Who The Hell Is Lovecraft?
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- Who The Hell Is Lovecraft?
Written, Performed and Edited by Moid Moidelhoff.
Filmed on location by Charlie Lapworth.
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In case you were wondering, this was filmed in the same disused train tunnel that was featured in the Alex Garland film "Men"
Oh cool!
Nice. I haven’t reached the end of the video yet, but I’m going to assume that you don’t end up giving birth to yourself out of your own mangina? 🤔
I wrote this elsewhere: Had HPL created a tight, coherent, universe, we'd never have heard of him. His willingness to let others play in his sandbox, and their willingness to let each other play in theirs, gave the Mythos flexibility.
I discovered Lovecraft in the library as a teenager. Captivated me.
It wasn't until years later that I realised it was part of that collection of authors and stories that appeal to certain people. We all need up there, long before the internet made it easy to find communities.
The vampire requires Christianity for it to exist (at least in its popular classic form): the vampire does not suggest the presence of a different way of regarding the cosmos than what's provided by Christianity. Part of what was originally disturbing about Frankenstein and Cthulhu are that they are a symptoms of an emergent culture that increasingly understood that the Earth and the religious beliefs of humans are not the center of the cosmos. In some of Lovecraft's work, there's an implicit understanding that the Elder Gods would exist whether or not humanity ever existed.
Good observation
True in a literary sense. But I would point out that many franchises contain vampires and do not contain any other form of Christian imagery or mythology
Crippled by anxiety, weird parents, read a lot of books to escape. Throw in an og gameboy and this is me all the way.
I see a resemblance to Mark Zuckerberg on some of those images and now i cant unsee it
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They're all hapsburgs.
I’ve just noticed the slightly eerie resemblance between Lovecraft and Woodrow Wilson; a distinct facial resemblance, but also something about the sinister way they look into the camera. The difference being Lovecraft imagined fictional horrors, while Wilson was arguably responsible for real life ones (the creation of the Federal Reserve and US entry into the First World War, and all the subsequent horrors that flowed from those two fateful decisions)
Wilson was one of the worst US presidents, supporter of the KKK and had Birth of a Nation screened in the White House.
Great observation,
The Creature from Jeckyl Island is almost Lovecraftian in the depths of horror created.
And they both hated blacks
Not to mention the Spanish Flu pandemic carried to Europe by US soldiers.
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@@chrisw6164 Lovecraft only wrote it down; Wilson segregated the US federal government. It's somwhat possible to recontextualise HPL's racism on the page, as nearly all his works are in the first person, so the protagonist' inevitable fate become something of a comeupppance. Wilson, on the other hand, scarred America's psyche for generations.
Some people have an amazing talent to tell a story and mesmerize you. Thanks Moid! Wonderful.
I kind of knew all of this from the Gamlmel Del Toro documentary on Lovecraft because Guillermo Del Toro is a Lovecraft’s fan and I enjoyed his documentary about Lovecraft. I’m sure you can find it streaming somewhere out there.
Great video. I got into Lovecraft in the early 90s through death metal. Obituary used the Michael Whelan art for their Cause Of Death album. Morbid Angel sang about Lovecraftian demons. And of course Metallica with Call Of Ktulu. At The Mountain of Madness is my favorite Lovecraft story. I recently picked up a copy of The Ancient Track, a collection of Lovecrafts poetry. I also have a the letters between Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.
Mountains of Madness is great. I also rather like The Mound
I love the letters between Lovecraft, Howard and Smith. The comradery between brothers of imagination and ink...leaves me feeling pleasantly melancholic and weirdly enthused.
The grail knights have a song called Cthulhu. They are a fun metal band that have retro 80s style videos and dress like super heroes
@GOP. Thanks, will check the band out. Horror of Yig by GWAR!!!
Nigel Kneale's tv serial QUATERMASS AND THE PIT has very Lovecraftian concepts.
Very astute. I am also a fan of Kneale's Quatermass character. In the Quatermass stories we see the Human Race being manipulated over and over again by weird, malevolent alien beings, much like in Lovecraft's work. So yes, there is a definite similarity.
Hey Moid,
I know you work very hard on these short subject docs, but I miss watching you in your chair, in your library, just having a friendly chat about science fiction topics.
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You miss it? You make it seem like these videos are the norm... This video was awesome and benefited from this style.
Love Lovecraft's craft! Also, didn't he suffer from seafood food poisoning at some point and this helped kick-start his horrors from under the sea? I might have dreamed that. Oh and I would very much enjoy if you reviewed his dream-cycle stories. Everything here about his work has to do with the mythos and little attention is given to this other aspect of his writing which I found fascinating when I devoured the complete fiction edition.
This is one of the best things of it's type on HPL.
another great video many thanks read a lot of Lovecraft in my late teens am planning a reread of everything before the shambling horrors finally catch up with me.
Another enlightening & entertaining video! 👍
You are knocking it out of the park with your recent content
You forgot to include that typical teenage group in horror house movie : the cabin in the woods…. The scene at the end where you see all the little boxes with horror figures in it and the whole ancient Gods must be kept satisfied or else idea comes directly from the scene where the protagonist sees the Elder Gods in all their horrific glory and is paralyzed with terror ( not sure what book )
An other thing that strikes me as odd is that no matter how hard the artists try to make a visual of Lovecraft’s work they never achieve to capture the immense horror he describes in his books .
Non of the shown art work in this video is actually terrifying
And on a lighter note : who would have thought that I would miss the Hawaii shirts that much 😂
Artists, however talented, only have their own experiences to draw upon. A real image of Cthulhu would scare the bejeezus out of viewers because we'd try to understand it in _our_ terms and always see how those terms fell short.
Some wicked artwork there Moid . 👍🏻
Looking forward to this one!
Nicely done, well said. Thanks Moid.
Lovecraft fingers are all in and around Metal Music too.
I have been waiting for months for this since your excellent PKD one. Well done, sir, well done.
Nice summary thank you! Shadow over Innsmouth is still my personal favourite. Mike Bennet does an amazing job recording as an audiobook.
You have been creating great content for a while, but the "new direction" is spectacular.
great video told with insight and passion.
Excellent content. Thoughtful, well researched and well worth a listen.
Great commentary Moid! Kudos: the new content is very good, and the format change is very well produced. I agree with you on the societal importance of Lovecraft: he's one of the 4 or 5 authors that impacted me the most, w/ Orwell, Tolkien, Asimov, and Camus (latter one is weird, I know...)
Your best ever film, many thanks
Brilliant video. I loved it, and I love HP Lovecraft ❤
Awsome, thanks!
I have no doubt that the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, that came out in the early 80s, and which is the second most popular tabletop RPG of all time, had a huge impact on reviving Lovecraft as a cultural and literary icon. It would have been the gateway to Lovecraft for literally millions of people. In the 80s, when I first got the game, it was nearly impossible to get a Lovecraft book. I had to get my local bookshop to get them to order them in specially for me so I could read them, at least three or four years after I first bought and started playing the game. A really important part of this story.
Would love to have a cinematic adaptation of The Rats In The Walls.
Moid, you're kicking it out of the park. Best summary of Lovecraft I've ever encountered.
Thank You Ashley
No mention of Chambers and The King in Yellow?
He also Ghost write for Harry houdini shortstory Called Imprisoned with the Pharaohs / Under the Pyramids (original name)
thanks. good one.
I think he wrote books or something.
Maybe a short story or two...I think...🤔
This was just a beautiful and deeply respectful tribute to dear H.P., a genius hundreds of years ahead of his time.
Just want to applaud you on the new content. So good. Love the shift.
Hey Moid Android - Salute! Have you read any Nanopunk or Biopunk novels? And have you read Kenji Siratori??
Ok, you've inspired me to research a genre I have avoided. Thx
" a medium fish in a small pond. "
HP Lovecraft is the Van Gogh of fiction: he created an art.
Ironically as with Poe his novels become well received with the French community
I thought it was that tunnel. Please don't get carried away and walk around naked giving birth to yourself… I don't think I could take that.
The interesting part to me about Lovecraft's racism (which was entirely real, don't get me wrong) is that it's rare that anyone points out that he has just as much fear and suspicion of poor rural whites, most specifically the Appalachian hill folk. I think more than anything else it's a fear and hatred of anything "other" than Protestant New England society, whether that be (non-western European) foreigners, non-christians, blacks, or rural people, all of whom were looked down on by HPL as stupid, uneducated, inbred, and as often as not portrayed as willfully evil.
It's more of a xenophobia than an outright racism
What would Hatecraft, Lovecraft's mirror universe counterpart, write about?
Fantastic story writer. A bit too dark at times for me I will admit. The amazing takeaway for me, was the strength of the vocabulary. Two or three years reading Poe and Lovecraft left me with some reading comprehension.
Clark Ashton Smith was part of lovecrafts circle and a veritable wizard with words. I enjoy his works
Lovecraft western!
H.P.'s insular upbringing drove his general xenophobia? Fear of the unknown?
I got into lovecraft through metallica…Lovecrafts writing was so brilliant and inspired my very favorite movies….hell I don’t even care about the racism….but don’t tell my grandma 😂😂😂
Great video 👾
I made a pilgrimage to the man’s resting place in Providence. My son shares a birthday with him. I secretly hope he’s been reincarnated into my family.
Lovecraft is weird shit, mate! But you're right. He's of the category that sets a trend, and there's a before and after in which the after is his legacy in many corners of culture.
Cthulhu fhtagn!!!
Don't divorce art and artist. Lovecraftian is Lovecraft.
well if you have to ask...
I was born and bred in Providence, Rhode Island. Lovecraft has kind of fallen from grace here due to his racial views. I think he is great, and needs to be read in context.
Its pronounced dun- say -nee..i know this cos im a paddy like dun-say-nee
If Id ever find an essay on Lovecraft that does not obsess over his misanthropic views everyone mistakes for common racism, that would be the day.
Overrated word salad.
You did some good research but you do understand that everyone back then was xenophobic especially in port cities, but if you researched history instead of click bait you would know that.
Doubt lovecraft would have been a cowboy author had he been born out west. After all, Robert E. Howard was born out west and he came up with conan the barbarian and was a friend of Lovecraft