified him of the actual facts) but in time either forgot or chose to ignore, as he continued to include it in lists of HPL's "fragments", as well as reprint it in DAGON AND OTHER MACABRE TALES. Not that the piece doesn't have its evocative strength, even Miske's part; just as a point of accuracy.
That being said -- as usual, very fine work, and I'm always glad to see independent filmmakers turning their talents to adaptations of Lovecraft and Lovecraft-related materials, as they often pull off what so many professional filmmakers say is nigh impossible: capturing the atmosphere and spirit (and often the letter) of the source material without having to twist it into pretzels to, in their view, do so.
Thank you! :) Yes, the history of Lovecraft's texts is quite interesting.
Beautiful, it's as if I'm hearing Lovecraft himself come back from the dead for another eerie tale.
That is the very best compliment I could hope for, for this film! :)
Finally someone who can envision HPL with some real talent ,,, love these ,,I'm subscribing now
Many thanks! I am a passionate Lovecraft fan, and I'm doing the best videos I can with what resources I have.
That embodies real talent and passion ,,when u can watch , ,Eternal Darkness Sanities Requiem ,,,it's an old Xbox game BUT VERY Lovecraftian ,,, someone made a cut scene movie out of the game ,,pretty entertaining
Your work is beyond words! I love it ! Amazing
Thank you so much! :)
Wow, i am impressed how you have managed to Catch the atmosphere of this short, but intresting story. Thanks.
Thank you :) I try to get the atmospher right in these shorts, for that is, I think, the highest expression of respect to the source material.
I love your works. There are not enough good Lovecraft adaptions in the world you get better with every video.
Your tentacle-work is amazing!
Thank you :) Tentacle work is surprisingly soothing.
I love Lovecraft stories. Please keep telling them. And your live action acting is also getting better.
Thanks! I can't get rid of Lovecraft in my life :)
I wasn't expecting much but I am pleasantly surprised. This captured the tone and atmosphere of Lovecraft perfectly. Very good job.
Thank you :) It's the atmosphere I'm always going for and trying to achieve.
Great work! these Lovecraft movies are unique and really atmospheric
Thank you! It's hard to achieve the atmosphere, but I'm glad you think I get it right :)
Hourujuna They are always full of thought provoking things that will not easily fade from memory
One of your best so far!!!! :) I am eagerly awaiting "DAGON"...........
Thanks! :) I hope I can get Dagon finished later this year.
These films always get me scared of closing my eyes at night. You do an amazing work of art and horror.
Thank you! That's high praise indeed :)
A wonderful piece of work! The creatures are especially creepy.
Thanks! This is, as you may know, based on a dream of Lovecraft's. So it's all grown out of his subconscious.
I’m a sound design guy, I love me some good creature sounds. Even though I recognize most of the stock sound effects you use, I must say the sound you used for the Motorman, paired with the animation is.. genuinely one of the freakiest things I’ve seen lately.
Thanks :) I can't remember the sound I used, but it sounds quite a bit like the Mahar scream from At the Earth's Core, also used for the Slayers in Krull. Maybe I slowed it down a bit.
This is bloody perfect. Loved it.
Thanks for watching :)
Absolutely exquisitely done! You have brilliantly tapped that same elusive, nightmare-nerve Lovecraft himself found! Keep it up!
Thank you! I'll try to keep it up, and also improve.
what a great little short! very atmospheric, loved it.
Thanks :) The original story is very creepy, and a great example of just how weird Lovecraft's imagination was.
love all your films, I hear them repeatedly. they bring great chills. great work
Thank you! That's the best reaction I could hope for :)
Wow, another cool and atmospheric film, this time based on a story I had not heard of before. I never thought I'd see an Old One in a tram conductor's uniform!
Thanks, Nick :D This is a weird one, and an indication of what Lovecraft's dreams were like -nothing I'd like to experience myself!
This wasn't written as a fully-developed story, but was a fragment Lovecraft had jotted in his notebook for future expansion. I have no doubt it was based on an actual dream. I'm surprised August Derleth didn't plunder it the way he did so many of HPL's notes, calling them posthumous "collaborations".......
I really liked the creatures in this one!
Thanks! They're pretty odd, aren't they? Lovecraft had some weird stuff rattling around in his mind.
i enjoy your work this is pure nightmare fuel
Ken Tyner ,most of H.P.Lovecrafts monsters were ether based on ocean animals or were covered in tentacles, eyes, and bubbles, some times they had human like looks.
amazing work! it makes me wonder if the two figures were just excited to see him since they been waiting for a customer for ages. that or they were just about to finish work and they see him there and flip XD
Thanks! In my mind it seems more like "Get out of our streetcar, you jerk!"
I like how when he saw the monsters he just said fuck it and dipped.
I wouldn't have hung around either! :)
I love it, please continue your work... it's greatly appreciated .... can't wait for Dagon.
Thanks! :) Dagon will make his appearence, hopefully, next year.
This was a fine production.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
This is fucking brilliant!
Glad you enjoyed it! :D
Brilliant! This is the 3rd Lovecraft story of yours that I've seen & they are all excellent works, they have a bit of the old silent movie " a trip to the moon" feel which really works well as you combine the computer images, greenscreen & stop motion flawlessly. I greatly look forward to seeing more of your work & hope that you will branch out into other horror, fantasy & scifi/steampunk as your style is highly conducive to all those genres. TY again. ( SMASHES Like & Subscribe buttons )
Thanks :) I'm very much influenced by silent films, and I'm actually thinking of adapting an early 20th century scifi comic as a short silent film. Steampunk is also a genre I should give a go.
Excellent story. Creepy atmosphere. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! :)
Hi there, just letting you know that I'm totally in love with your film and animation work and you've inspired me to begin production on my own stop motion short film, i hope to see much more from you in the future.
Thank you for creating such cool stuff for us to watch.
Thank you so much, and thanks for watching! It means the world to me when when I find out that my work can inspire others. If for nothing else, that's the reason I should keep on making my little videos.
This is absolutely fantastic!!!
Thanks! :)
That thing gave me an outrageously high ticket, but i won when it never came to court
Maybe try another railway line next time.
I love Lovecraft! Keep it comin' bro!
More is coming!
Just brilliant. Great adaptation of the fragment by H.P.L.
Thanks! I like his short mood pieces.
Again! Another lovely production. Obviously, you work very hard on these.
Thanks for the smile!
Thanks :) I do what I can with the resources I have.
I love this and hope to share it on my blog.
Please share away, sir! :) I love your "Some Unknown Gulf of Night."
Congratulations for one more great job! Wonderful!
Glad you enjoyed it :D
Awesome!!!
Thanks Jeff! Awesome comment :D
Another cool short! Very creepy!
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it :D
Fantastiskt som alltid! :) Looking forward to the Dagon film!
Tackar! :D
Another brilliant work. I haven't read the original story, but this film is very creepy. Well done.
Thanks! :) The original story is really short, and well worth reading. You'll go through it in just a few minutes: www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/tm.aspx
So it turns out that the whole script for the film is almost exactly word for word the same as the short story. Very faithful adaptation :)
i like your short animations. looking forward to your next ones. :)
Thanks! New one coming up soon..
These are better than some movies I've seen
Thanks! Most movies today are pieced together by a group of people with an eye on what the so-called "public" wants. That never results in very good entertainment.
I enjoyed this film more than The Force Awakens. You did a better job of bringing your film to life than they did. Great job!
I beat Disney! I'll take that to my heart and save it for rainy days :)
Superb film! Really creepy. I wish i could make films as good as yours.
That's a great compliment; thanks! :)
Keep up the good work. :)
Oh look! Another bluworm video for me to watch before bed!
[4:20 happens]
[sits up all night with the light on and pistol pointed at door]
Sorry about that!
Who knows what H. P. Managed to conjure up.. This is the second movie that I have watched and I definitely will be watching more
HPL's mind was a cosmos unto itself! Thanks for watching :)
he's runing so fast he skips even time 4:38. The Monsters in this Video are very well made and animated.
Yeah, that was sort of a symbolic storytelling device we experimented with :)
so just curious? was that Nyrethlotep? and the other one was?? cus thats neat seeing different occasional gods from time to time
According to the story, they have the precipice, the holes in the rock face, even the clouds drifting past the moon. Good work. But there was only the motorman, with the one single tentacle which composed it's face, and the tentacle was red. But this video still deserve a thumbs up.
Lovecraft is a master of eerie and weird details, so I wanted to put a bunch of them in the film too :) That tentacle actually is red, but since I've desaturated the film a bit, the color turned really dull.
@@TheLoneAnimator , it's still a good presentation, all of them. Keep up the good work.
Amazing! Please do In the Mountains of Madness next!
Thanks! I plan on taking on At the Mountains of Madness, but I have a bunch of practical problems I have to solve with clever storytelling first.
Here a year from now to tell you your channel is adored every night ty 🖤💪🏾
I'll put that in my pocket and carry it with me :)
please please please please do more, I love these, has like a late night, liquid televisioness to it, love it, ever thought of doing Algernon blackwood? man whom the trees loved would be so great, I love ur work, has a dreamscape feel to it, leave them with this type of style, too refined is just in artful to me, god bless
More is on the way, I just have to balance my personal work with a pretty big workload at my dayjob this year. Thank you for your kind words about my work. I'm self-taught, and I go with my own tastes, and what fascinates me personally. Films like this one is what comes out of that. I enjoy Blackwood, but I haven't considered adapting any of his tales yet. But his nature-horror stories are unique.
Man,this is hypnotic.😯😯
Glad you think so :)
You have some good voices narrating your stories
Thanks! I think it's an important detail. Sets the mood for the film.
Your lovecraft works are awesome you should do more.
Thank you! More Lovecraft is coming..
awesome
This is excellent. I'd forgotten about this tiny story. I want to write up a short Call of Cthulhu rpg scenario based on it.
Thank you :) That would be one of the creepiest RPG scenarios ever!
I'm still trying to figure it out. I run a Call of Cthulhu campaign set in Providence and it's around October 1927. I figure I could use the entire story as a prop with the investigators going to 33 College Street. What they find there ... I've not yet figured out. Great casting, btw.
To think this is typical of some of HP's actual dreams....I pity him.
I hope he had some sweet, sexy dreams too :)
He would have considered sexy dreams to be nightmarish, too! XD
This channel is the best!
I'm very glad you think so :)
Morgan certainly has that distinctive Innsmouth look...
Now that you mention it..
I loved it, and the story it was based on. Great job.
Thanks! :) The original story is pretty darn creepy, isn't it?
+bluworm Definitely. :)
Brilliant stuff!
Glad you enjoyed it; thanks!
Those monstrous creatures are truly "divine"; love them. 👍
Or, maybe they're diabolical? :)
@@TheLoneAnimator hahaha should dutifully see them as 😋 I have a tendency of seeing a touch of good in Everything though I definitely wouldn't stay too close too long or ask them in for a hot meal!!
good dumb fun! keep bringing it!
More dumb fun is on its way :)
On point. Bravo 👏
There are no surprises in this adap, if you've read the story :)
@@TheLoneAnimator I've noticed. Yes, I've read alot of his work. Made a small fan group on facebook :P
Great job!
Thank you :)
Spectacular
Thank you! :)
Wow good job man!
Glad you enjoyed it :)
This is great!
Thanks for stopping by and watching :D
+bluworm thank you for stuff like this. your videos about Lovecraft/lovecraftian style are a must see for everyone who love him.
That's high praise indeed :) I hope to make Lovecraft justice, but I'm fully aware of that my limited resources can't live up to his cosmic visions, or for that matter, recreate very successfully his period of the 1920's-30's. But I keep making the films as best I can.
Excellent!
Thank you! :)
The sudden change in music scared me
Awesome production though
It's the creepy music of Kevin Macleod. I actually haven't added anything to these tunes, or re-edited them. They're effective as they are.
@@TheLoneAnimator Hey Bluworm please tell me the Name of the Track right at the beginning 00,00-00,20
I don't know this lovecraft's story, however great work!
Here's the original story, and Lovecraft relating his nightmare to Donald Wandrei: www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/tm.aspx
Too bad ass I can watcg these forever
Thanks! Glad you enjoy my stuff :)
Awesome!
Thank you :D
Very cool, have you ever thought about doing Dagon?
Thanks! "Dagon" is in the works, actually :) This tale is kind of similar to that, isn't it?
poor Howard being chased by evil muppets
It happens..
ラブクラフトもので、トップの俳優をキャスティング出来た時、スタッフは成功を確信したでしょうねえ。
面白かったです！
incredible
Thanks!! :)
Gods ,those two figures were frightening
I guess HPL's dreams were really weird :)
Jesus dude you are great
stop motion is fucking impossible and you make it look so much better than modern cgi
Thanks! :) I love every aspect of the craft of stop-motion; designing and building the puppets, animating them and making them interact with real people. I grew up with the Harryhausen "Dynamation" esthetic, and that's the tradition I want to continue.
you will my undying adoration if you were to make an adaption of the dunwich horror
I am wracking my brain figuring out how to adapt the Dunwich Horror, but I'm nearly there. I need the help of a great number of people and most of them have responded positively.
Awesome...
Glad you enjoyed it :)
@@TheLoneAnimator I sure did. I am waiting for you guys to recreate The Shadow Over Innsmouth...
Crazy!
Creepy. I never realized the leader had teeth.
There's not much info on what the motorman looks like in the story. I added a generic beastly look to him from the reference of him running on all fours.
This is why I avoid public transportation.
Yeah, I hate having things waving their darn tentacles in my face all the time.
yo! this is cool!
Glad you enjoyed it! :D
sound editing could use some work...but the designs and atmosphere is just superb as your other works.
The sound editing is still my nemesis!
It's a shame you didn't (I guess you could not) use a real abandoned railway, but great job anyway!
As I live in Sweden it was out of the question to use an actual yellow streetcar, and there is an abandoned street railway in a nearby town, but those tracks run straight through a street with heavy traffic now. So, no; I had to find other ways of getting to the places in the story.
The thing with the trunk sounds like a train whistle mixed with a werewolf howl
I tried to make it sound alien :)
bluworm you did a great job 👍
Really good work, just a few minor things I saw that irked me but only cause I'm a filmmaker myself. Period piece and he was writing on modern college ruled paper, then in dialog he says "I grabbed a pen" and he's writing with a pencil. It's just a little production design items and continuity but other than those two things this was really well done.
Well, this video was shot in a bit more of a haste than it should've been.
_Carcosa! Next stop, Carcosa!_
Quite possible! :)
What's the sound effect for the one creature with the tentacle face?
It's actually a screaming woman slowed down and at a low pitch. And it's mixed with some kind of weird synthesizer sound I found online.
Any plans on adapting "The Hound” any time in the near future as well?
I've been thinking about doing The Hound for years. Maybe I'll get around to it this year.
@@TheLoneAnimator Do Take your time, I know from Personal Experience that these type of short films are quite challenging to make
"Pestilenceious Swamp....."
Who would even use such lush descriptive language today?
Nobody! But we can still enjoy good old HPL :)
@@TheLoneAnimator BRAVO!!
Now just do At the Mountains of Madness and we are SMOKIN!!!!
Can't figure out the name of the music that starts around 1:31, the spooky piano tone music what is it called?
I should know what it is, but I can't find it among my files at the moment.
holy shit very scary
Lovecraft dreamed some freaky stuff!
Maybe Lovecraft comes from loving this Craft
I sure Love his Craft.
he didn't have a ticket.
No wonder they were pissed off!
Who else is team Nyarlethotep?
The address 66 college street is Lovecraft's house
Yup! So it's essentially Lovecraft doing the dreaming -which it was in real life.
Is the horror industry, or have I oversimplified it?
Is the horror industry what?
"Is the horror industry?" is a clause that stands alone. In other words, what I'm asking is whether the horror that chews Lovecraft's mind into Swiss cheese isn't simply the industrial phenomenon that birthed both communist and capitalist horrors (which is the one thing I think all humans secretly agree on, though their side of the aisle will determine which evil they call "evil")...
Oh boy... I think Lovecraft's mind is a subject that could and will generate endless debate. He was certainly open in letters about what he considered the evils of the world, and how he fared mentally because of his contemplations of them. And his horrors usually are the horrors of his protagonists. I think this particular dream he had is more nebulous than almost everything else he put to paper. But as for the concept of industry -coming from what he considered the idyll of New England I'm sure his world had no place for big cities and smokestacks.